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Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think
Paul Dolan - Hudson Street Press Format: Hardcover
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This is not just another happiness book. In Happiness by Design, happiness and behavior expert Paul Dolan combines the latest insights from economics and psychology to illustrate that in order to be happy we must behave happy Our happiness is experiences of both pleasure and purpose over... |
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We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
Jorge Cham - Riverhead Books Format: Hardcover
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Prepare to learn everything we still don't know about our strange, mostly mysterious universe. PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to spelunk through the enormous gaps in our cosmological knowledge, armed with their popular infographics, cartoons,... |
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How to Read the Solar System: A Guide to the Stars and Planets
Paul Abel - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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A fresh and essential guide to understanding and interpreting the wonders of our solar system, from two intrepid young astronomers who are the hosts of the popular BBC television series, "The Sky at Night."What exactly is the solar system? We've all learned the basics at school... |
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U Can: Basic Math and Pre-Algebra For Dummies
Mark Zegarelli - For Dummies; 1 edition Format: Print book
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The fun and friendly guide to really understanding math U Can: Basic Math & Pre-Algebra For Dummies is the fun, friendly guide to making sense of math. It walks you through the "how" and "why" to help you master the crucial operations that underpin every math class... |
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Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
Sam Maggs - Quirk Books Format: Print book
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A fun and feminist look at forgotten women in science, technology, and beyond, from the bestselling author of THE FANGIRL'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY You may think you know women's history pretty well. But have you ever heard of. . . Alice Ball, the chemist who developed an effective treatment... |
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Secret Warriors: The Spies, Scientists and Code Breakers of World War I
Taylor Downing - Pegasus; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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A startling and vivid account of World War I that uncovers how wartime code-breaking, aeronautics, and scientific research that laid the foundation for much of the innovations of the twentieth century. World War I is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting... |
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Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas
Matt Lewis - Plume Format: Print book
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"A sinister version of The Perfect Storm . . . Thrilling." - Sunday Times (UK) For readers of The Perfect Storm, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, and Into the Wild There's nothing that armchair adventure lovers relish more than a gripping true story of disaster and heroism,... |
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A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention
Matt Richtel - William Morrow Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Matt Richtel, a brilliant, narrative-driven exploration of technologys vast influence on the human mind and society, dramatically-told through the lens of a tragic texting-while-driving car crash that claimed the lives of two rocket scientists in 2006.In... |
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On the Water: A Fishing Memoir
Guy de la Valdene - Lyons Press Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Fragrance of Grass comes a meditation on water and nature, fishing and growing older. On the Water is a gorgeously written collection of essays that all take place on or near the water and pay tribute to the flora and fauna associated with those ecosystems.... |
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Time Travel
James Gleick - Pantheon Books Format: Print book
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From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. The story begins at the turn of the previous century,... |
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Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants
Jane Goodall - Grand Central Publishing Format: Hardcover
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Renowned naturalist and bestselling author Jane Goodall examines the critical role that trees and plants play in our world. In her wise and elegant new book, Jane Goodall blends her experience in nature with her enthusiasm for botany to give readers a deeper understanding of the world around... |
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Human Anatomy
DK - DK Format: Hardcover
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For students of anatomy, biology, and the biomedical sciences; medical professionals; and curious families, DK's Human Anatomy will be a definitive resource. Written by acclaimed anatomist, Dr. Alice Roberts, Human Anatomy is an up-to-the-minute study of the body. Spectacular digital... |
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Ha!: The Science of When We Laugh and Why
Scott Weems - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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Humor, like pornography, is famously difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but is there a way to figure out what we really find funny - and why?In this fascinating investigation into the science of humor and laughter, cognitive neuroscientist Scott Weems uncovers what's happening... |
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Mark Miodownik - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surround us, packed with surprising stories and fascinating science Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend? Why does any material look and behave the way it does?... |
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Dataclysm
Rudder, Christian Format: electronic resource
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A New York Times Bestseller
An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior—and a first look at a revolution in the making Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we don’t need. In Dataclysm,... |
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Final Frontier: The Pioneering Science and Technology of Exploring the Universe
Brian Clegg - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Star Trek was right — there is only one final frontier, and that is space...Human beings are natural explorers, and nowhere is this frontier spirit stronger than in the United States of America. It almost defines the character of the US. But the Earth is running out of frontiers fast.In... |
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Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing
James Owen Weatherall - Yale University Press Format: Print book
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The rising star author of The Physics of Wall Street explores why "nothing" may hold the key to the next era of theoretical physics James Owen Weatherall's previous book, The Physics of Wall Street, was a New York Times best-seller and named one of Physics Today's five... |
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Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World
Richard C Francis - W.W. Norton & Company Format: Print book
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Without our domesticated plants and animals, human civilization as we know it would not exist.We would still be living at subsistence level as hunter-gatherers if not for domestication. It is no accident that the cradle of civilization -- the Middle East -- is where sheep, goats, pigs,... |
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Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Our Children from an Oversanitized World
B Brett Finlay - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Format: Print book
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"A must-read . . . Takes you inside a child's gut and shows you how to give kids the best immune start early in life." - William Sears, MD, coauthor of The Baby BookLike the culture-changing Last Child in the Woods, here is the first parenting book to apply the latest... |
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Seven Flowers: And How They Shaped Our World
Jennifer Potter - Overlook Books Format: Hardcover
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The lotus. The lily. The sunflower. The opium poppy. The rose. The tulip. The orchid. Seven flowers, each with its own story full of surprises and secrets, each affecting the world around us in subtle but powerful ways. But what is the nature of their power and how did it develop? Why have... |
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What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night
John Brockman - Harper Perennial
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Drawing from the horizons of science, todays leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking aboutand expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by.What should we be worried about That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org The worlds smartest websiteThe... |
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The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives
Stephen Buchmann - Scribner Format: Print book
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Cultural history at its best - the engaging, lively, and definitive story of the beauty, sexuality, ecology, myths, lore, and economics of the world's flowers, written by a passionately devoted author and scientist, and illustrated with his stunning photographs.Flowers, and the fruits that... |
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The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century
Ronald Bailey - Thomas Dunne Books Format: Hardcover
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In the past five decades there have been many, many forecasts of impending environmental doom. They have universally been proven wrong. Meanwhile, those who have bet on human resourcefulness have almost always been correct. In his widely praised book Ecoscam, Ronald Bailey strongly countered... |
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The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience and Farming
Natasha Bowens - New Society Publishers Format: eBook
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Imagine the typical American farmer. Many people visualize sun-roughened skin, faded overalls, and calloused hands - hands that are usually white. While there's no doubt the growing trend of organic farming and homesteading is changing how the farmer is portrayed in mainstream media,... |
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The Sweet Spot: How to Find Your Groove at Home and Work
Christine Carter Phd - Ballantine Books Format: Print book
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Learn how to achieve more by doing less! Live in that zone you've glimpsed but can't seem to hold on to - the sweet spot where you have the greatest strength, but also the greatest ease. Not long ago, Christine Carter, a happiness expert at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science... |
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The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change
Robert Henson - Amer Meteorological Socie Format: Paperback
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Everybody can be a thinking person when it comes to climate change, and this book is a perfect roadmap. Start a web search for "climate change" and the first three suggestions are "facts," "news," and "hoax." The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate... |
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The Horse Lover: A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs
H Alan Day - University of Nebraska Press Format: Print book
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He already owned and managed two ranches and needed a third about as much as he needed a permanent migraine: that's what Alan Day said every time his friend pestered him about an old ranch in South Dakota. But in short order, he proudly owned 35,000 pristine grassy acres. The opportunity... |
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Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
Stanislas Dehaene - Viking Adult Format: Print book
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A breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brainHow does our brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks to clever psychological and brain-imaging experiments, scientists are closer to cracking... |
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The World of Birds
Jonathan Elphick - Firefly Books Format: Hardcover
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The ultimate illustrated, authoritative reference to the avian world. Written by a highly regarded ornithologist and natural history expert and sumptuously illustrated throughout with photographs and illustrations, The World of Birds is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to every... |
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Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs
David Grimm - Perseus Books Group Format: Hardcover
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Dogs are getting lawyers. Cats are getting kidney transplants. Could they one day be fellow citizens?Cats and dogs were once wild animals. Today, they are family members and surrogate children. A little over a century ago, pets didn't warrant the meager legal status of property. Now, they... |
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Fisherman's Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Angling Reference
Jay Cassell - Skyhorse Publishing; Second Edition edition Format: Paperback
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In the tradition of the bestselling Shooter's Bible, Skyhorse Publishing presents the Fisherman's Bible, the most complete reference guide for new fishing equipment and its specifications. Anglers will only need one book - now in its second year - to discover all the new gear on the market... |
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Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
George Marshall - Bloomsbury USA Format: Hardcover
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Most of us recognize that climate change is real, and yet we do nothing to stop it. What is this psychological mechanism that allows us to know something is true but act as if it is not? George Marshalls search for the answers brings him face to face with Nobel Prize-winning psychologists... |
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Zika: The Emerging Epidemic
Donald G. McNeil Jr. - W.W. Norton & Company Format: Print book
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A gripping narrative about the origins and spread of the Zika virus by New York Times science reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr.Until recently, Zika -- once considered a mild disease -- was hardly a cause for global panic. But as early as August 2015, doctors in northeast Brazil began to notice... |
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Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters
Jason A. Ramos - William Morrow & Company Format: Hardcover
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A rare inside look at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature's blazes.Forest and wildland fires are growing larger, more numerous, and deadlier... |
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The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century
William Rosen - Viking Adult Format: Book
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How a seven-year cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history In May 1315, it started to rain. It didn’t stop anywhere in north Europe until August. Next came the four coldest winters in a millennium. Two separate animal epidemics... |
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Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
Cordelia Fine - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Paperback
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"Beliefs about men and women are as old as humanity itself, but Fines funny, spiky book gives reason to hope that weve heard Testosterone rexs last roar." -- Annie Murphy Paul, New York Times Book Review Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental force... |
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The Mystery of Sleep: Why a Good Night's Rest Is Vital to a Better, Healthier Life
MEIR KRYGER - Yale University Press Format: Hardcover
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An authoritative and accessible guide to what happens when we shut our eyes at night We spend a third of our lives in bed, but how much do we really understand about how sleep affects us In the past forty years, scientists have discovered that our sleep (or lack of it) can affect nearly... |
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The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Alex Bellos - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Here’s Looking at Euclid, a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex math into a brilliantly entertaining narrative.From triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded calculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical... |
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The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
Russell Gold - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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"Fracking has vociferous critics and fervent defenders, but the debate between these camps has obscured the actual story: Fracking has become a fixture of the American landscape and the global economy. It has upended the business models of energy companies around the globe, and it has started... |
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The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Seed Saving
Jared Zystro - Seed Savers Exchange Format: Print book
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Filled with advice for the home gardener and the more seasoned horticulturist alike, The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Seed Saving provides straightforward instruction on collecting seed that is true-to-type and ready for sowing in next year's garden. In this comprehensive book,... |
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What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas, and Why They Matter
Jeffrey Bennett - Columbia University Press Format: Hardcover
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It is commonly assumed that if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole, it would suck Earth and the rest of the planets into oblivion. Yet, as prominent author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett points out, black holes don't suck. With that simple idea in mind, Bennett begins an entertaining... |
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Wild Sex: The Science Behind Mating in the Animal Kingdom
Carin Bondar Ph. D. - Pegasus Books Format: Print book
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A brilliantly engaging guide to the reproductive habits of creatures great and small, based on the author's popular webseries "Wild Sex," which has received over 14 million views Birds do it, bees do it -- every member of the animal kingdom does it, from fruit flies to blue... |
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Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept Its Feet
John Bemelmans Marciano - Bloomsbury USA Format: Hardcover
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The American standard system of measurement is a unique and odd thing to behold with its esoteric, inconsistent standards twelve inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, sixteen ounces in a pound, one hundred pennies to the dollar. For something as elemental as counting and estimating the world... |
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Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission
Marc Kaufman - National Geographic Format: Hardcover
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With images never published before, many with surprising colors and landscapes that make you want to spend your next vacation on Mars, this is the one and only book written in consultation with NASA scientists that explains everything, detail by detail and moment by moment, about the most... |
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The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters
Sean B Carroll - Princeton University Pres, 2016. Format: Print book
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How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll... |
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Calculus i.
Alpha. - Alpha Books Format: Print book : English
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Let's face it, most students don't take calculus because they find it intellectually stimulating. It's not . . . at least for those who come up on the wrong side of the bell curve! There they are, minding their own business, working toward some non-science related degree, when . . . BLAM!... |
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Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience
Michael S. Gazzaniga - Ecco; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century, gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left brain. Foreword by Steven Pinker.In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga, "the... |
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Hummingbirds
Ronald I. Orenstein - Firefly Books Format: Book
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A comprehensive natural history of nature's smallest bird species. The tiny hummingbird has long been a source of fascination for birdwatchers and naturalists alike. They number 300 species and Ronald Orenstein has a passion for all of them. Hummingbirds are the smallest birds in the world.... |
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The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
Donald R Kirsch - W W Norton Format: Print book
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The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity - by chewing, brewing, and snorting - some Neolithic souls discovered... |
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God's Planet
Owen Gingerich - Harvard University Press Format: Hardcover
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With exoplanets being discovered daily, Earth is still the only planet we know of that is home to creatures who seek a coherent explanation for the structure, origins, and fate of the universe, and of humanitys place within it. Today, science and religion are the two major cultural entities... |
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Why Science Does Not Disprove God
Amir Aczel - HarperCollins Format: Hardcover
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The renowned science writer, mathematician, and bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem masterfully refutes the overreaching claims the "New Atheists," providing millions of educated believers with a clear, engaging explanation of what science really says, how there's... |
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg - Penguin Group USA Format: Print book
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The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our handsThe math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows... |
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Sex on Earth: A Celebration of Animal Reproduction
Jules Howard - Bloomsbury USA Format: Hardcover
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One thousand million years ago, a huge revolution occurred on Earth--sex happened for the first time. From that moment on, the world became ever more colorful and bizarre, ringing with elaborate songs and dances, epic battles, and rallying cries as the desires of males and females collided,... |
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The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Gino Segrè - Henry Holt and Company Format: Print book
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Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. His discoveries changed our world; they led to weapons of mass destruction... |
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The Chicken Keeper's Problem Solver: 100 Common Problems Explored and Explained
Chris Graham - Quarry Books Format: Paperback
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While keeping chickens certainly isn't rocket science, doing it properly does involve decent levels of understanding, commitment, and attention to detail. Getting the basics right is essential, and this demands a solid appreciation of important areas such as housing, feeding, breed... |
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Fizz: How Soda Shook Up the World
Tristan Donovan - Chicago Review Press Format: Paperback
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This social, cultural, and culinary history charts soda's remarkable, world-changing journey from awe-inspiring natural mystery to ubiquity. Off-the-wall and offbeat stories abound, including how quack medicine peddlers spawned some of the world's biggest brands, how fizzy pop cashed... |
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Secret Language of Animals: A Guide to Remarkable Behavior
Janine M Benyus - Black Dog & Leventhal Pub Format: Paperback
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Unlock the secrets behind the behavior of the world's most fascinating creatures from the Adlie penguin to the plains zebra to the giant pandain this wonderfully written, beautifully illustrated book.In The Secret Language of Animals, biologist Janine Benyus takes us inside the animal... |
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Tales of Remarkable Birds
Dominic Couzens - Bloomsbury USA Format: Hardcover
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Throughout the bird world, examples of strange and seemingly inexplicable behavior abound. For example: Why do male Fairywrens bring flowers to females as a nuptial gift in the pre-dawn darkness? Especially when the gift-givers are not the official mates of the females concerned, but visitors,... |
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Visions of Loveliness: Great Flower Breeders of the Past
Judith M. Taylor - Swallow Press Format: Hardcover
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Gardeners of today take for granted the many varieties of geraniums, narcissi, marigolds, roses, and other beloved flowers for their gardens. Few give any thought at all to how this incredible abundance came to be or to the people who spent a good part of their lives creating it. These... |
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Dataclysm: Who We Are
Christian Rudder - Crown Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times BestsellerAn audacious, irreverent investigation of human behaviorand a first look at a revolution in the making Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we dont need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us who we truly... |
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To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
Steven Weinberg - Harper; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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A masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg - a thought-provoking and important book by one of the most distinguished scientists and intellectuals of our time.In this rich, irreverent, and compelling... |
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Practical Permaculture for Home Landscapes, Your Community, and the Whole Earth
Jessi Bloom - Timber Pr Format: Print book
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The idea behind permaculture is simple: take care of the earth, and the earth will take care of you. In clear, logical steps, Practical Permaculture offers the tools you need to live a life rich in healthy food, safe housing, and renewable resources. This hardworking book covers... |
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Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
James Nestor - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Hardcover
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An Amazon Best Book of 2014 While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed something that confounded him: a man diving 300 feet below the ocean's surface on a single breath of air and returning four minutes later, unharmed and smiling. This man was a freediver, and his amphibious... |
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Big Data: Does Size Matter?
Timandra Harkness - Bloomsbury Sigma Format: Print book
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From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently than ever before, from tracking wolves... |
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Ed Yong - Ecco Format: Book
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Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ed Yong, whose humor is as evident as his erudition, prompts us to look at ourselves and our animal companions in a new light - less as individuals and more as the interconnected, interdependent... |
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Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey Through Carbon Country
Courtney White - Chelsea Green Publishing Format: Paperback
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This book tackles an increasingly crucial question: What can we do about the seemingly intractable challenges confronting all of humanity today, including climate change, global hunger, water scarcity, environmental stress, and economic instability? The quick answers are: Build topsoil.... |
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The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters
Robert Muir-Wood - Basic Books Format: Print book
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Year after year, floods wreck people's homes and livelihoods, earthquakes tear communities apart, and tornadoes uproot whole towns. Natural disasters cause destruction and despair. But does it have to be this way?In The Cure for Catastrophe, global risk expert Robert Muir-Wood argues... |
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While Glaciers Slept: Being Human in a Time of Climate Change
M Jackson - Green Writers Press Format: Hardcover
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While Glaciers Slept weaves together the parallel stories of what happens when the climates of a family and a planet change. M Jackson, a noted scientist and National Geographic Expert, reveals how these events are deeply intertwined, and how the deterioration of her parents' health... |
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Saved by the Sea: Hope, Heartbreak, and Wonder in the Blue World
David Helvarg - New World Library Format: Print book
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Acclaimed as the premier chronicler of Americas complex relationship with our oceans Honolulu Weekly David Helvarg has also been a war correspondent investigative journalist documentary producer and private investigator The one constant in his adventurous life has been love for the sea His personal... |
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My Lost Brothers: The Untold Story by the Yarnell Hill Fire's Lone Survivor
Brendan McDonough - Hachette Books Format: Print book
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A gripping first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots"--firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires. Brendan McDonough was on the verge of becoming a hopeless, inveterate heroin addict... |
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The Secret History of Kindness: Learning from How Dogs Learn
Melissa Holbrook Pierson - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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An intimate, surprising look at man's best friend and what the leading philosophies of dog training teach us about ourselves.Years back, Melissa Holbrook Pierson brought home a border collie named Mercy, without a clue of how to get her to behave. Stunned after hiring a trainer whose... |
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We're Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City
Roberta Brandes Gratz - Nation Books Format: Hardcover
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The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is one of the darkest chapters in American history. The storm caused unprecedented destruction, and a toxic combination of government neglect and socioeconomic inequality turned a crisis into a tragedy. But among the rubble, there is hope.We're Still... |
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Extinction and Evolution: What Fossils Reveal About the History of Life
Niles Eldredge - Firefly Books Ltd. Format: Book
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"This book is a splendidly illustrated and thoughtfully constructed account of one of the greatest ideas ever conceived by the human mind -- evolution. Eldredge has cleverly combined our knowledge of living organisms with instructive insights into the fossil record to convincingly... |
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Espalier Fruit Trees For Wall, Hedge, and Pergola: Installation Shaping Care
Peter Modl - Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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By training fruit trees and shrubs to grow in controlled shapes, you accomplish two goals: improved appearance and increased productivity. Depending on location and demand, espalier fruit trees can offer privacy, weather protection, and decoration, not to mention an abundant and delicious... |
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The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future
Peter Moore - Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Hardcover
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In 1865 Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in his dressing room and cut his throat. His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, FitzRoy's storm warning system and "forecasts" would return, the model for what we use today.In an age when a storm... |
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Ten Million Aliens: A Journey Through the Entire Animal Kingdom
Simon Barnes - Marble Arch Press Format: Print book
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This fascinating scientific foray into the animal kingdom examines how the world's creatures - weird, wonderful, and everything in between - are inextricably linked.Life on planet earth is not weirder than we imagine. It's weirder than we are capable of imagining. And we're all in it together:... |
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The Quantum Age: How the Physics of the Very Small has Transformed Our Lives
Brian Clegg - Icon Books Format: Hardcover
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Quantum theory may be bizarre and inexplicable - but it's been shown to account for as much as 30 percent of American GDP, as this brilliant new book by science writer extraordinaire Brian Clegg reveals.The Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages, and the birth of steam machinery and electricity,... |
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Welcome to the universe : an astrophysical tour
Neil deGrasse Tyson - Princeton University Press Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWelcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught... |
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Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved
Darren Naish - Smithsonian Books Format: Hardcover
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Dinosaurs are one of the most spectacular groups of animals that have ever existed. Many were fantastic, bizarre creatures that still capture our imagination: the super-predator Tyrannosaurus, the plate-backed Stegosaurus, and the long-necked, long-tailed Diplodocus. Dinosaurs: The Ultimate... |
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Glaciers: The Politics of Ice
Jorge Daniel Taillant - Oxford University Press, USA Format: Hardcover
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Though not traditionally thought of as strategic natural resources, glaciers are a crucial part of our global ecosystem playing a fundamental role in the sustaining of life around the world. Comprising three quarters of the world's freshwater, they freeze in the winter and melt in the summer,... |
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Mars 3-D: A Rover's-Eye View of the Red Planet
Jim Bell - Sterling; Revised & Expanded edition Format: Hardcover
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Planetary scientist Jim Bell leads us on another exhilarating tour of the Red Planetand this revised, expanded edition of Mars 3-D includes the latest images from NASAs revolutionary Mars Science Laboratory mission. Brief essays survey the advanced technologies and promising discoveries... |
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The Brilliant History of Color in Art
Victoria Finlay - J Paul Getty Museum Format: Hardcover
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The history of art is inseparable from the history of color. And what a fascinating story they tell together: one that brims with an all-star cast of characters, eye-opening details, and unexpected detours through the annals of human civilization and scientific discovery. Enter critically... |
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Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
Mckenzie Funk - Penguin Press Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming worldMcKenzie Funk has spent the last six years reporting around the world on how we are preparing for a warmer planet. Funk shows us that the best way to understand the catastrophe of global warming... |
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Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change
Seamus McGraw - University of Texas Press Format: Hardcover
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Climate change has become one of the most polarizing issues of our time. Extremists on the left regularly issue hyperbolic jeremiads about the impending destruction of the environment, while extremists on the right counter with crass, tortured denials. But out in the vast middle are ordinary... |
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Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science
Dave Levitan - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Paperback
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An eye-opening tour of the political tricks that subvert scientific progress.The Butter-Up and Undercut. The Certain Uncertainty. The Straight-Up Fabrication. Dave Levitan dismantles all of these deceptive arguments, and many more, in this probing and hilarious examination of the ways our elected... |
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It's a Wild Life: How My Life Became a Zoo
Bud DeYoung - Medallion Press Format: Hardcover
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Pursuing your passion includes a whole lot of crap. For Bud DeYoung, that’s about two hundred pounds a day!Since childhood, Bud had a passion for animals. As an adult, that passion led to the rescue of a bear who lived in his family’s house, then more animals crowding for space,... |
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Woodpeckers of the World: A Photographic Guide
Gerard Gorman - Firefly Books Format: Hardcover
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The definitive guide to all 239 species of woodpecker. This book follows closely the successful field guide format of Owls of the World, published by Firefly Books Ltd. and praised by Science Books and Film (among others) in a starred review: "The highlights of Owls of the World... |
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