Science
Discover a range of science books, including fiction novels about science, intriguing science facts, and essential physics books. Explore the best sci-fi books and top-selling science titles
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Science, Theory and Clinical Application in Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy: Scientific Therapeutic Exercise Progressions (STEP): The Neck and UppAuthor: Ola Grimsby, Jim RivardPublisher: Academy of Graduate Physical Therapy, Inc.Published: 10/08/2008Pages: 348Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.84lbsSize: 11.69h x 8.27w x 0.72dISBN: 9780615257693This title is not returnable
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Carbon Capture and Storage: Technologies, Policies, Economics, and Implementation StrategiesThis book focuses on issues related to a suite of technologies known as "Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)," which can be used to capture and store underground large amounts of industrial CO2 emissions. It addresses how CCS should work, as well as where, why,...
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The Scientific OutlookAccording to Bertrand Russell, science is knowledge; that which seeks general laws connecting a number of particular facts. It is, he argues, far superior to art, where much of the knowledge is intangible and assumed. In The Scientific Outlook, Russell delivers one of his...
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King Solomon's RingSolomon, the legend goes, had a magic ring which enabled him to speak to the animals in their own language. Konrad Lorenz was gifted with a similar power of understanding the animal world. He was that rare beast, a brilliant scientist who could write...
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Peterson First Guide to Caterpillars of North AmericaHere is the first and only guide to a subject of great interest to gardeners, small children, and lepidopterists: caterpillars, the immature form of butterflies and moths. This guide describes 120 common species of these fuzzy creatures. All the caterpillars, their adult forms and...
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The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb MistakesSmart people are not only just as prone to making mistakes as everyone else, they may be even more susceptible to them. This is the intelligence trap, the subject of David Robson's fascinating and provocative book. The Intelligence Trap explores cutting-edge ideas in our...
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Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physical RealityThrough more than fifty Koans--pleasingly paradoxical vignettes following the ancient Zen tradition--leading physicist Anthony Aguirre takes the reader across the world from West to East, and through ideas spanning the age, breadth, and depth of the Universe.Using these beguiling Koans (Could there be a...
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The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of KindnessSurvival of the fittest or survival of the nicest? Since the dawn of time man has contemplated the mystery of altruism, but it was Darwin who posed the question most starkly. From the selfless ant to the stinging bee to the man laying down...
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How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of CellsEverything about our existence-movement and memory, imagination and reproduction, birth, and ultimately death-is governed by our cells. They are the basis of all life in the universe, from bacteria to the most complex animals. In the tradition of the classic Lives of a Cell,...
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The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the DeadAn expert in global relativity, through his model of the universal end-time (the Omega Point Theory), constructs a stunningly plausible argument for the existence of a universal resurrection, attempting to show that "through physics . . . it is possible, even likely for all...
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My Beloved BrontosaurusA Hudson Booksellers Staff Pick for the Best Books of 2013 One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring Science Books A Bookshop Santa Cruz Staff PickDinosaurs, with their awe-inspiring size, terrifying claws and teeth, and otherworldly abilities, occupy a sacred place in our childhoods....
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Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the UniverseWinner of the Canadian Science Writers Association 2014 Science in Society Book AwardA Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of the SeasonA Book to Watch Out For, The New Yorker's Page-Turner Blog A Los Angeles Times Gift Guide SelectionOne of the Best Physics Books...
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CometWhat are these graceful visitors to our skies? We now know that they bring both life and death and teach us about our origins. Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos and...
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Elements of Ecology&> Elements of Ecology, Ninth Edition continues to explain ecological processes clearly and concisely, with a greater emphasis on the relevance of ecology to everyday life and the human impact on ecosystems. This dramatically revised edition discusses issues of human ecology throughout the text...
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Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and AbundanceCharles Krebs' best-selling majors-level text approaches ecology as a series of problems that are best understood by evaluating empirical evidence through data analysis and application of quantitative reasoning. No other text presents analytical, quantitative, and statistical ecological information in an equally accessible style for...
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The Science of Star WarsFormer NASA astrophysicist Jeanne Cavelos examines the scientific possibility of the fantastical world of Star Wars. She explains to non-technical readers how the course of science might soon intersect with such fantasies as interstellar travel, robots capable of thought and emotion, habitable alien planets,...
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The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and DeathRenowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has written a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. How does life begin? What does it mean?...
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The Universe Within: The Deep History of the Human BodyA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearIn The Universe Within, Neil Shubin reveals the connection between the evolution of the cosmos and the evolution of the human body. Just as the history of the earth is written in the rocks, so too...
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Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg RockThe inspiring story of a young ornithologist who reintroduced puffins where none had been seen for a century Project Puffin is the inspiring story of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast. As a young ornithology instructor...
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The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000The Rhine River is Europe's most important commercial waterway, channeling the flow of trade among Switzerland, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. In this innovative study, Mark Cioc focuses on the river from the moment when the Congress of Vienna established a multinational commission charged...
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