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Wildlife of the World
DK Publishing - DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Format: Hardcover
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Wildlife of the World takes you on a journey through some of the most scenic and rich animal habitats - from the Amazon rain forests to the Himalayas, the Sahara to the South Pole - meeting the most important animals in each ecosystem along the way.In Wildlife of the World truly spectacular... |
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Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
Kip S Thorne - W.W. Norton
Format: Book
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In a masterfully written, brilliantly informed work, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech leads readers through an elegant, always human tapestry of interlocking themes, answering the great question: What principles control our universe and why do physicists think they... |
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And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind: A Natural History of Moving Air
Bill Streever - Little Brown and Company
Format: Print book
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A thrilling exploration of the science and history of wind from the bestselling author of Cold.Scientist and bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme to explore wind--the winds that built empires, the storms that wreck them--by traveling right through it. Narrating... |
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Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin
Cornelia Dean - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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"I'm not a scientist" is a familiar refrain among people asked to evaluate scientific claims they feel are beyond their ken. Most citizens learn about science from media coverage, and even the most conscientious reporters sometimes struggle to offer a clear, unbiased explanation... |
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Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg: The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic 30
Ben Stewart - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Melting ice, a military arms race, the rush to exploit resources at any cost-the Arctic is now the stage on which our future will be decided. And as temperatures rise and the ice retreats, Vladimir Putin orders Russia's oil rigs to move north. But one early September morning in 2013... |
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Human evolution : our brains and behavior
R I M Dunbar - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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"This book covers the psychological aspects of human evolution with a table of contents ranging from prehistoric times to modern days. Dunbar focuses on an aspect of evolution that has typically been overshadowed by the archaeological record: the biological, neurological, and genetic... |
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Schaum's Outline of Beginning Chemistry: 673 Solved Problems + 16 Videos
David E Goldberg - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Print book
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Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Fortunately, there's Schaum's. This all-in-one-package includes more than 650 fully solved problems, examples, and practice exercises to sharpen your problem-solving skills. Plus, you will have access to 16 detailed videos featuring... |
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Barron's AP Calculus with CD-ROM, 14th Edition
David Bock M.S. - Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
Format: Print book
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Both Calculus AB and Calculus BC are covered in this comprehensive AP test preparation manual, which has been updated to align with the new curriculum framework taking effect for the 2017 AP Calculus AB and BC exams. The book's main features include: Four practice exams in Calculus... |
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EarthEd
Erik Assadourian - Island Press
Format: Paperback
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Earth education is traditionally confined to specific topics: ecoliteracy, outdoor education, environmental science. But in the coming century, on track to be the warmest in human history, every aspect of human life will be affected by our changing planet. Emerging diseases, food shortages,... |
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Systematic: How Systems Biology Is Transforming Modern Medicine
James R Valcourt - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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SYSTEMATIC is the first book to introduce general readers to systems biology, which is improving medical treatments and our understanding of living things. In traditional bottom-up biology, a biologist might spend years studying how a single protein works, but systems biology studies how networks... |
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Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
Ian Stewart - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from the solar system to the Galaxy and the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies form, why stars implode, how everything began,... |
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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 Brain: The Story of You
David Eagleman - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
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Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your reality and your identity. Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a journey into the questions at the mysterious heart of our existence. What is reality? Who are "you"? How do you make... |
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Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies
Sara Lewis - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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For centuries, the beauty of fireflies has evoked wonder and delight. Yet for most of us, fireflies remain shrouded in mystery: How do fireflies make their light? What are they saying with their flashing? And what do fireflies look for in a mate? In Silent Sparks, noted biologist and firefly... |
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Citizen Science: How Ordinary People are Changing the Face of Discovery
Caren Cooper - Overlook Press
Format: Print book
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The engaging history of the people whose contributions to scientific pursuits make us rethink the meaning of the word "scientist."Think you need a degree in science to contribute to important scientific discoveries? Think again. All around the world, in fields ranging from astronomy... |
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Darwin's First Theory: Exploring Darwin's Quest for a Theory of Earth
R L Wesson - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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An acclaimed geologist leads the reader on an adventure through the landscape that absorbed and inspired Charles Darwin.Everybody knows -- or thinks they know -- Charles Darwin, the father of evolution and the man who altered the way we view our place in the world. But what most people... |
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Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish
John Hargrove - Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: eBook
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Now a New York Times Best SellerOver the course of two decades John Hargrove worked with different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorlds US facilities For Hargrove becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream However as his experience with the whales deepened Hargrove... |
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Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence
Joseph Mazur - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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What are the chances? This is the question we ask ourselves when we encounter the strangest and most seemingly impossible coincidences, like the woman who won the lottery four times or the fact that Lincoln's dreams foreshadowed his own assassination. But, when we look at coincidences mathematically,... |
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The Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far: Why Are We Here?
Lawrence M Krauss - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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Internationally renowned, award-winning theoretical physicist, New York Times bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing, and passionate advocate for reason, Lawrence Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world of reality - a grand poetic vision... |
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Deep Life: The Hunt for the Hidden Biology of Earth, Mars, and Beyond
T C Onstott - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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Deep Life takes readers to uncharted regions deep beneath Earth's crust in search of life in extreme environments and reveals how astonishing new discoveries by geomicrobiologists are helping the quest to find life in the solar system.Tullis Onstott, named one of the 100 most influential... |
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, law enforcement, and our understanding of the human mindEmotions feel automatic to us; that's why scientists have long assumed that emotions are hardwired in the body or the brain. Today,... |
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What the Luck?: The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives
Gary Smith - Overlook Press
Format: Print book
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The newest book by the acclaimed author of Standard Deviations takes on luck, and all the mischief the idea of luck can cause in our lives.In Israel, pilot trainees who were praised for doing well subsequently performed worse, while trainees who were yelled at for doing poorly performed... |
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The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love
Michael Lemonick - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now," where she has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. The Perpetual Now is the moving story of this exceptional woman, and the groundbreaking... |
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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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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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Cracking the AP Calculus AB Exam 2017, Premium Edition
Princeton Review. - Princeton Review
Format: Print book
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PREMIUM PRACTICE FOR A PERFECT 5! Equip yourself to ace the NEW 2017 AP Calculus AB Exam with this Premium version of The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide, fully updated to reflect changes to the 2017 test.In addition to all the great material in our classic Cracking the AP Calculus... |
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The Monkey's Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
Alan de Queiroz - Perseus Books Group
Format: Hardcover
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Throughout the world, closely related species are found on landmasses separated by wide stretches of ocean. What explains these far-flung distributions? Why are such species found where they are across the Earth? Since the discovery of plate tectonics, scientists have conjectured that plants... |
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Mary Roach - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic... |
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Searching for the oldest stars : ancient relics from the early universe
Anna Frebel; Ann M Hentschel - Princeton University Press
Format: eBook : Document : English
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Astronomers study the oldest observable stars in the universe in much the same way that archaeologists study ancient artifacts on Earth. Here, Anna Frebel--who is credited with discovering several of the oldest and most primitive stars using the world's largest telescopes--takes readers... |
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A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create New Universes
Zeeya Merali - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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An award-winning science writer takes us into the lab to answer some of life's biggest questions: How was the universe created? And could we create our own?What if you could become God, with the ability to build a whole new universe? As startling as it sounds, modern physics suggests that... |
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Gloomy Terrors and Hidden Fires: The Mystery of John Colter and Yellowstone
Ronald M. Anglin - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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From 1810, when a newspaper published the first account of "Colter's Run," to 2012, when one hundred and fourscore participants in Montana's annual John Colter Run charged up and down rugged trails - even across the waist-deep Gallatin River - interest in Colter, the alleged... |
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The Truth about Language: What It Is and Where It Came From
Michael C Corballis - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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Evolutionary science has long viewed language as, basically, a fortunate accident - a crossing of wires that happened to be extraordinarily useful, setting humans apart from other animals and onto a trajectory that would see their brains (and the products of those brains) become increasingly... |
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The Meaning of Science: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
Tim Lewens - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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Science has produced explanations for everything from the mechanisms of insect navigation to the formation of black holes and the workings of black markets. But how much can we trust science, and can we actually know the world through it? How does science work and how does it fail? And how can the work... |
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Are Numbers Real?: The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World
Brian Clegg - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organized their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What would your life be like without them?Numbers began as simple representations of everyday things, but mathematics rapidly took on a life of its own,... |
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If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body
James Hamblin - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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"If you want to understand the strange workings of the human body, and the future of medicine, you must read this illuminating, engaging book." - Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Gene In 2014, James Hamblin launched a series of videos for The Atlantic called... |
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Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Mike Massimino - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that's about to go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour? Or to look back on Earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to stand in front of the Hubble Space... |
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Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
William Rosen - Viking
Format: Print book
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The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma.As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less... |
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Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
Michael T Osterholm - Little
Format: Print book
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A world-leading epidemiologist shares his stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for epidemics that can challenge world order.Every new development--from exploding human and animal populations to trade and travel--intensifies our susceptibility... |
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Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science
Peter Watson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A brilliant history of science over the past 150 years that offers a powerful new argument - that the many disparate scientific branches are converging on the same truths.Convergence is a history of modern science with an original and significant twist. Various scientific disciplines,... |
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Smitten by Giraffe: My Life as a Citizen Scientist
Anne Innis Dagg - McGill-Queen's University Press
Format: Print book
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When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvelous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behaviour of giraffe in the wild. Subsequently, Jane Goodall and Dian... |
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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 common knowledge that if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole it would suck Earth and the rest of the planets into oblivion Yet as bestselling author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett points out black holes dont suck With that simple idea in hand Bennett begins an entertaining... |
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There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll
Lisa Robinson - Riverhead Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From a legendary music journalist with four decades of unprecedented access, an insiders behind-the-scenes look at the major personalities of rock and roll.Lisa Robinson has interviewed the biggest names in music--including Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Patti Smith, U2, Eminem,... |
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Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
Dean Buonomano - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A leading neuroscientist embarks on a groundbreaking exploration of how time works inside the brain.In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, brain researcher and best-selling author Dean Buonomano draws on evolutionary biology, physics, and philosophy to present his influential theory of how we tell,... |
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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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The Blue Man and Other Stories of the Skin
Robert A. Norman - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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Written by a leading dermatologist, The Blue Man and Other Stories of the Skin provides a compelling and accessible introduction to the life of our largest organ, while also recounting the author's experiences with memorable patients he has treated who suffer from mysterious skin conditions.... |
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Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe
Louisa Preston - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Print book
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Astrobiology is the study of life in the universe from its origins to its evolution into intelligent sentient beings. All life as we know it is carbon-based, reliant on sources of liquid water and energy for its survival, and as far as we are aware, exists only on Earth. Our planet occupies... |
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Master Math: Algebra
Debra Anne Ross - Cengage Learning PTR; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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Get ready to master the principles and operations of algebra! Master Math: Algebra is a comprehensive reference guide that explains and clarifies algebraic principles in a simple, easy-to-follow style and format. Beginning with the most basic fundamental topics and progressing through to the more... |
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We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
Jorge Cham - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Prepare to learn everything we still dont know about our strange and mysterious Universe.Humanitys understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore - there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. PHD Comics creator... |
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Does Altruism Exist?: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others
David Sloan Wilson - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Does altruism exist Or is human nature entirely selfish In this eloquent and accessible book, famed biologist David Sloan Wilson provides new answers to this age-old question based on the latest developments in evolutionary science. From an evolutionary viewpoint, Wilson argues, altruism... |
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Thoreau and the Language of Trees
Richard Higgins - University of California Press
Format: Print book
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Trees were central to Henry David Thoreau's creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his thought, and his inner life. His portraits of them were so perfect, it was as if he could see the sap flowing beneath their bark. When Thoreau wrote that the poet loves the pine tree as his own shadow... |
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Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction
Helen Pilcher - Bloomsbury SIGMA
Format: Print book
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Helen Pilcher is uniquely qualified to explain the cutting-edge science that makes the resurrection of extinct animals a very real possibility, while acknowledging the serious and humorous aspects of giving a deceased animal a second chance to live. If you could bring back to life a person... |
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The Inheritance: A Family on the Front Lines of the Battle Against Alzheimer's Disease
Niki Kapsambelis - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring race against time: The courageous, hopeful story of the one family who may hold the key to finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease.Every sixty-nine seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Of the top ten killers, it is the only disease for which there is no cure... |
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The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
Marcus du Sautoy - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting." - Bill Bryson A captivating journey to the outer reaches of human knowledgeEver since the dawn of civilization we have been driven by a desire to know - to understand the physical... |
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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Carlo Rovelli - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they're calling the next Stephen Hawking." - The Times MagazineFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe.What... |
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Why?: What Makes Us Curious
Mario Livio - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics - curiosity - as he explores our innate desire to know why.Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation - where they can know only... |
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The Physics of Everyday Things: The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day
JAMES KAKALIOS - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Physics professor, bestselling author, and dynamic storyteller James Kakalios reveals the mind-bending science behind the seemingly basic things that keep our daily lives running, from our smart phones and digital "clouds" to x-ray machines and hybrid vehicles. Most of us are clueless... |
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Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses
John Dvorak - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Eclipses have stunned, frightened, emboldened, and mesmerized people for thousands of years. They were recorded on ancient turtle shells discovered in the Wastes of Yin in China, on clay tablets from Mesopotamia and on the Mayan "Dresden Codex." They are mentioned in Homer's Iliad... |
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Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
Alan Burdick - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"Time" is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it's always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we're bored and speed by as we get older?... |
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert Sapolsky - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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"It's no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I've ever read." - David P. Barash, The Wall Street JournalFrom the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad,... |
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