Science

The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves (Hardcover)

By Eric R. Kandel

$30.00

ISBN: 9780374287863

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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - August 28th, 2018

 

Nobel Prize winning researcher and teacher Eric R. Kandel,  with profound empathy, essentially delivers a survey of current knowledge of the workings of the brain using the frame of brain disorders. Our understanding of the biology of the mind is changing rapidly and Kandel charts these advances in clear and very comprehensible language explaining how they are leading to new insights about human nature and consciousness itself.

Dale

How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight (Hardcover)

By Julian Guthrie, Richard Branson (Preface by), Stephen Hawking (Afterword by)

$28.00

ISBN: 9781594206726

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Published: Penguin Press - September 20th, 2016

 

Introduces you to all the people who watched the moon landing and said "That’s what I want to do with my life," with or without NASA.

John

The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs: The Story of Ken Nedimyer and the Coral Restoration Foundation (Hardcover)

By Kate Messner, Matthew Forsythe (Illustrator)

$17.99

ISBN: 9781452133508

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Published: Chronicle Books - May 8th, 2018

 

This is a fantastic nonfiction picture book about one of the champions of coral reef restoration. Beautiful illustrations and an inspiring true-life story.

Rebecca

Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Hardcover)

By Alan Stern, David Grinspoon

$28.00

ISBN: 9781250098962

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Published: Picador - May 1st, 2018

 

In July of 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft completed the first ever flyby of Pluto. For me and many others, this was the first I'd heard of New Horizons, but Alan Stern and the Pluto Underground had been working towards this since 1989, and the process was far from easy. Follow the epic journey from idea to proposal to actual mission to the furthest and final unexplored planet in our solar system. You'll learn about planetary science, space exploration, and Pluto itself.

Shana

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore (Hardcover)

By Elizabeth Rush

$26.00

ISBN: 9781571313676

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Published: Milkweed Editions - June 12th, 2018

 

Never mind what you’ve heard about the coming effects of climate change.  As Elizabeth Rush disturbingly documents, we are already seeing widespread effects of sea level rise. With great empathy and a lyrical voice she closely examines the response of various American coastal communities to the dramatic changes they struggle to face.

Dale

Do Not Lick This Book (Hardcover)

By Idan Ben-Barak, Julian Frost (Illustrator)

$16.99

ISBN: 9781250175366

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Published: Roaring Brook Press - June 5th, 2018

 

Do not lick this book. You might hurt Min and her tiny friends. I bet she also doesn’t taste like strawberries. Ask your brother to lick it instead.

Dale

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)

By Steve Brusatte

$29.99

ISBN: 9780062490421

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Published: William Morrow - April 24th, 2018

Brusatte takes us with him on his travels around the world fossil hunting with other equally dedicated and passionate paleontologists who together have been revising what we know  about the remarkable life on our planet millions of years ago.

Dale

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Paperback)

By Paul Hawken (Editor), Tom Steyer (Foreword by)

$22.00

ISBN: 9780143130444

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Published: Penguin Books - April 18th, 2017

Drawdown is a refreshingly optimistic and welcome book that shows the current processes and technologies we can use in concert to not only slow but actually reduce greenhouse gases in the near future to solve the crisis of global climate change.

 

Dale

Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)

By Scott Kelly

$29.95

ISBN: 9781524731595

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Published: Knopf - October 17th, 2017

Endurance is simply one of the best books I’ve read about what it’s like and what it takes to travel in space especially for long duration flights.

Dale

Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon (Hardcover)

By Jeffrey Kluger

$30.00

ISBN: 9781627798327

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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - May 16th, 2017

Going to the moon is not a small undertaking. Imagine, it had never been done before, and the mission was planned & executed in sixteen weeks! Apollo 8 is the story of a “wild crapshoot” that will bring you back to that time or open the door to an accomplishment that included a TV broadcast from the moon on Christmas Eve 1968.  

Robert