Handmade: A Scientist's Search for Meaning through Making by Anna Ploszajski
Category: Science
From atomic structures to theories about magnetic forces, scientific progress has given us a good grasp on the properties of many different materials. However, most scientists cannot measure the temperature of steel just by looking at it, or sculpt stone into all kinds of shapes, or know how it feels to ...Show more
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
Category: Science
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster by New York Times-bestselling author Adam Higginbotham, based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting - a riveting history that reads like a thriller From the New York Times-bestselling aut ...Show more
Conscious Evolution - Revised by Barbara Marx Hubbard; Neale Donald Walsch (Foreword by); Terry Patten (Foreword by)
Category: Science
A Seminal Work of Visionary Hope, Updated for the 21st Century In this era of government gridlock, economic and ecological devastation, and seemingly intractable global violence, our future is ever more ripe for -- and in need of -- fresh, creative reimagining. With her clear-eyed, inspiring, and sweep ...Show more
The Trouble with Gravity - Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet (HB) by Richard Panek
Category: Science
"A thoughtful meditation on the mythic, cultural, philosophical, and, yes, scientific implications of what happens when a wet potato or a crystal vase slips from your hand." (Billy Collins) A mind-bending exploration of gravity, the universe's greatest mystery. What is gravity? Nobody knows - and just a ...Show more
Life in Cold Blood by David Attenborough
Category: Science
Life in Cold Blood offers a rare glimpse into the peculiar world of amphibians and reptiles, the first vertebrate creatures to venture forth from the primeval waters millions of years ago, yet which today include species that are the most at risk of extinction. Join acclaimed naturalist Sir David Attenb ...Show more
The Pursuit of Possibility - Redesigning Research Universities by Nigel Thrift
Category: Science
Are British research universities losing their way or are they finding a new way? Nigel Thrift, a well-known academic and a former Vice-Chancellor, explores recent changes in the British research university that threaten to erode the quality of these higher education institutions. He considers what a re ...Show more
Second Opinion - An Introduction to Health Sociology by John Germov
Category: Science
Second Opinion 4e is the leading health sociology textbook for Australian students.Accompanied by a comprehensive online resource centre, this strong teaching text introduces students to the theories, concepts and contexts that are needed to understand the issues confronting health sociology. Over a dec ...Show more
What Do You Care What Other People Think? - Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman; Ralph Leighton (Editor)
Category: Science
Like the "funny, brilliant, bawdy" (The New Yorker) "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman " this book's many stories--some funny, others intensely moving--display Richard P. Feynman's unquenchable thirst for adventure and unparalleled ability to recount important moments from his life.Here we meet Feynman' ...Show more
Slanted Truths - Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis and Evolution by Lynn Margulis; P. Morrison (Foreword by); Dorion Sagan
Category: Science
This enticing collection is as devoted to the profound power of figures of speech as any oration of old Hellas. Metaphor reigns as we encounter the identification of our Earth as a Single, integrative organism, a tale told in image and passion. The discoveries and conjectures upon which this grand view ...Show more
At the Edge of Time: Exploring the My... by Dan Hooper
Category: Science | Series: Science Essentials Ser.
A new look at the first few seconds after the Big Bang--and how research into these moments continues to revolutionize our understanding of our universe Scientists in the past few decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. But there remains a cr ...Show more
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman (Contribution by)
Category: Science
Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that "can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist" (Detroit Free Press), Feynman recounts his experiences trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and cracking the uncrackable safe ...Show more
Earth Turning Consciousness: An Exercise in Planetary Awareness by Greg Quicke
Category: Science
We all know that the earth turns and we all know that the earth goes around the sun. Earth Turning Consciousness brings the reality of these movements all the way down to your feet. Greg Quicke demonstrates these movements in such a clear way that you begin to know them in every fiber of your being. Ami ...Show more