Overview :A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievement... Read More
Overview :A compelling, often hilarious and occasionally horrifying exploration of how modern medicine came to be Wondering whether eating powdered m... 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 :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 :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 :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 :This richly readable book is the product of Charles Darwin's amazing journey aboard the Beagle where he made observations that led to his re... 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 :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 :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 :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 :For two thousand years, cadavers?some willingly, some unwittingly?have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings.... Read More
Overview :Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a ne... 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 :A distinguished Platonic scholar discusses the impact of the Greek discovery of the "cosmos" on man's perception of his place in the univers... Read More
Overview :The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures... Read More
Overview :A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civili... 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 :Conquering the Electron offers readers a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static ele... Read More