How to bake [pi]: an edible exploration of the mathematics of mathematics

By Cheng, Eugenia

Publishing Date: [2015]

Classification: 500

Call Number: 510.1 CHE

"In How to Bake Pi, math professor Eugenia Cheng provides an accessible introduction to the logic and beauty of mathematics, powered, unexpectedly, by insights from the kitchen: we learn, for example, how the béchamel in a lasagna can be a lot like the number 5, and why making a good custard proves that math is easy but life is hard."--

The glass universe: how the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars

By Sobel, Dava

Publishing Date: [2016]

Classification: 500

Call Number: 522 SOB

The little-known true story of the unexpected and remarkable contributions to astronomy made by a group of women working in the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s. --

The character of physical law

By Feynman, Richard P.

Publishing Date: 1994

Classification: 500

Call Number: 530 FEY

Analyzes selected physical laws, demonstrating the interaction of physics and mathematics and revealing the incredible order of nature.

Reality is not what it seems: the journey to quantum gravity

By Rovelli, Carlo

Publishing Date: 2017

Classification: 500

Call Number: 530.143 ROV

Traces how the human image of the world has changed throughout history, demonstrating the evolution of the idea of reality while touching on subjects ranging from the Higgs boson to quantum gravity.

Plutonium: a history of the world's most dangerous element

By Bernstein, Jeremy

Publishing Date: c2007

Classification: 500

Call Number: 546.434 BER

ABCs from space

By Voiland, Adam

Publishing Date: [2017]

Classification: 500

Call Number: 550 VOI

An alphabet book of photographs of Earth taken from outer space that look like each letter. --

The sound book: the science of the sonic wonders of the world

By Cox, Trevor J.

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: 500

Call Number: 550.1534 COX

"With forays into archaeology, neuroscience, biology, and design, Cox explains how sound is made and altered by the environment, how our body reacts to peculiar noises, and how these mysterious wonders illuminate sound's surprising dynamics in everyday settings, from your bedroom to the opera house"--Amazon.com.

The great quake: how the biggest earthquake in North America changed our understanding of the planet

By Fountain, Henry

Publishing Date: [2017]

Classification: 500

Call Number: 551.22 FOU

"In the tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in recorded history in North America--the 1964 Alaskan earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and obliterated the coastal village of Chenega--and the scientist sent to look for geological clues to explain the dynamics of earthquakes, who helped to confirm the then controversial theory of plate tectonics. On March 27, 1964, at 5:36 p.m., the biggest earthquake ever recorded in North America--and the second biggest ever in the world, measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale--struck Alaska, devastating coastal towns and villages and killing more than 130 people in what was then a relatively sparsely populated region. In a riveting tale about the almost unimaginable brute force of nature, New York Times science journalist Henry Fountain, in his first trade book, re-creates the lives of the villagers and townspeople living in Chenega, Anchorage, and Valdez; describes the sheer beauty of the geology of the region, with its towering peaks and 20-mile-long glaciers; and reveals the impact of the quake on the towns, the buildings, and the lives of the inhabitants. George Plafker, a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey with years of experience scouring the Alaskan wilderness, is asked to investigate the Prince William Sound region in the aftermath of the quake, to better understand its origins. His work confirmed the then controversial theory of plate tectonics that explained how and why such deadly quakes occur, and how we can plan for the next one"--

The cabaret of plants: forty thousand years of plant life and the human imagination

By Mabey, Richard

Publishing Date: 2016

Classification: 500

Call Number: 580 MAB

"The Cabaret of Plants is a masterful, globe-trotting exploration of the relationship between humans and the kingdom of plants by the renowned naturalist Richard Mabey"--

Being a beast: adventures across the species divide

By Foster, Charles

Publishing Date: 2016

Classification: 500

Call Number: 591.5 FOS

To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the nonhumans. To do that, he chose five animals and lived alongside them, sleeping as they slept, eating what they ate, learning to sense the landscape through the senses they used. In this lyrical, intimate, and completely radical look at the lives of animals, Charles Foster mingles neuroscience and psychology, nature writing and memoir, and ultimately presents an inquiry into the human experience in our world, carried out by exploring the full range of the life around us.

Touching the wild: living with the mule deer of Deadman Gulch

By Hutto, Joe

Publishing Date: [2014]

Classification: 500

Call Number: 599.653 HUT

The companion book to a PBS nature documentary describes the story of a man who lived with a herd of mule deer in the mountains of Wyoming for nearly seven years, developing connections with them and learning their group dynamics.--

The tiger: a true story of vengeance and survival

By Vaillant, John

Publishing Date: c2010

Classification: 500

Call Number: 599.756 VAI

It's December 1997, and a man-eating Siberian tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through the gruesome remains of the victims, they discover that these attacks aren't random. An absolutely gripping tale of man and nature that leads inexorably to a final showdown in a clearing deep in the taiga.