Science & Math

the Neurocognition Of Language Is The First Critical Overview Of The Cognitive Neuroscience Of Language, One Of The Fastest-moving And Most Exciting Areas ...

The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault's widely acclaimed examination of "the experience of sexuality in Western s...

Susan Orlean. Includes Reader's Companion With Author Interview And Topics For Reading Group Discussion. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [283]-284)....

A journalist reflects on the recent past and offers a wide-ranging perspective on the startling changes now reshaping the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, a...

The Transition To Clean Energy Is Moving Far Too Slowly. Trapped By A Century Of Fossil Fuel Investments And Politicians That Struggle To Plan Beyond The Ne...

Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Patricia K. Kuhl. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [227]-264) And Index.Categories: Medical Books PsychologyChild ...

An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's path...

The son of a musician, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) tried at first to enter a monastery before engaging the skills that made him the foremost scientist of hi...

Horses of all breeds, colors, shapes, and sizes are perennially fascinating to equine enthusiasts of all ages. Collected in a perfect little pocket guide ...

"Farrand states the rationale for his procedure succinctly, leaving most of the pages' space for photos that are sharp and truly enough colored to be fully ...

Reveals A Systematic Approach By A Behavioral Analyst And A Child Psychiatrist For Understanding Causes And Patterns Of Difficult Student Behaviors And Matc...

The Verbal Behavior (VB) approach is a form of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), that is based on B.F. Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior, and works part...

The Founder And Director Of The Thirty Million Words Initiative, Professor Dana Suskind, Explains Why The Most Important--and Astoundingly Simple--thing You...

An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanaly...

In this new approach to helping a person (and family) with cancer, renowned medical oncologist Dr. Robert Buckman takes a step-by-step look at coping with a...

The industrial age of energy and transportation will be over by 2030. Maybe before. Exponentially improving technologies such as solar, electric vehicles, a...

Based upon the bestselling Third Edition, this new edition of Physical Geography introduces O.W. Archibold (University of Saskatchewan) as co-author, and fe...

Foundations of Exercise Science (2nd Ed) is a textbook designed for senior high school and introductory college and university programs in exercise science,...

On a bleak winter night in 1997, a British Columbia timber scout named Grant Hadwin committed an act of shocking violence: he destroyed the legendary Golden...

Environmental Change and Challenge: A Canadian Perspective , Third Edition, is an introduction to the rich, fascinating, and extremely topical field of en...

Environmental Change and Challenge: A Canadian Perspective, Updated Second Edition with DVD helps students understand the ongoing change, complexity, and co...

The information age is drowning us in an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we’re expected to make more—and faster—decisions about our l...

Traces The Life Of The American Researcher Who Studied And Fought For The Survival Of The African Mountain Gorilla. Farley Mowat. Ill., Map On Lining Papers...

As a young speechwriter in the Reagan White House, Peter Robinson was responsible for the celebrated "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech. He was a...

Asking And Listening Is The First Book To Trace The Changing Ways In Which Human Beings Have Learned To Look At The Others Beyond The Gate With Their Strang...

Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta b...

Top 25 Books of 2011 by the American Library Association, Choice Reviews Named one of the 11 Best Psychology Books of 2011 by The Atlantic "A balanced and ...

For Four Years, The Author Interviewed Extremist Members Of Three Religions Around The World: Christians, Jews, And Muslims. Traveling Extensively To Refuge...

The majority of the world's population is religious or believes in supernatural phenomena. In the United States, nine out of every ten adults believe in Go...

National Book Critics Circle Award—2017 Nonfiction Finalist “nothing Less Than A Tour De Force—a Heady Amalgam Of Science, History, A Little Bit Of An...

Common Sense And Scientific Intuition -- The Intuition Of Atoms -- Scientific Methods -- Faith In An Ordered Universe -- Speaking Realistically About Scienc...

Soul Made Flesh Is The Remarkable Untold Story Of A Dramatic Turning Point In History, The Exciting Discovery Of How The Human Brain Works. In An Unpreceden...

Challenging The Idea That Biological Evolution Is Aimless, The Author Explores His Theory That Greater Social Complexity Is In The Cards For Humanity As The...

An Eye-opening And Engrossing Look At Rare Moments, Why They Occur, And How They Shape Our World In The Improbability Principle, The Renowned Statistician ...

An acclaimed theorist offers a provocative and chilling warning: today’s advanced societies have grown overcomplex and highly vulnerable to extreme event...

An Award-winning Theoretical Physicist And Best-selling Author Of A Universe From Nothing Traces The Dramatic Discovery Of The Counterintuitive World Of Rea...

Winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and She...

From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to The Year Without Summer, Bill Streever journeys through history...

This Book Tells The Story Of The Many Brilliant, Often Eccentric Scientists Who Fought Against The Establishment Idea Of An Eternal And Unchanging Cosmos. F...

Astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson Presents His Views On The Future Of Space Travel And America's Role In That Future, Giving His Readers An Eye-opening Man...

The Human Genome, The Complete Set Of Genes Housed In Twenty-three Pairs Of Chromosomes, Is Nothing Less Than An Autobiography Of Our Species. Spelled Out I...

Presents The Many Threads Of Modern Work In Genetics, Paleontology, Geology, Molecular Biology, And Anatomy That Demonstrate The Indelible Stamp Of The Evol...

The bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland returns with a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex math into a brilliantly enterta...

"All humans see the world in two fundamentally different ways: even babies have a rich understanding of both the physical and social worlds. They expect o...

A Portrait Of Albert Einstein Shares Critical Insights Into Both The Genius And Hubris Of Modern Physics, Linking Einstein's Popular Downfall Through The Fi...

Using Data From Very Recent Scientific Discoveries, The Author Reveals The Six Numbers Upon Which All Physical Reality Rests, From Atomic Structure To Human...

As New Groundbreaking Research Suggests That Climate Change Played A Major Role In The Most Extreme Catastrophes In The Planet's History, Award-winning Scie...

For Fifteen Years, Bestselling Author Michael Shermer Has Written A Column In Scientific American Magazine That Synthesizes Scientific Concepts And Theory F...