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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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What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas, and Why They Matter
Jeffrey Bennett - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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It is commonly assumed that if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole, it would suck Earth and the rest of the planets into oblivion. Yet, as prominent author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett points out, black holes don't suck. With that simple idea in mind, Bennett begins an entertaining... |
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Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation
David French - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Two decades into the 21st Century, the U.S. is less united than at any time in our history since the Civil War. We are more diverse in our beliefs and culture than ever before. But red and blue states, secular and religious groups, liberal and conservative idealists, and Republican and Democratic... |
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Wolf Spirit: A Story of Wolves and Wonder
Gudrun PfluÌ?ger - Rocky Mountain Books
Format: Print book
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When diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor, Gudrun Pflger was told she had eighteen months left to live. Taking the wolf - a true "endurance athlete" - as her model, she immerses herself in the wilderness of the mountain ranges of western Canada and focuses her mind and body... |
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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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Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art
Arthur I Miller - W W Norton
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling look at the artists working on the frontiers of science. In recent decades, an exciting new art movement has emerged in which artists utilize and illuminate the latest advances in science. Some of their provocative creations -- a live rabbit implanted with the fluorescent gene... |
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The New Cosmos: Answering Astronomy's Big Questions
David J Eicher - Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Over the past decade, astronomers, planetary scientists, and cosmologists have answered - or are closing in on the answers to - some of the biggest questions about the universe. David J. Eicher presents a spectacular exploration of the cosmos that provides a balanced and precise view of the latest... |
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