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Storey Publishing, LLC, October 2023. Trade Paperback. This on-the-go guide is perfect for new foragers eager to learn about the edible plants they're most likely to find, no matter what region they're in, and provides photos and easy-to-follow identification and use guidelines for the 40 most common--and most delicious--wild plants.How.....
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Atria Books, March 2017. Trade Paperback. "If you love mysteries, you'll love this book. Genevieve von Petzinger acts as guide and sleuth in this fascinating, accessible, and fast-paced exploration of Ice Age artists and the evocative cave paintings they left behind" (Virginia Morell, author of Animal Wise and Ancestral Passions).....
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Picador, October 2021. Trade Paperback. "Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind's essential link to the animal world." --The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "A great book . . . [Godfrey-Smith is] brilliant at describing just.....
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2012. Trade Paperback. When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced.....
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Penguin Books, April 2017. Trade Paperback. "Lovely, celebratory. For all the belittling of 'bird brains, ' [Ackerman] shows them to be uniquely impressive machines . . ." --New York Times Book Review "A lyrical testimony to the wonders of avian intelligence." --Scientific American An award-winning science writer tours the globe.....
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Penguin Publishing Group, June 2019. Trade Paperback. The intellectual adventure story of the "double-slit" experiment, showing how a sunbeam split into two paths first challenged our understanding of light and then the nature of reality itself--and continues to almost two hundred years later. Many of science's greatest minds have grappled.....
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Scribner, October 2016. Trade Paperback. In this New York Times bestseller, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers--"fans of geography, history, and politics (and maps) will be enthralled" (Fort Worth Star-Telegram). Maps have a mysterious hold over us. Whether.....
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Bulfinch, September 2001. Hardcover. The author's sparkling follow-up to One Hundred Flowers features one hundred spectacular full-color photographs of foliage from around the globe. 15,000 first printing.
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Harper Perennial, August 2005. Trade Paperback. What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water, and everything else motorized or "hooked to.....
Basic Books, Inc. Hardcover.
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Random House, June 2019. Hardcover. A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change "Jon Gertner takes readers to spots few journalists or even explorers have visited. The result is a gripping and important.....
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Mariner Books, February 2020. Trade Paperback. Sometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, and always fascinating: the New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters offers an "entertaining discussion of the various ways our lives are enriched by fluids" (The Wall Street Journal). We know that we need water to survive.....
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University of Chicago Press, April 2017. Hardcover. From the merlin to the golden eagle, the goshawk to the honey buzzard, James Macdonald Lockhart's stunning debut is a quest of beak, talon, wing, and sky. On its surface, Raptor is a journey across the British Isles in search of fifteen species.....
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University of Cincinnati Press, February 2021. Trade Paperback. The Garifuna are a Central American, Afro-Indigenous people descended from shipwrecked West Africans and local Indigenous groups on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent. For over two centuries, the Garifuna have experienced oppression, exile, and continued diaspora that has stretched their communities.....
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Broadway Books, May 2003. Hardcover. One of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey--into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson.....
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Beacon Press, March 2007. Trade Paperback. In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our most complete.....
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Princeton University Press, October 2019. Hardcover. "This little book is big fun."--Michael Pollan An illustrated mini-encyclopedia of fungal lore, from John Cage and Terence McKenna to mushroom sex and fairy rings Fungipedia presents a delightful A-Z treasury of mushroom lore. With more than 180 entries--on topics as varied as Alice.....
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Mariner Books, December 2000. Trade Paperback. When dinosaur fossils were first discovered in the Wild West, they sparked one of the greatest scientific battles in American history. Over the past century it has been known by many names -- the Bone War, the Fossil Feud -- but the tragic story.....
BBC Books, August 1998. Trade Paperback.
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Jeremy P Tarcher, May 2004. Trade Paperback. Napoleon's Buttons is the fascinating account of seventeen groups of molecules that have greatly influenced the course of history. These molecules provided the impetus for early exploration, and made possible the voyages of discovery that ensued. The molecules resulted in grand feats of.....
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Adventure Publications, December 2023. Unknown. Forage all across the country with this informative guide to 274 edible plants, presented by expert Green Deane. Eating wild edibles is in our genes, and it can be healthy fun! It's seasonal, sufficient, varied, and provides plenty of nutrients. It yields the satisfaction born.....
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The MIT Press, May 2019. Hardcover. How a team of researchers, led by the author, discovered our home galaxy's location in the universe. You are here: on Earth, which is part of the solar system, which is in the Milky Way galaxy, which itself is within the extragalactic supercluster Laniakea.....
Lin Song, March 2023. Trade Paperback. Learn how to build your own VPN server in the cloud or on a Raspberry Pi This book is a step-by-step guide to building your own IPsec VPN, OpenVPN and WireGuard server. Based on 10 years of open source work with millions of users.....
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Independently published, March 2021. Trade Paperback. PineScript (version 5) is TradingView specific programming language used for creating custom indicators, trade alerts, creating strategies, and back-testing them on historical and real data. After, gaining skills from this book you will be able to make your scripts for custom indicators and backtest.....
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Independently published, May 2020. Trade Paperback. Fast Python aggressively rehashes the basics of Python programming in order to dispel myths and misconceptions about how to write fast code. Readers equipped with the lessons from this book will be able to test, diagnose, and optimize out performance bottlenecks in their own.....
