Viking, May 2022. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors... [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to help solve the world's toughest challenges."--Bill Gates "Provocative but perceptive... More
Knopf, August 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is a...... More
Dover Publications, June 1952. Trade Paperback. This collection of original papers on the special and general theories of relativity is an unabridged translation of the 4th edition of Das Relativitatsprinzip, together with a revised edition of an additional paper by H. A. Lorentz. CONTENTS: I. Michelson's Interference Experiment by H...... More
Penguin Books, December 1990. First Thus. Paper Back. Every so often a writer finds a way of reinterpreting the cosmos, of guiding readers through new fields of knowledge to transcendent understanding. Hardison is just such a writer, and Disappearing Through the Skylight is just such a book--a provocative, groundbreaking work..... More
Basic Books, August 1997. Trade Paperback. In this remarkable account, evolutionary biologist Christopher Wills takes us on a voyage of discovery through the exotic pasts of the viruses and bacteria that periodically emerge with such disastrous results for our species. It is our knowledge of their secret lives, the eons..... More
Russell Sage Foundation, April 2004. Hardcover. The past thirty years have witnessed a dramatic decline in the number of U.S. students pursuing advanced degrees in science and an equally dramatic increase in the number of professionals leaving scientific careers. Leaving Science provides the first significant examination of this worrisome new..... More
Dutton, November 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. "Delightfully horrifying."--Popular Science One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018 One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018 This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping..... More
Penguin Books, June 2005. Trade Paperback. "The Invisible Century" is an original look at two of the most important revolutions?and revolutionaries?of the modern era. This dual biography of Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud? and their parallel journeys of discovery that altered forever our understanding of the very nature of reality..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, March 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. The pioneering texts in quantitative history were written over two decades ago, but as a command of methodological context, computer experience, and statistical literacy have become increasingly important to the study of history, the need for an introductory text..... More
University of California Press, September 2015. Trade Paperback. What do we think about when we think about human evolution? With his characteristic wit and wisdom, anthropologist Jonathan Marks explores our scientific narrative of human origins--the study of evolution--and examines its cultural elements and theoretical foundations. In the process, he situates..... More
Houghton Mifflin, March 1998. Hardcover. Taking the reader around the world, stopping in France to examine 30,000-year-old cave paintings, in Africa to see where our earliest ancestors left their bones, and in remote forests to spy on our closest relatives, the great apes, Tattersall keeps his focus on the big..... More
Basic Books (AZ), October 2001. Hardcover. At once a spirited defense of Darwinian explanations of biology and an elegant primer on evolution for the general reader, What Evolution Is has several audiences in mind: those scientists and nonscientists who accept evolutionary thinking but do not know exactly how it works..... More
Harper, August 2001. Hardcover. From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology.In 1793 William..... More
Belknap Press, March 1985. Trade Paperback. "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" was Haeckel's answer--the wrong one--to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny) and the evolution of species and lineages (phylogeny)? In this, the first major book on the subject in fifty years, Stephen..... More
Simon & Schuster, June 1996. Trade Paperback. In this groundbreaking and very accessible book, Daniel C. Dennett, the acclaimed author of Consciousness Explained, demonstrates the power of the theory of natural selection and shows how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of our place in the universe..... More
Oxford University Press, January 1985. Paper Back. This biography illuminates the racial attitudes of an elite group of American scientists and foundation officers. It is the story of a complex and unhappy man. It blends social, institutional, black, and political history with the history of science. Octavo. Marginal darkening within..... More
Philosophical Library. Reprint. Hardcover. 12mo. {4' x 6 & 1/2'} In dustjacket with heavy tanning, especially of spine. Chipping to edges. One & one-half inch parallel closed tears bottom of front panel. Front flap is not clipped. Pale blue-grey paper covered boards with black lettering along spine & Philosophical Library..... More
Ecco Press, August 2014. Trade Paperback. New York Times bestselling author and renowned atheist and evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins delivers an intimate look into his own childhood and intellectual development, illuminating his path to becoming one of the foremost thinkers in modern science today "A memoir that is funny and..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1981. Trade Paperback. Background materials include reproductions of the original scientific papers in which the double helical structure of DNA was first presented in 1953 and 1954. In Criticism, which begins with A Review of the Reviews by Gunther Stent, other scientists and..... More
Vintage, April 1995. Trade Paperback. By the bestselling author of Cutting for Stone, a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears. Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2009. Hardcover. In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood. Far from the sun, wonder Pluto has any fans. Yet during the mounting debate over rallied behind the extraterrestrial underdog. Disney created an irresistible pup by the same name, and..... More
Penguin Press HC, The, October 2009. Hardcover. In this provocative and headline-making book, Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet. In "Denialism, New Yorker" staff writer Michael Specter reveals that Americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially the institution..... More
St. Martins Press-3PL, September 2000. Trade Paperback. Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. The threat of the disease kept ships close to home and doomed those vessels that ventured too far from port. The willful..... More
Perseus Books Group, September 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. This ingenious book is the account of an epic astronomical journey, a tale told by an early-twenty-first-century human sailor among the stars. The account is discovered, as an alien "translator's note" reveals, sixty million years in earth's future--the product of one man's..... More
Doubleday, March 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a mysterious, still mythical beast--the gorilla--only to stumble straight into the center of the biggest debate of the day: Darwin's theory of evolution In 1856..... More
