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Idiot's Guides: Speed Math
Gaurav Tekriwal · Alphabooks
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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Do math more quickly and with more confidence - with less reliance on paper, apps, and calculators. For people who automatically run to the nearest calculator, Idiot's Guides: Speed Math teaches tips, tricks, and straightforward methods to doing math at a fast - and accurate - rate.... |
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Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
Govert Schilling · Belknap Press
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
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It has already been called the scientific breakthrough of the century: the detection of gravitational waves. Einstein predicted these tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime nearly a hundred years ago, but they were never perceived directly until now. Decades in the making, this momentous... |
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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Max Tegmark · Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Pages: 421
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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Private Doubt, Public Dilemma: Religion and Science since Jefferson and Darwin
Keith Stewart Thomson · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A distinguished scholar urges scientists and religious thinkers to become colleagues rather than adversaries in areas where their fields overlap Each age has its own crisis - our modern experience of science-religion conflict is not so very different from that experienced by our forebears,... |
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Super You: How Technology is Revolutionizing What It Means to Be Human
Andy Edward Walker · Que
Pages: 384
Format: Book
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Hack yourself! Discover how tomorrow's incredible technologies will soon make your body, your brain, and your kids fantastically superhuman. Grow replacement organs. Implant chips in your brain. Edit your DNA. Double your lifespan! You can live longer, better, smarter. The technology... |
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Engineering Women: Re-visioning Women's Scientific Achievements and Impacts
Jill S. Tietjen · Springer
Pages: 85
Format: Hardcover
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Packed with fascinating biographical sketches of female engineers, this chronological history of engineering brightens previously shadowy corners of our increasingly engineered world's recent past. In addition to a detailed description of the diverse arenas encompassed by the word 'engineering'... |
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How Numbers Rule the World: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics
Lorenzo Fioramonti · Zed Books
Pages: 271
Format: Paperback
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Numbers dominate global politics and as a result our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal... |
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The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Alex Bellos · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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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 narrative.From triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded calculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical... |
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The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids--and the Kids We Have
Bonnie Rochman · Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A sharp-eyed exploration of the promise and peril of having children in an age of genetic tests and interventionsIs screening for disease in an embryo a humane form of family planning or a slippery slope toward eugenics? Should doctors tell you that your infant daughter is genetically predisposed... |
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What Future: The Year's Best Ideas to Reclaim, Reanimate & Reinvent Our Future
Torie Bosch · The Unnamed Press
Format: Paperback
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The future is here and, frankly, it sucks. Without doubt, our culture is at a crossroads. Political strife and economic crises are byproducts of a larger looming challenge, one in which we will have to ask ourselves what constitutes a meaningful life. We must do the hard work of imagining... |
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Basic Illustrated Medicinal Plants
Jim Meuninck · Falcon Guides; First edition
Format: Book
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An information-packed tool for the novice or handy reference for the veteran. Distills years of knowledge into an affordable and portable book. With this guide, youll discover how to identify medicinal plants in the contiguous United States., |
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Beginning Beekeeping
Tanya Phillips · Alpha Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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Beginning Beekeeping is a simple, straightforward approach that gives you the basics to get started with beekeeping, while following a balanced, objective approach that weighs the pros and cons of conventional and organic methodologies. Featuring more than 120 beautiful color photos, this... |
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Number Sense Interventions
Nancy Jordan Ed.D. · Brookes Publishing; 1 edition
Pages: 248
Format: Spiral-bound
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Help kindergartners at risk for math difficulties with these explicit, evidence-based interventions. Used on their own or as a follow-up to the Number Sense Screenerâ„¢ (NSSâ„¢) , the interventions in this user-friendly guide are a fun, simple, and highly effective way to boost key math... |
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