Cloud computing surrounds us everywhere. We face it in everyday life when we work with documents in the cloud, use our smartphones for checking e-mails, send messages, store photos, etc. Nowadays cloud computing doesn’t seem like some sophisticated term that is used only in IT companies. It is a part of the reality we live …
ISBN-10: 0618187588 What’s going on in your body as you go through the motions of a day? This book explores the noteworthy new science of your inner world. From waking to walking, stressing out to working out, drinking to dreaming, it investigates the fresh news about the mysteries of exercise, sex, fear, stress, appetite, fatigue, …
ISBN-10: 06180828752001, Houghton Mifflin (hardcover) A natural history of humanity as seen through the lens of our genes and cells, Chance in the House of Fate explores the ways in which, at the most fundamental level, humans are genetically linked to every part of the natural world. The book offers a personal tour through the …
ISBN-0-670-84924-31995, Viking Penguin (hardcover) A portrait of life at the ocean’s edge: the movement, change, and beauty of the seashore and its significance in the wider life of the planet. Notes from the Shore explores the habits of seabirds and shorebirds, including the osprey, the tidal rhythms of the marsh, the myriad creatures that inhabit …
ISBN-978-0-446-54115-12010, Twelve (hardcover) On average, we spend five years of our lives suffering from colds. Wouldn’t it be a good idea to learn something about them? Some colds are like mice, timid and annoying; others like dragons, accompanied by body aches and deep misery. Ah-Choo! explains just what a cold is, how it works, and …
Riding a wave of new technology, scientists are discovering more of the oceans’ secrets, including the integral role the seas play in shaping our climate. Get a taste for what awaits you in print from this compelling excerpt. As the R.V. Thomas G. Thompson steams south from San Diego in the winter of 2000, those of us …
The City of Light is also a city of green, with a panoply of parks and gardens where Parisians rest and rejuvenate. Parisians in fact will seize just about any spot in their city for park or garden: tiny balcony, abandoned auto plant, bankrupt parking garage, derelict railway, even the giant curved facade of a …
Grab, shake, bite, puncture, punch—that’s just the courtship ritual of these dazzling aerobats. Get a taste of what awaits you in print from this compelling excerpt. You may have seen their antics on a languid summer day: Somewhere on the reedy fringes of a pond, a male dasher dragonfly pursuing a female, like two hyphens …
A frosted stage gathers red-crowned cranes, whooper swans, sika deer, and snow monkeys. Can Japan turn an ancient reverence for its animals into modern conservation? Get a taste of what awaits you in print from this compelling excerpt. In other seasons there might be 20 of us and only a few of them. But now, …
All those aching backs may be trying to tell us something: It’s part of the price we pay for walking on two legs. Get a taste of what awaits you in print from this compelling excerpt. In Karen Rosenberg’s laboratory at the University of Delaware, a room packed with the casts of skulls and bones …
