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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Wild Mammals of Wyoming and Yellowstone National ParkWild Mammals of Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park provides the scholar, conservationist, and interested lay reader with information on the state's 117 wild mammalian species from grizzly bears to pygmy shrews. It describes the history of mammalogy in Wyoming, the zoogeography of Wyoming mammals,...
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Why Darkness MattersDescription: The focus of this book, Why Darkness Matters: The Power of Melanin In The Brain, is to acquaint the public with the reality and importance, both scientific and clinical, of melanin in the human brain and its wider implications for society, families, and...
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Where the Seals SingThere are fewer grey seals in the world than endangered African elephants, but the British Isles host almost half of this global population. Every year these charismatic animals, with their expressive eyes and whiskers more sensitive than our fingertips, haul out on our shores...
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Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate about Machines Systems and the Human WorldTechnology was the blessing and the bane of the twentieth century. Human life span nearly doubled in the West, but in no century were more human beings killed by new technologies of war. Improvements in agriculture now feed increasing billions, but pesticides and chemicals...
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UranusUranus--cold and icy. Developing readers learn about the ice giant's key features in this low-level search-and-find. Uranus is one cool planet. Seventh from the sun, Uranus orbits on its side. Its blueish-green color comes from its clouds, and when it storms, diamonds rain down!...
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Unlikely Loves: 43 Heartwarming True Stories from the Animal KingdomIn her inspiring New York Times bestseller Unlikely Friendships, Jennifer Holland introduced us to the heartwarming relationships that exist between animals of different species. Her stories struck a chord with thousands of readers, including Temple Grandin, who described the book as "amazing." Now Holland...
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Understanding Severe and Unusual WeatherAn understanding of severe and unusual weather should be a fundamental part of everyone's storehouse of knowledge. We live in a world that is at least occasionally dominated by severe and unusual weather. Many types of severe weather are sufficiently rare that a common...
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Understanding Scientific Theories of Origins: Cosmology, Geology, and Biology in Christian PerspectiveThe question of origins remains a stumbling block for many. But just as the Psalmist gained insight into God's character through the observation of nature, modern scientific study can deepen and enrich our vision of the Creator and our place in his creation. In...
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Toxic Lake: Environmental Destruction and the Epic Fight to Save Onondaga LakeThe environmental history of "the most polluted lake in America."Native Americans have long regarded Onondaga Lake as one of the most sacred spaces in the continent, the place where peace between nations was achieved and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy was created. In the mid-twentieth century,...
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Thomistic EvolutionEvolutionary theory has raised numerous disputed questions among Catholics and other Christians concerning the relationship between faith and reason and between religion and science. Thomistic Evolution shows that the Thomistic intellectual tradition provides insightful and compelling responses to these questions. This second edition includes...
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The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and PoliticsSet in the context of a sophisticated critique of the privileged epistemological position oachieved by modern science, whereby it both aspires to provide technological solutions for social and political problems while at the same time disclaiming responsibility for the new problems which it creates...
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The Trilobite Collector's GuideFor more than 250 million years, the primeval oceans of the Paleozoic teemed with trilobites. These hardy invertebrates evolved into an astonishing array of separate species--more than 25,000 at last count--and much remains unknown about these once-ubiquitous creatures. Fossil enthusiasts are captivated by trilobites'...
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The Tertiary Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of CaliforniaMining historian Kerby Jackson introduces us to a classic mining work by Waldemar Lindgren in this important re-issue of The Tertiary Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California. Unavailable since 1911, this publication includes details on the gold bearing ancient river channels of the...
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The Taste of Water: Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage Volume 15Have you ever wondered why your tap water tastes the way it does? The Taste of Water explores the increasing erasure of tastes from drinking water over the twentieth century. It asks how dramatic changes in municipal water treatment have altered consumers' awareness of...
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The Sentient Cell: The Cellular Foundations of ConsciousnessAll species, extant and extinct, from the simplest unicellular prokaryotes to humans, have an existential consciousness. Without sentience, the first cells that emerged some 4 billion years ago would have been evolutionary dead-ends, unable to survive in the chaotic, dangerous environment in which life...
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The Oldest Cure in the World: Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting"An illuminating exploration of the rich and varied history--and myriad health benefits--of fasting." --Wall Street Journal When should we eat, and when shouldn't we? The answers to these simple questions are not what you might expect. As Steve Hendricks shows in The Oldest Cure...
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The Northern Rockies: A Fire SurveyIt's a place of big skies and big fires, big burns like those of 1910 and 1988 that riveted national attention. Conflagrations like those of 1934 and 2007 that reformed national policy. Blowups like that in Mann Gulch that shaped the literature of American...
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The Integrative Functions of The Basal GangliaThe proposed volume is the first comprehensive and single-authored book on the functions of the basal ganglia. The goal is to provide a new synthesis of diverse areas of research on the basal ganglia, from cellular mechanisms of synaptic transmission and plasticity to neural...
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The Fantastic Book of Chemistry Jokes: For Everyone, Not Just ChemistsWelcome, welcome! With so many people slapping their neon The Fantastic Book of Chemistry Jokes, the author's edition has been released. No matter your understanding of chemistry, I am sure you'll get a reaction, because the jokes within are sodium funny. These jokes have...
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The Elements Magnet Set: With Complete Periodic Table!Display and play with the building blocks of life with The Elements Magnet Set!Based on the iconic images from Theodore Gray's bestselling book The Elements, this beautiful magnet set is the perfect way to add a little atomic flair at work and home. Spell...
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