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Space Flight: History, Technology, and Operations

by Lance K. Erickson

This book offers a comprehensive look at the history of space exploration, the technology that makes it possible, and the continued efforts that promise to carry us into the future. It goes through the history...


Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold

by Tom Shachtman

In this engrossing scientific chronicle, a perennial paperback favorite, Tom Shachtman combines science, history, and adventure in the story of our four-centuries-long quest to master the secrets of cold. Now...


Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain

by Antonio Damasio

In the seventeenth century, the philosopher Spinoza examined the role emotion played in human survival and culture. Yet hundreds of years and many significant scientific advances later, the neurobiological roots...


Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist

by Thomas Levenson

In 1695, Isaac Newton—already renowned as the greatest mind of his age—made a surprising career change. He left quiet Cambridge, where he had lived for thirty years and made his earth-shattering discoveries,...


Ballpoint: A Tale of Genius and Grit, Perilous Times, and the Invention that Changed the Way We Write

by Gyoergy Moldova & David Robert Evans

The triumphs and the trials of the men who invented the modern ballpoint pen as they battled corporate greed, dark eras--and each other.

László Bíró's last name is, in much of the world, a synonym for his...


An Ocean of Air: Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere

by Gabrielle Walker

We don’t just live in the air; we live because of it. It’s the most miraculous substance on earth, responsible for our food, our weather, our water, and our ability to hear. In this exuberant book, gifted...


Dreaming the Biosphere: The Theater of All Possibilities

by Rebecca Reider

Reider tells the tangled tale of the creation, and eventual disintegration, of the experimental eco-utopia known as Biosphere 2.


Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology 1998

by Douglas Starr

Essence and emblem of life--feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times--human blood is now the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commerce. It is...


Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral

by David Dobbs

Explores the century-long controversy over the orgins of coral reefs, a debate that split the world of nineteenth-century science, looking at the diverse roles of Louis Agassiz, his son Alexander, and Charles...


Shadows: Unlocking Their Secrets, from Plato to Our Time

by Roberto Casati

In this original, wide-ranging, and endlessly thought-provoking work of popular nonfiction, a leading science writer uncovers the pervasive presence of shadows in our world.

For Plato, shadows were the symbol...


My Einstein: Essays by the World's Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy

by John Brockman

In this fascinating volume, today’s foremost scientists discuss their own versions and visions of Einstein: how he has influenced their worldviews, their ideas, their science, and their professional and personal...


The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery

by Wendy Moore

When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his gothic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he based the house of the genial doctor-turned-fiend on the home of John Hunter. The choice was understandable, for Hunter...


Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present

by Daniel R. R. Headrick

For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies. They have relied on their superior technology to do so, yet these technologies...


Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations

by Brian Fagan

Reissued and updated ten years after its original publication, a dazzlingly original book—far ahead of its time—explains how the world’s best-known climate event affect ed the rise and fall of civilizations...


The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World

by James Shreeve

The long-awaited story of the science, the business, the politics, the intrigue behind the scenes of the most ferocious competition in the history of modern science—the race to map the human genome.

On May...


Seeing Further

by Bill Bryson

This revised e-book features all photographs, designed in beautiful full-color.

Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with original contributions from "a glittering array of scientific writing talent" (Sunday...


Free Radicals: The Secret Anarchy of Science

by Michael Brooks

The thrilling exploration of the secret side of scientific discovery --proving that some rules were meant to be broken scientists have colluded in the most successful cover-up of modern times. They present themselves...


Eaten by a Giant Clam: Great Adventures in Natural Science

by Joseph Cummins

The inspiring exploration stories of natural scientists in the field from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries The history of natural science is often a case of truth being stranger than fiction, as is evidenced...


The Day the World Discovered the Sun: An Extraordinary Story of Scientific Adventure and the Race to Track the Transit of Venus

by Mark Anderson

In the tradition of Longitude, a page-turning story of eighteenth-century astronomers racing to find the distance to the sun and the keys to worldwide navigation


Experiment Eleven: Dark Secrets Behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug

by Peter Pringle

In 1943, Albert Schatz, a young Rutgers College Ph.D. student, worked on a wartime project in microbiology professor Selman Waksman's lab, searching for an antibiotic to fight infections on the front lines and...