[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: Nature and Science August 2009
- From: "Reggie & Brooks" <regandlon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:58:23 -0400
Amber:
I am currently working on an 800-page book and have another in the cue.
However, is this one you have just scanned? If so, I would like to proof it
for you. Could you put my name on it, please if this is a book you have
scanned. Thanks.
Reggie
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New and Recently Released!
100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your
World - by John D. Barrow
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
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Pub Date: 05/18/2009
ISBN-13: 9780393070071
ISBN-10: 0393070077
What are your odds of winning the lottery? Are there really only six degrees
of separation between any two people on earth? Can calculus make you live
longer?
In 100 concise and informative chapters, British mathematician and
theoretical physicist John Barrow answers these questions and more, taking
mathematical
and scientific principles and applying them to aspects of everyday life. In
this book, you'll learn how an understanding of probability can benefit
hobbyist
collectors and how prime numbers protect your personal information online.
If you think math is useless outside of the classroom, think again--and read
this book.
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The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana - by Rick Bass
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Pub Date: 07/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780547055169
ISBN-10: 0547055161
From his 100-year-old restored log cabin in Montana's Yaak Valley, writer
and naturalist Rick Bass describes a year in the wilderness in this
month-by-month
narrative. Starting with a January blizzard, Bass recounts the awakening
Earth in spring, the hot, vibrant summer, and the hunting and gathering
preparations
of fall, before concluding his account in the dark calm of winter. From
wildlife to wildfires, The Wild Marsh is a "wonderfully poetic, evocative
homage
to a wilderness most of us will never see" (Booklist).
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution - by Nick Lane
Publisher: W.W. Norton
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Pub Date: 06/22/2009
ISBN-13: 9780393065961
ISBN-10: 0393065960
The origin of life, DNA, photosynthesis, the evolution of complex cells,
sex, movement, sight, warm-bloodedness, consciousness, and death: these are
nature's
ten greatest "inventions," which enabled life on Earth to flourish. And
while author and biochemist Nick Lane uses the term "invention," he
emphasizes
that there's no inventor in Life Ascending, drawing instead on the most
up-to-date scientific research to present the story of life through ten
critical
evolutionary developments. Readers interested in evolutionary biology will
want to read this book, which explains "processes of dizzying complexity in
smooth, nimble prose" (Kirkus Reviews).
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An Edible History of Humanity - by Tom Standage
Publisher: Walker & Company
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Pub Date: 05/19/2009
ISBN-13: 9780802715883
ISBN-10: 0802715885
"A cultivated field of maize, or any other crop, is as man-made as a
microchip, a magazine, or a missile," says author Tom Standage, pointing out
that no
matter how "natural" they might seem now, farms were cutting-edge technology
10,000 years ago. In this follow-up to A History of the World in Six
Glasses,
Standage shifts his focus from drinks to food and shows how domesticated
crops and agricultural systems played a pivotal role in forming civilization
as
we know it. If you're interested in the intersection of human biology and
agricultural history, you may also want to read Richard Wrangham's Catching
Fire:
How Cooking Made Us Human.
First Chapter
Table of Contents
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical
Atrocities - by Amy Stewart; illustrated by Briony Morrow-Cribbs and
Jonathon Rosen
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Check Library Catalog
Pub Date: 05/21/2009
ISBN-13: 9781565126831
ISBN-10: 1565126831
From sturdy South American vines whose toxic sap is used to make extra
deadly arrowheads to delicate-looking herbs such as white snakeroot, which
when ingested
by cows poisons their milk (and the people who drink it), plants can be as
dangerous as they are beautiful. In this book, Amy Stewart, author of Flower
Confidential and the owner of a "poison garden" full of toxic plants, has
created an A to Z guide to the flowers, seeds, shrubs, vines, and weeds that
"kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend." With original etchings by
Briony Morrow-Cribbs, Wicked Plants is a fascinating glimpse into the dark
side
of botany.
Focus on: The Space Race
When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite,
into orbit on October 4, 1957, the entire world sat up and took notice. The
event
spurred the United States to embark on an ambitious program to not only
equal but surpass the Soviets' achievements in space flight, and thus the
stage
was set for a contest that encompassed science, popular culture, and global
politics. The "space race" culminated on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11
astronauts
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the surface of the Moon, making
history. Now, 40 years after that "giant leap for mankind," you can read all
about it (and much more) in the books suggested below.
The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and The Dream of
Space Flight - by Martha Ackmann
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Check Library Catalog
Pub Date: 07/01/2004
ISBN-13: 9780375758935
ISBN-10: 0375758933
You've heard of Mercury Seven astronauts John Glenn and Alan Shepard, but
what about Jerrie Cobb and Jacqueline Cochran? Along with 11 other female
pilots,
these world-record holding aviatrices strove to break down gender barriers
and participate in NASA's nascent space program. However, while passing many
of the same physical and psychological tests as their male counterparts (and
in some cases outperforming them), the so-called "Mercury 13" never got a
chance to go into space. To read more about these amazing women, check out
Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race by
Stephanie Nolen.
First Chapter
Live From Cape Canaveral: Covering the Space Race, From Sputnik to Today -
by Jay Barbree
Publisher: Smithsonian Books/Collins
Check Library Catalog
Pub Date: 09/01/2007
ISBN-13: 9780061233920
ISBN-10: 0061233927
NBC space correspondent Jay Barbree is the only journalist to have covered
every manned space mission in the United States, beginning in 1961 with Alan
Shepard's suborbital flight aboard Freedom 7 and continuing through today.
Present for every launch in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs,
Barbree
has witnessed triumphs (men on the moon) and tragedies (he broke the story
on the faulty O-rings that caused the Challenger space shuttle to explode).
In this memoir, Barbree recounts how he got started in space journalism and
what he's learned from his experiences. "It's hard to imagine a more
comprehensive
or enjoyable history of the Space Race" says Kirkus Reviews.
First Chapter
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Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age
- by Matthew Brzezinski
Publisher: Times Books
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Pub Date: 09/18/2007
ISBN-13: 9780805081473
ISBN-10: 080508147X
Following the 1957 launch of Sputnik 1, the Cold War took on a new dimension
as the United States and the Soviet Union each redoubled their efforts to
put
a man on the moon. In cinematic prose, author Matthew Brzezinski describes
how the scientific goals of the space program were frequently overshadowed
by
the political tensions between the two superpowers. Brzezinski, a former
Moscow correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, brings the Space Race to
life
in this "chilling portrait of rocket scientists and cold warriors at work"
(Kirkus Reviews). For more on the topic, try Von Hardesty's Epic Rivalry:
The
Inside Story of the Soviet and American Space Race or Michael D'Antonio's A
Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957, the Space Race Begins.
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Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for
Dominion of Space - by Deborah Cadbury
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Pub Date: 07/01/2007
ISBN-13: 9780061176289
ISBN-10: 0061176281
"Likely to be one of the standards on its subject for years to come"
(Booklist), this gripping account of the space race focuses on the two
scientists whose
work made space flight possible: German-born Wernher von Braun, who
pioneered the rocket technology that allowed NASA to put men on the moon,
and his Russian
counterpart Sergei Korolev, a former gulag inmate who became the head of the
Soviet space program. While von Braun became a household name, appearing on
the cover of Time as his Nazi ties were carefully concealed, Korolev
received almost no recognition during his lifetime. Space Race was made into
a BBC
television series in 2005 and later broadcast in the US.
Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War - by Michael J. Neufeld
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, in association with the Smithsonian Institution
Check Library Catalog
Pub Date: 09/25/2007
ISBN-13: 9780307262929
ISBN-10: 0307262928
In this well-researched biography, Canadian-born author Michael J. Neufeld,
chair of the Space History Division of the Smithsonian's National Air and
Space
museum, presents the life of the brilliant but controversial scientist
Wernher von Braun. As an SS officer in Nazi Germany, Von Braun helped invent
the
V-2 rocket, a ballistic missile which during World War II caused the deaths
of soldiers and civilians alike, but which also formed the basis of the
modern
rocket on which all space flight depends. Later, with his past effectively
erased by the U.S. government, he went on to play an important role in
America's
space program as both a scientist and as a public relations expert. Don't
miss this thorough and balanced account of a key figure in the race to
space.
First Chapter
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