Summary: An undergraduate course for nonscience majors that treats the atom as a tool for revealing the quantitative history of everything--from the human diet and works of art to Earth's climate and the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.09 PHYGilliland, Ben
Summary: Want to understand black holes, antimatter, physics, and space exploration? Looking for a common sense guide to quantum physics that you can actually understand? Rocket Science for the Rest of Us is the book you're looking for! Get a grip on even the most mysterious and complex sciences with Ben Gilliland's guide to dark matter, exo-planets, Planck time, earth sciences, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2015
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Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Live, Super Immunity, The End of Diabetes, and The End of Dieting presents a scientifically proven, practical program to prevent and reverse heart disease, the leading cause of death in America--coinciding with the author's new medical study revealing headline-making findings. Dr. Joel Fuhrman, one of the country's leading experts on preventative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.1 FUHSummary: "Provides basic consumer health information about the transmission and treatment of diseases spread from person to person, along with facts about prevention, self-care, and drug resistance. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9 CONKucharski, Adam
Summary: A deadly virus suddenly explodes into the population. A political movement gathers pace, and then quickly vanishes. An idea takes off like wildfire, changing our world forever. We live in a world that's more interconnected than ever before. Our lives are shaped by outbreaks - of disease, of misinformation, even of violence - that appear, spread and fade away with bewildering speed. To...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 KUCWeinersmith, Kelly
Summary: "From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilariously illustrated investigation into future technologies--from how to fling a ship into deep space on the cheap to 3D organ printing. What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why do we not have a lunar colony already? What is the holdup? In this smart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 600 WEICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Science WeinersmithGendron, Alice
Summary: "An inclusive guide to ADHD that explores its diverse types, symptoms, diagnoses, and misconceptions, and shares how to work with your ADHD brain to fully understand yourself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Prism 2023
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Summary: "Knowledge is the most powerful weapon. As the female body is constantly being politicized and policed, it is now more than ever that people must understand the inner workings of women's body. Written by an evolutionary geneticist, Deena Emera, Ph.D., in an accessible, nonjudgmental tone, A Brief History of the Female Body unravels misconceptions women have about their own bodies and supplies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.6 EMESummary: "Provides health information about the kidneys and urinary system, including bladder, urethra, and ureters, with facts about urinary tract infections, urinary incontinence, congenital disorders, kidney stones, cancers of the kidneys and urinary tract, kidney failure, dialysis, and kidney transplantation. Includes glossary, index, and other resources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.6 KIDStetka, Bret
Summary: Just over 125,000 years ago, humanity was on the edge of extinction when a dramatic shift occurred—Homo sapiens started tracking the tides and eating the nearby oysters. Before long, they’d pulled themselves back from the brink of extinction. What saved us during that period of endangerment? The human brain, and its evolutionary journey is unlike anything else in history. In Brain Power,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.82 STEEngland, Jeremy
Summary: "Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And if you trace the evolutionary history of plants and animals back far enough, you will find that, at some point, neither were we. Scientists have wrestled with this problem for centuries, and no one has been able to offer a credible theory. But in 2013, at just 30 years old, biophysicist Jeremy England published a paper that has utterly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 ENGSummary: Using a bold, graphic-led approach, The Ecology Book explores and explains over 85 of the key ideas, movements, and acts that have defined ecology and ecological thought. The book has a simple chronological structure, with early chapters ranging from the ideas of classical thinkers to attempts by Enlightenment thinkers to systematically order the natural world. Later chapters trace the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577 ECOOrbuch, Iris Kerin
Summary: Approximately one out of every 10 women has endometriosis, an inflammatory disease that causes chronic pain and may lead to infertility. The average woman may suffer for years before receiving an accurate diagnosis, then she's often given little more than a prescription for pain killers and a referral for surgery. Orbuch and Stein address the disease's host of co-existing conditions through a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.1 ORBAmen, Daniel G.
Summary: "New hope for those suffering from conditions like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, addictions, PTSD, ADHD and more. Though incidence of these conditions is skyrocketing, for the past four decades standard treatment hasn't much changed, and success rates in treating them have barely improved, either. Meanwhile, the stigma of the "mental illness" label-damaging and devastating on its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale Momentum, the nonfiction imprint of Tyndale House Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 AMESummary: "Provides basic health information for cancer survivors, such as seeking medical assistance, side effects of cancer treatments, cancer-related research studies, maintaining health during and after treatment, along with the guidelines for friends, family members, and caregivers to take care of cancer survivors. Includes glossary, index, and other resources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 CANPilcher, Helen
Summary: If you could bring back just one animal from the past, what would you choose? It can be anyone or anything from history, from the King of the Dinosaurs, T. rex, to the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Elvis Presley, and beyond. De-extinction - the ability to bring extinct species back to life - is fast becoming reality. Around the globe, scientists are trying to de-extinct all manner of animals,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Nat PilcherLi, William W.
Summary: "Dr. Li introduces the surprising new science of weight loss, revealing healthy body fat can help you lose weight; your metabolism at 60 can be the same as when you were 20; yo-yo dieting can be good for your health; 8-hour fasting windows can be as effective as 12-hour fasting windows; and losing just a little bit of weight can have big impacts on your health. Eat to Beat Your Diet shows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of groundbreaking science. In a Flight of Starlings, already a #1 bestseller in his native Italy, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work: investigating the principles of physics by observing the flight of flocks of birds. Studying the movements...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.01 PAREzzo, Gary
Summary: Teaches parents about synchronized feedings so their baby will establish cycles for wake time and nighttime, giving both parent and child the rest they need.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parent-Wise Solutions 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 649 EZZNunez, Paul L.
Summary: This book explains in layperson's terms a new approach to studying consciousness based on a partnership between neuroscientists and complexity scientists. The author, a physicist turned neuroscientist, outlines essential features of this partnership. The new science goes well beyond traditional cognitive science and simple neural networks, which are often the focus in artificial intelligence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 NUNTyson, Neil deGrasse
Summary: Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all--from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel. Describing the latest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523 TYSSummary: Stroke Sourcebook, Fifth Edition provides detailed information about stroke, its causes, and types such as Ischemic, hemorrhagic and recurrent stroke.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 STRMee, Nicholas.
Summary: This is a lively, inspiring beginner's guide to how the universe works. This book contains bite-sized chapters present the discoveries of modern physics, astronomy, and cosmology. It also has background stories of the research and researchers bring the science to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 MEELeVeque, Kelly
Summary: In this inspirational yet practical book, the nutritional consultant and holistic healthcare expert who has helped celebrities such as Jessica Alba, Molly Sims, Chelsea Handler, and Emmy Rossum improve their health and achieve their goals shows you how to get beyond the food drama of cyclical fad diets and feel and look great by eating well. Kelly's Food Freedom program helps you set yourself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017