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Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond: The Life of Astronomer Vera Rubin
Ashley Jean Yeager - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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We now know that the universe is mostly dark, made up of particles and forces that are undetectable even by our most powerful telescopes. The discovery of the possible existence of dark matter and dark energy signaled a Copernican-like revolution in astronomy: not only are we not the center... |
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Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation
Christopher Kemp - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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How the brain helps us to understand and navigate space -- and why, sometimes, it doesn't work the way it should.Inside our heads we carry around an infinite and endlessly unfolding map of the world. Navigation is one of the most ancient neural abilities we have -- older than language.... |
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Electrify: An Optimists Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
Saul Griffith - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now - but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In Electrify, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint - optimistic but feasible - for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith's... |
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How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy
F. Perry Wilson MD - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Blending personal anecdotes with hard science, an accomplished physician and science communicator pulls back the curtain on medicine and medical research, revealing how progress is made - and how to rebuild trust between doctors and patients: "A brilliant step toward patients and physicians... |
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Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World
Vaclav Smil - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Vaclav Smil's mission is to make facts matter. An environmental scientist, policy analyst, and a hugely prolific author, he is Bill Gates' go-to guy for making sense of our world. In Numbers Don't Lie, Smil answers questions such as: What's worse for the environment--your... |
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Soviets in Space: Russia's Cosmonauts and the Space Frontier (Kosmos)
Colin Burgess - Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover
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A beautifully illustrated history of the Soviet Union's leading role in the space race. In this deeply researched chronology, Colin Burgess describes the then Soviet Union's extraordinary success in the pioneering years of space exploration. Within a decade, the Soviets not only... |
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There Is Life After the Nobel Prize
Eric Kandel - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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One day in 1996, the neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel took a call from his program officer at the National Institute of Mental Health, who informed him that he had been awarded a key grant. Also, the officer said, he and his colleagues thought Kandel would win the Nobel Prize. "I hope... |
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Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time
Natalie Hodges - Bellevue Literary Press
Format: Paperback
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A virtuosic debut from a gifted violinist searching for a new mode of artistic becomingHow does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we live in time, or does time live in us? And how does music, with its patterns of rhythm and harmony, inform our experience of time?Uncommon... |
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Voyager: Constellations of Memory
Nona Fernández - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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A startling book-length essay, at once grand and intimate, from National Book Award finalist Nona Fernández.. Voyager begins with Nona Fernández accompanying her elderly mother to the doctor to seek an explanation for her frequent falls and inability to remember what preceded them. As the author... |
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