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Girl Decoded
A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology
by Rana El Kaliouby, Carol Colman
Pub Date 21 Apr 2020
Rana el Kaliouby is a rarity in both the tech world and her native Middle East: a Muslim woman in charge in a field that is still...

Girl Decoded
Rana El Kaliouby, Carol Colman
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Pub Date 17 Mar 2020
In the early seventeenth century Galileo broke free from the hold of ancient Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy. He drastically changed the framework through which we view the natural world when he...

The Dream Universe
David Lindley
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The Story of More
How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
by Hope Jahren
Pub Date 03 Mar 2020
“A superb account of the deadly struggle between humanity and what may prove the only life-bearing planet within ten light years, written in a brilliantly sardonic and conversational style.” —E. O. Wilson
Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a brilliant writer, a passionate teacher...

The Story of More
Hope Jahren
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We Know It When We See It
What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us About How We Think
by Richard Masland
Pub Date 10 Mar 2020
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.3px Times} A Harvard researcher investigates the human eye in this insightful account of what vision reveals about intelligence, learning, and the greatest mysteries of neuroscience.
Spotting a face in a crowd is so easy, you take it for granted. But how you do it is one of science's great mysteries. And...

We Know It When We See It
Richard Masland
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Dangerous Earth
What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More
by Ellen Prager
Pub Date 03 Mar 2020
The Earth is a beautiful and wondrous planet, but also frustratingly complex and, at times, violent: much of what has made it livable can also cause catastrophe. Volcanic eruptions create land and produce fertile, nutrient-rich soil, but they can also bury forests, fields, and entire towns under ash, mud, lava, and debris. The very forces that create and...

Dangerous Earth
Ellen Prager
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The Angel and the Assassin
The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine
by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Pub Date 21 Jan 2020
“The rarest of books: a combination of page-turning discovery and remarkably readable science journalism.”—Mark Hyman, MD, #1 New York Times bestselling...

The Angel and the Assassin
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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Pub Date 07 Apr 2020
In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions—clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips—and reveals how they shaped the human experience. Ramirez tells the stories of the woman who sold time, the inventor who inspired...

The Alchemy of Us
Ainissa Ramirez
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Pub Date 03 Mar 2020
You swab your cheek or spit into a vial, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or the report could reveal a long-buried family...

The Lost Family
Libby Copeland
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Little Cloud
The Science of a Hurricane
by Johanna Wagstaffe, ills. Julie McLaughlin
Pub Date 18 Feb 2020
Follow our little cloud on an adventure through the sky and learn the science behind how it transforms from a simple cumulus cloud to a full-blown hurricane. Beautifully detailed illustrations from award-winning artist Julie McLaughlin integrate science with storytelling. Children will enjoy finding new gems of information even after several reads, thanks...

Little Cloud
Johanna Wagstaffe, ills. Julie McLaughlin
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The Gaming Mind
A New Psychology of Videogames and the Power of Play
by Alexander Kriss
Pub Date 31 Mar 2020
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A therapist reveals the role of videogames in the lives of his patients, writing in the tradition of Oliver Sacks
...

The Gaming Mind
Alexander Kriss
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Pub Date 03 Mar 2020
"Can you hear me? Scritch, scratch. I'm a little sea turtle inside an egg."
Follow a hatchling's treacherous journey from nest to sea. Longtime science writer Stephen Swinburne creates an engaging first-person narrative from the sea turtle's perspective. Gorgeous photographs by Guillaume Feuillet capture the drama of the hatchlings' race to safety. Back...

Run, Sea Turtle, Run
Stephen R. Swinburne
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Pub Date 14 Apr 2020
Creatures sprint, slither, and soar in this STEM-driven dive into the extraordinary, everyday ways animals move!
A squid jets through the ocean like a rocket. A cheetah races after a zig-zagging gazelle. A fishing spider walks on water with its eight hairy legs. All animals must move. Whether on the hunt for something to eat, on the run from being eaten...

Running Wild
Galadriel Watson
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Pub Date 15 Mar 2020
The environment is an essential but sometimes tough and weighty concept to grasp. This engaging nonfiction book takes readers back to the basics, offering an accessible overview of what makes up our environment, how those parts work, and why they matter. Divided into five sections—water, air, soil, energy, and climate—the book uses facts, figures, and...

Our Environment
Jacques Pasquet
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Pub Date 14 Apr 2020
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A stunning work of experiential reportage illuminating what fear does to us and how it’s key to both staying and...

Nerve
Eva Holland
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The Craft of Science Writing
Selections from The Open Notebook
by Siri Carpenter (Editor)
Pub Date 01 Feb 2020
Science journalism has perhaps never been so critical to our world—and the demands on science journalists have never been greater. On any given day, a science journalist might need to explain the details of genetic engineering, analyze a development in climate change research, or serve as a watchdog helping to ensure the integrity of the scientific...

The Craft of Science Writing
Siri Carpenter (Editor)
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Pub Date 15 Jul 2019
Solar energy is any energy from the Sun’s rays. Solar panels can absorb these rays to generate electricity or focus heat. Solar panels can power cell phones, cars, and even cities. As solar panels become cheaper and more efficient, solar power will play a part in powering the world. Includes glossary, websites, and bibliography for further reading.

Solar Energy
Meg Marquardt
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Pub Date 15 Jul 2019
Reusable rockets are rockets that can be launched, recovered, and launched again. Reusable rockets are already in use, and they have been used to supply the International Space Station. Reusing rockets will help bring costs down and open access to space for many more people. Includes glossary, websites, and bibliography for further reading.

Reusable Rockets
Angie Smibert
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Electric Brain
How the New Science of Brainwaves Reads Minds, Tells Us How We Learn, and Helps Us Change for the Better
by R. Douglas Fields,
Pub Date 04 Feb 2020
What is as unique as your fingerprints and more revealing than your diary? Hint: Your body is emitting them right now and has been every single day of your life.
Brainwaves.
Analyzing brainwaves, the imperceptible waves of electricity surging across your scalp, has been possible for nearly a century. But only now are neuroscientists becoming aware of...

Electric Brain
R. Douglas Fields,
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Pub Date 01 Jun 2020
THE SCIENCE OF DEFYING GRAVITY is a middle-grade STEM based fiction. 11 yr old Cassie films her life. She loves movies and dreams of becoming a movie director in space. When her plans to go to Space Camp are derailed by the closing of the plant her dad works for she must win a science fair to earn a scholarship to attend. Spunk, a caring teacher, an...

The Science of Defying Gravity
L. G. Reed
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Plague of Corruption
Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science
by Kent Heckenlively; Judy Mikovits
Pub Date 03 Mar 2020
Dr. Judy Mikovits is a modern-day Rosalind Franklin, a brilliant researcher shaking up the old boys’ club of science with her groundbreaking discoveries. And like many women who have trespassed into the world of men...

Plague of Corruption
Kent Heckenlively; Judy Mikovits
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Reflections on a Surprising Universe
Extraordinary Discoveries Through Ordinary Eyes
by Richard Conrad Dieter
Pub Date 29 Nov 2019
A timely overview of many recent, important scientific discoveries, providing insights into humanity's place in the universe.
Reflections on a Surprising Universe takes the reader beyond the headlines of the latest scientific breakthroughs, translating complicated topics into an understandable narrative. It covers a wide array of scientific developments in...

Reflections on a Surprising Universe
Richard Conrad Dieter
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The Art of the Lie
How the Manipulation of Language Affects Our Minds
by Marcel Danesi
Pub Date 06 Jan 2020
From Machiavelli to P. T. Barnum to Donald Trump, many have perfected the art of strategically using language to gain the upper hand, set a tone, change the subject, or influence people's beliefs and behaviors. Language--both words themselves and rhetorical tactics such as...

The Art of the Lie
Marcel Danesi
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Breathe, Baby, Breathe!
Neonatal Intensive Care, Prematurity, and Complicated Pregnancies
by Annie Janvier
Pub Date 21 Jan 2020
Every year in the United States, 12% of all births are preterm births, 5% of all babies need help to breathe at birth, and 3% of neonates are born with at least one severe malformation. Many of these babies are hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit. Annie Janvier and her husband, Keith Barrington, are both pediatricians who specialize in the care...

Breathe, Baby, Breathe!
Annie Janvier
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The Cosmic Revolutionary's Handbook
(Or: How to Beat the Big Bang)
by Luke A. Barnes, Geraint F. Lewis
Pub Date 03 Feb 2020
Free yourself from cosmological tyranny!
Everything started in a big bang? Invisible dark matter? Black holes? Why accept such a weird cosmos?
For all those who wonder about this bizarre universe, and those who want to overthrow the big bang, this handbook gives you 'just the facts': the observations that have shaped these ideas and theories.
While the big...

The Cosmic Revolutionary's Handbook
Luke A. Barnes, Geraint F. Lewis
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The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success
Overcoming Myths That Hinder Progress
by Mark Jaccard
Pub Date 03 Feb 2020
Sometimes solving climate change seems impossibly complex, and it is hard to know what changes we all can and should make to help.
This book offers hope. Drawing on the latest research, Mark Jaccard shows us how to recognize the absolutely essential actions (decarbonizing electricity and transport) and policies (regulations that phase out coal plants and...

The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success
Mark Jaccard
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Pub Date 07 Apr 2020
Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children...

Hidden Valley Road
Robert Kolker
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The Remarkable Life of the Skin
An Intimate Journey Across Our Largest Organ
by Monty Lyman
Pub Date 12 Jun 2020
Providing a cover for our delicate and intricate bodies, the skin is our largest and fastest-growing organ. We see it, touch it, and live in it every day. It is a habitat for a mesmerizingly complex world of micro-organisms and physical functions that are vital to our health and our survival. It is also a waste removal plant, a warning system for underlying...

The Remarkable Life of the Skin
Monty Lyman
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Something Deeply Hidden
Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
by Sean Carroll
Pub Date 10 Sep 2019
One of Publishers Weekly’s “Most Anticipated Books of the Fall”
As you read these words, copies of you are being created.
Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th century physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden...

Something Deeply Hidden
Sean Carroll
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Where Our Food Comes From
Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine
by Gary Nabhan
Pub Date 06 Oct 2008
The future of food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. In the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country's famines, Vavilov had traveled across five continents, collecting hundreds of...

Where Our Food Comes From
Gary Nabhan
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Pub Date 14 Sep 2009
"If you care about science-or a scientist- this will be the most important book you'll ever read," says Randy Olson of his Don't Be Such a Scientist. He's only half joking.
In the United States we have a clear communication gap between the world of science and the general public. For starters, the vast majority of scientists say evolution is a...

Don't Be Such a Scientist
Randy Olson
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Pub Date 22 May 2009
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Conventional management approaches cannot meet the challenges faced by ocean and coastal ecosystems today. Consequently, national and international bodies have called for a shift toward more comprehensive ecosystem-based marine management. Synthesizing a vast amount of current knowledge, Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans is a...

Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans
Edited by Karen McLeod and Heather Leslie
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Straight Up
America's Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions
by Joseph J. Romm
Pub Date 22 Apr 2010
“The Web’s most influential climate-change blogger” and “Hero of the Environment 2009” --Time Magazine
“I trust Joe Romm on climate.” -- Paul Krugman, New York Times
“America’s fiercest climate-change activist-blogger” and one of “The 100 People Who Are Changing America” -- Rolling Stone
“One of the most influential energy and environmental policy...

Straight Up
Joseph J. Romm
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Beyond Naturalness
Rethinking Park and Wilderness Stewardship in an Era of Rapid Change
by David N. Cole, Laurie Yung
Pub Date 30 Mar 2010
The central concept guiding the management of parks and wilderness has been "naturalness" - to a large extent the explicit purpose in establishing these special areas was to keep them in their "natural" state. But what does that mean, particularly as the effects of stressors such as habitat fragmentation, altered disturbance regimes, invasive species, and...

Beyond Naturalness
David N. Cole, Laurie Yung
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Pub Date 19 Aug 2010
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Most scientists and researchers aren’t prepared to talk to the press or to policymakers—or deal with backlash. Many have the horror stories to prove it. What’s clear, according to Nancy Baron, is that scientists, journalists and public policymakers come from different cultures. They follow different sets of rules, pursue different...

Escape from the Ivory Tower
Nancy Baron
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For more than three decades, David Orr has been one of the leading voices of the environmental movement, championing the cause of ecological literacy in higher education, helping to establish and shape the field of ecological design, and working tirelessly to raise awareness of the threats to future generations posed by humanity's current unsustainable...

Hope Is an Imperative
David W. Orr
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Repeat Photography
Methods and Applications in the Natural Sciences
by Robert H. Webb, Diane E. Boyer, and Raymond M. Turner
Pub Date 15 Nov 2010
First developed in the 1880s as a way to monitor glaciers in Europe, repeat photography -the practice of taking photographs at different points in times from the same physical vantage point-remains an essential and cost-effective technique for scientists and researchers working to track and study landscape change.
This volume explores the technical...

Repeat Photography
Robert H. Webb, Diane E. Boyer, and Raymond M. Turner
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Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests
Ecology and Conservation
by Edited by Rodolfo Dirzo, Hillary S. Young, Harold A. Mooney, and Gerardo Ceballos
Pub Date 06 Dec 2010
Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests brings together a range of experts in diverse fields including biology, ecology, biogeography, and biogeochemistry, to review, synthesize, and explain the current state of our collective knowledge on the ecology and conservation of this endangered ecosystem.
The book offers a synthetic and cross-disciplinary review of...

Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests
Edited by Rodolfo Dirzo, Hillary S. Young, Harold A. Mooney, and Gerardo Ceballos
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Pub Date 20 Jul 2011
Robert J.
Cabin uses the restoration of tropical dry forestland in Hawaii as an
in-depth case study to investigate the scientific, practical, and
philosophical issues associated with performing ecological restoration
in the messy real world.
Interweaving entertaining narratives of his own on-the-ground experiences as a practicing restorationist with...

Intelligent Tinkering
Robert J. Cabin
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Introduction to Restoration Ecology
by Evelyn A. Howell, John A. Harrington, and Stephen B. Glass
Pub Date 06 Sep 2011
Restoration ecology is a young field that integrates theory and knowledge from a range of disciplines, including the biological, physical, and social sciences as well as the humanities. This new textbook, written for upper-division undergraduates and first-year graduate students, offers a real-life introduction to the field and an interdisciplinary...

Introduction to Restoration Ecology
Evelyn A. Howell, John A. Harrington, and Stephen B. Glass
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Pub Date 15 Nov 2011
It's a tough time to be a scientist: universities are shuttering science departments, federal funding agencies are facing flat budgets, and many newspapers have dropped their science sections altogether. But according to Marc Kuchner, this antiscience climate doesn't have to equal a career death knell-it just means scientists have to be savvier about...

Marketing for Scientists
Marc J. Kuchner
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Pub Date 28 Mar 2012
Just as
people schedule regular check-ups with physicians, our planet needs
regular check-ups to catch issues as early as possible, before they
become more serious and harder to heal. That is the much-needed service
provided on a global scale by the Worldwatch Institute in this new book,
Vital Signs 2012.
By taking stock of global consumption, Vital...

Vital Signs 2012
The Worldwatch Institute
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Resilience Practice
Building Capacity to Absorb Disturbance and Maintain Function
by Brian Walker and David Salt
Pub Date 06 Aug 2012
In 2006, Resilience Thinking
addressed an essential question: As the natural systems that sustain us
are subjected to shock after shock, how much can they take and still
deliver the services we need from them? This idea caught the attention
of both the scientific community and the general public.
In Resilience Practice, authors Brian Walker and David...

Resilience Practice
Brian Walker and David Salt
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Climate and Conservation
Landscape and Seascape Science, Planning, and Action
by Edited by Jodi A. Hilty, Charles C. Chester, and Molly S. Cross
Pub Date 29 May 2012
Climate and Conservation presents case studies from around the world of leading-edge projects focused on climate change adaptation-regional-scale endeavors where scientists, managers, and practitioners are working to protect biodiversity by protecting landscapes and seascapes in response to threats posed by climate change.
The book begins with...
