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Rethinking Readiness
A Brief Guide to Twenty-First-Century Megadisasters Jeff Schlegelmilch Foreword by Irwin Redlener
Rethinking Readiness offers an expert introduction to human-made threats and vulnerabilities, with a focus on opportunities to reimagine how we approach disaster preparedness. Jeff Schlegelmilch identifies and explores the most critical threats facing the world today, detailing the dangers of pandemics, climate change, infrastructure collapse, cyberattacks, and nuclear conflict.
$20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19041-1 $60.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19040-4 2020 200 pages Renewable Energy
A Primer for the TwentyFirst Century Bruce Usher
This book is a primer for readers of all levels on the coming energy transition and its global consequences. Bruce Usher provides a concise yet comprehensive explanation for the growth in wind and solar energy; the trajectory of the transition from fossil fuels to renewables; and the implications for industries, countries, and the climate.
$20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-18785-5 $65.00 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-18784-8 2019 224 pages 34 illus.
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Reductionism in Art and Brain Science
Bridging the Two Cultures Eric R. Kandel
The Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel shows how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning. He illustrates how reductionism—the distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller components—has been used by scientists and artists alike to pursue their respective truths.
$22.95 / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-17963-8 $29.95 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-17962-1 2016 240 pages 105 illus. Bad Advice
Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information Paul A. Offit, M.D.
In Bad Advice, Paul A. Offit shares hard-earned wisdom on the dos and don’ts of battling misinformation. For the past twenty years, Offit has been on the front lines in the fight for sound science and public heath, stepping into the media spotlight as few scientists have done. Bad Advice discusses science and its adversaries: not just the manias stoked by slick charlatans and their miracle cures but also corrosive, dangerous ideologies such as Holocaust and climate-change denial.
$16.95 / £12.99 paper 978-0-231-18699-5 $24.95 / £20.00 cloth 978-0-231-18698-8 2018 272 pages
The Bearded Lady Project
Challenging the Face of Science Edited by Lexi Jamieson Marsh and Ellen Currano
Challenging persistent gender biases in the sciences, The Bearded Lady Project puts the spotlight on underrepresented geoscientists in the field and in the lab. This book pairs portraits of these scientists after donning fake beards with personal essays in which they tell their stories.
$40.00 / £34.00 cloth 978-0-231-19804-2 2020 208 pages 11 illus.-
Drought
An Interdisciplinary Perspective Benjamin I. Cook
Benjamin I. Cook brings together climate science, hydrology, and ecology to provide a synthetic overview of drought and its environmental and social consequences. Drought is a critical interdisciplinary text that will be essential reading for a broad range of students in earth science and environmental and sustainability studies.
$40.00 / £34.00 paper 978-0-231-17689-7 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-17688-0 2019 232 pages 57 illus. Vanishing Ice
Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Rising Seas Vivien Gornitz
Delving into the major components of the cryosphere, including ice sheets, valley glaciers, permafrost, and floating ice, Vivien Gornitz gives an up-to-date explanation of key current trends in the decline of ice mass. Drawing on a long-term perspective gained by examining changes in the cryosphere and corresponding variations in sea level over millions of years, she demonstrates the link between thawing ice and sea-level rise to point to the social and economic challenges on the horizon.
$35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-16824-3 2019 400 pages 55 illus.
Mouthfeel
How Texture Makes Taste Ole G. Mouritsen and Klavs Styrbæk
Translated by Mariela Johansen
Why is chocolate melting on the tongue such a decadent sensation? Why do we love crunching on bacon? Our sense of taste produces physical and emotional reactions that cannot be explained by chemical components alone. Collaborating in the laboratory and the kitchen, Ole G. Mouritsen and Klavs Styrbæk investigate the multiple ways in which food texture influences taste.
$29.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18077-1 $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18076-4 2018 376 pages 148 illus.
