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Life's Vital Link: The astonishing role of the placenta
Y. W. Loke - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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The development of the placenta was a pivotal event in evolution. Without it, we would still be laying eggs instead of giving birth to live offspring. It represents the critical link between the foetus and the mother, but its character is extraordinary -- it is, in effect, a foreign tissue... |
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The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
Edward Humes - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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A relentless detective and an amateur genealogist solve a haunting cold case - and launch a crime-fighting revolution that tests the fragile line between justice and privacy. In November 1987, a young couple on an overnight trip to Seattle vanished without a trace. A week later, the bodies... |
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Nuclear Physics
Frank Close - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Print book
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Nuclear physics began long before the identification of fundamental particles, with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron at the end of the 19th century, which implied the existence of a positive charge in the atom to make it neutral. |
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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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Coral Reefs: A Very Short Introduction
Charles Sheppard - Oxford University Press
Format: Book
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Coral reefs have been long regarded with awe by the millions of people who have encountered them over the centuries. Early seafarers were wary of them, naturalists were confused by them, yet many coastal people benefited greatly from these mysterious rocky structures that grew up to the surface... |
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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Bill McKibben - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long... |
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P Feynman - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that "buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist" (Science Digest) .Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous... |
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Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America
Jonathan Vigliotti - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us, a character-driven and shocking up-close look at the way climate change is affecting America, right now, and a call to action to protect the people and places we stand to lose if nothing is done to preserve our planet.. Discussion of the climate... |
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