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Snooze... or Lose!: 10 "No-War" Ways to Improve Your Teen's Sleep Habits מאת M.D. Dr. Helene A. Emsellem Walk into any first-period high school classroom and it’s obvious: teenagers are exhausted. Sleep deprivation is an epidemic as widespread as obesity – and as damaging. Fortunately, science has answers and Dr. Helene Emsellem has solutions that all parents can use. Affecting the lives ...

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Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere מאת Peter Ward For 65 million years dinosaurs ruled the Earth – until a deadly asteroid forced their extinction. But what accounts for the incredible longevity of dinosaurs? A renowned scientist now provides a startling explanation that is rewriting the history of the Age of Dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are pret...

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The Quantum Zoo: A Tourist's Guide to the Never-Ending Universe מאת Marcus Chown The two towering achievements of modern physics are quantum theory and Einstein's general theory of relativity. Together, they explain virtually everything about the world we live in. But, almost a century after their advent, most people haven't the slightest clue what either is about. Did you...

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Glut: Mastering Information Through The Ages מאת Alex Wright What do primordial bacteria, medieval alchemists, and the World Wide Web have to do with each other? This fascinating exploration of how information systems emerge takes readers on a provocative journey through the history of the information age. Today's "information explosion" may seem like an acut...

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Chaos Theory Tamed מאת Garnett P. Williams Williams uses lists, graphics, examples, and friendly language to help readers understand the vocabulary and significance of chaos theory. The book will help scientists and students outside mathematics to use the concepts of chaos in working with data and will help interested lay readers grasp the f...

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Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change and What It Means for Our Future מאת John D. Cox As scientists carefully search for clues in the sun and storm patterns from our distant past, they are gradually writing a new history of Earth's climate. It is now apparent that alterations in our climate can happen quickly and dramatically. Physical evidence reveals that centuries of slow, creepin...

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People Person: The Story of Sociologist Marta Tienda (Women's Adventures in Science) מאת Diane O'Connell Marta Tienda sees life stories in numbers. She is a sociologist, a scientist who studies human society. Numbers are the tools she uses to uncover fascinating information about people and their behavior. To Marta, these numbers hold important clues about why some people have more than others, like a ...

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In the Beat of a Heart: Life, Energy, and the Unity of Nature מאת John Whitfield For centuries, scientists have dreamt of discovering an underlying unity to nature. Science now offers powerful explanations for both the dazzling diversity and striking similarities seen in the living world. Life is complicated. It is truly the "entangled bank" that Charles Darwin described....

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The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World מאת Phillip F. Schewe The electrical grid goes everywhere - it's the largest and most complex machine ever made. Yet, the system is built in such a way that the bigger it gets, the more inevitable its collapse. Named the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century by the National Academy of Engineering, the elec...