Overview :In the tradition of her perennial bestseller The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer delivers an accessible, entertaining, and illuminating... Read More
Overview :A thrilling adventure story chronicling the perilous journey of the scientists who set out to prove the theory of relativity--the results of... Read More
Overview :From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People), little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to... Read More
Overview :The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighte... Read More
Overview :From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and mo... Read More
Overview :What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we kn... Read More
Overview :A fascinating deep dive on innovation from the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Farsighted The printing press, the... Read More
Overview :A tour of Mars in the human imagination, from ancient astrologers to modern explorers. Mars and its secrets have fascinated and mystified h... Read More
Overview :Already climbing the bestseller lists-and garnering rave reviews--this "little masterpiece" sheds brilliant light on the equation that chang... Read More
Overview :For two thousand years, cadavers?some willingly, some unwittingly?have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings.... Read More
Overview :A fascinating tour of particle physics from Nobel Prize winner Leon Lederman. At the root of particle physics is an invincible sense of curi... Read More
Overview :Tales of the intrepid early naturalists who set sail on dangerous voyages of discovery in the vast, unknown Pacific On the great Pacific dis... Read More
Overview :A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--Th... Read More
Overview :The remarkable but neglected story of Aristotle's founding role in the scientific study of nature Both a travelogue and a study of the orig... Read More
Overview :Andrew D. White (1832-1918), historian, diplomat, and first president of Cornell University, advocated such progressive causes as equal righ... Read More
Overview :The story of two brilliant nineteenth-century scientists who discovered the electromagnetic field, laying the groundwork for the amazing tec... Read More
Overview :In this classic book, the distinguished science writer Horace Freeland Judson tells the story of the birth and early development of molecula... Read More
Overview :In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovere... Read More
Overview :Conquering the Electron offers readers a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static ele... Read More