New Science Books
New arrivals added to our Science Books Collection in the last 7 days
| Title | Date added | |
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| Algebra 2 - the easy way |
"This new edition in Barron's Easy Way Series contains everything students need to prepare for an algebra class. Algebra 2: The Easy Way provides key content review and practice exercises to help students learn algebra the easy way. Topics covered in this detailed review of algebra include linear functions, absolute value functions, polynomial operations, quadratic functions, complex numbers, functions and relations, polynomial functions, radicals, rational functions, exponential functions, loga |
Sep 6, 2019 |
| Algebra the easy way |
Amazon.com. |
Sep 6, 2019 |
| Do dice play God? - the mathematics of uncertainty |
Bestselling author Professor Ian Stewart explores the history and mathematics of uncertainty. Touching on gambling, probability, statistics, financial and weather forecasts, censuses, medical studies, chaos, quantum physics, and climate, he makes one thing clear: a reasonable probability is the only certainty. |
Sep 6, 2019 |
| Elephant |
A lavishly illustrated celebration of these glorious animals--and a poignant lament for their future. Elephants are among the most beloved of all creatures. Their behavior can seem almost human, from their complex social interactions to their need to mourn their dead. They are also among the most persecuted of animals, subjected to untold cruelty at the hands of humans through the ages. In this stunningly illustrated book, Errol Fuller provides a rich and moving portrait of elephants, exploring |
Sep 17, 2019 |
| End times - a brief guide to the end of the world - asteroids, supervolcanoes, rogue robots, and more |
What is going to cause our extinction? How can we save ourselves and our future? End Times answers the most important questions facing humankind. End Times is a compelling work of skilled reportage that peels back the layers of complexity around the unthinkable--and inevitable--end of humankind. From asteroids and artificial intelligence to volcanic supereruption to nuclear war, 15-year veteran science reporter and TIME editor Bryan Walsh provides a stunning panoramic view of the most catastroph |
Sep 11, 2019 |
| Extinction - a very short introduction |
Most people are familiar with the dodo and the dinosaur, but extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, with the result that nearly all the species that have ever existed are now extinct. Today, species are disappearing at an ever increasing rate, whilst past losses have occurred during several great crises. Issues such as habitat destruction, conservation, climate change, and, during major crises, volacanism and meteorite impact, can all contribute towards the demise of a group. In |
Sep 17, 2019 |
| Geometry - the easy way |
"This new edition in Barron's Easy Way Series contains everything students need to prepare for a geometry class. Geometry: The Easy Way provides key content review and practice exercises to help students learn geometry the easy way. Topics covered in this detailed review of algebra include the "how" and "why" of geometry, with examples, exercises, and solutions throughout, plus hundreds of drawings, graphs, and tables. Practice questions in each chapter help students develop their skills and gau |
Sep 3, 2019 |
| How to - absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems |
"For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. [This book] is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole." -- From book jacket flap. |
Aug 28, 2019 |
| Human evolution - a very short introduction |
"This Very Short Introduction traces the history of paleoanthropology from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to the latest fossil finds. Although concentrating on the fossil evidence for human evolution, it also covers the latest genetic evidence about regional variations in the modern human genome that relate to our evolutionary history. Bernard Wood draws on over thirty years of experience to provide an insider's view of the field and some of the personalities in it, and demonstrates th |
Sep 17, 2019 |
| Imagined life - a speculative scientific journey among the exoplanets in search of intelligent aliens, ice creatures, and supergravity animals |
"It is now known that we live in a galaxy with more planets than stars. The Milky Way alone encompasses 30 trillion potential home planets. Scientists Trefil and Summers bring readers on a marvelous experimental voyage through the possibilities of life--unlike anything we have experienced so far--that could exist on planets outside our own solar system. Life could be out there in many forms: on frozen worlds, living in liquid oceans beneath ice and communicating (and even battling) with bubbles; |
Sep 16, 2019 |
| Lifespan - why we age--and why we don't have to |
"From an acclaimed Harvard professor and one of Time's most influential people, this paradigm-shifting book shows how almost everything we think we know about aging is wrong, offers a front-row seat to the amazing global effort to slow, stop, and reverse aging, and calls readers to consider a future where aging can be treated"-- |
Sep 9, 2019 |
| Meteorites - the story of our solar system |
"A fascinating and authoritative introduction to the science of meteorites, written by leading experts in the field. Meteorites are rocks from space that have fallen to the Earth's surface. Once considered bad omens, they are now recognized for giving us a unique insight into the nature of the material that was present when our solar system formed. In Meteorites, experts from the Natural History Museum in London, England, provide a compelling and up-to-date introduction to these otherworldly obj |
Sep 6, 2019 |
| Nature's giants - the biology and evolution of the world's largest lifeforms |
The colossal plants and animals of our world-dinosaurs, whales, and even trees-are a source of unending fascination, and their sheer scale can be truly impressive. Size is integral to the way that organisms experience the world: a puddle that a human being would step over without thinking is an entire world to thousands of microscopic rotifers. But why are creatures the size that they are? Why aren't bugs the size of elephants, or whales the size of goldfish? In this lavishly illustrated new boo |
Aug 23, 2019 |
| Orca - the whale called killer |
"This revised fifth edition includes Hoyt’s original account of his trips to the waters off Vancouver Island in the 1970s to help make a documentary about the killer whale, about which little was known then. Exciting new chapters bring readers up-to-date on the revolution in public awareness and killer whale research that has taken place since. Now a world-renowned expert on whales and dolphins, Hoyt shares orca wisdom gleaned from decades of additional field study in the Russian Far East |
Sep 17, 2019 |
| Proof! - how the world became geometrical |
Amazon.com. |
Sep 11, 2019 |
| Saving Jemima - life and love with a hard-luck jay |
The story of a sick baby bird nursed back to health and into the wild. |
Sep 11, 2019 |
| Something deeply hidden - quantum worlds and the emergence of spacetime |
"Caltech physicist and New York Times bestselling author Sean Carroll shows that there are multiple copies of you. And everyone else. Really. Something Deeply Hidden begins with the news that physics is in a crisis. Quantum mechanics underlies all of modern physics but major gaps in the theory have been ignored since 1927. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how contradictory, how impossible it is to understand. Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of qu |
Sep 9, 2019 |
| Superheavy - making and breaking the periodic table |
Amazon.com. |
Aug 23, 2019 |
| The art of statistics - how to learn from data |
Amazon.com. |
Aug 28, 2019 |
| The Jewel house - Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution |
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Sep 11, 2019 |