Overview :A neuroscientist and journalist takes us on a fascinating and weird journey though the science behind hypothermia.The word "hypothermia" has... Read More
Overview :Named a Best Book of 2020 by the Telegraph, the Times, and BBC History Magazine, The Light Ages is an illuminating guide to the scientific a... Read More
Overview :When the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet, the New York Times pr... Read More
Overview :A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievement... 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 :An insightful, revealing history of the magical mathematics that transformed our world. At a summer tea party in Cambridge, England, a guest... Read More
Overview :From the bestselling author of How We Got To Now, The Ghost Map and Farsighted, a new national bestseller: the "exhilarating"( Los Angeles T... 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 :"There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it." With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim,... 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 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 :At the beginning of the 21st century, physics is being driven to very unfamiliar territory--the domain of the incredibly small and the incre... Read More
Overview :James Watson and Francis Crick's 1953 discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our mod... Read More
Overview :Featuring more than two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite as the experiments it document... Read More
Overview :A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievement... Read More
Overview :The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America--from eugenics and posture pageants to today's... Read More
Overview :We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal ... Read More