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Theories for Everything: An Illustrated History of Science
John Langone - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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Theories for Everything highlights the rich, compelling stories behind science's greatest discoveries and the minds and methods that made them possible. Authoritative, entertaining, and easy to follow, it provides indispensable information on our current theories about the natural and physical... |
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Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
Mahzarin R. Banaji - Delacorte Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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I know my own mind.I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way.These self-perceptions are challenged by leading psychologists Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald as they explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age,... |
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iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us
Jean M. Twenge PhD - Atria Books
Format: Paperback
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As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from... |
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Organic Farming: Everything You Need to Know
Peter V. Fossel - Voyageur Press; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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Going organic may be a clear way of getting back to basics—and getting away from the havoc chemicals can wreak on our health and our environment—but the basics themselves may not be so clear. How to begin? What kind of fertilizer and feed are allowed? Is there natural pest management?... |
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The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals
J Moussaieff Masson - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's groundbreaking bestseller, When Elephants Weep, was the first book since Darwin's time to explore emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he focuses exclusively on the contained world of the farm animal, revealing startling,... |
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Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York
Ted Steinberg - Simon & Schuster; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award for US History A “fascinating, encyclopedic history…of greater New York City through an ecological lens” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—the sweeping story of one of the most man-made spots on earth.Gotham Unbound recounts the four-century... |
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If a Lion Could Talk: Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness
Stephen Budiansky - Free Press
Format: Print book
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How many of us have caught ourselves gazing into the eyes of a pet, wondering what thoughts lie behind those eyes? Or fallen into an argument over which is smarter, the dog or the cat? Scientists have conducted elaborate experiments trying to ascertain whether animals from chimps to pigeons... |
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Algebra Demystified : A Self Teaching Guide / Edition 1
Rhonda Huettenmueller - McGraw-Hill
Format: Paperback
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Whether you want to learn more about algebra, refresh your skills, or improve your classroom performance, Algebra Demystified is the perfect shortcut. Knowing algebra gives you a better choice of jobs, helps you perform better in science, computing, and math courses, ups your score on competitive... |
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A Short Bright Flash: Augustin Fresnel and the Birth of the Modern Lighthouse
Theresa Levitt - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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How a scientific outsider came up with a revolutionary theory of light and saved untold numbers of lives Augustin Fresnel x shocked the scientific elite with his unique understanding of the physics of light The lens he invented was a brilliant feat of engineering that made lighthouses blaze... |
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Sam Kean - Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium... |
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Geometry For Dummies
Mark Ryan - Wiley
Format: Paperback
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Learning geometry doesn't have to hurt. With a little bit of friendly guidance, it can even be fun! Geometry For Dummies, 2nd Edition, helps you make friends with lines, angles, theorems and postulates. It eases you into all the principles and formulas you need to analyze... |
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Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life
Len Fisher - Basic Books; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of game theory has helped biologists to understand the evolution... |
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Permanent Present Tense: The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H. M.
Suzanne Corkin - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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In 1953, 27-year-old Henry Gustave Molaison underwent an experimental “psychosurgical” procedure—a targeted lobotomy—in an effort to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. The outcome was unexpected—when Henry awoke, he could no longer form new memories, and for the rest... |
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The Story of Astronomy: How the universe revealed its secrets
Heather Couper - Cassell
Format: Hardcover
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Journey through time and space with the greatest astronomers in history. Astronomy is one of the oldest of all the sciences. And yet, its history is also so much more than the history of a science, reflecting our entire culture and providing insight into the evolution of humankinds ideas... |
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Radiation: What It Is, What You Need to Know
Robert Peter Gale - Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The essential guide to radiation the good, the bad, and the utterly fascinating, explained with unprecedented clarity. Earth, born in a nuclear explosion, is a radioactive planet without radiation, life would not exist. And while radiation can be dangerous, it is also deeply misunderstood... |
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How to Live in Space: Everything You Need to Know for the Not-So-Distant Future
Colin Stuart - Smithsonian Books
Format: Paperback
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An amusing and informative illustrated guide to life beyond our own planet that covers everything from training for and living in space to the future of space travel and tourismNow that suborbital space tourism is predicted to become a billion-dollar industry in the next ten years and NASA... |
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Calculus i.
Alpha. - Alpha Books
Format: Print book : English
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Let's face it, most students don't take calculus because they find it intellectually stimulating. It's not . . . at least for those who come up on the wrong side of the bell curve! There they are, minding their own business, working toward some non-science related degree, when . . . BLAM!... |
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Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic
Marla Cone - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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Traditionally thought of as the last great unspoiled territory on Earth, the Arctic is actually home to some of the most contaminated people and animals on the planet. Awarded a major grant to conduct an exhaustive study of the Arctic's deteriorating environment, Los Angeles Times environmental... |
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Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change
Andrew T. Guzman - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the science, but may be right with respect to its political implications. A hotter world, writes Andrew Guzman, will bring unprecedented migrations,... |
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Earthquake Prediction: Dawn of the New Seismology
David Nabhan - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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An epoch-changing work on scientific developments which can save countless lives.Each year the world faces thousands of earthquakes of magnitude 5.0 or greater, resulting in devastating property destruction and tragic loss of life. To help avert these catastrophes, scientists have long... |
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Painless Geometry (Barrons Painless)
Lynette Long Ph.D. - Barrons Educational Series
Format: Paperback
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Always study with the most up-to-date prep! Look for Painless Geometry, ISBN 9781506268040, on sale September 01, 2020.. Publishers Note: Products purchased from third-party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitles included... |
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The Day We Found the Universe
Marcia Bartusiak - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
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The riveting and mesmerizing story behind a watershed period in human history, the discovery of the startling size and true nature of our universe. On New Years Day in 1925, a young Edwin Hubble released his finding that our Universe was far bigger, eventually measured as a thousand trillion... |
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The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World (CBC Massey Lecture)
Wade Davis - House of Anansi Press
Format: Paperback
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Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? Anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world’s indigenous cultures.In Polynesia we set sail... |
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Upgrade Me: Our Amazing Journey to Human 2.0
Brian Clegg - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Biologically, human beings haven't changed in 100,000 years - but thanks to our amazing brains we can upgrade ourselves to add capabilities that took other creatures millions of years to evolve. Thanks to this "unnatural" evolution we are already Human 2.0. In the effort to stay... |
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The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know About the All-There-Is
Roberto Trotta - Basic Books (AZ)
Format: Hardcover
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From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the origins of the universe to its ultimate destiny, The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the most important discoveries and mysteries in modern cosmology - with a twist. The book's lexicon is limited to the thousand... |
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Eagles Of North America
Candace Savage - Douglas & McIntyre; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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Dagger-clawed, hook-beaked, sleek-feathered, and proud, the eagle is the king of the bird world--and a vision that awes humanity. From winged messengers in ancient times to symbols of sovereignty in the present, eagles have captured our imagination with their majesty, fearsomeness, and grace.... |
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
Temple Grandin - Scribner; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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I dont know if people will ever be able to talk to animals the way Doctor Doolittle could, or whether animals will be able to talk back. Maybe science will have something to say about that. But I do know people can learn to talk to animals, and to hear what animals have to say, better than... |
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Stephen Hawking: A Biography
Kristine Larsen - Prometheus Books
Format: Paperback
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Stephen Hawking is arguably the most famous physicist since Albert Einstein. His decades-long struggle with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), combined with his singular brilliance as a cosmologist, has fascinated both the public and his colleagues in science. In this engagingly written biography,... |
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Rocks and Minerals
Martin Prinz - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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Practical, concise, and easy to use, Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals contains everything that the rock and mineral enthusiast needs to know. This field guide is divided into two large sections -- one devoted to minerals and one to rocks, each prefaced by a comprehensive introduction... |
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Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep
Michael Everhart - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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Sharks and dinosaurs, dinosaurs and sharks, we find them both alien and awe-inspiring, at once utterly inhuman and somehow irresistibly compelling. But forget Jaws and Jurassic Park—nothing can prepare you for Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep, an amazing plunge into... |
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Michael Pollan - Random House
Format: Book
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In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant - thought this time the obsessions revolves around... |
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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
Nick Lane - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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To explain the mystery of how life evolved on Earth, Nick Lane explores the deep link between energy and genes.The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that... |
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Physics Made Simple (Made Simple (Broadway Books))
Christopher De Pree - Three Rivers Press; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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Understand the rules that make the universe run. Understanding the laws of physics is essential for all scientific studies, but many students are intimidated by their complexities. This completely revised and updated book makes it easy to understand the most important principles. From the physics... |
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Wetlands: The Web of Life
Paul Rezendes - Sierra Club Books; illustrated edition edition
Format: Paperback
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YA. Carefully selected photos give readers a look at the full range of wetland environments?bottomlands, swamps, mires, prairie potholes, mud flats, and wet meadows, among others. The cutlines provide plant identification, explication, and other pertinent detail. The text is rich in scientific... |
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Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
Paul A. Offit - Basic Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Theres a silent, dangerous war going on out there. On one side are parents, bombarded with stories about the dangers of vaccines, now wary of immunizing their sons and daughters. On the other side are doctors, scared to send kids out of their offices vulnerable to illnesses like whooping... |
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Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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A revelatory depiction of what animals can teach us about the human body and mind, exploring how animal and human commonality can be used to diagnose, treat, and heal patients of all species."Full of fascinating stories." - Atul Gawande, M.D.Do animals overeat? Get breast cancer?... |
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Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Neil deGrasse Tyson - W.W. Norton & Co.
Format: Print book
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Origins explores cosmic science's stunning new insights into the formation and evolution of our universe--of the cosmos, of galaxies and galaxy clusters, of stars within galaxies, of planets that orbit those stars, and of different forms of life that take us back to the first three... |
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Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
John Palfrey - Basic Books
Format: Book
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The first generation of "digital natives" - children who were born into and raised in the digital world - are coming of age, and soon our world will be reshaped in their image. Our economy, our cultural life, even the shape of our family life will be forever transformed.But who are these... |
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Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening
John Elder Robison - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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An extraordinary memoir about the cutting-edge brain therapy that dramatically changed the life and mind of John Elder Robison, the New York Times bestselling author of Look Me in the Eye Imagine spending the first forty years of your life in darkness, blind to the emotions... |
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Idiot's Guides: Algebra I
Carolyn Wheater - Alpha
Format: Print book
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Starting with the very basics and reinforcing concepts with practice and tips along the way, Idiot's Guides: Algebra I makes a complex subject easier to grasp and helps students and adult learners clear the hurdle that can stand between them and their academic goals. Special sidebars... |
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
David Quammen - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A Booklist Top 10 Science Book of 2012, a 2012 New York Times Book Review Notable Book, and a Daily Beast "Top 11 Book of 2012" A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases. The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening... |
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Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World
Oren Solomon Harman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant lyrical exploration of how modern science illuminates what it means to be human, from the award-winning author of The Price of AltruismWe don't think anymore, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing... |
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GED Math Workbook
Johanna Holm - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Paperback
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This self-teaching workbook offers extensive preparation and brush-up in math for all who plan to take the GED High School Equivalency Test. A diagnostic test with answers is presented to help test takers assess their strengths and weaknesses. The math review that follows is supplemented... |
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Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins
Maddalena Bearzi - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans. Could any creatures appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with complex communication and social interaction. In the first book to study apes and dolphins side by side, Maddalena Bearzi and Craig B. Stanford,... |
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Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy
Melissa Milgrom - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Transformed from a curious onlooker to an empathetic participant, journalist Milgrom delves deeply into the world of taxidermy, encountering a world of intrepid hunter-explorers, eccentric naturalists, and gifted museum artisans, all devoted to the paradoxical pursuit of creating the illusion... |
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Dolphin Mysteries: Unlocking the Secrets of Communication
Kathleen M. Dudzinski - Yale University Press; First Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Dolphins have fascinated humans for millennia, giving rise to an abundance of stories and myths about them, yet the actual details of their lives in the sea have remained elusive. In this enthralling book, Kathleen M. Dudzinski and Toni Frohoff take usinto the dolphins aquatic world to witness... |
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The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
Brian Greene - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos comes his most expansive and accessible book to datea book that takes on the grandest question Is ours the only universeThere was a time when universe meant all there is Everything Yet in recent years discoveries... |
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4th Rock from the Sun: The Story of Mars
Nicky Jenner - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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Mars is ingrained in our culture, from H. G. Wells's 1898 novel The War of the Worlds to Looney Tunes's hapless Marvin the Martian to David Bowie's extraterrestrial spiders. Ancient mythologies defined the planet as a violent harbinger of war, stargazers puzzled over its peculiar... |
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How To Think Like a Neandertal
Thomas Wynn - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or different from ours?In How to Think Like a Neandertal, archaeologist Thomas Wynn and psychologist... |
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The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems—And Create More
Luke Dormehl - Perigee Trade
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating guided tour of the complex, fast-moving, and influential world of algorithms - what they are, why they're such powerful predictors of human behavior, and where they're headed next. Algorithms exert an extraordinary level of influence on our everyday lives - from dating... |
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Algebra Success in 20 Minutes a Day
LearningExpress - LearningExpress
Format: Book : English : Fifth editionView all editions and formats
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Whether youre new to algebra or just looking for a refresher, Algebra Success in 20 Minutes a Day offers a 20-step lesson plan that provides quick and thorough instruction in practical, critical skills. Stripped of unnecessary math jargon but bursting with algebra essentials, this handy... |
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Creation: How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself
Adam Rutherford - Current Hardcover; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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What is life Humans have been asking this question for thousands of years. But as technology has advanced and our understanding of biology has deepened, the answer has evolved. For decades, scientists have been exploring the limits of nature by modifying and manipulating DNA, cells and whole... |
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God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History
Stephen Hawking - Running Press
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author and physicist Stephen Hawking explores the "masterpieces" of mathematics, 25 landmarks spanning 2,500 years and representing the work of 15 mathematicians, including Augustin Cauchy, Bernard Riemann, and Alan Turing. This extensive anthology allows readers to peer... |
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Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth
Chris Stringer - Times Books
Format: Hardcover
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A leading researcher on human evolution proposes a new and controversial theory of how our species came to be In this groundbreaking and engaging work of science, world-renowned paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer sets out a new theory of humanity's origin, challenging both the multiregionalists... |
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How It Ends: From You to the Universe
Chris Impey - W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating science behind the eventual end to everything -- from the individual to all existence. Although we may try to keep it tucked at the back of our minds, most of us are aware of our own mortality. But few among us know what science, with the help of insights yielded from groundbreaking... |
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The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew
Alan Lightman - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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"Alan Lightman brings a light touch to heavy questions. Here is a book about nesting ospreys, multiple universes, atheism, spiritualism, and the arrow of time. Throughout, Lightman takes us back and forth between ordinary occurrences - old shoes and entropy, sailing far out at sea and the infinite... |
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The Million Death Quake: The Science of Predicting Earth's Deadliest Natural Disaster
Roger Musson - Palgrave Macmillan Trade; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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For centuries, Californians and the Japanese have known that they were at risk of catastrophic earthquakes, and prepared accordingly. But when a violent 7.0 earthquake rocked Haiti in 2010, hardly anyone knew the island nation was even at risk for disaster, and, tragically, no one was prepared.... |
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The Big Disconnect: The Story of Technology and Loneliness (Contemporary Issues)
Giles Slade - Prometheus
Format: Paperback
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Smart phones and social media sites may be contemporary fixations, but using technology to replace face-to-face interactions is not a new cultural phenomenon. Throughout our history, intimacy with machines has often supplanted mutual human connection. . This book reveals how consumer technologies... |
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Chemical Elements: From Carbon to Krypton: 3
David E. Newton - U*X*L
Format: Hardcover
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Explains what an element is, introduces the periodic table, and discusses the discovery, occurrence, and uses of each category of element --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
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The Meaning of Human Existence
Edward O. Wilson - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award Finalist. How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, Why? In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most... |
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Copernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began
Jack Repcheck - Simon & Schuster; 1st Simon & Schuster Hardcover Ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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Nicolaus Copernicus gave the world perhaps the most important scientific insight of the modern age, the theory that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun. He was also the first to proclaim that the earth rotates on its axis once every twenty-four hours. His theory was truly... |
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The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body
Frances Ashcroft - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A lively exploration of the surprising role that electricity plays in our bodies. What happens during a heart attack? Can someone really die of fright? What is death, anyway? How does electroshock treatment affect the brain? What is consciousness? The answers to these questions lie in the electrical... |
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Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel
Michael Wall - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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We've all asked ourselves the question. It's impossible to look up at the stars and NOT think about it: Are we alone in the universe? Books, movies and television shows proliferate that attempt to answer this question and explore it. In OUT THERE Space.com senior writer Dr. Michael Wall... |
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
ANGELA SAINI - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knewFor hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less... |
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We Shall Not Be Moved: Rebuilding Home in the Wake of Katrina
Tom Wooten - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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“It was heartbreaking, but we couldn’t give up. I just said, ‘Well, I’ve got to get in and do it.’”—Phil Harris, eight-decade-long resident of Hollygrove As floodwaters drained in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents... |
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Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things
Rick Smith - Counterpoint; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks and ugly sewer pipes - now, it's personal. The most dangerous pollution, it turns out, comes from commonplace items in our homes and workplaces. To prove this point, for one week authors Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie ingested and inhaled... |
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Shepherd: A Memoir
Richard Gilbert - Michigan State University Press; 1 edition
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Upon moving to Appalachian Ohio with their two small children, Richard Gilbert and his wife are thrilled to learn there still are places in America that haven’t been homogenized. But their excitement over the region’s beauty and quirky character turns to culture shock as they... |
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Climbing Mount Improbable
Richard Dawkins - Norton
Format: Book
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Arguing fiercely that the perfection of the human body is the result of improbable mutation, a prominent Darwinian uses the metaphor of a climb up Mount Improbable to illustrate how natural perfection is due to the unending journey of DNA through time. Tour. |
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Physics for Rock Stars: Making the Laws of the Universe Work for You
Christine McKinley - Perigee
Format: Paperback
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From the host of the History channel's Brad Meltzer's Decoded: the laws of the universe like you've never experienced them before. This approachable book explains the world of physics with clarity, humor, and a dash of adventure. Physics for Rock Stars is not a weighty treatise... |
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Chemistry For Dummies
John T. Moore - For Dummies; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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Chemistry For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781118007303) is now being published as Chemistry For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781119293460) . While this version features an older Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the new release and should not be considered a different product.... |
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Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
Richard A. Muller - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Learn the science behind the headlines—the tools of terrorists, the dangers of nuclear power, and the reality of global warming.We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times. As citizens who will elect future presidents of the most powerful and influential... |
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Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light
Bob Berman - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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How much do you know about the radiation all around you?Your electronic devices swarm with it; the sun bathes you in it. It's zooming at you from cell towers, microwave ovens, CT scans, mammogram machines, nuclear power plants, deep space, even the walls of your basement. You cannot see,... |
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125 Physics Projects for the Evil Genius
Jerry Silver - McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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125 Wickedly Fun Ways to Test the Laws of Physics! Now you can prove your knowledge of physics without expending a lot of energy. 125 Physics Projects for the Evil Genius is filled with hands-on explorations into key areas of this fascinating field. Best of all, these experiments can be performed... |
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When Science Goes Wrong
Simon LeVay - Penguin Group
Format: Paperback
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Brilliant scientific successes have helped shape our world, and are always celebrated. However, for every victory, there are no doubt numerous little-known blunders. Neuroscientist Simon LeVay brings together a collection of fascinating, yet shocking, stories of failure from recent scientific... |
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The Way Life Works
Mahlon Hoagland - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of David Macaulay's The Way Things Work, this popular-science book--a unique collaboration between a world-renowned molecular biologist and an equally talented artist--explains how life grows, develops, reproduces, and gets by. Full color. |
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Benjamin Franklin's Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey
Paul C. Pasles - Princeton University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Few American lives have been as celebrated--or as closely scrutinized--as that of Benjamin Franklin. Yet until now Franklin's biographers have downplayed his interest in mathematics, at best portraying it as the idle musings of a brilliant and ever-restless mind. In Benjamin Franklin's... |
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The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Alex Bellos - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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"A first-rate survey of the world of mathematics ... Great reading for the intellectually curious," (Kirkus Reviews) from the bestselling author of Here's Looking at Euclid - a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex math into a brilliantly entertaining read.From... |
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Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts
David Dunbar - Hearst Books
Format: Book
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Conspiracy theories about Sept. 11, 2001 continue to spread. Now, in a meticulous, scientific and groundbreaking new book, Popular Mechanics puts these rumors to rest. The magazine's editors analyze the 20 most persistent claims underlying 9/11 conspiracy theories - and conclusively... |
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Geometry the Easy Way
Lawrence S Leff - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Book
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These books are ideal student self-help supplements. They offer valuable overviews of course work and extra help with difficult subject areas. Covers the "how" and "why" of geometry. Includes hundreds of examples and exercises with solutions. Includes more than 700 drawings,... |
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Naomi Klein - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political... |
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Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection
Simon Winchester - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Skulls is a beautiful spellbinding exploration of more than 300 different animal skulls—amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles—written by New York Times bestselling author, Simon Winchester and produced in collaboration with Theodore Gray and Touch Press, the geniuses... |
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Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
Simon Singh - Walker & Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Written by an award-winning filmmaker, Fermat's Enigma tells the story of the epic quest to solve the greatest mathematical problem of all time: Fermat's Last Theorem--a problem that looked simple, yet would baffle the finest mathematical minds for more than three and a half centuries.... |
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Algebra II (Idiots Guides)
Carolyn Wheater - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Perhaps no subject strikes so much fear in the hearts of high school and college students as Algebra I, except of course its older, meaner sibling, Algebra II! Starting with reinforcing concepts from Algebra I and with lots of practice and tips along the way, Idiots Guides: Algebra II eases... |
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Einstein's Masterwork: 1915 and the General Theory of Relativity
John Gribbin - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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One of the world's most celebrated science writers reveals the origins of Einstein's General Theory -- and provides a greater understanding of who Einstein was at the time of this pivotal achievement.In 1915, Albert Einstein presented his masterwork to the Prussian Academy of Sciences -- a theory... |
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The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
Craig Nelson - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Rocket Men and the award-winning biographer of Thomas Paine comes the first complete history of the Atomic Age, a brilliant, magisterial account of the men and women who uncovered the secrets of the nucleus, brought its power to America, and ignited... |
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Like a Virgin: How Science Is Redesigning the Rules of Sex
Jenna Miscavige Hill - Oneworld Publications
Format: Paperback
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Most cultures tell the tale of a maiden who gives birth untouched by a man. Is this just a myth, or could virgin birth become the way we make babies in the future? In Like a Virgin, biologist Aarathi Prasad explores inconceivable ideas about conception, from the "Jesus Christ"... |
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The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth
Elizabeth Tasker - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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Twenty years ago, the search for planets--and life--outside the solar system was a job restricted to science fiction writers. It is now one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy, with thousands of these "exoplanets" discovered so far. The detection of these worlds... |
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Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
Barbara Goldsmith - W.W. Norton
Format: Hardcover
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Draws on diaries, letters, and family interviews to discuss the lesser-known achievements and scientific insights of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist, documenting how she was compromised by the prejudices of a male-dominated society. |
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Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees
Bob Berman - Little Brown & Co
Format: Hardcover
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From the speed of light to moving mountains--and everything in between--ZOOM explores how the universe and its objects move.If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still wafting around you. Blood... |
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Earth
Robert Dinwiddie - DK ADULT; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the best-selling tradition of Smithsonian Animal, this extraordinary survey of our planet provides unrivaled insight into the forces and processes that formed our environment and which continue to influence its evolution. With thousands of breathtaking photographs and unique visual catalogues... |
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The World Without Us
Alan Weisman - Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive... |
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The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans
Ian Tattersall - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This book tells the story of human evolution, the epic of Homo sapiens and its colorful precursors and relatives. The story begins in Africa, six to seven million years ago, and encompasses twenty known human species, of which Homo sapiens is the sole survivor. Illustrated with spectacular,... |
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Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm
Jon Katz - Villard
Format: Hardcover
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In Dog Days, Jon Katz, the squire of Bedlam Farm, allows us to live our dreams of leaving the city for the country, and shares the unpredictable adventure of farm life. The border collies, the sheep, the chickens, the cat, the ram, and one surprisingly sociable steer named Elvis... |
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Rocks and Fossils: A Visual Guide (Visual Guides)
Robert R. Coenraads - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover
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Uncover the intriguing world beneath our feet Rocks and Fossils reveal the state of the planet now and what the future may bring, including clues about the shifting, changing nature of the continents, mountain ranges, oceans, and islands. Rocks and Fossils is a beautifully illustrated... |
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The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities
Caleb Scharf - Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Longlisted for the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardThe Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2014An NBC News Top Science and Tech Book of 2014A Politics & Prose 2014 Staff PickIn the sixteenth century, Nicolaus... |
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The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
Neil Shubin - Pantheon Books
Format: Hardcover
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**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013) **From one of our finest and most popular science writers, and the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded... |
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Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
Richard Munson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book
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Tesla's inventions transformed our world, and his visions have continued to inspire great minds for generations. Nikola Tesla invented the radio, robots, and remote control. His electric induction motors run our appliances and factories, yet he has been largely overlooked by history.... |
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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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On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
Alexandra Horowitz - Scribner; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the giant 1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog comes an equally smart, delightful, and startling exploration of how we perceive and discover our world. Alexandra Horowitzs brilliant On Looking Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinaryto... |
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The Playful Brain: The Surprising Science of How Puzzles Improve Your Mind
Scott Kim - Riverhead Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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This is your brain on puzzles...A leading neuroscientist and a noted puzzle designer team up to reveal how solving puzzles improves your brain function. It's no secret that puzzles are fun to solve. But when Dr. Richard Restak, a respected neuroscientist, discovered new research that... |
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The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor
Colin Tudge - Little, Brown and Co.
Format: Print book
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For more than a century, scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree and have grappled with its complications. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything we thought we knew about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep within the heart of one of the world's... |
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How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science Of Everyday Life
Len Fisher - Arcade Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Scientists are in the business of trying to understand the world. Exploring commonplace phenomena, they have uncovered some of Nature's deepest laws. We can in turn apply these laws to our own lives, to better grasp and enhance our performance in daily activities as varied as cooking,... |
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Geometry Demystified
Stan Gibilisco - McGraw-Hill
Format: Book
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This book helps learn geometry from an all-new angle! Now anyone with an interest in basic, practical geometry can master it - without formal training, unlimited time, or a genius IQ.In "Geometry Demystified", best-selling author Stan Gibilisco provides a fun, effective, and totally... |
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