Science + Psychology
KEEP SHARP: BUILD A BETTER BRAIN AT ANY AGE
Written by Gupta, Sanjay
Keep your brain young, healthy, and sharp with this science-driven guide to protecting your mind from decline by neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta. Throughout our life, we look for ways to keep our mind sharp and effortlessly productive. Now, globetrotting neurosurgeon Dr.
BRAVE GREEN WORLD: HOW SCIENCE CAN SAVE OUR PLANET
Written by Asher, Claire
How we can harness cutting-edge biology and manufacturing to fight waste and pollution. In Nature, there is little chemical waste; nearly every atom is a resource to be utilized by organisms, ensuring that all the available matter remains in a perpetual cycle. By contrast, human systems of energy production and manufacturing are linear; the end product is waste.
BEAUTY OF CHEMISTRY: ART, WONDER, AND SCIENCE
Written by Ball, Philip
Images and text capture the astonishing beauty of the chemical processes that create snowflakes, bubbles, flames, and other wonders of nature. Chemistry is not just about microscopic atoms doing inscrutable things; it is the process that makes flowers and galaxies. We rely on it for bread-baking, vegetable-growing, and producing the materials of daily life.
NEXT 500 YEARS: ENGINEERING LIFE TO REACH NEW WORLDS
Written by Mason, Christopher E
An argument that we have a moral duty to explore other planets and solar systems--because human life on Earth has an expiration date. Inevitably, life on Earth will come to an end, whether by climate disaster, cataclysmic war, or the death of the sun in a few billion years. To avoid extinction, we will have to find a new home planet, perhaps even a new solar system, to inhabit.
NOTES FROM AN APOCALYPSE: A PERSONAL JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE WORLD AND BACK
Written by O'Connell, Mark
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NPR - Esquire - The Guardian - Washington Independent Review of Books Harrowing, tender-hearted, and funny as hell. --Jenny Offill
UNTIL THE END OF TIME
Written by Greene, Brian
Instant New York Times Best-seller From the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes a captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose. Few humans share Greene's mastery of both the latest cosmological science and English prose.
FEELING & KNOWING: MAKING MINDS CONSCIOUS
Written by Damasio, Antonio
From one of the world's leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of the phenomenon of consciousness and its relation to life In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the question of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings in biology, neuroscience, psychology, and art
PROBABLE IMPOSSIBILITIES: MUSINGS ON BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS
Written by Lightman, Alan
From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams, a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities--and impossibilities--of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity?
HOW TO AVOID A CLIMATE DISASTER: THE SOLUTIONS WE HAVE AND THE BREAKTHROUGHS WE NEED
Written by Gates, Bill
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change.
GOD EQUATION: THE QUEST FOR A THEORY OF EVERYTHING
Written by Kaku, Michio
Michio Kaku, renowned theoretical physicist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Future of the Mind and The Future of Humanity, tells the story of the greatest quest in all of science. When Newton discovered the law of gravity, he unified the rules governing the heavens and the Earth.
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