Scribner: 1672 books
by Chad Orzel
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
When physics professor Chad Orzel went to the pound to adopt a dog, he never imagined Emmy. She wasn’t just a friendly mutt who needed a home. Soon she was trying to use the strange ideas of quantum mechanics for the really important things in her life: chasing critters, getting treats, and going...
A Primate's Memoir
A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons.
“I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when...
Fatal Forecast
An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
A true story of catastrophe and survival at sea, Fatal Forecast is a spellbinding moment-by-moment account of seventy-two hours in the lives of eight young fishermen, some of whom would never set foot on dry land again.
On the morning of November 21, 1980, two small Massachusetts lobster boats...
The Song of the Dodo
Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a
brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope,
far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in
precarious times, which radically alters the way in
which we understand the natural world and our place
in that world. It's also a book full of entertainment
and...
On Looking
A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog, this “elegant and entertaining” (The Boston Globe) explanation of how humans perceive their environments “does more than open our eyes...opens our hearts and minds, too, gently awakening us to a world—in fact, many worlds—we’ve...
The Double Helix
A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The classic personal account of Watson and Crick’s groundbreaking discovery of the structure of DNA, now with an introduction by Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind.
By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry...
Bird Cloud
A Memoir of Place
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Part autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulx’s piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there.
“Bird Cloud” is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North...
The Ripple Effect
The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
AS ALEX PRUD’HOMME and his great-aunt Julia Child were completing their collaboration on her memoir, My Life in France, they began to talk about the French obsession with bottled water, which had finally spread to America. From this spark of interest, Prud’homme began what would become an ambitious...
Tasty
The Art and Science of What We Eat
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
“A fascinating blend of culinary history and the science of taste” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), from the first bite taken by our ancestors to ongoing scientific advances in taste and today’s “foodie” revolution.
Can’t resist the creamy smoothness of butter? Blame Darwinian...
The Finest Hours
The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
The true story of an incredible disaster and heroic rescue at sea told by two masterful storytellers.
In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor'easter in years. As the weather wreaked havoc on land, the freezing Atlantic became a wind-whipped zone of peril.
In...
Animals in Translation
Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
In this exciting new e edition, Temple Grandin returns to her groundbreaking work, Animals in Translation, to address the last ten years of developments in behavioral research, animal welfare, and farming regulations. Originally published in 2005, Animals in Translation received unanimous critical...
Grave Matters
A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2007
By the time Nate Fisher was laid to rest in a woodland grave sans coffin in the final season of Six Feet Under, Americans all across the country were starting to look outside the box when death came calling.
Grave Matters follows families who found in "green" burial a more natural, more economic,...
Overboard!
A True Blue-water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
From masterful storyteller Michael J. Tougias comes a new, heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, his most thrilling and amazing story yet.
In May 2005, Tom Tighe, captain of a forty-five-foot-long sailboat named the Almeisan, and his first mate, Loch Reidy, welcomed three new...
A Storm Too Soon
A True Story of Disaster, Survival and an Incredib
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
FROM MASTERFUL STORYTELLER MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS COMES A NEW, HEART-STOPPING TRUE-LIFE TALE OF MARITIME DISASTER, SURVIVAL, AND DARING RESCUE, HIS MOST THRILLING AND AMAZING STORY YET.
Seventy-foot waves batter a torn life raft 250 miles out to sea in one of the world’s most dangerous places,...