Buckle up for a joy ride through physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy with this ebullient guide to science by a Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author.
WOMAN is a tour-de-force of anatomy, evolution, and several other sciences, as well as psychology, that pays close attention to women's bodies in an instructive and entertaining manner. Angier has been a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer for the New York Times.
In his provocative new book, photographer and actor Leonard Nimoy captures images of full-bodied women, some of whom are involved in what is known as the "fat acceptance" movement. "The average American woman," Nimoy writes, "weighs 25 percent more than the models selling the clothes. There is a huge industry built up around selling women ways to ...
Natalie Angier, the masterly Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, describes a world few lay people have ever seen, in a book Edward O. Wilson called 'the debut of one of the few really first-rate writers in science.' Investigating some of the great breakthroughs in recent biology, involving the cloning and deciphering of the genes that control ...
For most people cockroaches, spiders, worms, dung beetles and hyenas are not paragons of beauty in a natural world; in fact, many would prefer that they were not there at all. But in this book an American science-writer who has won the Pulitzer Prize champions the cause of these "beasts" - the lowlifes and the brutes - in a series of articles, ...
For most people cockroaches, spiders, worms, dung beetles and hyenas are not paragons of beauty in a natural world; in fact, many would prefer that they were not there at all. But in this book an American science-writer who has won the Pulitzer Prize champions the cause of these "beasts" - the lowlifes and the brutes - in a series of articles, ...
On the leading edge of biological discovery is one of the most renowned cancer research laboratories in the world. The implications of their discoveries form tomorrow's headlines, yet Angier writes about the scientists themselves and not merely theri successes. 4-page photo insert.
In these thirty-eight interviews, originally published in the weekly "Science Times" section of "The New York Times," Claudia Dreifus brings all of her colorful personality to bear on her subjects, as well as an arsenal of philosophy, literature, and current events, and an unmistakable curiosity. As each conversation unfolds, we learn surprising ...
Unless we are brilliant at science in our teenage years, many of us put off childish things - science museums, an interest in palaeontology - in favour of art galleries, museums and concert halls. A cultured person, Natalie Angier argues, should know about the classic ideas of physics and evolutionary biology as well as the classic works of ...
Dr. Benjamin Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon, describes what it feels like to dig around in someone's brain. Dr. Leon Lederman, Nobel laureate, displays the wry humor that has earned him the title: the Mel Brooks of the physics world.: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John McPhee reveals how he cam to terms with the vastness of geological time and ...
This impressive anthology includes work by Joy Williams, Frederick J. Crews, Malcolm Gladwell, Eric Schlosser, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Dennis Overbye, and the topics covered include McDonald's french fries, the SATs, breast cancer, shock therapy, and urban sprawl.
This impressive anthology includes work by Joy Williams, Frederick J. Crews, Malcolm Gladwell, Eric Schlosser, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Dennis Overbye, and the topics covered include McDonald's french fries, the SATs, breast cancer, shock therapy, and urban sprawl.
Mujer. Una geografia intima se propone explorar el cuerpo y la naturaleza de la mujer como si de un territorio virgen, o al menos poco conocido, se tratara, para luego trazar un detallado mapa de cada uno de sus mas ocultos rincones. Natalie Angier se sumerge en un tema tan transitado como incierto, tan lleno de mentiras, de convenciones y de ...
With the singular intelligence and exuberance that made Woman an international sensation, Natalie Angier takes us on a whirligig tour of the major scientific disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. She draws on conversations with hundreds of the world's top scientists and on her own work as a Pulitzer Prizewinning writer ...
The ninth edition of the popular annual series, hailed as superb brain candy ("Kirkus"), once again collects the most crucial, thought-provoking, and engaging science writing of the year.
Unless we are brilliant at science in our teenage years, many of us put off 'childish things' - science museums, palaeontology - in favour of museums, art galleries and concert halls. A cultured person, Natalie Angier argues, should know about the classic ideas of physics and biology as well as the classic works of Beethoven and Picasso. Drawing ...
With the intelligence and exuberance that made Woman an international sensation, Natalie Angier takes us on a whirligig tour of the scientific canon. Drawing on conversations with hundreds of the world's top scientists, and her own Pulitzer Prize-winning reportage for the New York Times, The Canon is a magical guide to scientific literacy that ...
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