Battery Books

• Space Policy
  Anthropology
  Human Biology
  Space Exploration
  Aviation
  Today's Healthcare
   
  

  Stiff

  An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's ...  > read more
• Geography
  Fossils
  Paleontology
  Travel and Recreation
  Geology
  Earth Science
   
  

  National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils (National Audubon Society Field Guide Series)

  This, the first all-photographic field guide to cover fossils found throughout North America north of Mexico, includes nearly 500 full-color photographs identifying corals, trilobites, shells, teeth, ...  > read more
• Brain Injury
  Brain Tumor
  Intelligence
  Psychology Research
  Neuroscience
  Disorders and Syndromes
   
  

  Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves

  Is it really possible to change the structure and function of the brain, and in so doing alter how we think and feel? The answer is a resounding yes. In late 2004, leading Western scientists joined ...  > read more
• Biometric
  Botany
  Geochemistry
  Forensics
  Forensic Research
  Computer Graphics
   
  

  The Shrub Identification Book: The Visual Method for the Practical Identification of Shrubs, Including Woody Vines and Ground Covers

  The Visual Method for the Practical Identification and Recognition of Shrubs (and vines and ground covers) -- and an important supplement to existing botanical methods.The book is in two parts: ...  > read more
• Menopause
  Sustainability
  Gender Difference
  Trees
  Environmental Policy
  Forest
   
  

  The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience

  Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya in 1940. In 1960, she won a Kennedy scholarship to study in America and earned a master's degree in biology from the University of Pittsburgh and became ...  > read more
• Origin of Life
  Extinction
  Healthy Aging
  Nature
  Dinosaurs
  Earth Science
   
  

  Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Life in the Triassic (Life of the Past)

  Before the Age of Dinosaurs there was an age in Earth's history known as the Triassic. It was a world of truly fantastic creatures, a genetic stew of the ancient and the modern. During this time ...  > read more
• Ancient Civilizations
  Cultures
  Anthropology
  Fossils
  Lost Treasures
  Origin of Life
   
  

  Ancient Turkey: A Traveller's History

  Seton Lloyd's lively account of Turkey's early history is for the ever-increasing number of people visiting the ancient sites of this fabled land. Written by an archaeologist who has spent much of ...  > read more
• Caving
  Archaeology
  Extreme Survival
  Ancient Civilizations
  Anthropology
  Nature
   
  

  The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

  The breathtakingly beautiful art created deep inside the caves of western Europe has the power to dazzle even the most jaded observers. Emerging from the narrow underground passages into the chambers ...  > read more
• Cosmology
  Big Bang
  Physics
  Quantum Physics
  Earth Science
  Astrophysics
   
  

  Born With a Bang: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story : Book 1 (Sharing Nature With Children Book)

  In this first of a trilogy, the Universe tells its own life story of chaos and creativity, science and struggle. Time after time the Universe nearly perishes, then bravely triumphs and turns itself ...  > read more
• Ancient Civilizations
  Lost Treasures
  Nature
  World Development
  Fossils
  Cultures
   
  

  The Leopard's Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Catalhoyuk

  A firsthand account of the discoveries at this seminal ancient site in Turkey, one of the first farming settlements in history.Çatalhöyük, in central Turkey, became internationally ...  > read more

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