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Cover of God's Planet
by Owen Gingerich
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014

Many scientists look at the universe and conclude we are here by chance. The astronomer and historian Owen Gingerich looks at the same evidence—and the fact that the universe is comprehensible to our minds—and sees it as proof for the intentions of a Creator-God. The more rigorous science becomes, the more clearly God’s handiwork can be understood.
Cover of Life through Time and Space
by Wallace Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017

All humans share three origins: the beginning of our individual lives, the appearance of life on Earth, and the formation of our planetary home. Wallace Arthur combines embryological, evolutionary, and cosmological perspectives to tell the story of life on Earth and its potential to exist elsewhere in the universe.
Cover of Yellowstone's Wildlife in Transition
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

The world's first national park is constantly changing. How we understand and respond to recent events putting species under stress will determine the future of ecosystems millions of years in the making. Marshaling expertise from over 30 contributors, Yellowstone's Wildlife in Transition examines three primary challenges to the park's ecology.
Cover of Sociobiology

Sociobiology

The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

by Edward O. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2000

When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. The controversy surrounding the book's publication--and surrounding its central claim that human social behavior has a biological foundation--reverberates...
Cover of Coyote Valley

Coyote Valley

Deep History in the High Rockies

by Thomas G. Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015

Thomas Andrews drills deep into the many pressures that have reshaped a small stretch of North America, from the ice age to the advent of the Anthropocene and controversies over climate change. He brings to the surface lessons about the critical relationships to land, climate, and species that only seemingly unimportant places on Earth can teach.
Cover of The Invaders

The Invaders

How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction

by Pat Shipman
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015

Humans domesticated dogs soon after Neanderthals began to disappear. This alliance between two predator species, Pat Shipman hypothesizes, made possible unprecedented success in hunting large Ice Age mammals—a distinct and ultimately decisive advantage for human invaders at a time when climate change made both humans and Neanderthals vulnerable.
Cover of Viruses
by Michael G. Cordingley
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017

While viruses—the world’s most abundant biological entities—are not technically alive, they invade, replicate, and evolve within living cells. Michael Cordingley goes beyond our familiarity with infections to show how viruses spur evolutionary change in their hosts and shape global ecosystems, from ocean photosynthesis to drug-resistant bacteria.
Cover of The Hidden Mechanics of Exercise
by Christopher M. Gillen
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014

The Hidden Mechanics of Exercise reveals the microworld of the body in motion, from motor proteins that produce force to enzymes that extract energy from food, and tackles questions athletes ask: What should we ingest before and during a race? How does a hard workout trigger changes in our muscles? Why does exercise make us feel good?
Cover of Measurement
by Paul Lockhart
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012

Lockhart’s Mathematician’s Lament outlined how we introduce math to students in the wrong way. Measurement explains how math should be done. With plain English and pictures, he makes complex ideas about shape and motion intuitive and graspable, and offers a solution to math phobia by introducing us to math as an artful way of thinking and living.
Cover of The Orange Trees of Marrakesh
by Stephen Frederic Dale
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015

The Arab Muslim Ibn Khaldun developed a method of evaluating historical evidence that allowed him to explain the underlying causes of events such as the cyclical rise and fall of North African dynasties. As Stephen Dale shows, this work was the first structural history and historical sociology, four centuries before the European Enlightenment.
Cover of Gamer Theory
by McKenzie Wark
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009

Ever get the feeling that life's a game with changing rules and no clear sides? Welcome to gamespace, the world in which we live. Where others argue obsessively over violence in games, Wark contends that digital computer games are our society's emergent cultural form, a utopian version of the world...
Cover of Genetic Explanations

Genetic Explanations

Sense and Nonsense

by Sheldon Krimsky, Jeremy Gruber
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013

No longer viewed by scientists as the cell’s fixed master molecule, DNA is a dynamic script that is ad-libbed at each stage of development. What our parents hand down to us is just the beginning. Genetic Explanations urges us to replace our faith in genetic determinism with scientific knowledge about genetic plasticity and epigenetic inheritance.
Cover of Democracy in Iran
by Misagh Parsa
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016

In Misagh Parsa’s view, the outlook for democracy in Iran is stark. Gradual reforms will not be sufficient for real change: the government must fundamentally rethink its commitment to the role of religion in politics and civic life. For Iran to democratize, the options are narrowing to a single path: another revolution.
Cover of When Police Kill
by Franklin E. Zimring
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017

Franklin Zimring compiles data from federal records, crowdsourced research, and investigative journalism to provide a comprehensive, fact-based picture of how, when, where, and why police use deadly force. He offers prescriptions for how federal, state, and local governments could reduce killings at minimum cost without risking officers’ lives.
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