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Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
Adam Frank - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Astrophysicist and NPR commentator on what the latest research on the existence and trajectories of alien civilizations may teach us about our own.Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity's coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden relevance... |
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Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
Ian Stewart - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A celebrated mathematician traces the history of math through the lives and work of twenty-five pioneering mathematiciansIn Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart introduces the visionaries of mathematics throughout history. Delving into the lives of twenty-five... |
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Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
Jamie Metzl - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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After 3.8 billion years humankind is about to start evolving by new rules...From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic-engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives -- sex, war, love, and death.... |
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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson... |
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The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
Graham Farmelo - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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How math helps us solve the universe's deepest mysteries One of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and the forces between... |
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Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America
Bill Geist - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Before there was "tourism" and souvenir ashtrays became "kitsch," the Lake of the Ozarks was a Shangri-La for middle-class Midwestern families on vacation, complete with man-made beaches, Hillbilly Mini Golf, and feathered rubber tomahawks. It was there that author... |
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, 100th Anniversary edition
Albert Einstein - Princeton University Press; 100th Anniversary edition
Format: Hardcover
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After completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in November 1915, Albert Einstein wrote a book about relativity for a popular audience. His intention was "to give an exact insight into the theory of relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical... |
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The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority
Robert P. Crease - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating look at key thinkers throughout history who have shaped public perception of science and the role of authority.When does a scientific discovery become accepted fact Why have scientific facts become easy to deny And what can we do about it In The Workshop and the World, philosopher... |
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What It's Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience
Gregory Berns - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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What is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To find out, neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his team began with a radical step: they taught dogs to go into an MRI scanner-completely awake. They discovered what makes dogs individuals with varying capacities for self-control, different... |
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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
ELLEN ULLMAN - MCD
Format: Hardcover
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The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the MachineThe last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably... |
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The Cat in the Box: A History of Science in 100 Experiments
Mary Gribbin - Race Point Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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This book distills the history of science into 100 epic experiments that have fueled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond. Everything in the scientific world view is based on experiment, including observations of phenomena predicted by theories and hypotheses, such as the bending... |
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Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature
P W Atkins - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where did these laws and these constants... |
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
David Quammen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life's history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature. In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine... |
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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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Pre-Algebra: The Easy Way
Caryl Lorandini - Barrons Educational Series
Format: Paperback
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This new edition in Barron's Easy Way Series contains everything students need to prepare themselves for an algebra class. Pre-Algebra: The Easy Way provides key content review, short quizzes, and practice tests to help students master pre-algebra.Chapters focus on fractions, integers,... |
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The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole
Robert Hodgson - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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Alan Lightman: "A masterpiece of storytelling, bringing to life in rich detail not only the world of science but also the men and women who inhabit that world."George Musser, author of Spooky Action at a Distance: "If you want to know how science really works, this is your... |
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Let's Review Geometry
Andre Castagna - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Paperback
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This brand new book includes the most up-to-date information on the Geometry Common Core Regents Exam. Students can use this review guide to prepare for their Geometry Regents Exams. Inside, separate chapters explain and provide practice problems on: the language of geometry, basic geometric... |
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Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science
Robyn Arianrhod - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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As Robyn Arianrhod shows in this new biography, the most complete to date, Thomas Harriot was a pioneer in both the figurative and literal sense. Navigational adviser and loyal friend to Sir Walter Ralegh, Harriot--whose life was almost exactly contemporaneous to Shakespeare's--took... |
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Cracking the AP Biology Exam 2018, Premium Edition
PRINCETON REVIEW. - Princeton Review
Format: Paperback
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PREMIUM PRACTICE FOR A PERFECT 5! Equip yourself to ace the AP Biology Exam with this Premium version of The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide. In addition to all the great material in our classic Cracking the AP Biology Exam guide - thorough content reviews, targeted test... |
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Schaum's Outline of Differential Equations, 4th Edition
Richard Bronson - Mcgraw-Hill
Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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 550 fully solved problems, examples, and practice exercises to sharpen your problem-solving skills. Plus, you will have access to 30 detailed videos... |
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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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Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange
Jon Butterworth - The Experiment
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry: a richly conjured world, in map and metaphor, of particle physicsAtom Land brings the impossibly small world of particle physics to life, taking readers on a guided journey through the subatomic... |
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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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The Way of Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds
Gavin Van Horn - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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A hiking trail through majestic mountains. A raw, unpeopled wilderness stretching as far as the eye can see. These are the settings we associate with our most famous books about nature. But Gavin Van Horn isn't most nature writers. He lives and works not in some perfectly remote cabin... |
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The Elements: The New Guide to the Building Blocks of Our Universe
Jack Challoner - Carlton Books
Format: Hardcover
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As Carl Sagan memorably put it, “We're made of star stuff.” The Elements: The New Guide to the Building Blocks of Our Universe takes you on a gorgeously illustrated tour of the Periodic Table. Filled with fascinating information about the elements, their main compounds,... |
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Schaum's Outline of Linear Algebra, 5th Edition: 612 Solved Problems + 25 Videos
Marc Lipson - McGraw-Hill Education; 5 edition
Format: Paperback
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Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Fortunately, there's Schaum's. This all-in-one-package includes 612 fully solved problems, examples, and practice exercises to sharpen your problem-solving skills. Plus, you will have access to 25 detailed videos featuring... |
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Biology Essentials For Dummies
Rene Fester Kratz - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Biology Essentials For Dummies (9781119589587) was previously published as Biology Essentials For Dummies (9781118072677) . While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product.... |
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Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
Rachel Monroe - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative and original investigation of our cultural fascination with crime, linking four archetypes - Detective, Victim, Defender, Killer - to four true stories about women driven by obsession.In this illuminating exploration of women, violence, and obsession, Rachel Monroe interrogates... |
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A Magical World: Superstition and Science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
DEREK K WILSON - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A rich and multi-faceted history of heroes and villains interwoven with the profound changes in human knowledge that took place between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.Spanning some of the most vibrant and fascinating eras in European history, Cambridge historian Derek Wilson reveals... |
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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time
Simon Garfield - Canongate Books
Format: Hardcover
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SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016OBSERVER SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently, and our lives are propelled by the notion that we will never have enough of the one thing... |
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Einstein's Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes
Chris Impey - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing science of black holes, and their role in understanding the history and future of our universe.Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, yet every galaxy harbors a black hole at its center. In Einstein's Monsters, distinguished astronomer Chris Impey builds... |
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Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos
Brian Cox - Da Capo
Format: Book
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In Universal, bestselling physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (Why Does E=mc2?) take us on an inspirational journey of scientific exploration. They show that, by asking questions about the world around us, anyone can think like a physicist and grasp the breath-taking grandeur of the cosmos.Universal... |
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The Little Book of Black Holes
Steven S. Gubser - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dive into a mind-bending exploration of the physics of black holesBlack holes, predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and the public with their bizarre and fantastical properties. Although Einstein understood that... |
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There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story
Pamela Druckerman - Penguin Press
Format: Book
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The best-selling author of BRINGING UP BB investigates life in her forties, and wonders whether her mind will ever catch up with her face.When Pamela Druckerman turns 40, waiters start calling her "Madame," and she detects a disturbing new message in mens' gazes: I would... |
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Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical
Johnny Ball - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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In this book, Johnny Ball tells one of the most important stories in world history - the story of mathematics. By introducing us to the major characters and leading us through many historical twists and turns, Johnny slowly unravels the tale of how humanity built up a knowledge and understanding... |
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Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel
Andrew Ross - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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The story of Palestine's stonemasons and the building of Israel"They demolish our houses while we build theirs."This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian "stone men,"... |
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The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?
Patrick Tucker - Current
Format: Print book
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An in-depth look at the future of the future. An app on your phone knows you're getting married before you do. Your friends' tweets can help data scientists predict your location with astounding accuracy, even if you don't use Twitter. Soon, we'll be able to know how many kids... |
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year"... |
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The Cases That Haunt Us
John E. Douglas - Pocket Books
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Violent. Provocative. Shocking. Call them what you will...but don't call them open and shut. Did Lizzie Borden murder her own father and stepmother? Was Jack the Ripper actually the Duke of Clarence? Who killed JonBenet Ramsey? America's foremost expert on criminal profiling and twenty-five-year... |
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Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind
Sy Montgomery - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Extraordinary new insights into the minds and lives of our fellow creatures from two of the world's top animal authors, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and Sy Montgomery. "In their writing and in their lives and in their remarkable friendship, Liz and Sy break down false barriers and carry... |
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Between Hope and Fear: A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity
MICHAEL KINCH - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A smart and compelling examination of the science of immunity, the public policy implications of vaccine denial, and the real-world outcomes of failing to vaccinate. If you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing -- cases of measles,... |
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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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Once a Wolf: The Science Behind Our Dogs? Astonishing Genetic Evolution
Bryan Sykes - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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The author of Seven Daughters of Eve returns with a lively account of how all dogs are descended from a mere handful of wolves. How did wolves evolve into dogs? When did this happen, and what role did humans play? Oxford geneticist Bryan Sykes used the full array of modern technology to explore... |
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Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
MENNO SCHILTHUIZEN - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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From evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen comes a book that will make you see yourself and the world around you in an entirely new way.For a long time, biologists thought evolution was a necessarily slow process, too incremental to be observed in a lifetime. In Darwin Comes to Town,... |
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The History of Physics
Isaac Asimov - Walker Publishing Company; Revised edition
Format: Hardcover
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Omnibus of three books originally published separately: Understanding Physics: Motion, Sound and Heat; Understanding Physics: Light, Magnetism and Electricity; and Understanding Physics: The Proton, Neutron and Electron. It was reprinted under the title Understanding Physics in 1993. To the original... |
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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
ELLEN ULLMAN - Picador
Format: Paperback
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The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the MachineThe last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably... |
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Let's Review Chemistry: The Physical Setting
Albert S. Tarendash M.S. - Barron's Educational Series; 5 edition
Format: Book
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Barron's Let's Review Series titles are classroom textbook supplements that help prepare high school students who are studying for New York State Regents exams. This book reviews all high school-level chemistry topics and includes: A topic review covering atomic structure, chemical... |
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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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Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species
SANG-HEE LEE - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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In this captivating bestseller, Korea's first paleoanthropologist offers fresh insights into humanity's dawn and evolution.What can fossilized teeth tell us about the life expectancy of our ancient ancestors? How did farming play a problematic role in the history of human evolution? How can simple... |
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A New Way to Age: The Most Cutting-Edge Advances in Antiaging
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 Theory That Changed Everything: "On the Origin of Species" as a Work in Progress
Philip Lieberman - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Few people have done as much to change how we view the world as Charles Darwin. Yet On the Origin of Species is more cited than read, and parts of it are even considered outdated. In some ways, it has been consigned to the nineteenth century. In The Theory That Changed Everything, the renowned... |
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Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide
Richard Dawkins - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Should we believe in God? In this brisk introduction to modern atheism, one of the world's greatest science writers tells us why we shouldn't.Richard Dawkins was fifteen when he stopped believing in God. Deeply impressed by the beauty and complexity of living things, he'd felt certain... |
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Magnitude: The Scale of the Universe
Megan/ Arcand Kimberly Watzke - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of illustrated science bestsellers, like Thing Explainer and harkening back to the classic film The Powers of Ten, this unique, fully-illustrated, four-color book explores and visualizes the concept of scale in our universe. In Magnitude, Kimberly... |
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The Truth About Tesla: The Myth of the Lone Genius in the History of Innovation
Christopher Cooper - Race Point Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Everything you think you know about Nikola Tesla is wrong.Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest electrical inventors who ever lived. For years, the engineering genius was relegated to relative obscurity, his contributions to humanity (we are told) obscured by a number of nineteenth-century... |
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Catching Breath: The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis
KATHRYN LOUGHEED - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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With more than a million victims every year--more than any other disease, including malaria--and antibiotic resistance now found in every country worldwide, tuberculosis is once again proving itself to be one of the smartest killers that humanity has ever faced. But it's hardly surprising... |
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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Bill McKibben - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long... |
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Losing Earth: A Recent History
Nathaniel Rich - MCD
Format: Hardcover
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By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change -- including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world... |
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Throwaway Nation: The Ugly Truth about American Garbage
Jeff Dondero - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Americans are burying ourselves in our own waste. It's befouling our air, land, waters, food, and bodies. The US tosses out enough foodstuff to feed the rest of the world. America is the largest buyer of fashion and cosmetics, the second dirtiest industry in the world. We lead the planet... |
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The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a concise, elegant exploration of time.Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites... |
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The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth
Elizabeth Tasker - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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Twenty years ago, the search for planets--and life--outside the solar system was a job restricted to science fiction writers. It is now one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy, with thousands of these "exoplanets" discovered so far. The detection of these worlds... |
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My Brief History
Stephen Hawking - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERStephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution.... |
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The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
Eric R Kandel - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Nobel Prize recipient Eric R. Kandel investigates The Disordered Mind to uncover what brain disorders reveal about human nature. This challenging study will not only help transform medical care but also encourage a new humanism based in part on the biological confirmation of individuality.Eric... |
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The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything
MARCUS CHOWN - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Why the force that keeps our feet on the ground holds the key to understanding the nature of time and the origin of the universe. Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognized and described yet it is the least... |
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Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
Venki Ramakrishnan - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A Nobel Prize-winning biologist tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology's most important molecule"Ramakrishnan's writing is so honest, lucid and engaging that I could not put this book down until I had read to the very end."--Siddhartha Mukherjee,... |
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The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist
Tim Birkhead - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Bird Sense, a biography of Francis Willughby, the man who pulled the study of birds out of the dark ages and formed the foundations of modern ornithology. Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the rapidly accelerating scientific revolution of the seventeenth... |
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Magnificent Mistakes in Mathematics
Alfred S. Posamentier - Prometheus Books
Format: Print book
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Two veteran math educators demonstrate how some "magnificent mistakes" had profound consequences for our understanding of mathematics' key concepts. In the nineteenth century, English mathematician William Shanks spent fifteen years calculating the value of pi, setting a record... |
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Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker
A N WILSON - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the bestselling author of Victoria: A Life.With the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin - hailed as the man who "discovered evolution" - was propelled into the pantheon of great scientific thinkers, alongside Galileo,... |
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Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind
Kitty Ferguson - Palgrave Macmillan Trade; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Stephen Hawking is one of the most remarkable figures of our age--bestselling author of A Brief History of Time, celebrated theoretical physicist, and an inspiration as he exhibits grace, dignity, and courage while coping with devastating disability. With race access to Hawking, including... |
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Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York
Ted Steinberg - Simon & Schuster; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award for US History A “fascinating, encyclopedic history…of greater New York City through an ecological lens” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—the sweeping story of one of the most man-made spots on earth.Gotham Unbound recounts the four-century... |
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The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary
Caspar Henderson - University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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From medieval bestiaries to Borgesrsquos Book of Imaginary Beings wersquove long been enchanted by extraordinary animals be they terrifying three-headed dogs or asps impervious to a snake charmerrsquos song But bestiaries are more than just zany zoologymdashthey are artful attempts to convey... |
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Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants
Jacob Shell - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A journey through the hidden world of elephants and their riders.High in the mountainous rainforests of Burma and India grow some of the world's last stands of mature, wild teak. For more than a thousand years, people here have worked with elephants to log these otherwise impassable... |
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Out of the Shadow of a Giant: Hooke, Halley, and the Birth of Science
John Gribbin - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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What if Newton had never lived? A compelling dual biography argues that Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley easily could have filled the giant's shoes - and deserve credit for the birth of modern science. Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant... |
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Immune: How Your Body Defends and Protects You
CATHERINE CARVER - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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The human body is like an exceedingly well-fortified castle, defended by billions of soldiers--some live for less than a day, others remember battles for decades, but all are essential in protecting us from disease. This hidden army is our immune system, and without it we could not survive... |
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Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North
Mark C Serreze - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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An insider account of how researchers unraveled the mystery of the thawing ArcticIn the 1990s, researchers in the Arctic noticed that floating summer sea ice had begun receding. This was accompanied by shifts in ocean circulation and unexpected changes in weather patterns throughout the world.... |
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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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