Just as the need for action on climate change becomes more urgent and overwhelming, the campaign to deny that humans are causing it has gained more traction. This completely new book meets the skeptics head on, offering a guide to the...
Math and science
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Author:Chivers, DannySummary: - Author:Ravetz, Jerome R.Summary:
Science is still the great intellectual adventure, but now it is also seen as an instrument of profit, power, and privilege. Wrongly used, it might yet make the 21st century our last. To make sense of all this, we need to let go of old...
- Author:Boyd, David R.Summary:
A hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environment
Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges — climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we...
- Author:Rovelli, CarloSummary:
"Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book."--The Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a concise, elegant exploration of time. Why do we remember the past and...
- Author:Waltner-Toews, DavidSummary:
An entertaining and enlightening exploration of why waste matters. The Origin of Feces takes an important subject out of locker-rooms, potty-training manuals, and bio-solids management boardrooms into the fresh air of everyone'...
- Author:Darwin, CharlesSummary:
The first mature and persuasive work to explain the process of natural selection.
- Author:Carroll, Sean M.Summary:
Caltech physicist and author Sean Carroll offers listeners this profile of the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the mysterious Higgs boson particle, the subatomic building block that imbues elementary particles with mass....
- Author:Tailor, KrisaSummary:
In The Patient Revolution, author Krisa Tailor-a noted expert in health care innovation and management-explores, through the lens of design thinking, how information technology will take health care into the experience economy. In the...
- The Pentagon's brain : an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top-secret military research agencyAuthor:Jacobsen, AnnieSummary:
In the first-ever history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military R&D agency, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen paints a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain,"...
- Author:Kucharski, AdamSummary:
From roulette tables to racetracks, provides a look at how scientists and mathematicians throughout the years have tried to figure out how to beat the house while gambling.
- Author:Ferreira, Pedro G.Summary:
"Ferreira masterfully portrays the science and scientists behind general relativity's star-crossed history and argues that even now we are only just beginning to realize its vitality as a tool for understanding the cosmos."-Scientific...
- Author:Winchester, SimonSummary:
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage...
- Author:Blaevoet, EmmanuelSummary:
The Periodic Table of Chemical Elements, with textured squares to represent the different classes of elements and a braille chart with important data.
- Author:Rickles, DeanSummary:
Does the future exist already' What is space' Are time machines physically possible' What is quantum mechanical reality like' Are there many universes' Is there a 'true' geometry of the universe'...
- Author:Kenny, CharlesSummary:
A vivid, sweeping history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease, for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and John Barry’s The Great Influenza.
For four thousand years, the size and vitality...
- Author:Nataraj, NirmalaSummary:
This magnificent volume offers a rich visual tour of the planets in our solar system. More than 200 breathtaking photographs from the archives of NASA are paired with extended captions detailing the science behind some of our cosmic...
- Author:Feynman, Richard P.Summary:
A collection of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman, from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles.
- Author:Tyson, Neil deGrasseSummary:
When the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood, Americans rallied behind this extraterrestrial underdog. Pluto is entrenched in our cultural, patriotic view of the cosmos, and Tyson is on a quest to discover why...
- Author:Newton, Sir IsaacSummary:
In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of...
- Author:Ruthsatz, JoanneSummary:
In a scientific detective story, the author, along with a reporter, investigates more than 30 child prodigies, all of whom had extraordinary memories and a keen eye for detail, and discovers a genetic link between prodigy and autism,...
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