New Science Books
New arrivals added to our Science Books Collection in the last 7 days
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| A planet of viruses |
"Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We're most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or Covid-19. But viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorderthat makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long that we are actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA from viruses than our own genes. Meanwhile, scientists are |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| A shape in the dark - living and dying with brown bears |
"A contemporary natural history of brown bears and our relationship with them, as conveyed through historical and personal encounters"-- |
Apr 8, 2021 |
| Ants - Workers of the World |
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Apr 8, 2021 |
| Ashkenazi herbalism - rediscovering the herbal traditions of eastern European Jews |
"A rediscovery of the forgotten legacy of the Jewish medicinal plant healers who thrived in eastern Europe's Pale of Settlement, from the Middle Ages through the modern era"-- |
Apr 12, 2021 |
| Asteroids |
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Apr 8, 2021 |
| Barron's Visual Learning- Physics - An Illustrated Guide for All Ages |
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Apr 1, 2021 |
| Chemistry for Breakfast - The Amazing Science of Everyday Life |
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Apr 8, 2021 |
| Deep-Sky Wonders - A Tour of the Universe With Sky & Telescope's Sue French |
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Apr 1, 2021 |
| Desert Chrome - Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West |
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Mar 25, 2021 |
| Diary of a young naturalist |
"From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it"-- |
Apr 5, 2021 |
| Drunk - How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization |
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Mar 25, 2021 |
| E. O. Wilson - Biophilia / The Diversity of Life / Naturalist |
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Mar 22, 2021 |
| Einstein's fridge - how the difference between hot and cold explains the universe |
"Einstein's Fridge tells the incredible epic story of the scientists who, over two centuries, harnessed the power of heat and ice and formulated a theory essential to comprehending our universe. Thermodynamics--the branch of physics that deals with energy and entropy--is the least known and yet most consequential of all the sciences. It governs everything from the behavior of living cells to the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Not only that, but thermodynamics explains why we must eat an |
Apr 8, 2021 |
| Flights of Passage - An Illustrated Natural History of Bird Migration |
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Mar 22, 2021 |
| Hawking Hawking - The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity |
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Mar 22, 2021 |
| Helgoland - making sense of the quantum revolution |
"One of the world's most renowned theoretical physicists, Carlo Rovelli has entranced millions of readers with his singular perspective on the cosmos. In Helgoland, Rovelli examines the enduring enigma of quantum theory. The quantum world Rovelli describes is as beautiful as it is unnerving. Helgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea where the 21-year-old Werner Heisenberg first developed quantum theory, setting off a century of scientific revolution. Full of alarming ideas (ghost waves, di |
Mar 22, 2021 |
| Hidden wonders - the subtle dialogue between physics and elegance |
Focusing on the objects that populate everyday life, the author looks at them with a physicist's eye, revealing a hidden elegance in mundane physical mechanisms. |
Apr 5, 2021 |
| How to garden the low carbon way - the steps you can take to help combat climate change |
Explains how some aspects of gardening can actually be bad for the environment, but by making a few changes, you can significantly reduce the carbon imprint of your outdoor space, and even use it to lessen the impact of your other activities. |
Mar 22, 2021 |
| Natural Satellites - The Book of Moons |
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Mar 22, 2021 |
| No Planet B - A Teen Vogue Guide to the Climate Crisis |
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Mar 25, 2021 |
