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Nonfiction nature and science writing for the non-scientist.
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100 New Scientific Discoveries: Fascinating, Unbelievable and Mind-expanding Stories A collection of stories about groundbreaking scientific discoveries covers such topics as animal behaviors, the characteristics of distant galaxies, and the incredible capacity of the human mind, in a volume that also provides a chronology of debunked scientific theories. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge Editor Max Brockman presents the work of some of today’s brightest and most innovative young researchers in this fascinating collection of writings that introduce the very latest theories and discoveries in science. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Aldersey-Williams, Hugh Periodic Tales: a Cultural History of the Elements from Arsenic to Zinc Offers a look at how the periodic elements are woven into our culture, history, and language. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Bailey, Elisabeth Tova The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris --a common woodland snail. 2010 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Barondes, Samuel Making Sense of People: Decoding the Mysteries of Personality Provides tools to assess a person's traits, character, and sense of identity to get along better, choose great friends, decide whom to trust, and avoid narcissists and sociopaths. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Beauregard, Mario Brain Wars : the Scientific Battle Over the Existence of the Mind and the Proof That Will Change the Way We Live Our Lives Filled with the latest scientific research and extraordinary stories of the mind's abilities, a prominent neuroscientist, capturing a major shift in our understanding of the age-old mind/body debate, proves that humans are more than complex biological machines. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Bejan, Adrian Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization Reveals how recurring patterns in nature are accounted for by a single governing principle of physics, explaining how all designs in the world from biological life to inanimate systems evolve in a sequence of ever-improving designs that facilitate flow. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Cox, Brian The Quantum Universe: (And Why Anything That Can Happen Does) Renders fundamental scientific principles in the area of quantum mechanics comprehensible and engaging, working through obscure and vague aspects to explain related natural world observations, how the quantum world was constructed, and why it is important. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Everett, Allen Time Travel and Warp Drives : a Scientific Guide to Shortcuts Through Time and Space Lays out what humans really know about time and space and how to bend it to our will, and explains just how close we are to some of the ideas of science fiction novels. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Friedman, George The Next 100 Years : a Forecast for the 21st Century Friedman, a leading expert in geopolitical forecasting, turns his eye to the future. Drawing on a profound understanding of history and geopolitical patterns, "The Next 100 Years" is a compelling, realistic, and eye-opening portrait of the future. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book Other formats available |
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George, Rose The Big Necessity : the Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters This work takes aim at the taboo, revealing everything that matters about how people do--and don't--deal with their own waste. George also explores the infrastructure disasters waiting to happen and the potential saviors: from China's five million biogas digesters to the U.S. Army's personal lasers used by soldiers to zap their feces in the field. 2008 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Gibb, Barry J. The Rough Guide to the Brain The Rough Guide to the Brain answers all the important questions: how does the memory work? Are we addicted to television? What is Alzheimer's Disease? Can machines read our minds? The human brain, with all its inherent complexity, has taken on near mythical status. Its 100 billion nerve cells, forged by nature and refined over millions of years, allow humans the capacity to survive, create culture, love.Once an impenetrable grey mass, modern science is getting to grips with our brains at an unprecedented rate. We are moving from a time of anatomy, in which science did well to characterize the various regions of the brain, to a time in which we can observe thought processes in real time. We have entered a neural renaissance. The Rough Guide to the Brain is for anyone who's ever wanted to know more about how their brain and mind works - and what goes wrong when it doesn't. From how we evolved such an impressive organ to how it achieves the feat that is you. Including numerous insights from leaders in their fields, with The Rough Guide to the Brain, there's no better way to stimulate your grey matter. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Green, Bill Boltzmann's Tomb : Travels in Search of Science Bill Green travels to sites of scientific discovery around the globe and relates the stories of the scientists who lived and worked there. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Hamilton, Jill. The Practical Naturalist : Explore the Wonders of the Natural World Explains all the wonders of the natural world, focusing on various biomes and the flora and fauna that inhabit them, in a full-color guide endorsed by Audubon. 2010 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Haskell, David The Forest Unseen : A Year's Watch in Nature Reveals what can be understood about the natural world through the author's year-long observation of a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest, explaining the scientific ties binding all life and how the ecosystem has cycled for millions of years. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Hohn, Donovan Moby-duck : the True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea, and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools-- Including the Author-- Who Went in Search of Them Moby-Duck is a journey into the heart of the sea and an adventure through science, myth, the global economy, and some of the worst weather imaginable. With each new discovery, Hohn learns of another loose thread, and with each successive chase, he comes closer to understanding where his castaway quarry comes from and where it goes. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Horowitz, Alexandra Inside of a Dog : What Dogs See Smell and Know What do dogs know? How do they think? The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Horstman, Judith The Scientific American Healthy Aging Brain : The Neuroscience of Making the Most of Your Mature Mind Drawn from the latest research, this fascinating book offers new insight about how the brain ages; provides strategies for promoting brain health; reveals how aging people can still achieve new levels of intelligence and learn new skills. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Kandel, Eric The Age of Insight : the Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art Mind and Brain : from Vienna 1900 to the Present A brilliant book by a Nobel Prize winner, "The Age of Insight" takes readers to Vienna in 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind--our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions--and how mind and brain relate to art. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Kean, Sam The Disappearing Spoon : and other True Tales of Madness Love and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements The periodic table of the elements is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of passion, adventure, obsession, and betrayal. These tales follow carbon, neon, silicon, gold, and all the elements in the table as they play out their parts in human history. The usual suspects are here, like Marie Curie (and her radioactive journey to the discovery of polonium and radium) and William Shockley (who is credited, not exactly justly, with the discovery of the silicon transistor)--but the more obscure characters provide some of the best stories, like Paul Emile Franc¸ois Lecoq de Boisbaudran, whose discovery of gallium, a metal with a low melting point, gives this book its title: a spoon made of gallium will melt in a cup of tea.--From publisher description. 2010 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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| • | Ackerman, Diane
philosophy, physiology |
| • | Aczel, Amir D.
history of science |
| • | Atkins, P.W.
chemistry |
| • | Attenborough, David, 1926-
nature |
| • | Ball, Philip, 1962-
physics, neuroscience, science history |
| • | Bass, Rick
nature |
| • | Bodanis, David
popular science |
| • | Cadbury , Deborah
history of science |
| • | Dawkins, Richard
biology |
| • | De Villiers, Marq
nature |
| • | Diamond, Jared M.
anthropology, geography |
| • | Ehrlich, Anne H. |
| • | Ehrlich, Gretel
nature |
| • | Ellis, Richard, 1938-
marine life |
| • | Emsley, John
chemistry |
| • | Ferris, Timothy
astronomy |
| • | Feynman, Richard Phillips
physics |
| • | Gleick, James
science history |
| • | Goodall, Jane
chimpanzees |
| • | Greene, B.
astrophysics |
| • | Gribbin, John R.
history of science, popular science |
| • | Halpern, Paul, 1961-
physics |
| • | Hawking, S.W.
astrophysics, mathematics |
| • | Heinrich, Bernd
zoology, nature |
| • | Herriot, James
veterinary science, zoology |
| • | Hubbell, Sue
nature |
| • | Kaku, Michio
astrophysics, physics |
| • | Katz, Jon |
| • | Kluger, Jeffrey
popular science, astronomy |
| • | Masson, J. Moussaieff
zoology |
| • | Matthiessen, Peter
nature, zoology |
| • | McKibben, Bill
environment |
| • | Montgomery, Sy
nature, zoology |
| • | Page, Jake |
| • | Preston, Richard, 1954
popular science |
| • | Pringle, Heather Anne
history of science |
| • | Quammen, David
nature |
| • | Raymo, Chet
naturalist, spiritualism |
| • | Russell, Sharman Apt
naturalism |
| • | Sagan, Carl
astronomy, spiritualism |
| • | Seife, Charles
mathematics |
| • | Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall
zoology, naturalism |
| • | Ward, Peter Douglas
evolution |
| • | Weidensaul, Scott
ornithology, birding |
| • | Williams, Terry Tempest
naturalism |
| • | Wilson, Edward O.
zoology, naturalism |