After yet another online dating disaster, Amy Webb was about to cancel her JDate membership when an epiphany struck: It wasn't that her standards were too high, as women are often told, but that she wasn't evaluating the right...
Math and science
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In the twenty-first century, because of climate change and other human activities, many animal species have become extinct, and many others are at risk of extinction. Once they are gone, we cannot bring them back—or can we? With...
- Author:Tyson, Neil deGrasseSummary:
This collection of essays on the cosmos from the nation's best-known astrophysicist covers everything from astral life at the frontiers of astrobiology to the movie industry's feeble efforts to get its night skies right.
- Author:Ehrenreich, Ben.Summary:
Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, National Magazine Award winner Ben Ehrenreich presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. As...
- Author:Woolcock, Kim Ryall, Clendenan, MeganSummary:
Did you know that lamps can be powered by glowing bacteria instead of electricity? That gloves designed like gecko feet let people climb straight up glass walls? Or that kids are finding ways to make compostable plastic out of banana...
- Author:Beer, StaffordSummary:
Distinguished cyberneticist Stafford Beer states the case for a new science of systems theory and cybernetics. His essays examine such issues as The Real Threat to All We Hold Most Dear, The Discarded Tools of Modern Man, A Liberty...
- Author:May, AndrewSummary:
When the Apollo astronauts walked on the Moon in 1969, many people imagined Mars would be next. However NASA's Viking 1, which landed in 1976, was just a robot. The much-anticipated crewed mission failed to materialise, defeated by...
- Author:Vivianne MoreauSummary:
Réduction, réutilisation et recyclage, c'est la base. Mais qu'est-ce que la famille - qu'il s'agisse d'un petit couple ou d'une famille de quatre enfants - peut faire de plus pour mener une vie...
- Author:Cristoforetti, SamanthaSummary:
Six years ago, Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti spent 200 days orbiting around Earth on the International Space Station. In this riveting memoir, she tells the story of her extraordinary journey: from gruelling years of training...
- Author:Edelstein-Keshet, LeahSummary:
Calculus arose as a tool for solving practical scientific problems through the centuries. However, it is often taught as a technical subject with rules and formulas (and occasionally theorems), devoid of its connection to applications....
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Written entirely by members of the Canadian Society of Soil Science, "Digging into Canadian Soils: An Introduction to Soil Science" provides an introduction to the core disciplines of soil science, and introduces the concepts and...
- Author:Descartes, RenéSummary:
Descartes's A Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences marks a watershed in European thought. In it, the author provides an informal intellectual autobiography in the vernacular for...
- Author:LeVay, SimonSummary:
Discovering Human Sexuality, Second Edition is an alternative version of Simon LeVay and Janice Baldwin's acclaimed textbook, Human Sexuality, Fourth Edition. This version, in which John Baldwin is an additional coauthor, has been...
- Author:Eriksson, AnnSummary:
We're all connected to the ocean, and the ocean to us. The ocean provides half the oxygen we breathe; it feeds us, creates our weather and provides us with water. But we haven't been as kind to the ocean in return. The...
- Author:Sykes, BryanSummary:
Sykes examines the unique fabric of the U.S. population--one of the world's most genetically variegated countries. His discoveries offer new insights into the biological profile of the great melting pot.
- Author:Stewart, IanSummary:
Life is full of uncertainty, scientific advances indicate that the universe might be fundamentally inexact, and humans are terrible at guessing. When asked to predict the outcome of a chance event, we are almost always wrong. Thankfully...
- Author:Davis, Kenneth C.Summary:
From often amusing perceptions people have had through the ages about the world and the universe to the changing map of today, Davis shows how geography is really a great crossroad of many fields: biology, meteorology, astronomy,...
- Author:Lembke, AnnaSummary:
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER "Brilliant… riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued."-Beth Macy, author of Dopesick As heard on Fresh Air. This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important,...
- Author:Hansman, HeatherSummary:
The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Over its course it meanders through ranches, cities, national parks, endangered fish...
- Author:Schwarcz, JoeSummary:
Linus Pauling, one of the most celebrated scientists of the twentieth century, once remarked that satisfying curiosity is one of the greatest sources of pleasure in life. Dr. Joe and What You Didn’t Know to act as both the...
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