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Organic chemistry i for dummies
Arthur Winter - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book
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"Organic Chemistry I For Dummies, " 2nd Edition (9781119293378) was previously published as "Organic Chemistry I For Dummies, " 2nd Edition (9781118828076) . While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should... |
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Epigenetics : the death of the genetic theory of disease transmission
Joel D Wallach; Ma Lan ; G N Schrauzer - SelectBooks
Format: Paperback
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WHAT IS EPIGENETICS? Epigenetics is an emerging field of science that studies alterations in gene expression caused by factors other than changes in the DNA sequence. Epigenetics: The Death of the Genetic Theory of Disease Transmission is the result of decades of research and its findings... |
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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson... |
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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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Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era
DANIEL J LEVITIN - DUTTON
Format: Print book
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We're surrounded by fringe theories, fake news, and pseudo-facts. These lies are getting repeated. New York Times bestselling author Daniel Levitin shows how to disarm these socially devastating inventions and get the American mind back on track. Here are the fundamental lessons... |
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Chemistry DeMYSTiFieD, Second Edition
Linda Williams - McGraw-Hill Professional; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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A PROVEN formula for mastering CHEMISTRY Trying to understand chemistry but feel like the information's just not bonding with your brain? Here's your solution. Chemistry Demystified, Second Edition, helps you grasp both fundamental and complex concepts with ease. Written in a step-by-step... |
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Origins: The Evolution of Continents, Oceans and Life
Ron Redfern - University of Oklahoma Press
Format: Book
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Changes in climate and sea level are nothing new - over the last 700 million years, the Earth has been slowly but constantly changing from within. We now know that our planet's surface, far from being fixed or stable, is composed of tectonic plates in continual movement, drifting in oceans... |
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Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing
James Owen Weatherall - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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The rising star author of The Physics of Wall Street explores why "nothing" may hold the key to the next era of theoretical physics James Owen Weatherall's previous book, The Physics of Wall Street, was a New York Times best-seller and named one of Physics Today's five... |
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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
Rose George - Metropolitan Books
Format: Book
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Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil. It can save lives and transmit deadly infections. Each one of us has roughly nine pints of it, yet many don't even know their own blood type. And for all its ubiquitousness,... |
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The Future
Nick Montfort - The MIT Press
Format: Paperback
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How the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers.The future is like an unwritten book. It is not something we see in a crystal ball, or can only hope to predict, like the weather. In this volume of the MIT Press's Essential Knowledge... |
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Human Anatomy
DK - DK
Format: Hardcover
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For students of anatomy, biology, and the biomedical sciences; medical professionals; and curious families, DK's Human Anatomy will be a definitive resource. Written by acclaimed anatomist, Dr. Alice Roberts, Human Anatomy is an up-to-the-minute study of the body. Spectacular digital... |
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Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange
Jon Butterworth - The Experiment
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry: a richly conjured world, in map and metaphor, of particle physicsAtom Land brings the impossibly small world of particle physics to life, taking readers on a guided journey through the subatomic... |
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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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The Earth Gazers: On Seeing Ourselves
CHRISTOPHER POTTER - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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It will soon be the fiftieth anniversary of the first manned mission to the moon, when men first saw for themselves the Earth as a sphere falling through space -- they saw a world without borders and these images continue to give hope and inspire.Only twenty-four people have seen the whole... |
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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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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
David Quammen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life's history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature. In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine... |
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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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GENIUS WITHIN : unlocking our brains' potential
DAVID ADAM - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Following the success of The Man Who Couldn't Stop, David Adam now expounds on the latest research into intelligence, revealing how this revolution in neuroscience will help us access the untapped potential locked within us all. What if you have more intelligence than you realize? What... |
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Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
Ian Stewart - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from the solar system to the Galaxy and the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies form, why stars implode, how everything began,... |
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We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
Jorge Cham - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Prepare to learn everything we still dont know about our strange and mysterious Universe.Humanitys understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore - there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. PHD Comics creator... |
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Lab Girl
Hope Jahren - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: eBook
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National Best SellerNamed One of TIME magazine's 2016 100 Most Influential PeopleAn illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world Acclaimed... |
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Euclid's Elements
AU Euclid - Green Lion Press
Format: Paperback
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The classic Heath translation, in a completely new layout with plenty of space and generous margins. An affordable but sturdy student and teacher sewn softcover edition in one volume, with minimal notes and a new index/glossary. |
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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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Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
James Donovan - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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"This is the best book on Apollo that I have read. Extensively researched and meticulously accurate, it successfully traces not only the technical highlights of the program but also the contributions of the extraordinary people who made it possible." --Mike Collins, Command module... |
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Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things
Rick/ Lourie Bruce Smith - Counterpoint
Format: Paperback
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Pollution is not only an abstract, distant problem seen in belching smokestacks and contaminated waterways; it's also personal. Some of the most dangerous pollutants come from commonplace items in our homes and workplaces - shampoos and toothpastes, carpets and children's toys.To prove... |
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Idiot's Guides: Calculus II
Alpha. - Alpha
Format: Paperback
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Idiot's Guides: Calculus II, like its counterpart Idiot's Guides: Calculus I, is a curriculum-based companion book that continues the tradition of taking the sting out of calculus by adding more explanatory graphs and illustrations in easy-to-understand language, practice problems,... |
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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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What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
Adam Becker - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of the heretical thinkers who dared to question the nature of our quantum universeEvery physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed... |
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The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a concise, elegant exploration of time.Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites... |
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Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
Cordelia Fine - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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"Beliefs about men and women are as old as humanity itself, but Fines funny, spiky book gives reason to hope that weve heard Testosterone rexs last roar." -- Annie Murphy Paul, New York Times Book Review Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental force... |
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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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The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine, and Spain, 1922 - 1923
ALBERT EINSTEIN - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first publication of Albert Einstein's travel diary to the Far East and Middle EastIn the fall of 1922, Albert Einstein, along with his then-wife, Elsa Einstein, embarked on a five-and-a-half-month voyage to the Far East and Middle East, regions that the renowned physicist had never... |
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Geometry For Dummies
Mark Ryan - For Dummies
Format: Print book
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Hit the geometry wall? Get up and running with this no-nonsense guide! Does the thought of geometry make you jittery? You're not alone. Fortunately, this down-to-earth guide helps you approach it from a new angle, making it easier than ever to conquer your fears and score your highest... |
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Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
Alan Burdick - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"Time" is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it's always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we're bored and speed by as we get older?... |
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Anatomy and Physiology For Dummies
Donna Rae Siegfried - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book
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Learn about the human body from the inside out Some people think that knowing about what goes on inside the human body can sap life of its mystery - which is too bad for them. Anybody who's ever taken a peak under the hood knows that the human body, and all its various structures and functions,... |
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The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
Richard Dawkins - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Boasting almost one hundred pieces, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a breathtaking celebration of the finest writing by scientists--the best such collection in print--packed with scintillating essays on everything from "The Discovery of Lucy" to "The Terror and Vastness... |
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The Science of Marijuana
Leslie Iversen - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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The Science of Marijuana, 3rd Edition is directed at a public interested in knowing more about cannabis, how it works, and what the hazards associated with its use may be. In terms of cannabis as a medicine, it is now sanctioned by a majority of US States, with approved medical indications... |
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Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes
Rob Knight - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Allergies, asthma, obesity, acne: these are just a few of the conditions that may be caused - and someday cured - by the microscopic life inside us. The key is to understand how this groundbreaking science influences your health, mood, and more.In just the last few years, scientists have... |
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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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The Grand Design
Stephen Hawking - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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The first major work in nearly a decade by one of the worlds great thinkersa marvelously concise book with new answers to the ultimate questions of lifeWhen and how did the universe begin Why are we here Why is there something rather than nothing What is the nature of reality Why are the laws... |
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Time Travel: A History
James Gleick - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Best Books of 2016 BOSTON GLOBE * THE ATLANTICFrom the acclaimed bestselling author of The Information and Chaos comes this enthralling history of time travel - a concept that has preoccupied physicists and storytellers over the course of the last century. James Gleick delivers a mind-bending... |
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Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
Michael Benson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the film's release, this is the definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, including the inside account of how director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke created... |
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Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
Dean Buonomano - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A leading neuroscientist embarks on a groundbreaking exploration of how time works inside the brain.In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, brain researcher and best-selling author Dean Buonomano draws on evolutionary biology, physics, and philosophy to present his influential theory of how we tell,... |
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Your Place in the Universe: Understanding Our Big, Messy Existence
Paul M. Sutter - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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An astrophysicist presents an in-depth yet accessible tour of the universe for lay readers, while conveying the excitement of astronomy.How is a galaxy billions of lightyears away connected to us? Is our home nothing more than a tiny speck of blue in an ocean of night? In this exciting... |
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The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything
Adrian Bejan - St. Martins Press
Format: Print book
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The Physics of Life explores the roots of the big question by examining the deepest urges and properties of living things, both animate and inanimate: how to live longer, with food, warmth, power, movement and free access to other people and surroundings. Bejan explores controversial and relevant... |
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Endurance: My Year in Space and Our Journey to Mars
Scott Kelly - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station--a candid account of his remarkable voyage, of the journeys off the planet that preceded it, and of his colorful formative years.The veteran of four space flights and the American... |
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Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
Adam Frank - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Astrophysicist and NPR commentator on what the latest research on the existence and trajectories of alien civilizations may teach us about our own.Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity's coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden relevance... |
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Einstein's Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes
Chris Impey - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing science of black holes, and their role in understanding the history and future of our universe.Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, yet every galaxy harbors a black hole at its center. In Einstein's Monsters, distinguished astronomer Chris Impey builds... |
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Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
MENNO SCHILTHUIZEN - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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From evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen comes a book that will make you see yourself and the world around you in an entirely new way.For a long time, biologists thought evolution was a necessarily slow process, too incremental to be observed in a lifetime. In Darwin Comes to Town,... |
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The Telomere Effect
Dr Elissa Epel - Grand Central Publishing
Format: eBook
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A groundbreaking book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease and improving... |
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The Stars: The Definitive Visual Guide to the Cosmos
Dk. - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book
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The definitive visual guide to exploring all the marvels of the stars, the Milky Way, and the universe beyond.Chart the wonders of the cosmos in our own solar system and beyond with The Stars. Packed with 3-D artworks of each constellation and incredible new imagery from the Hubble... |
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Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
DANIEL GOLEMAN - Avery
Format: Hardcover
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Two New York Times-bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain. In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your... |
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Statistics
Robert A Donnelly - Alpha Books
Format: Print book
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Statistics is a class that is required in many college majors, and it's an increasingly popular Advanced Placement (AP) high school course. In addition to math and technical students, many business and liberal arts students are required to take it as a fundamental component of their... |
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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Carlo Rovelli - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they're calling the next Stephen Hawking." - The Times MagazineFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe.What... |
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Our Native Bees: North America's Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them
Paige Embry - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover
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All the buzz about North America's bees Honey bees get all the press, but the fascinating story of North America's native bees - an endangered species essential to our ecosystems and food supplies - is just as crucial. Our Native Bees is the result of Paige Embry's yearlong quest... |
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Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump
Dan Bongino - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover
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The comprehensive story of how the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton campaign, and foreign entities tried to sabotage the Trump campaign in the 2016 presidential election.Everyone has an opinion about whether or not Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016.... |
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Totality: The Great American Eclipses of 2017 and 2024
MARK LITTMANN - OXFORD UNIV Press
Format: Print book
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Totality: The Great American Eclipses is a complete guide to the most stunning of celestial sights, total eclipses of the Sun. It focuses on the eclipses of August 21, 2017 and April 8, 2024 that pass across the United States. The U.S. mainland has not experienced a total solar eclipse... |
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Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
Jonathan B Losos - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A major new work overturning our assumptions about how evolution works Earth's natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point... |
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Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
Venki Ramakrishnan - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A Nobel Prize-winning biologist tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology's most important molecule"Ramakrishnan's writing is so honest, lucid and engaging that I could not put this book down until I had read to the very end."--Siddhartha Mukherjee,... |
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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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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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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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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
Daniel J Levitin - Dutton
Format: Print book
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From The New York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process - especially in election season.... |
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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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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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Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 101 Incredible Microbes
Marilyn Roossinck - Princeton Univ Press
Format: Print book
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This stunningly illustrated book provides a rare window into the amazing, varied, and often beautiful world of viruses. Contrary to popular belief, not all viruses are bad for you. In fact, several are beneficial to their hosts, and many are crucial to the health of our planet. Virus... |
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Barron's SAT Subject Test: Chemistry, 14th Edition: With Bonus Online Tests
JOSEPH A KERNION MARK MASCETTA - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Paperback
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The updated edition of Barron's SAT Subject Test: Chemistry includes:A full-length diagnostic test with explained answersFour practice tests that reflect the actual SAT Subject Test ChemistryAll questions answered and explainedDetailed reviews covering all test topicsAppendixes, which... |
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