Coffee Table Chemistry By Tom Jackson Shelter Harbor Press, $24.95, 144 pages This overview of the basic elements of chemistry looks like something between a high-gloss high school textbook and an odd but not out of place coffee table book. Chock-full of...
How the Brain is Physically Changed by Winning and Losing By Ian H. Robertson Thomas Dunne Books, $25.99, 306 pages Why is someone who wins a showdown more likely to win again? This exciting and informational book is a compilation of the latest research...
By Climate Central Pantheon, $22.95, 214 pages Much of what we read or see on TV seems geared to make us feel fearful or guilty. Before reading Global Weirdness, both negative emotions sat alongside the idea of humankind destroying the world at...
Magisterial By Charles H. Langmuir and Wally Broecker Princeton University Press, $39.95, 718 pages How do you build a planet capable of supporting life? In this revised and greatly expanded second edition of How to Build a Habitable Planet, the authors...