Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the efforts of an elite scientific team who tested Einstein's theory of relativity during a historic mission to photograph a black hole, addressing key questions about time, space, and the nature of the universe.
"[This book] follows a team of elite scientists on their historic mission to take the first picture of a black hole, putting Einstein's theory of relativity to its ultimate test and helping to answer our deepest questions about space,...
Author
Language
English
Description
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the late 1940s. Kurt Vonnegut is home after surviving the firebombing of Dresden. He has ambitions to be a novelist but dares to share them only with his new wife. Kurt struggles to complete college and write while working nights at a newspaper. Soon there's a child on the way. Anxious about supporting his family, Kurt quits school and takes a job in the PR department of General Electric, where his older brother, Bernard, is a leading scientist...
4) Moonfall
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mankind is threatened when a mysterious force throws the moon out of orbit, and sends it hurtling on a collision course with Earth.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
“[A] winningly obsessive history of our relationship with underground places” (The Guardian), from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities—an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feet
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR
When Will Hunt was sixteen years old, he discovered...
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR
When Will Hunt was sixteen years old, he discovered...
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Skier and debut author Ayja Bounous explores threats to the winters and watershed in the face of climate change and the far-reaching impacts of a diminishing snowpack on the American West--not only from ecological and economic perspectives, but also in regard to emotional and psychological health, as she realizes how deeply her personal relationships are tied to the snow-covered mountains of Utah's Wasatch range"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected lifeline: a job at the Medical Examiner’s Office in New York City. The second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan, she was the first to last more than three months. The work was gritty, demanding, morbid, and sometimes dangerous – she loved it.
Butcher (yes, that is her real name, and she has heard all the jokes) spent day in and...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request