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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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E-Z Statistics: Ace Statistics the E-Z Way
Douglas Downing - Barron's Educational Series; 4th edition
Format: Paperback
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Known for many years as Barron's Easy Way Series, the new editions of these popular self-teaching titles are now Barron's E-Z Series. Brand-new cover designs reflect all new page layouts, which feature extensive two-color treatment, a fresh, modern typeface, and more graphic... |
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Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway
Siobhan Roberts - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Conway is a creative genius." --Martin GardnerAn unabashed original, John Horton Conway is Archimedes, Mick Jagger, Salvador Dali, and Richard Feynman all rolled into one--a singular mathematician, with a rock star's charisma, a sly sense of humor, a polymath's promiscuous... |
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CliffsNotes Praxis Mathematics: Content Knowledge
Sandra K McCune - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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Test prep for the Praxis Mathematics: Content Knowledge (5161) test, now aligned to Common Core Taken by people who want to be certified to teach math at the high school level, the Praxis Mathematics Content Knowledge test has been revised to reflect the Common Core State Standards for math.... |
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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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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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Gravitation
Charles W. Misner - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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First published in 1973, Gravitation is a landmark graduate-level textbook that presents Einsteins general theory of relativity and offers a rigorous, full-year course on the physics of gravitation. Upon publication, Science called it "a pedagogic masterpiece," and it has since... |
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Antimatter
Frank Close - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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Antimatter explores a strange mirror world, where particles have identical yet opposite properties to those that make up the familiar matter we encounter everyday; where left becomes right, positive becomes negative; and where, should matter and antimatter meet, the two annihilate in a blinding... |
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The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
Christophe Galfard - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book
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"If Ms. Frizzle were a physics student of Stephen Hawking, she might have written THE UNIVERSE IN YOUR HAND, a wild tour through the reaches of time and space, from the interior of a proton to the Big Bang to the rough suburbs of a black hole. It's friendly, excitable, erudite, and cosmic."... |
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Einstein: The Man, the Genius, and the Theory of Relativity
Walter Isaacson - Andre Deutsch
Format: Hardcover
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Written by bestselling author Walter Isaacson, Einsten is an introduction to, and celebration of, the scientist whose name is synonymous with ingenuity and intelligence. From his remarkable theory of relativity and the famous equation E=mc2 to his concept of a unified field theory,... |
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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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Utopia is creepy : and other provocations
Nicholas Carr - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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With a razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley s unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade s worth of posts from his blog, Rough Type, as well as his seminal essays, Utopia Is Creepy offers... |
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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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CliffsNotes Algebra I Common Core Quick Review
Kimberly Gores - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A quick in, quick out review of Algebra I Common Core math Relevant to high school students enrolled in their Algebra I class in those states adhering to the Common Core math standards, this quick review provides targeted chapter-level reviews of topics aligned to the Algebra I Common Core... |
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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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Einstein's Greatest Mistake: A Biography
David Bodanis - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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From the best-selling author of E=mc2, a brisk, accessible biography of Albert Einstein that reveals the genius and hubris of the titan of modern physics Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory... |
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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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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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Weirder Maths: At the Edge of the Possible
David Darling - Oneworld Publications
Format: Paperback
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Since there is something rather than nothing, could nothing exist Can you make the perfect labyrinth Does a quantum event have to be observed before it's "real" Just when you thought things couldn't get any stranger, David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee's reveal "bubble... |
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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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Algebra 2: The Easy Way
Meg Clemens - Barrons Educational Series
Format: Paperback
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This new edition in Barron's Easy Way Series contains everything students need to prepare for an algebra class. Algebra 2: The Easy Way provides key content review and practice exercises to help students learn algebra the easy way.Topics covered in this detailed review of algebra... |
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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
Rose George - Metropolitan Books
Format: Book
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Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil. It can save lives and transmit deadly infections. Each one of us has roughly nine pints of it, yet many don't even know their own blood type. And for all its ubiquitousness,... |
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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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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
Daniel J Levitin - Dutton
Format: Print book
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From The New York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process - especially in election season.... |
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Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
Johnjoe McFadden - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback
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New York Times Bestseller and an Amazon Best Science Book of 2015Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely... |
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The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown
Karen Olsson - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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An eloquent blend of memoir and biography exploring the Weil siblings, math, and creative inspirationKaren Olsson always had an aptitude for math but wasn't exactly a prodigy. And yet when she entered Harvard as an undergraduate she was drawn to it, forcing herself into a discipline... |
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Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
Dean Burnett - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous gray matter from neuroscientist and massively popular Guardian blogger Dean Burnett.The brain may be the seat of consciousness and the engine of all human experience, but it's also messy, fallible, and disorganized. For example, did you know... |
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