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Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
Mckenzie Funk · Penguin Press
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming worldMcKenzie Funk has spent the last six years reporting around the world on how we are preparing for a warmer planet. Funk shows us that the best way to understand the catastrophe of global warming... |
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Standing Together in Troubled Times: Unpublished Letters of Pauli, Einstein, Franck and Others
Wolfgang Pauli · World Scientific Publishing Company
Pages: 337
Format: Hardcover
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This captivating book is a story of the friendship between a genius physicist Wolfgang Pauli and Charlotte Houtermans whose career in physics was not as glamorous. They met in the late 1920s in Germany, at the very onset of the quantum era and personally knew all the major players in the emergent... |
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Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension
Samuel Arbesman · Penguin Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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The acclaimed author of The Half-Life of Facts explains the challenges of overly complex technology. On July 8th, 2015, something weird happened. The NYSE computers went down and trading was suspended for several hours. The culprit wasn't hackers or a rogue algorithm. It was just... a glitch.... |
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When Science Sheds Light on History: Forensic Science and Anthropology
PHILLIPE CHARLIER · University Press of Florida
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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"Well written and hard to put down. For anyone with an interest in forensic science, this book is a must-read."--Nigel McCrery, author of Silent Witnesses: The Often Gruesome but Always Fascinating History of Forensic Science"This compilation is a fascinating read for the nonspecialist... |
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Stargazing with a Telescope
Robin Scagell · Firefly Books; Fourth Edition, Revised and Expanded edition
Format: Paperback
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Reviews for the previous editions: Because it stays focused, it succeeds. When you read Stargazing, you feel as though you have a friend who's helping you think about the world of telescopes. --Sky and Telescope A practical guide that demystifies the process of buying a telescope...... |
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Darwin's On the Origin of Species: A Modern Rendition
Daniel Duzdevich · Indiana University Press
Format: Paperback
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Charles Darwin’s most famous book On the Origin of Species is without question, one of the most important books ever written. While even the grandest works of Victorian English can prove difficult to modern readers, Darwin wrote his text in haste and under intense pressure. For an era in which... |
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Nothing: Surprising Insights Everywhere from Zero to Oblivion
Jeremy Webb · The Experiment
Pages: 266
Format: Print book
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One of Brain Pickings' Best Science Books of 2014Incredible discoveries from the fringes of the universe to the inner workings of our minds - all from nothing! It turns out that almost nothing is as curious - or as enlightening - as, well, nothing. What is nothingness? Where can it be found?... |
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How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
Benedict Carey · Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really know about learning and memory today - and how we can apply it to our own lives. From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness,... |
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Trying Not to Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity
Edward Slingerland · Crown Publishing Group
Pages: 295
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply original exploration of the power of spontaneity - an ancient Chinese ideal that cognitive scientists are only now beginning to understand - and why it is so essential to our well-being Why is it always hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or be charming... |
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Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
Leonard Susskind · Basic Books
Pages: 364
Format: Hardcover
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First he taught you classical mechanics. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind has teamed up with data engineer Art Friedman to present the theory and associated mathematics of the strange world of quantum mechanics.In this follow-up to the New York Times best-selling The Theoretical Minimum,... |
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The Bare Bones: An Unconventional Evolutionary History of the Skeleton
Matthew F. Bonnan · Indiana University Press
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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What can we learn about the evolution of jaws from a pair of scissors? How does the flight of a tennis ball help explain how fish overcome drag? What do a spacesuit and a chicken egg have in common? Highlighting the fascinating twists and turns of evolution across more than 540 million... |
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Globes: 400 Years of Exploration, Navigation, and Power
Sylvia Sumira · The University of Chicago Press,
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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The concept of the earth as a sphere has been around for centuries, emerging around the time of Pythagoras in the sixth century BC, and eventually becoming dominant as other thinkers of the ancient world, including Plato and Aristotle, accepted the idea. The first record of an actual globe... |
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