By: Agrawal, Anurag
Hardcover | $29.95 | 9780691166353
The fascinating and complex evolutionary relationship of the monarch butterfly and the milkweed plant
Monarch butterflies are one of nature's most recognizable creatures, known for their bright colors and epic annual migration from the United States and Canada to Mexico. Yet there is...
By: Richards, Robert J.
Hardcover | $30.00 | 9780226384429
Charles Darwin is easily the most famous scientist of the modern age, and his theory of evolution is constantly referenced in many contexts by scientists and nonscientists alike. And yet, despite how frequently his ideas are evoked, there remains a surprising amount we don't know about the father...
By: Collins, Harry
Hardcover | $29.95 | 9780262036184
A fascinating account, written in real time, of the unfolding of a scientific discovery: the first detection of gravitational waves.
Scientists have been trying to confirm the existence of gravitational waves for fifty years. Then, in September 2015, came a "very interesting event...
By: Dunbar, Robin
Hardcover | $29.95 | 9780190616786
The story of human evolution has fascinated us like no other: we seem to have an insatiable curiosity about who we are and where we have come from. Yet studying the stones and bones skirts around what is perhaps the realest, and most relatable, story of human evolution - the social and
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By: Onstott, Tullis C.
Hardcover | $35.00 | 9780691096445
The thrilling quest for subsurface life on Earth and other planets
Deep Life takes readers to uncharted regions deep beneath Earth's crust in search of life in extreme environments and reveals how astonishing new discoveries by geomicrobiologists are helping the quest to find...
By: Harper, Kristine C.
Hardcover | $40.00 | 9780226437231
Weather control. Juxtaposing those two words is enough to raise eyebrows in a world where even the best weather models still fail to nail every forecast, and when the effects of climate change on sea level height, seasonal averages of weather phenomena, and biological behavior are being watched...
By: Rhodes, Frank H. T.
Hardcover | $29.95 | 9781501702440
"Fossils are the fragments from which, piece by laborious piece, the great mosaic of the history of life has been constructed. Here and there, we can supplement these meager scraps by the use of biochemical markers or geochemical signatures that add useful information, but, even with such...
By: Hicks, Marie
Hardcover | $40.00 | 9780262035545
How Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women.
In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty...
By: Thompson, Helen
Hardcover | $59.95 | 9780812248722
In a groundbreaking study of the relationship between chemistry and literary history, Helen Thompson explores the ways in which chemical conceptions of matter shaped eighteenth-century British culture. Although the scientific revolution championed experimental, sense-based knowledge, chemists...
By: Weatherall, James Owen
Hardcover | $26.00 | 9780300209983
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 Weatherall's previous book,
The Physics of Wall Street, was a
New York Times best-seller and named one of
Physics Today...
By: Stillwell, John
Hardcover | $39.95 | 9780691171685
An exciting look at the world of elementary mathematics
Elements of Mathematics takes readers on a fascinating tour that begins in elementary mathematics-but, as John Stillwell shows, this subject is not as elementary or straightforward as one might think. Not all topics that...
By: Laugesen, Miriam J.
Hardcover | $40.00 | 9780674545168
Medical care prices in the United States are not only the most expensive in the world, but there are wide variations in what physicians are paid. Doctors at the frontlines of medical care who manage complex conditions argue that they receive disproportionately lower fees than physicians...
By: Orr, David W.
Hardcover | $28.50 | 9780300222814
A leading environmental thinker takes a hard look at the obstacles and possibilities on the long road to sustainability This gripping, deeply thoughtful book considers future of civilization in the light of what we know about climate change and related threats. David Orr, an award-...
By: Wittmann, Marc
Hardcover | $24.95 | 9780262034029
We have widely varying perceptions of time. Children have trouble waiting for anything. ("Are we there yet?") Boredom is often connected to our sense of time passing (or not passing). As people grow older, time seems to speed up, the years flitting by without a pause. How does our sense of time...
By: Vogel, Steven
Hardcover | $35.00 | 9780226381039
There is no part of our bodies that fully rotates--be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet there is no more fundamental human invention than the wheel--a rotational mechanism that accomplishes what our physical form cannot. Throughout history,...
By: Jones, Alexander
Hardcover | $34.95 | 9780199739349
From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Terracotta Army, ancient artifacts have long fascinated the modern world. However, the importance of some discoveries is not always immediately understood. This was the case in 1901 when sponge divers retrieved a lump of corroded bronze from a shipwreck at the
...
By: Berthoz, Alain
Hardcover | $40.00 | 9780674088955
Groping around a familiar room in the dark, or learning to read again after a traumatic brain injury; navigating a virtual landscape through an avatar, or envisioning a scene through the eyes of a character--all of these are expressions of one fundamental property of life, Alain Berthoz argues....
By: Riskin, Jessica
Hardcover | $40.00 | 9780226302928
Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is true. A modern botanist would not say that...
By: Kandel, Eric
Hardcover | $29.95 | 9780231179621
Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art give him a unique perspective, demonstrates how science can inform the way we experience a work of art...
By: Kelly, Robert L.
Hardcover | $24.95 | 9780520293120
"I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow." This inscription in Tutankhamun's tomb summarizes
The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity.
In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies four key...