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Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You
Steven Farmer - Wiley
Format: Paperback
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This book opens the audience's eyes to the extraordinary scientific secrets hiding in everyday objects. Helping readers increase chemistry knowledge in a fun and entertaining way, the book is perfect as a supplementary textbook or gift to curious professionals and novices. - Appeals... |
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We Are Our Brains: A Neurobiography of the Brain, from the Womb to Alzheimer's
D. F. Swaab - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid account of what makes us human. Based groundbreaking new research, We Are Our Brains is a sweeping biography of the human brain, from infancy to adulthood to old age. Renowned neuroscientist D. F. Swaab takes us on a guided tour of the intricate inner workings that determine our potential,... |
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Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing (Foundational Questions in Science)
James Owen Weatherall - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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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 Weatheralls previous book, The Physics of Wall Street, was a New York Times best-seller and named one of Physics Todays five most intriguing... |
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The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild
Enric Sala - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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Enric Sala wants to change the world--and in this compelling book, he shows us how. Once we appreciate how nature works, he asserts, we will understand why conservation is economically wise and essential to our survival. Here Sala, director of National Geographic's Pristine Seas project... |
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Catching Breath: The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis
KATHRYN LOUGHEED - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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With more than a million victims every year--more than any other disease, including malaria--and antibiotic resistance now found in every country worldwide, tuberculosis is once again proving itself to be one of the smartest killers that humanity has ever faced. But it's hardly surprising... |
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Roll Back Global Warming
Paul Hawken - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the worldIn the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer... |
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Suzanne Simard - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; she's been compared to Rachel Carson, hailed as a scientist who conveys complex, technical ideas in a way that is dazzling and profound. Her work has influenced filmmakers (the Tree of Souls of James... |
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The Wright Brothers
David G McCullough - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestseller Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown... |
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When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep
Antonio Zadra
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive, eye-opening exploration of what dreams are, where they come from, what they mean, and why we have them.Questions on the origins and meaning of dreams are as old as humankind, and as confounding and exciting today as when nineteenth-century scientists first attempted to unravel... |
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Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell - Little, Brown and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much... |
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