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Packing for Mars - The Curious Science of Life in the VoidClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Roach's latest book explores the strange world of space travel and life without gravity. An up-close look at space programs, space simulations, and the humans involved in them, this book is informativ...
author: Mary Roach |
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Painters of the CavesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Describes the 1994 discovery made in Chauvet, France, of a cave with Stone Age rock paintings. Discusses the significance of cave art to people living in prehistoric as well as modern times. Many co...
author: Patricia Lauber |
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in SpaceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The sequel to Cosmos. Traces the history of space exploration, suggests what the future might bring and that human survival may depend on the continued exploration of space. Stunning color photographs...
author: Carl Sagan |
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Parasites: Latching on to a Free LunchClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Explores the world of parasites and their side affects on their hosts. Includes fungi, plants, single-celled parasites, worms, arthropods and vertebrate parasites. Discusses the evolution and control ...
author: Paul Fleisher |
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Peacemaking Among PrimatesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An examination of how four simian species cope with aggression and how they make peace after fights. De Waal's thesis that forgiveness and peacemaking are widespread among non-human primates offers t...
author: Frans De Waal |
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Peanut Butter, Milk, and Other Deadly Threats: What You Should Know About Food AllergiesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Describes food allergies, the body's response, food allergy testing, how to live with food allergies, and current research. Includes bibliographical references and index, a glossary, suggested reading...
author: Sherri Mabry Gordon |
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Periodic TableClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An unusual story that interweaves the life experience of Italian chemist Primo Levy with twenty-one elements of the periodic table.
author: Primo Levi |
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Peterson First Guide to SeashoresClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Field guide to 317 common animals and plants of North American seashores. Color illustrations.
author: John C. Kricher |
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Phineas Gage - A Gruesome but True Story About Brain ScienceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
In 1848, railroad construction foreman Phineas Gage survives an incredible accident: a 13 lb. iron rod is shot through his brain and he lives to tell the tale, plus another eleven years. This biogra...
author: John Fleischman |
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Physics - Why Matter Matters!Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A hip, inviting reference book containing the basics from the world of physics. Each concept -friction, amplitude, inertia, mass, and much more - is given a page-long explanation and an illustrated ch...
author: Dan Green |
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Planet Earth (DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A highly acclaimed natural history series, Planet Earth from BBC/Discovery Channel (a 5 DVD set) is a celebration of the planet and examines habitats, animals and animal behaviors on planet Earth. T...
author: Discovery Channel |
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PlanetsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
In a series of short essay-style chapters, Sobel intertwines her long-standing interest (from the age of eight) and love of the planets with science, geology, mineralogy, history, mythology, astrology...
author: Dava Sobel |
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Plants on the Trail with Lewis and ClarkClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Describes the journey of Lewis and Clark through the western United States, focusing on the plants they cataloged, their uses for food and medicine, and the plant lore of Native American people. Colo...
author: Dorothy Hinshaw Patent |
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Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. FeynmanClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A collection of essays: The pleasure of finding things out -- Computing machines in the future -- Los Alamos from below -- What is and what should be the role of scientific culture in modern society -...
author: Richard P. Feynman with forward by Freeman Dyson |
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Plows, Plagues & PetroleumClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Provides an historical account of the human impact on climate change since the dawn of agriculture, some 8,000 years ago, and a look into the future.
author: William F. Ruddiman |
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Pond and Brook: A Guide to Nature in Freshwater EnvironmentsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
More than just a list of freshwater plants and animals, this book takes a holistic ecological view of both living and non-living components of freshwater environments. The unique properties of water a...
author: Michael J. Caduto |
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Pond, Lake, River, SeaClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Written field journal style, a compilation of color drawings and facts about aquatic organisms. Includes: plankton, mollusks, echinoderms, crustaceans, freshwater & saltwater plants and animals,
author: Maryjo Koch |
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Powers of Ten - The Relative Size of Things in the UniverseClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A visual journey from the farthest dimensions of the universe to the interior of a single atom, this book contains 42 photos, each a power of ten closer than the one before it (meters in10 to the 25th...
author: Philip Morrison, Phylis Morrison, C. & R. Eames |
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Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in MathematicsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The author introduces a deck of cards and procedes to explain the story behind one of the best-known, unsolved mathematical mysteries of the last 150 years, one that has kept mathematicians puzzled si...
author: John Derbyshire |
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Privilege of Being a PhysicistClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A collection of essays by the elder statesman of physics, Victor Weisskopf. Includes his thoughts on teaching science, art and science, science and society, science and culture, the frontiers and limi...
author: Victor F. Weisskopf |
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