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Ancestral Roots by Timothy Clack
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: MacSci Ser.
Many of the areas covered in the book are hot topics, such as environmental destruction and obesity. The author has written articles for many popular science magazines. We are approaching the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, and 150 years since the "On the Origin of Species" was published, so books ...Show more
Big Brain by Gary Lynch
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: MacSci Ser.
This tile offers a radical and groundbreaking look at the future of brain engineering. The authors are forerunning scholars in the future of brain engineering, memory enhancement and the study of human intelligenceThe Boskops were super geniuses, outdistancing our current brain capacity. From them, we l ...Show more
Big Brain : The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence by Gary Lynch & Richard Granger
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: MacSci Ser.
In this groundbreaking look at the evolution of our brains, eminent neuroscientists Gary Lynch and Richard Granger uncover the mysteries of the outsize intelligence of our ancestors, who had bigger brains than humans living today. Weaving together history, science, and the latest theories of artificial ...Show more
Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger by Jeff Wise
Category: Science | Series: Macsci
Fear is a mysterious force. It sabotages our ability to think clearly and can drive us to blind panic, yet it can also give us superhuman speed, strength, and powers of perception. Having baffled mankind for ages, fear is now yielding its secrets to scientific inquiry. The simple model of "fight or flig ...Show more
Ice, Mud and Blood : Lessons from Climates Past by Chris Turney
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: MacSci Ser.
Imagine a world of wildly escalating temperatures, apocalyptic flooding, devastating storms and catastrophic sea level rise. This might sound like a prediction for the future or the storyline of a new Hollywood blockbuster but it's something quite different: it's our past. In a day and age when where we ...Show more
Lost Antarctica: Adventures in a Disappearing Land by James McClintock
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Macsci
The bitter cold and three months a year without sunlight make Antarctica virtually uninhabitable for humans. Yet a world of extraordinary wildlife persists in these harsh conditions, including leopard seals, giant squid, 50-foot algae, sea spiders, coral, multicolored sea stars, and giant predatory worm ...Show more
Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family by Shelley Emling
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: MacSci Ser.
A new portrait of the two time Nobel winner--drawing on family letters newly released by Marie Curie's granddaughter Marie Curie discovered the mysterious element radium, became the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize, and remains the only person to have won two Nobel Prizes in different science fields ...Show more
Stephen Hawking - An Unfettered Mind by Kitty Ferguson
Category: Biography | Series: MacSci Ser.
Kitty Ferguson, the award-winning and international bestselling author of Stephen Hawking's biography, presents an even deeper portrait of the legendary physicist's life and scientific theories. This updated edition of Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind looks at one of the most remarkable figures of ou ...Show more
The Fossil Hunter : Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: MacSci Ser.
Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. Until Mary's incredible discovery, it was widely believed that animals did not become extinct. The child of a poor family, Mary b ...Show more
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