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From your fingerprints to the patterns in your eyes, each of us is unique. This collection of fun facts and…
activities will help you to discover more about human nature and yourself. Find out about body language, left brain vs. right brain, personality types, and more. Grades 4-7. 2000.By Natalie Angier. 2008
A cultured person, Natalie Angier argues, should know about the classic ideas of physics and evolutionary biology as well as…
the classic works of Beethoven and Picasso. How was the Earth formed? How big is an atom? What is a quantum leap? Drawing on conversations with hundreds of the world's leading scientists, Angier takes us on an informative tour of this neglected canon. 2008.Twenty-three-year old Cleo Koff, a forensic anthropologist, was one of sixteen scientists chosen to go to Rwanda in 1996 to…
find evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity. Her job was to discover who the victims were and how they had been killed. Koff also describes similar missions to Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. Some violence. 2004.By Wayne Grady. 2000
Wayne Grady, the science editor of Equinox, and Phil Currie, a Canadian palaeontologist, travel to Patagonia, China, and the Alberta…
Badlands. Living in tents, experiencing rain, mud, windstorms, disagreements, and the ultimate glimpse of bone, they try to find conclusive evidence in an ongoing debate: did dinosaurs go extinct, or evolve into birds of the modern world? 2000.By Jay Ingram. 1994
By David Attenborough, Andrew Byatt, Alastair Fothergill, Martha Holmes. 2001
Focusing on seven different habitats, this book is a comprehensive guide to the world's oceans. It explores the hidden depths…
of the oceans to reveal many fascinating facts. Some strong language. 2001.By David Bodanis. 1984
Attempts to provide a description of the physiological processes involved in certain emotions and activities. Topics include fear and anger,…
sexual desire, conception and pregnancy, pain and illness, stress and worry. 1984.By Richard Dawkins. 1986
A controversial book which contends that evolution by natural selection - as originally outlined by Darwin - is the only…
answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist? 1986.By Betty Kilgour. 1986
Betty Kilgour, the "Erma Bombeck of the farm set", lives on a farm in Three Hills, Alberta. Her ability to…
see the humour in everyday situations has endeared her to C.B.C. radio listeners and to readers of the Red Deer Advocate to which she contributed a weekly column. This book is a collection of her most popular columns. 1986.By Jonathan Weiner. 1994
Discusses the work of Peter and Rosemary Grant, who spent more than twenty years in the Galapagos Islands researching Charles…
Darwin's finches to confront Darwin's notion of evolution as a time-suspended process. Weiner incorporates research from other scientists to assert that evolution is dynamic, involving constant, even observable, change. L.A. Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. Winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. 1994.By Natalie Angier. 1996
Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer for the New York Times offers her essays on the beauty of organisms usually considered beastly,…
and the beastliness behind conventional icons of beauty in the natural world. Admitting she "anthropomorphizes shamelessly," she humorously discusses commonalities that humans share with other species. Topics include loving, adapting, healing, creating, and dying. Some descriptions of violence. 1995.A collection of humourous and surprising essays which examine the scientific explanation for certain human behaviours, the scientific world's attempts…
to re-examine history, including the Salem witch trials, and some of the stranger questions tackled by scientists. Sections on human behaviour, curiosities of life, science and history, natural battles and how things work are included. 1998.By Melvin Berger. 1987
Traces the history of the development of the artificial heart, including experimentation with animals and human heart transplants. Discusses the…
psychological and ethical issues surrounding their use. For junior and senior high readers. c1987.More and more of our social, political and religious activities are modelling themselves after the World Wide Web. A committed…
anarchist, Vaidhyanathan shows how the key information structure of our time is the 'peer-to-peer network'. These networks have always existed - gossip is one example, as is word-of-mouth advertising - but with the rise of electronic communication, they are suddenly coming into their own. And they are drawing the outlines of a battle for information that will determine much of the culture and politics of our century. Everything from culture to terrorism and extremist politics to religion will be affected. 2005.By Theresa Larsen Crenshaw. 1997
Identifies the role our hormones play in the different sexual stages, exploring the age-old concept of chemistry between the sexes…
and how hormones can determine the course of human relationships. Functions as both an encyclopedia of our attachment-related hormones, telling us exactly what they are and exactly what modern science thinks they do, and a guide to what we can do to get them to keep functioning the way we want them to. Descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1996.By Richard Hamblyn. 2009
Blending history, science and eye-witness accounts, and arranged in chapters corresponding to the four elements (earth, air, fire and water),…
Hamblyn explores the relationship between the planet and its humans. With the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, the weather-panics of the summer of 1783, the eruption of Krakatau in 1883, and the Hilo tsunami of 1946, he reminds us of the earth's unimaginable force and describes what happens when that force is unleashed. 2009.By Margaret Cheney. 1981
Biography of an "Eccentric Inventor" from his childhood in Yugoslavia to his death in New York in the 1940's. Chronicles…
a lifetime of such discoveries as fluorescent lighting and the bladeless turbine. 1981.By Daniel Ichbiah, Jean-Martial Lefranc. 2014
" Si c'était un film, on aurait accusé les scénaristes d'être outrageusement irréalistes... Telle est pourtant la réalité que le…
monde a découverte le 6 juin 2013 : une surveillance d'une ampleur démesurée s'est mise en place. Elle vise à recueillir les moindres détails de nos vies : communications téléphoniques, e-mails, consultation du Web, déplacements... Enquête sur l'espionnage numérique. Comment est née la NSA, comment a-t-elle été dotée d'un pouvoir presque sans limites au lendemain du 11 septembre 2001, avec des milliards de dollars à l'appui ? Comment Edward Snowden a-t-il réussi ? un véritable thriller ? à extraire des milliers de documents afin d'exposer ce que nos gouvernants cherchaient à nous cacher, et de poser cette question : est-ce là le monde où nous désirons voir nos enfants grandir ? Ce livre expose une réalité qui dépasse la science-fiction la plus audacieuse. Une situation dans laquelle la vie privée de chacun de nous n'existe pratiquement plus. Il se trouve aussi que ? en dépit des protestations de façade de nos dirigeants ? les agences de renseignement collaborent allègrement entre elles pour mieux pister la trace de chacun de nous. Au cas où... Comme l'a déclaré Ira Hunt, l'un des partisans de cette collecte à très grande échelle : Nous essayons de tout recueillir et de le conserver à tout jamais. Existe-t-il encore des possibilités de communiquer en toute quiétude, sans être espionné par des oreilles ou yeux indiscrets ? Oui, dans une certaine mesure, et ce livre s'attache également à décrire les moyens de défendre ce qui nous reste de vie privée. " -- 4e de couv.By Carlo Rovelli, Patrick Vighetti. 2015
Avec les mots de l'écrivain, le talent du poète, Carlo Rovelli nous fait apercevoir le mystère du monde, la beauté…
du monde, une beauté à couper le souffle. Ces sept leçons donnent un aperçu rapide des aspects les plus importants et fascinants de la grande révolution qui a bouleversé la physique au XXe siècle, et surtout des questions et des mystères que cette révolution a soulevés. Elles nous emmènent dans le monde enchanté des grandes idées de la physique actuelle : de la relativité générale d'Einstein à la physique quantique, des particules élémentaires à l'architecture de l'Univers, de la gravité quantique à la nature du temps et de la conscience. 2015.By Jacques Arnould. 2015