Author: Jeremy Bernstein
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
Keywords: element, dangerous, world, history, plutonium
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-03-30
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0309102960
ISBN-13: 9780309102964

When plutonium was first manufactured at Berkeley in the spring of 1941, there was so little of it that it was not visible to the naked eye. It took a year to accumulate enough so that one could actually see it. Now there is so much that we don’t know what to do to get rid of it. We have created a monster. The history of plutonium is as strange as the element itself. When scientists began looking for it, they did so simply in the spirit of inquiry, not certain whether there were still spots to fill on the periodic table. But the discovery of fission made it clear that this still-hypothet

Authors:MD, MPH Beverly Winikoff, Suzanne Wymelenberg, A Jos
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
Keywords: effective, choices, safe, guide, truth, contraception, whole
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1997-09-02
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 030905494X
ISBN-13: 9780309054942

A detailed guide to currently available methods of birth control.A detailed guide to currently available methods of birth control.

Author: Francisco Ayala
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
Keywords: gift, darwin
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-04-23
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0309102316
ISBN-13: 9780309102315

With the publication in 1859 of "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection", Charles Darwin established evolution by common descent as the dominant scientific explanation for nature’s diversity. This was to be his gift to science and society - at last, we had an explanation for how life came to be on Earth. Scientists agree that the evolutionary origin of animals and plants is a scientific conclusion beyond reasonable doubt. They place it beside such established concepts as the roundness of the earth, its revolution around the sun, and the molecular composition of matter. Th

Authors:M.D. Dr. Helene A. Emsellem, with Carol Whiteley,
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
Keywords: teen, sleep, habits, improve, ways, lose, war, snooze
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-07-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0309101891
ISBN-13: 9780309101899

Walk into any first-period high school classroom and it’s obvious: teenagers are exhausted. Sleep deprivation is an epidemic as widespread as obesity – and as damaging. Fortunately, science has answers and Dr. Helene Emsellem has solutions that all parents can use. Affecting the lives of more than 41 million adolescents in the United States alone, kids just aren’t getting enough sleep. We know this intuitively as we watch kids frantically juggle a hectic social calendar with the overwhelming demands of school, work, and chores. School performance around the country is suffering

Authors:Neil de Grasse Tyson, Charles Tsun-Chu Liu, Robert I
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
Keywords: cosmos, home, universe, one
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-12-20
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0309064880
ISBN-13: 9780309064880

Physically and intellectually, the celestial bodies that move about the universe seem unreachable to us from our Earth-bound vantage. But recent discoveries in astronomy and physics reveal that the principles that govern our everyday life and the workings of the cosmos are one and the same. In ONE UNIVERSE: At Home in the Cosmos, Neil de Grasse Tyson, Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, Charles Liu, an astrophysicist at the Museum, and Robert Irion, a contributing editor and correspondent to Astronomy and Science, make it clear t

Author: Madeline Drexler
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
Keywords: infections, emerging, menace, agents, secret
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2002-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0309076382
ISBN-13: 9780309076388

So you think modern medicine has the whole virus game figured out? Think again. And it’s not even a question of "if" we’ll be hit by some new and deadly disease - it’s "when." The war on germs is being fought on many fronts - from the skirmishes with disease-carrying mosquitoes that cross oceans hidden away in airline wheel-wells to the high profile battle against terrorists wielding deadly bioweapons. Today’s bold headlines would have us believe that the biggest threat comes from bioterrorism. But don’t underestimate Mother Nature, perhaps the most savage biot

Authors:A Joseph Henry Press book, Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla,
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
Keywords: resources, biological, protecting, understanding, biodiversity
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1996-09-16
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0309055849
ISBN-13: 9780309055840

In "Biodiversity", Edward O. Wilson warned of the dangers of altering and destroying our environment. "Biodiversity II" explores new strategies for quantifying, understanding, and protecting biodiversity. It also explores ecosystem restoration, sustainable development, and agricultural impact and reinforces the idea that conservation of our biological resources is within reach Pub: 5/97.