Inside the quest to unlock the mysteries of development -- and find the key to transforming our future.Each of us began life as a single cell. From this humble origin, we embarked on a risky journey fraught with opportunities for disaster. Yet, amazingly, we reached our destination intact, emerging as dazzlingly complex, exquisitely engineered assemblages of trillions of cells. This metamorphosis constitutes one of nature's most spectacular yet commonplace magic tricks -- and one of its most coveted secrets. In From One Cell, physician and researcher Ben Stanger offers a breathtaking glimpse into what scientists are discovering about how life and the body take shape, and how these revelations stand to revolutionize medicine and the future of human health.
W. W. Norton & Company
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9781324005421
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Hardcover
Weather on Earth
By Walker, Colin
Modern Curriculum Press Inc
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9780813626826
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Paperback
The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy
By Kershenbaum, Arik
Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life on other planets is the stuff of science fiction. The time has come to abandon our fantasies of space invaders and movie monsters and place our expectations on solid scientific footing.But short of aliens landing in New York City, how do we know what they are like? Using his own expert understanding of life on Earth and Darwin's theory of evolution--which applies throughout the universe--Cambridge zoologist Dr. Arik Kershenbaum explains what alien life must be like: how these creatures will move, socialize, and communicate. For example, by observing fish whose electrical pulses indicate social status, we can see that other planets might allow for communication by electricity.
Publisher: n/a
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9781984881960
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Hardcover
How Trump is Making Black America Great Again
By Cooper, Horace
Explore the unappreciated benefits African Americans enjoy thanks to Donald Trump.The election of President Donald Trump has been portrayed in the mainstream media as a doomsday event - especially for America's racial minorities. And yet, reality has proven quite the contrary. Not only are African Americans employed at a greater rate than any other time since the late 1950s, black business formation is at an all-time high. In this groundbreaking book, longtime academic and political commentator Horace Cooper explains how Trump's economic policies - including lowering taxes, eliminating stifling regulation, and renegotiating trade agreements - are producing an unforeseen boon to Black America. This book provides a philosophical framework through which Trump's presidency can be viewed as a benefit to Black America, rather than a stumbling block.
Bombardier Books
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9781642932218
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Hardcover
African American Almanac
By Ph.d., Lean'tin Bracks
Courage, resilience and triumph! Celebrating the African American experience, the extraordinary people, and their profound influence on American history! African Americans helped build the United States. Their contributions, deeds, and influence are interwoven into the fabric of the country. Celebrating centuries of achievements, the African American Almanac: 400 Years of Black Excellence provides insights on the impact and inspiration of African Americans on U.S. society and culture spanning centuries and presented in a fascinating mix of biographies, historical facts, and enlightening essays on significant legislation and movements. Covering events surrounding African American literature, art and music; the civil rights movement; religion within the black community; advances in science and medicine; and politics, education, business, the military, sports, theater, film, and television, this important reference connects history to the issues currently facing the African American community.
Visible Ink Press
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9781578597802
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Paperback
Origin of Life
By Deamer, David W.
It seems likely that scientists will someday discover how life can emerge on habitable planets like the early Earth and Mars. In Origin of Life: What Everyone Needs to Know, David W. Deamer has written a comprehensive guide to the origin of life that is organized in three sections. The first section addresses questions such as: Where do the atoms of life come from How old is Earth What was the Earth like before life began Where does water come from After each question is answered, there is a follow-up: How do we know This expands the horizon of the book, explaining how scientists reach conclusions and why we can trust these answers. The second section describes how certain organic molecules can spontaneously assemble into populations of protocells that can undergo selection and evolve toward primitive living systems.
Publisher: n/a
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9780190098995
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Hardcover
Blood Gun Money
By Grillo, Ioan
"An eye-opening and riveting account of how guns make it into the black market and into the hands of criminals and drug lords."--Adam Winkler. From the author of El Narco and winner of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms, essential to cartels and gangs in the drug trade and contributing to the epidemic of mass shootings.. The gun control debate is revived with every mass shooting. But far more people die from gun deaths on the street corners of inner city America and across the border as Mexico's powerful cartels battle to control the drug trade. Guns and drugs aren't often connected in our heated discussions of gun control-but they should be. In Ioan Grillo's groundbreaking new work of investigative journalism, he shows us this connection by following the market for guns in the Americas and how it has made the continent the most murderous on earth.
Bloomsbury Publishing
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9781635578485
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Paperback
Más allá de nuestras mentes
By Fernández-armesto, Felipe
Una historia estimulante sobre cómo la imaginación interactua con las facultades psicológicas, -emoción, percepción y razón- para formar la historia de la vida humana. El imaginar (para ver lo que no está presente) es la asombrosa habilidad que ha alimentado el desarrollo y la innovación de los humanos a lo largo de los siglos.Como especie, somos unicos, con nuestra singular capacidad para remodelar el mundo después de ver las imágenes en nuestras mentes.Atravesando distintos campos como los de la ciencia, política, religión, cultura, filosofía e historia, Felipe Fernández-Armesto revela las apasionantes e inquietantes historias de nuestros saltos imaginativos, desde el primer Homo sapiens hasta nuestros días.A través de ideas innovadoras de la ciencia cognitiva, Fernández-Armesto explora cómo y por qué primero tenemos ideas, y nos da una visión tentadora de cómo somos y qué necesitamos para conseguirlas.
Roca Editorial
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9788417968083
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Paperback
Black Hole Survival Guide
By Levin, Janna
Throughout her career, astrophysicist Janna Levin has focused, alongside her research, on making the science she studies not just accessible, but, perhaps more important, intriguing to the nonscientist. And that is what she has done again here, helping us to understand the black hole: perhaps the most opaque theoretical construct ever imagined by physicists. She explains how their existence came to be proven decades after they were first predicted in Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity. And she explores the ways in which what we know about them has changed our most basic understanding of the galaxy, the universe, the whole expanse of reality that we inhabit. Lively, engaging and utterly unique, Black Hole Survival Guide is not just informative.
Knopf
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9780525658221
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Hardcover
The Second Chance Club
By Hardy, Jason
A former parole officer shines a bright light on a huge yet hidden part of our justice system through the intertwining stories of seven parolees striving to survive the chaos that awaits them after prison in this illuminating and dramatic book. Prompted by a dead-end retail job and a vague desire to increase the amount of justice in his hometown, Jason Hardy became a parole officer in New Orleans at the worst possible moment. Louisiana's incarceration rates were the highest in the US and his department's caseload had just been increased to 220 "offenders" per parole officer, whereas the national average is around 100. Almost immediately, he discovered that the biggest problem with our prison system is what we do - and don't do - when people get out of prison.
From One Cell
By Stanger, Ben
Inside the quest to unlock the mysteries of development -- and find the key to transforming our future.Each of us began life as a single cell. From this humble origin, we embarked on a risky journey fraught with opportunities for disaster. Yet, amazingly, we reached our destination intact, emerging as dazzlingly complex, exquisitely engineered assemblages of trillions of cells. This metamorphosis constitutes one of nature's most spectacular yet commonplace magic tricks -- and one of its most coveted secrets. In From One Cell, physician and researcher Ben Stanger offers a breathtaking glimpse into what scientists are discovering about how life and the body take shape, and how these revelations stand to revolutionize medicine and the future of human health.
Weather on Earth
By Walker, Colin
The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy
By Kershenbaum, Arik
Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life on other planets is the stuff of science fiction. The time has come to abandon our fantasies of space invaders and movie monsters and place our expectations on solid scientific footing.But short of aliens landing in New York City, how do we know what they are like? Using his own expert understanding of life on Earth and Darwin's theory of evolution--which applies throughout the universe--Cambridge zoologist Dr. Arik Kershenbaum explains what alien life must be like: how these creatures will move, socialize, and communicate. For example, by observing fish whose electrical pulses indicate social status, we can see that other planets might allow for communication by electricity.
How Trump is Making Black America Great Again
By Cooper, Horace
Explore the unappreciated benefits African Americans enjoy thanks to Donald Trump.The election of President Donald Trump has been portrayed in the mainstream media as a doomsday event - especially for America's racial minorities. And yet, reality has proven quite the contrary. Not only are African Americans employed at a greater rate than any other time since the late 1950s, black business formation is at an all-time high. In this groundbreaking book, longtime academic and political commentator Horace Cooper explains how Trump's economic policies - including lowering taxes, eliminating stifling regulation, and renegotiating trade agreements - are producing an unforeseen boon to Black America. This book provides a philosophical framework through which Trump's presidency can be viewed as a benefit to Black America, rather than a stumbling block.
African American Almanac
By Ph.d., Lean'tin Bracks
Courage, resilience and triumph! Celebrating the African American experience, the extraordinary people, and their profound influence on American history! African Americans helped build the United States. Their contributions, deeds, and influence are interwoven into the fabric of the country. Celebrating centuries of achievements, the African American Almanac: 400 Years of Black Excellence provides insights on the impact and inspiration of African Americans on U.S. society and culture spanning centuries and presented in a fascinating mix of biographies, historical facts, and enlightening essays on significant legislation and movements. Covering events surrounding African American literature, art and music; the civil rights movement; religion within the black community; advances in science and medicine; and politics, education, business, the military, sports, theater, film, and television, this important reference connects history to the issues currently facing the African American community.
Origin of Life
By Deamer, David W.
It seems likely that scientists will someday discover how life can emerge on habitable planets like the early Earth and Mars. In Origin of Life: What Everyone Needs to Know, David W. Deamer has written a comprehensive guide to the origin of life that is organized in three sections. The first section addresses questions such as: Where do the atoms of life come from How old is Earth What was the Earth like before life began Where does water come from After each question is answered, there is a follow-up: How do we know This expands the horizon of the book, explaining how scientists reach conclusions and why we can trust these answers. The second section describes how certain organic molecules can spontaneously assemble into populations of protocells that can undergo selection and evolve toward primitive living systems.
Blood Gun Money
By Grillo, Ioan
"An eye-opening and riveting account of how guns make it into the black market and into the hands of criminals and drug lords."--Adam Winkler. From the author of El Narco and winner of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms, essential to cartels and gangs in the drug trade and contributing to the epidemic of mass shootings.. The gun control debate is revived with every mass shooting. But far more people die from gun deaths on the street corners of inner city America and across the border as Mexico's powerful cartels battle to control the drug trade. Guns and drugs aren't often connected in our heated discussions of gun control-but they should be. In Ioan Grillo's groundbreaking new work of investigative journalism, he shows us this connection by following the market for guns in the Americas and how it has made the continent the most murderous on earth.
Más allá de nuestras mentes
By Fernández-armesto, Felipe
Una historia estimulante sobre cómo la imaginación interactua con las facultades psicológicas, -emoción, percepción y razón- para formar la historia de la vida humana. El imaginar (para ver lo que no está presente) es la asombrosa habilidad que ha alimentado el desarrollo y la innovación de los humanos a lo largo de los siglos.Como especie, somos unicos, con nuestra singular capacidad para remodelar el mundo después de ver las imágenes en nuestras mentes.Atravesando distintos campos como los de la ciencia, política, religión, cultura, filosofía e historia, Felipe Fernández-Armesto revela las apasionantes e inquietantes historias de nuestros saltos imaginativos, desde el primer Homo sapiens hasta nuestros días.A través de ideas innovadoras de la ciencia cognitiva, Fernández-Armesto explora cómo y por qué primero tenemos ideas, y nos da una visión tentadora de cómo somos y qué necesitamos para conseguirlas.
Black Hole Survival Guide
By Levin, Janna
Throughout her career, astrophysicist Janna Levin has focused, alongside her research, on making the science she studies not just accessible, but, perhaps more important, intriguing to the nonscientist. And that is what she has done again here, helping us to understand the black hole: perhaps the most opaque theoretical construct ever imagined by physicists. She explains how their existence came to be proven decades after they were first predicted in Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity. And she explores the ways in which what we know about them has changed our most basic understanding of the galaxy, the universe, the whole expanse of reality that we inhabit. Lively, engaging and utterly unique, Black Hole Survival Guide is not just informative.
The Second Chance Club
By Hardy, Jason
A former parole officer shines a bright light on a huge yet hidden part of our justice system through the intertwining stories of seven parolees striving to survive the chaos that awaits them after prison in this illuminating and dramatic book. Prompted by a dead-end retail job and a vague desire to increase the amount of justice in his hometown, Jason Hardy became a parole officer in New Orleans at the worst possible moment. Louisiana's incarceration rates were the highest in the US and his department's caseload had just been increased to 220 "offenders" per parole officer, whereas the national average is around 100. Almost immediately, he discovered that the biggest problem with our prison system is what we do - and don't do - when people get out of prison.