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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold. The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better... |
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Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow: My Life as a Country Vet
Dr. Jan Pol - Gotham; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The star of The Incredible Dr. Pol shares his amusing, and often poignant, tales from his four decades as a vet in rural Michigan.Dr. Jan Pol is not your typical veterinarian. Born and raised the in Netherlands on a dairy farm, he is the star of Nat Geo Wilds hit show The Incredible Dr. Pol and has been... |
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Pollinator Friendly Gardening: Gardening for Bees, Butterflies, and Other Pollinators
Rhonda Fleming Hayes - Voyageur Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Want to do your part in helping your local pollinators flourish? Pollinator Friendly Gardening makes it easy. Are you interested in growing a naturally healthy garden? How about making sure your local environment helps bees, butterflies, and birds survive and thrive? If you are a beekeeper,... |
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The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization
Nicholas P Money - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The great Victorian biologist Thomas Huxley once wrote, "I know of no familiar substance forming part of our every-day knowledge and experience, the examination of which, with a little care, tends to open up such very considerable issues as does yeast." Huxley was right. Beneath... |
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The Strange Order of Things: The Making of the Cultural Mind
ANTONIO DAMASIO - PANTHEON
Format: Print book
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From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection on the origins of life, feelings, mind, and culture that spans chemistry, biology, psychology, anthropology, and sociology, offering a new way of understanding who we are and how we behave.We descend biologically, psychologically,... |
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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
Svante PaÌ?aÌ?bo - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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What can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relativesNeanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pbo's mission to answer this question, and recounts his ultimately successful efforts to genetically define what makes us different from our Neanderthal cousins.... |
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Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change
Leonard Mlodinow - Pantheon Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Subliminal and The Drunkard's Walk, a groundbreaking new look at the neuroscience of change--and how elastic thinking can help us thrive in a world changing faster than ever before. With rapid technological innovation leading the charge, today's world is transforming... |
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Are Numbers Real?: The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World
Brian Clegg - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organized their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What would your life be like without them?Numbers began as simple representations of everyday things, but mathematics rapidly took on a life of its own,... |
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A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests... |
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The Public Library: A Photographic Essay
Robert Dawson - Chronicle Books Llc
Format: Hardcover
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A gorgeous visual celebration of America's public libraries including 150 photos, plus essays by Bill Moyers, Ann Patchett, Anne Lamott, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, and many more.Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to a public library: the unmistakable musty scent,... |
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Science in the Soul: Selected Shorter Writings
RICHARD DAWKINS - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time. For decades,... |
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert Sapolsky - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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"It's no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I've ever read." - David P. Barash, The Wall Street JournalFrom the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad,... |
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The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority
Patrick J. Buchanan - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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Patrick J. Buchanan, bestselling author and senior advisor to Richard Nixon, tells the definitive story of Nixon's resurrection from the political graveyard and his rise to the presidency. After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962... |
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A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park
Edward O Wilson - Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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A Window on Eternity is a stunning book of splendid prose and gorgeous photography about one of the biologically richest places in Africa and perhaps in the world. Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique was nearly destroyed in a brutal civil war, then was reborn and is now evolv-ing back... |
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Lonely Planet Discover USA
Regis St Louis - Lonely Planet; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherLonely Planet's Discover USA is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Be awed by the Grand Canyon, revel in the glitz and glamour of New York... |
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The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom
Michael Shermer - Henry Holt & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author Michael Shermer's exploration of science and morality that demonstrates how the scientific way of thinking has made people, and society as a whole, more moralFrom Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously... |
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The Pleasure Shock: The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor
Lone Frank - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The electrifying, forgotten history of Robert Heath's brain pacemaker, investigating the origins and ethics of one of today's most promising medical breakthroughs: deep brain stimulationThe technology invented by psychiatrist Robert G. Heath at Tulane University in the 1950s and '60s has been... |
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James Madison: A Life Reconsidered
Lynne Cheney - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography of the fourth president of the United States by New York Times bestselling author Lynne Cheney This majestic new biography of James Madison explores the astonishing story of a man of vaunted modesty who audaciously changed the world. Among the Founding Fathers, Madison... |
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Why Science Does Not Disprove God
Amir Aczel - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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The renowned science writer, mathematician, and bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem masterfully refutes the overreaching claims the "New Atheists," providing millions of educated believers with a clear, engaging explanation of what science really says, how there's... |
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Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
SAM KEAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating science and history of the air we breatheIt's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell.In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic... |
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Roll Back Global Warming
Paul Hawken - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the worldIn the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer... |
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Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
Michael T Osterholm - Little
Format: Print book
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A world-leading epidemiologist shares his stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for epidemics that can challenge world order.Every new development--from exploding human and animal populations to trade and travel--intensifies our susceptibility... |
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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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Baby Knows Best: Raising a Confident and Resourceful Child, the RIE™ Way
Deborah Carlisle Solomon - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Raise self-confident, self-reliant children using the RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers) Approach.Your baby knows more than you think. That's the heart of the principles and teachings of Magda Gerber, founder of RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers), and Educaring. BABY KNOWS BEST... |
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Dataclysm: Who We Are
Christian Rudder - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times BestsellerAn audacious, irreverent investigation of human behaviorand a first look at a revolution in the making Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we dont need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us who we truly... |
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg - Penguin Group USA
Format: Print book
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The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our handsThe math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows... |
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The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Gino Segrè - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. His discoveries changed our world; they led to weapons of mass destruction... |
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The Human Body Book
Steve Parker - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Combining up-to-the-minute descriptions and illustrations of the body's physical structure, chemical workings, and potential problems, The Human Body Book is the ultimate all-in-one guide perfect for families and students alike. With updated content and illustrations throughout - including... |
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Global Warming: The Complete Briefing
J T Houghton - Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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How much of global warming is due to human activities? How far will it be possible to adapt to changes of climate? John T. Houghton's definitive, full colour, guide to climate change answers these questions and more by providing the best and latest information available, including the latest... |
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker PhD - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert - Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab - reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.Sleep is one of the most... |
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Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
Martin J Blaser - Henry Holt & Co
Format: Book
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A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, from the field's leading expert Tracing one scientist's journey toward understanding the crucial importance of the microbiome, this revolutionary book will take readers to the forefront of trail-blazing... |
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Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
Randi Hutter Epstein - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A guided tour through the strange science of hormones and the age-old quest to control them.Metabolism, behavior, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing, puberty, and sex: these are just a few of the things our bodies control with hormones. Armed with a healthy dose of wit and curiosity,... |
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Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
James Nestor - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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An Amazon Best Book of 2014 While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed something that confounded him: a man diving 300 feet below the ocean's surface on a single breath of air and returning four minutes later, unharmed and smiling. This man was a freediver, and his amphibious... |
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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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Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium
Walter S Judd - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Few settings in literature are as widely known or celebrated as J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth. The natural landscape plays a major role in nearly all of Tolkien's major works, and readers have come to view the geography of this fictional universe as integral to understanding and enjoying... |
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Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
William Rosen - Viking
Format: Print book
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The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma.As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less... |
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, law enforcement, and our understanding of the human mindEmotions feel automatic to us; that's why scientists have long assumed that emotions are hardwired in the body or the brain. Today,... |
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Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again
Tom Jackson - Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015.
Format: Print book
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The refrigerator may seem mundane nowadays, but it is one of the wonders of twentieth-century science--lifesaver, food preserver, social liberator. Part historical narrative, part scientific decoder, Chilled looks at early efforts to harness the cold at the ice pits of Persia (Iranians... |
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The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age
Reid Hoffman - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times BestsellerIntroducing the new, realistic loyalty pact between employer and employee.The employer-employee relationship is broken, and managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma: the old model of guaranteed long-term employment no longer works in a business environment... |
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Crashback: The Power Clash Between the U.S. and China in the Pacific
MICHAEL FABEY - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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An alarming message from an award-winning journalist with unprecedented access to the highest naval officers in America and China and their ships and weapons, this is a chilling look at the "warm war" over control of the South China Sea - one that is threatening to flare into... |
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The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century
David Rieff - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Hailed as "invaluable ... a substantial work of political thought," (New Statesman) in a groundbreaking report, based on years of reporting, David Rieff assesses whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is truly within our reach, as is increasingly promised.Can... |
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When Einstein Walked with Gdel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
Jim Holt - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Godel: Excursions to the Edge... |
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The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives
Stephen Buchmann - Scribner
Format: Print book
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Cultural history at its best - the engaging, lively, and definitive story of the beauty, sexuality, ecology, myths, lore, and economics of the world's flowers, written by a passionately devoted author and scientist, and illustrated with his stunning photographs.Flowers, and the fruits that... |
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Mark Miodownik - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surround us, packed with surprising stories and fascinating science Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend? Why does any material look and behave the way it does?... |
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
STEVEN PINKER - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason... |
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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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Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet
MICHAEL R BLOOMBERG - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world... |
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Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America
Liz Carlisle - Gotham Books
Format: Hardcover
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A protg of Michael Pollan shares the story of a little known group of renegade farmers who defied corporate agribusiness by launching a unique sustainable farm-to-table food movement.The story of the Lentil Underground begins on a 280-acre homestead rooted in America's Great Plains:... |
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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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Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace
Michael Morton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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He spent twenty-five years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He lost his wife, his son, and his freedom. This is the story of how Michael Morton finally got justiceand a second chance at life. On August 13, 1986, just one day after his thirty-second birthday, Michael Morton went... |
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The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado
Hollace S Bailey - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A gripping, heartbreaking and heartwarming account of the monster tornado that ravaged Moore, Oklahoma in 2013. It will leave you emotionally drained but glad you journeyed into the heart of this extraordinary storm with Bailey as your guide." --Daniel James Brown, #1 NY Times... |
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A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
Nicholas Wade - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different... |
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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Peter Godfrey-Smith - Farrar
Format: Print book
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A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousnessAlthough mammals and birds are widely regarded to be the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods,... |
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Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think
Paul Dolan - Hudson Street Press
Format: Hardcover
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This is not just another happiness book. In Happiness by Design, happiness and behavior expert Paul Dolan combines the latest insights from economics and psychology to illustrate that in order to be happy we must behave happy Our happiness is experiences of both pleasure and purpose over... |
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Carl Zimmer - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning, celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity in this sweeping, resonating overview of a force that shaped human society--a force set to shape our future even more radically.She Has Her Mother's... |
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The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
Dan Barber - Penguin Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Engaging, funny and delicious... I would call this The Omnivores Dilemma 2.0. --Chicago TribuneAt the heart of todays optimistic farm-to-table food culture is a dark secret the local food movement has failed to change how we eat. It has also offered a false promise for the future of food.... |
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Why?: What Makes Us Curious
Mario Livio - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics - curiosity - as he explores our innate desire to know why.Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation - where they can know only... |
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How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
Beth Shapiro - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction.... |
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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
DANIEL H PINK - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Instant New York Times Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal Business BestsellerInstant Washington Post Bestseller"Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice." --The Wall Street JournalDaniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive... |
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The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
Jim Bell - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission - told by a scientist who was there from the beginning.The Voyager spacecraft are our farthest-flung emissaries - 11.3 billion miles away from the crew who built and still operate them, decades since their launch.Voyager... |
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Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently
R Beau Lotto - Hachette Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Beau Lotto, the world-renowned neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and two-time TED speaker, takes us on a tour of how we perceive the world - and how disrupting it leads us to create and innovate. Perception is the foundation of human experience, but few of us understand why we see what we do, much... |
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John Quincy Adams: American Visionary
Fred Kaplan - Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover
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Fred Kaplan, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Lincoln, returns with John Quincy Adams, an illuminating biography of one of the most overlooked presidents in American history - a leader of sweeping perspective whose progressive values helped shape the course of the nation.In this fresh... |
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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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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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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Max Tegmark - Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Format: Paperback
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Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate... |
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Dark Winter: How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell
John Casey - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover
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Climate change has been a perplexing problem for years. In Dark Winter, scientist John L. Casey, a former White House national space policy advisor, NASA headquarters consultant, and space shuttle engineer tells the truth about ominous changes taking place in the climate and the Sun. In Dark... |
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Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Our Children from an Oversanitized World
B Brett Finlay - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book
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"A must-read . . . Takes you inside a child's gut and shows you how to give kids the best immune start early in life." - William Sears, MD, coauthor of The Baby BookLike the culture-changing Last Child in the Woods, here is the first parenting book to apply the latest... |
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What Addicts Know: 10 Lessons from Recovery to Benefit Everyone
Christopher Kennedy Lawford - Benbella Books
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Christopher Kennedy Lawford revisits addiction in his latest book, What Addicts Know, this time framing the discussion in an entirely new way - the lessons addiction and recovery offer to those of us who haven't battled addiction.For too long, society... |
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The Next Species: The Future of Evolution in the Aftermath of Man
Michael Tennesen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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While examining the history of our planet and actively exploring our present environment, science journalist Michael Tennesen describes what life on earth could look like after the next mass extinction.A growing number of scientists agree we are headed toward a mass extinction, perhaps... |
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Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters
Jason A. Ramos - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A rare inside look at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature's blazes.Forest and wildland fires are growing larger, more numerous, and deadlier... |
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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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Midwest Foraging: 115 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Burdock to Wild Peach
Lisa M. Rose - Timber Press
Format: Print book
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From fields to woodlands, riverbeds, and lakesides - and even in our own neighborhoods - the beautiful Midwest is rich in delicious wild edibles. Herbalist, forager, and urban farmer Lisa M. Rose helps you find peppery watercress and delectable nettles at a nearby lake in the spring and nutritious... |
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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
Bill Schutt - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A masterful and compulsively readable book that challenges our preconceived notions about a behavior often sensationalized in our culture and, until just recently, misunderstood in the scientific world." - Ian Tattersall, Curator Emeritus, American Museum of Natural History,... |
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Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever
Bill Gifford - Grand Central Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed journalist Bill Gifford comes a roaring journey into the world of anti-aging science in search of answers to a universal obsession: what can be done about getting old?SPRING CHICKEN:Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying)SPRING CHICKEN is a full-throttle, high-energy ride through... |
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Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
Val McDermid - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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Val McDermid is one of the finest crime writers we have, whose novels have captivated millions of readers worldwide with their riveting narratives of characters who solve complex crimes and confront unimaginable evil. In the course of researching her bestselling novels McDermid has become... |
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The River of Consciousness
Oliver Sacks - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience.... |
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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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How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
Benedict Carey - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really know about learning and memory today - and how we can apply it to our own lives. From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness,... |
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Unruly: The Highs and Lows of Becoming a Man
Ja Rule - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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Ja Rule, actor, singer, songwriter, and one of the most multi-dimensional rap artists of his time, tells his compelling story—from his youth to his rise to international fame to his transformative two years in Federal prison—and reveals the man beneath the legend.Unruly is two stories... |
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The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken
Wendell Pierce - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed actor and producer Wendell Pierce, an insightful and poignant portrait of family, New Orleans and the transforming power of art. On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina barreled into New Orleans, devastating many of the city's neighborhoods, including... |
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