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The Mission of a Lifetime: Lessons from the Men Who Went to the Moon
Basil Hero - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Former award-winning investigative reporter Basil Hero chronicles the lives and lessons of the twelve remaining Apollo astronauts. Only twenty-four human beings have travelled to the Moon. Theirs were the most daring voyages in mankind's history and their view of Earth from the moon... |
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A New Way to Age
Suzanne Somers - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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At seventy-three years young, #1 New York Times bestselling author and health guru Suzanne Somers has established herself as a leading voice on antiaging. With A New Way to Age, she takes things a step further to present a revolutionary philosophy for a longer and better-quality... |
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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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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
STEPHEN HAWKING - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind."Hawking's parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about humanity's... |
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Galileo: And the Science Deniers
Mario Livio - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history's greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers. "We really need this story now, because we're living through the next chapter... |
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Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American Outlaw
Charles Leerhsen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Charles Leerhsen brings the notorious Butch Cassidy to vivid life in this surprising and entertaining biography that goes beyond the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to reveal a more fascinating and complicated man than legend provides.For more than a century the life and death... |
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with... |
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Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World
Olga Khazan - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Susan Cain's Quiet and Scott Stossel's My Age of Anxiety, Atlantic staff writer Olga Khazan reclaims the concept of "weird" and turns it into a badge of honor rather than a slur, showing how being different -- culturally, socially, physically, or mentally... |
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Moon: An Illustrated History: From Ancient Myths to the Colonies of Tomorrow
David Warmflash - Sterling
Format: Hardcover
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From the moon's formation, to its potential for future exploration, this richly illustrated volume presents 100 milestones in lunar history. With dazzling images on every spread, and illuminating text by astrobiologist Dr. David Warmflash, Moon: An Illustrated History chronologically... |
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Geometry For Dummies
Mark Ryan - For Dummies
Format: Print book
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Hit the geometry wall? Get up and running with this no-nonsense guide! Does the thought of geometry make you jittery? You're not alone. Fortunately, this down-to-earth guide helps you approach it from a new angle, making it easier than ever to conquer your fears and score your highest... |
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How the Brain Works
DK - DK PUB
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Have you ever asked yourself why you can't remember anything from before the age of three, why people experience deja vu, or how a bundle of cells in our heads can produce the remarkable phenomenon that is human consciousness? Drawing on the latest neuroscience research, this visual guide... |
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Mama's Last Hug: Animal and Human Emotions
Frans de Waal - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which... |
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The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides
MARIANO SIGMAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From a world-renowned leader in neuroscience, a provocative, enthralling journey into the depths of the human mind.Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international... |
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Algebra I Workbook For Dummies
Mary Jane Sterling - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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The grade-saving Algebra I companion, with hundreds of additional practice problems online Algebra I Workbook For Dummies is your solution to the Algebra brain-block. With hundreds of practice and example problems mapped to the typical high school Algebra class, you'll crack... |
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Secrets of the Human Body
Chris van Tulleken - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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An exciting visual guide to the unseen and unknown wonders of the human body. 206 bones. Ten fingers. Two eyes. One heart. We may think we know the human body, but it turns to hold a lot of surprises. Published to coincide with a major new prime time BBC series, this specially commissioned... |
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Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World
MITCH PRINSTEIN - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A leading psychologist examines how our popularity affects our success, our relationships, and our happiness - and why we don't always want to be the most popularNo matter how old you are, there's a good chance that the word "popular" immediately transports you back to your teenage... |
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The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
Barbara K Lipska - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness - only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains... |
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The House of Kennedy
James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Those who dwell in the House of Kennedy work hard, live hard, and win at all costs. But just how much has it cost them? The Kennedy name is synonymous with American royalty. The family commitment to public service is legendary and enduring. But all their wild charisma has been dashed by disgrace... |
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A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays
Stephen Hawking - Bantam; 10 Anv edition
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Published more than two decades ago to great critical acclaim and commercial success, A Brief History of Time has become a landmark volume in science writing. Stephen Hawking, one of the great minds of our time, explores such profound questions as: How did the universe... |
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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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Cosmos Possible Worlds
Ann Druyan - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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This all-new and long-awaited sequel to Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's international bestseller Cosmos takes readers to worlds only now emerging with the advent of new technologies.Druyan takes readers on an extraordinary journey through the vast and unexplored realms of Earth and space,... |
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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Helen Czerski - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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A physicist explains daily phenomena from the mundane to the magisterial.Take a look up at the stars on a clear night and you get a sense that the universe is vast and untouchable, full of mysteries beyond comprehension. But did you know that the key to unveiling the secrets of the cosmos... |
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Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change Hit the West
Daniel Mathews - COUNTERPOINT PR
Format: Hardcove
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A troubling story of the devastating ripple effects of climate change told through forest ecologists, professional forest managers, park service scientists, fire bosses, and activists Climate change manifests in many ways across America, but few as dramatic as the attacks on our western... |
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Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel
Michael Wall - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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We've all asked ourselves the question. It's impossible to look up at the stars and NOT think about it: Are we alone in the universe? Books, movies and television shows proliferate that attempt to answer this question and explore it. In OUT THERE Space.com senior writer Dr. Michael Wall... |
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Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
Mark Miodownik - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Sometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, but always interesting: the New York Times best-selling author of Stuff Matters show us the secret lives of liquids: the shadow counterpart of our solid "stuff."We all know that without water we couldn't... |
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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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The Human Brain Book
Rita Carter - DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Format: Hardcover
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Combining the latest findings from neuroscience with new brain imaging techniques, as well as developments on infant brains, telepathy, and brain modification, this new edition of DK's The Human Brain Book covers brain anatomy, function, and disorders in unprecedented detail. With its unique... |
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Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
James Donovan - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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"This is the best book on Apollo that I have read. Extensively researched and meticulously accurate, it successfully traces not only the technical highlights of the program but also the contributions of the extraordinary people who made it possible." --Mike Collins, Command module... |
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Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change
Mary Beth Pfeiffer - Island Press
Format: Hardcover
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Lyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move into places they could not survive before. The first epidemic to emerge in the era of climate change, the disease infects half a million people in the US and Europe each year, and untold multitudes in Canada, China, Russia,... |
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
MARYANNE WOLF - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.A decade ago, Maryanne... |
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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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