Best Science Books

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The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis. Design of the highresolution displays, small multiples. Editing and improvin...

The Freakonomics of math?a mathworld superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our handsThe math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: Math isn?t confined t...

In rich, human, political, and scientific detail, here is the complete story of the nuclear bomb. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly?or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity there was a span of hardly more than twentyfive years. What began merely as an interesti...

If the conscious mindthe part you consider to be youis just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing In this sparkling and provocative book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate its surprising mysteries. Why can your foot move halfway to the brake pedal before you become con...

Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day—and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives, and t...

Wonderful ... Illuminating ... Fun to read' Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow A pioneer of Artificial Intelligence, shows how the study of causality revolutionized science and the world'Correlation does not imply causation.' This mantra was invoked by scientists for decades in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thing...

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A timely calltoarms from a Silicon Valley pioneer.You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that were better off without them. In Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful and persona...

New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity How certain are we about our understanding of time What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today How seriously should we view the content of our dreams How...

A journey into the hidden world of fungi.When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet...

Maybe it's the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, firstgeneration American and office drone meandering her way into Adult,hood in Ling Ma's offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance.Candace Chen, a millennial drone selfsequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Ch...

For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about.Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worstcase scenarios. Michael Lewis’s taut and brill...

El placer de descubrir permite acceder al mundo personal, social y cientíco de Richard Feynman, por ejemplo, a sus aventuras mientras participó en el Proyecto Manhattan, cuando se divertía ?y escandalizaba? descifrando las claves de cajas fuertes, o a cómo se inició, siendo un niño, en el estudio de la naturaleza (en el «placer de descubrir»), que ...

Was there a beginning of time Could time run backwards Is the universe infinite or does it have boundariesThese are just some of the questions considered in the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by the world renowned physicist generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. It begins by reviewing the great theories ...

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We fail to mandate economic sanity, " writes Garrett Hardin, "because our brains are addled by...compassion." With such startling assertions, Hardin has cut a swathe through the field of ecology for decades, winning a reputation as a fearless and original thinker. A prominent biologist, ecological philosopher, and keen student of human population c...

Proven solutions for a better night's sleep, from the "sleep guru" to elite athletesOnethird of our lives3,000 hours a yearis spent trying to sleep. The hours we spend in bed shape our moods, motivation, alertness, decisionmaking skills, creativity...in short, our ability to perform. But most of us have disturbed, restless nights, relying on ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2019New York Public Library Best Books of 2019 Kirkus Reviews Best Health and Science Books of 2019Science Friday Best Books of 2019 New postscript by the authorFrom an awardwinning journalist, an explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals fraud and lifet...

The story of two brilliant nineteenthcentury scientists who discovered the electromagnetic field, laying the groundwork for the amazing technological and theoretical breakthroughs of the twentieth centuryTwo of the boldest and most creative scientists of all time were Michael Faraday (17911867) and James Clerk Maxwell (18311879). This is the sto...

It took AlphaZero only a few hours of selflearning to become the chess player that shocked the world. The Artificial Intelligence, system, created by DeepMind, had been fed nothing but the rules of the Royal Game when it beat the world’s strongest chess engine in a prolonged match. The selection of ten games published in December 2017 created a wor...

Working mostly alone, almost singlehandedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures(R), a revolutionary computer game that allowed players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systemscreatures that would live and breathe and breed in real time on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously...

The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life and offer tools for living more kindly toward them.In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who animals are?intelligent, aware, and empathetic. Studies show that animals are astounding beings with int...

There are many misconceptions about the future of global energy often presented as fact by the media, politicians, business leaders, activists, and even scientistswasting time and money and hampering the development of progressive energy policies. Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate debunks the most common fal...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRichard Feynman: physicist . . . Nobel winner . . . bestselling author . . . safecracker.In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents the largerthanlife exploits of Nobelwinning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, worldclass raconteur, and one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century:...

This book of thoroughly engaging essays from one of today's most prodigious innovators provides a uniquely personal perspective on the lives and achievements of a selection of intriguing figures from the history of science and Technology,. Weaving together his immersive interest in people and history with insights gathered from his own experiences, ...

From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters b...

New York Times bestseller The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world"At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solutionbysolution narrative that we can do it. Reading it is an effective ino...

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This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safety. Acclaimed scientist an...

The period between 1867 and 1914 remains the greatest watershed in human history since the emergence of settled agricultural societies: the time when an expansive civilization based on synergy of fuels, science, and technical innovation was born. At its beginnings in the 1870s were dynamite, the telephone, photographic film, and the first light bul...

For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today. Few episodes in the development of scientific theory show so clearly how the solution to a highly technical problem can alter our basic thought processes and attitudes. Understanding the processes which underl...

New York Times bestseller Life on the Edge alters our understanding of our world's fundamental dynamics through the use of quantum mechanics.Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything livin...

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With a New AfterwordMust We AgeNearly all scientists who study the biology of aging agree that we will someday be able to substantially slow down the aging process, extending our productive, youthful lives. Dr. Aubrey de Grey is perhaps the most bullish of all such researchers. As has been reported in media outlets ranging from 60 Minutes to The N...

When it comes to Artificial Intelligence,, we either hear of a paradise on earth or of our imminent extinction. It?s time we stand facetodigitalface with the true powers and limitations of the algorithms that already automate important decisions in healthcare, transportation, crime, and commerce. Hello World is indispensable preparation for the m...

A quantum Brave New World from the boldest and most wildly speculative writer of his generation.Since the Introdus in the twenty-first century, humanity has reconfigured itself drastically. Most chose immortality, joining the polises to become conscious software. Others opted for gleisners: disposable, renewable robotic bodies that remain in contac...

NOW AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Toronto Star Bestselling Book of the YearWitty and entertaining.Sarah KnightLaughoutloud.Steve BrusatteAN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND CATASTROPHIC FCKUPS OF HUMAN HISTORYModern humans have come a long way in the seventy thousand years theyve walked the earth. Art, science, culture, trade...

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold.For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt colorcoded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he ...

From the bestselling author of The Theoretical Minimum, a DIY introduction to the math and science of quantum physicsFirst he taught you classical mechanics. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind has teamed up with data engineer Art Friedman to present the theory and associated mathematics of the strange world of quantum mechanics.In this followup to Th...

Accessible but rigorous, this outstanding text encompasses all of the topics covered by a typical course in elementary abstract algebra. Its easytoread treatment offers an intuitive approach, featuring informal discussions followed by thematically arranged exercises. Intended for undergraduate courses in abstract algebra, it is suitable for junio...

What to Expect When You're Expecting meets Freakonomics: an awardwinning economist disproves standard recommendations about pregnancy to empower women while they're expecting.Pregnancy?unquestionably one of the most pro­found, meaningful experiences of Adult,hood?can reduce otherwise intelligent women to, well, babies. We?re told to avoid cold cuts...

Bullshit isn't what it used to be. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misinformation and think clearly in a world of fake news and bad data.It's increasingly difficult to know what's true. Misinformation, disinformation, and fake news abound. Our media environment has become hyperpartisan. Science is conducted by press relea...

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was the Justice of Toren a colossal starship with an Artificial Intelligence, linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy. Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one ...

Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their trai...

Rachel Carson?s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson?s passionate concern for the fut...

Gordon Krantz survived the Doomwar only to spend years crossing a postapocalypse United States looking for something or someone he could believe in again. Ironically, when he's inadvertently forced to assume the madeup role of a "Restored United States" postal inspector, he becomes the very thing he's been seeking: a symbol of hope and rebirth fo...

Have you ever heard of the Strangler Tree The Bubblegum Tree The UpsideDown Tree How about trees with horns, bottles, sausages, crowns, and ones that walk or even explode Crazy, maybe, but true. Find out more about these, and many others, in this colorfully illustrated collection of the most bizarre?but real?trees from around the world, once a...

Winner of the Gold Dagger AwardA fascinating true crime story that details the rise of modern forensics and the development of modern criminal investigation. At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher terrorized the French countryside, eluding authorities for years, and murdering twice as many victims as Jack The Ripper. He...

In 1972, ten years after a nuclear war decimated both the United States and Soviet Union, Carl Landry, a young reporter, searches for the killer of a veteran of the 1962 war and begins to suspect that the victim may have held the key to a terrifying conspiracy....

Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like anyone else's. Then they used their minds to change their brains in ways that changed history.With the new breakthroughs in neuroscience, combined with the insights from thousands of years of contemplative practice, you, too, can shape your own brain for...

A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer before they kill again.It was not common to awaken in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood.At least, Maria Arena had never experienced it. She had no memory of how she died. That was also new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her fi...

For prenursing and allied health students (including mixedmajors courses). Cutting edge microbiology research for today's learners Tortora, Funke, and Case's Microbiology, An Introduction brings a 21stcentury lens to the #1 bestselling text on the market. Known for its exceptionally clear presentation of complex topics, this trusted text provid...

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko... Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New Peo...

For courses in chemistry. Actively engage students to become expert problem solvers and critical thinkers Nivaldo Tro's Chemistry: A Molecular Approach presents chemistry visually through multilevel imagesmacroscopic, molecular, and symbolic representationsto help students see the connections between the world they see around them, the atoms a...

Revised edition: This edition of Toward Yesterday includes editorial revisions.What would you do if you suddenly found yourself twentyfive years in the past For the ninebillion people of the year 2042 it's no longer a question ... it is a realityWhen a seemingly simple experiment goes disastrously wrong, James Baston finds himself stranded along...

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Nix has spent her entire life aboard her father_x0092_s ship, sailing across the centuries, across the world, across myth and imagination.As long as her father has a map for it, he can sail to any time, any place, real or imagined: nineteenthcentury China, the land from One Thousand and One Nights, a mythic version of Africa. Along the way they have fou...

A provocative, urgent audiobook about time, family and how a changing planet might change our lives, from James Bradley, acclaimed author of The Resurrectionist and editor of The Penguin Book of the Ocean.Compelling, challenging and resilient, over ten beautifully contained chapters, Clade canvasses three generations from the very near future to la...

The future is now. Acclaimed technologist and inventor Amir Husain explains how we can live amidst the coming age of sentient machines and Artificial Intelligence,?and not only survive, but thrive.Artificial ?machine? intelligence is playing an evergreater role in our society. We are already using cruise control in our cars, automatic checkout at t...

After years of living in awe of the mysterious fungi known as mushroomschefs, health enthusiasts, and home cooks alike can't get enough of these rich, delicate morsels. With updated production techniques for home and commercial cultivation, detailed growth parameters for 31 mushroom species, a troubleshooting guide, and handy gardening tips, this...

Problems in General PhysicsArihant PublicationsI E Irodov2016EDN6...

Written by leading authorities in database and Web technologies, this book is essential reading for students and practitioners alike. The popularity of the Web and Internet commerce provides many extremely large datasets from which information can be gleaned by data mining. This book focuses on practical algorithms that have been used to solve key ...

"An outstanding book. . . . Meets the needs of those inbetween or curious kids who are not ready, developmentally or emotionally, for It?s Perfectly Normal." ?Booklist (starred review)How does a baby begin What makes a baby male or female How is a baby born Children have plenty of questions about reproduction and babies?and about sex and sexual...

From the creators of the awardwinning An Egg Is Quiet, A Seed Is Sleepy, A Butterfly Is Patient, and A Nest Is Noisy comes this gorgeous and informative introduction to the fascinating world of rocks. From dazzling blue Lapis Lazuli to volcanic Snowflake Obsidian, an incredible variety of rocks are showcased in all their splendor. Poetic in voice ...

Key Benefits: Why use this coloring book For more than 35 years, The Anatomy Coloring Book has been the #1 bestselling human anatomy coloring book! A useful tool for anyone with an interest in learning anatomical structures, this concisely written text features precise, extraordinary handdrawn figures that were crafted especially for easy colori...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this definitive novel, readers will follow Thrawn's rise to poweruncovering the events that created one of the most iconic villains in Star Wars history.One of the most cunning and ruthless warriors in the history of the Galactic Empire, Grand Admiral Thrawn is also one of the most captivating characters in the Star...

H C Verma s Concepts Of Physics is an allinclusive book, which serves to detail out the ABC of physics in an intricate manner making it an ideal book for not only the higher secondary students, but also for those who are preparing for their competitive examinations.Physics as a subject is vast and to have all the concepts of Physics compiled in on...

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We are not alone.On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a highlevel politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threateni...

Based on a series of lectures given at Cambridge University, Professor Hawking's work introduced "the history of ideas about the universe" as well as today's most important scientific theories about time, space, and the cosmos in a clear, easytounderstand way. "The Theory of Everything" presents the most complex theories, both past and present, o...

Recently voted the greatest Fantasy, of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways, in a time when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, the central character, is a t...

View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"Harvard University Press is proud to announce the rerelease of the complete original version of Sociobiology: The New Synthesisnow available in paperback for the first time. When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new ...

The 13th edition of "Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology" continues this bestselling title's long tradition as the world's foremost medical physiology textbook. Unlike other textbooks on this topic, this clear and comprehensive guide has a consistent, singleauthor voice and focuses on the content most relevant to clinical and preclinic...

Dr. Bill Bass, one of the world's leading forensic anthropologists, gained international attention when he built a forensic lab like no other: The Body Farm. Now, this master scientist unlocks the gates of his lab to reveal his most intriguing casesand to revisit the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder, fifty years after the fact. Dr. Bill Bass, one o...

An awardwinning science writer presents a captivating collection of cosmological essays for the armchair astronomer The galaxy, the multiverse, and the history of astronomy are explored in this engaging compilation of cosmological tales by multipleawardwinning science writer Marcia Bartusiak. In thirtytwo concise and engrossing essays, the au...

Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. They meet every two hundred thousand years, to exchange news and memor...

For 40 years, Kleppner and Kolenkow's classic text has introduced students to the principles of mechanics. Now brought up to date, this revised and improved second edition is ideal for classical mechanics courses for first and secondyear undergraduates with foundation skills in mathematics. The book retains all the features of the first edition, ...

"It would be hard to imagine a better guide to this difficult subject." Scientific American In Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin provides an accessible overview of the attempts to build a final "theory of everything." He explains in simple terms what scientists are talking about when they say the world is made from exotic entities such ...

A ordinary subway trip is transformed when a young boy happens upon a book about redwood forests. As he reads the information unfolds, and with each new bit of knowledge, he travels?all the way to California to climb into the Redwood canopy. Crammed with interesting and accurate information about these great natural wonders, Jason Chin's first book...

What Price VictoryThe War with the Republic of Haven has resumed...disastrously for the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Admiral Lady Dame Honor Harrington has been recalled from the Sidemore System to command Eighth Fleet. Everyone knows Eight Fleet is the Alliance's primary offensive command, but what most of the public doesn't know is that not only a...

Roger Penrose, one of the most accomplished scientists of our time, presents the only comprehensive and comprehensible account of the physics of the universe. From the very first attempts by the Greeks to grapple with the complexities of our known world to the latest application of infinity in physics, The Road to Reality carefully explores the mov...

A standalone book set in the USJ universe, Mecha Samurai Empire focuses on a group of aspiring mecha cadets preparing to fight the Nazis. Foremost among them, Makoto Fujimoto grew up in California, but with a differencehis California is part of the United States of Japan. After Germany and Japan won WWII, the United States fell under their contro...

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Ready Player One meets Gladiator in this highoctane thriller that mixes fighttothedeath UFCstyle cage matches and blackops espionage.In the near future, the line between entertainment and brutality has blurred. Mysterious billionaire and entertainment magnate Cameron Crayton is a household name from his questionably legal televised spectacles...

Robert Kanigel takes us into the heady world of a remarkable group of scientists working at the National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins University: a dynasty of American researchers who for over forty years have made Nobel Prize and Lasker Awardwinning breakthroughs in biomedical science....

A visionary new program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet....

The 10th edition of Halliday's Fundamentals of Physics building upon previous issues by offering several new features and additions. Examples include a new print component will revised to conform to the Version 5 design; chapter sections organized and numbered to match the Concept Modules; Learning Objectives have been added; illustrations changed ...

Lilith lyapo awoke from a centurieslong sleep to find herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. Creatures covered in writhing tentacles, the Oankali had saved every surviving human from a dying, ruined Earth. They healed the planet, cured cancer, increased strength, and were now ready to help Lilith lead her people back to Earth, but for a...

¿Hay otras dimensiones más allá de las de nuestra experiencia cotidiana ¿Hay puertas de acceso a universos paralelos ¿Qué sucedió antes del primer día de la Creación Este tipo de cuestiones están en el centro de la actividad científica actual. En efecto, muchos físicos creen hoy que existen otras dimensiones más allá de las cuatro de nuestro esp...

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Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical physicist and bestselling author, offers a unique scientific biography: a rollicking narrative coupled with clear ...

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The action in Gray Lensman picks up immediately where Galactic Patrol left off, in the middle of the battle to destroy Helmuth's Main Base and, it is hoped, fully end the threat of Boskone. After the base falls, Kinnison finds some clues that lead him to think that Helmuth was perhaps not the head of Boskone after all. The clues lead Kinnison to mo...

Learn about the human body from the inside out Some people think that knowing about what goes on inside the human body can sap life of its mysterywhich is too bad for them. Anybody who's ever taken a peak under the hood knows that the human body, and all its various structures and functions, is a realm of aweinspiring complexity and countless wo...

An accessible introduction to an exciting new area in computation, explaining such topics as qubits, entanglement, and quantum teleportation for the general reader.Quantum computing is a beautiful fusion of quantum physics and computer science, incorporating some of the most stunning ideas from twentiethcentury physics into an entirely new way of ...

A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D.The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as you formerl...

Cece loves science! In this STEMthemed picture book, Cece asks one of life's most pressing questions: Do dogs eat vegetables Cece and her best friend, Isaac, head to the lab to find out.This picture book is perfect for fans of Ada Twist, Scientist, and anyone who enjoys asking questions.Cece's parents say she was born curious. She asks: Why How Wh...