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Author: Coleen T. Murphy
All of us would like to live longer, or to slow the debilitating effects of age.
In “How We Age,” Coleen Murphy shows how recent research on longevity and aging may be bringing us closer to this goal.
Murphy, a leading scholar of aging, explains that the study of model systems, particularly simple invertebrate animals, combined with breakthroughs in genomic methods, have allowed scientists to probe the molecular mechanisms of longevity and aging.
Authors: David J.E. Marsh, David Ellis, and Viraf M. Mehta
This book provides an incisive, self-contained introduction to one of the most intriguing subjects in modern physics, presenting the evidence we have from astrophysics for the existence of dark matter, the theories for what it could be, and the cutting-edge experimental and observational methods for testing them.
It begins with a survey of the astrophysical phenomena, from rotation curves to lensing and cosmological structure formation.
The book explains the constraints on each theory, such as direct detection and indirect astrophysical limits.
Authors: STEVE N. G. HOWELL AND DALE DYER
Belize is one of the world’s premier birding destinations, home to a marvelous array of tropical birds and beautiful habitats ranging from verdant rain forests and extensive wetlands to rolling pine savannas and the country’s famed barrier reef.
“Birds of Belize” is the essential illustrated pocket guide to this birder’s paradise.
It covers all regularly occurring bird species found in the region and features facing-page plates and text that make field identification easy.
Author: Gergely Baics
New York City witnessed unparalleled growth in the first half of the 19th century, its population rising from thirty thousand to nearly a million in a matter of decades.
“Feeding Gotham” looks at how America’s first metropolis grappled with the challenge of provisioning its inhabitants. It tells the story of how access to food, once a public good, became a private matter left to free and unregulated markets—and of the profound consequences this had for American living standards and urban development.
Taking readers from the early republic to the Civil War, Gergely Baics explores the changing dynamics of urban government, market forces, and the built environment that defined New Yorkers’ experiences of supplying their households.
A masterful blend of economic, social, and geographic history, “Feeding Gotham” traces how a highly fragmented geography of food access became a defining and enduring feature of the American city.
Simon Hall’s “Three Revolutions” tells together for the first time Lenin’s 1917 return to Russia, Mao’s ‘Long March’ of 1934-35 and Fidel Castro’s return to Cuba in 1956.
Told in tandem with these are the corresponding journeys of three journalists - John Reed, Edgar Snow and Herbert L. Matthews - whose electric testimonies from the frontlines would make a decisive contribution to how these revolutions were understood in the wider world.
