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Biomimicry
Innovation Inspired by Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature’s best ideas to solve our toughest 21st-century problems.
If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature – taking advantage...
Alaska
Saga of a Bold Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how the valuable resources should be used: Russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of "Gold!";...
"Live from Cape Canaveral"
Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
“From Sputnik to the International Space Station, Jay Barbree has seen it all, and reported it well. ‘Live from Cape Canaveral’ encapsulates the most technically exciting half century in history.” –Neil Armstrong
Some fifty years ago, while a cub reporter, Jay Barbree caught space...
Fire Season
Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
“Fire Season both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau—and I loved it.”
—J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar
“[Connors’s] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading.”
—Walter...
by David Laskin
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. Using the storm as a lens, Laskin captures the brutal, heartbreaking folly of this chapter in America’s history, and along the way...
The Weather of the Future
Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
From Heidi Cullen, one of America’s foremost experts on weather and climate change and a senior research scientist with Climate Central, comes The Weather of the Future, a fascinating and provocative book that predicts what different parts of the world will look like in the year 2050 if current levels of carbon emissions are maintained.
How Sex Works
Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
“Read this book and discover sex again, but from a scientific perspective, and see why it evolved. It’s almost as much fun, and needs less energy.”
— Peter Macinnis, author of 100 Discoveries: The Greatest Breakthroughs in History
"How Sex Works manages to inject science writing...
Infinite Reality
Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
“Enough with speculation about our digital future. Infinite Reality is the straight dope on what is and isn’t happening to us right now, from two of the only scientists working on the boundaries between real life and its virtual extensions.”
—Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed
How...
Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?
The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
How is the internet changing the way you think? That is one of the dominant questions of our time, one which affects almost every aspect of our life and future. And it's exactly what John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to more than 150 of the world's most influential minds. Brilliant, farsighted,...
Discover's 20 Things You Didn't Know About Everything
Duct Tape, Airport Security, Your Body, Sex in Space...and More!
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
How much do you know about . . .
Obesity
Sleep
Meteors
Aliens
Bees
Sperm banks
Sex in space
Duct tape
Germs
Airport security
Death
Ancient weapons
Rats
The Internet
Birth
Weather
Milk
Mosquitoes
Your body
Space disasters
DISCOVER'S 20 Things You Didn't Know About Everything is the first book...
Zamba
The True Story of the Greatest Lion That Ever Lived
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
When Ralph Helfer, now one of Hollywood's top animal behaviorists, first began working, he was shocked by the cruelty that was accepted practice in the field. He firmly believed in "affection training" -- that love, not fear, should be the basis of any animal's development, even when dealing...
Stolen Innocence
My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“Both creepy…and quite moving.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Wall’s story couldn’t be more timely.”
—People
Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose...
Messages
Signs, Visits, and Premonitions from Loved Ones Lost on 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
“Through moving stories, insights, and incredible spirit messages, she takes you on a journey of love, in which your soul will forever be transformed.”
—James Van Praagh, spiritual medium and author of Unfinished Business
As told by Bonnie McEneaney, the wife of a 9/11 victim, Messages...
Human
The Science Behind What Makes Your Brain Unique
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
What happened along the evolutionary trail that made humans so unique? In his accessible style, Michael Gazzaniga pinpoints the change that made us thinking, sentient humans different from our predecessors. He explores what makes human brains special, the importance of language and art in defining the human condition, the nature of human consciousness, and even artificial intelligence.