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The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix

by James D. Watson, Alexander Gann & Jan Witkowski

Published to mark the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Prize for Watson and Crick’s discovery of the structure of DNA, an annotated and illustrated edition of this classic book gives new insights into the personal...


Ecology and the Literature of the British Left: The Red and the Green

by John Rignall & H. Gustav Klaus

Premised on the belief that a social and an ecological agenda are compatible, this collection offers readings in the ecology of left and radical writing from the Romantic period to the present. In historicizing...


The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult

by Tatiana Kontou & Sarah Willburn

Designed both for those new to the field and for experts, this volume is organized into sections covering the relationship between Victorian spiritualism and science, the occult and politics, and the culture...


Prize Fight

by Morton Meyers

We often think of scientists as dispassionate and detached, nobly laboring without any expectation of reward. But scientific research is much more complicated and messy than this ideal, and scientists can be...


Stephen Hawking

by Kitty Ferguson

Stephen Hawking is one of the most remarkable figures of our age--bestselling author of A Brief History of Time, celebrated theoretical physicist, and an inspiration as he exhibits grace, dignity, and courage...


Gravity

by Brian Clegg

A history of gravity, and a study of its importance and relevance to our lives, as well as its influence on other areas of science.   Physicists will tell you that four forces control the universe. Of these,...


The Guardian of All Things

by Michael S. Malone

A fascinating exploration of the history of memory and human civilization 

Memory makes us human. No other animal carries in its brain so many memories of such complexity nor so regularly revisits those memories...


Smart Medicine

by William Hanson, M.D.

We’re a nation in love with the drama of the medical world—from fast-paced hospital life to the race to discover cures for diseases. In Smart Medicine, William Hanson brings to life the fascinating true...


The Artificial Ape

by Timothy Taylor

A breakthrough theory that tools and technology are the real drivers of human evolution

Although humans are one of the great apes, along with chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, we are remarkably different...


The Fossil Hunter

by Shelley Emling

At a time when women were excluded from science, a young girl made a discovery that marked the birth of paleontology and continues to feed the debate about evolution to this day.

Mary Anning was only twelve years...


Newton's Clock

by Ivars Peterson

With his critically acclaimed best-sellers The Mathematical Toursist and Islands of Truth, Ivars Peterson took readers to the frontiers of modern mathematics. His new book provides an up-to-date look at one...


The Poisoner

by Gail Bell

Years after Dr. William Macbeth died, his ornate medicine case passed to his estranged son. Over the protests of his family, the son buried it deep in the ground, out of sight and out of reach.

Then ten-years-old,...


The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive

by John Graham-Cumming

The history of science is all around us, if you know where to look. With this unique traveler's guide, you'll learn about 128 destinations around the world where discoveries in science, mathematics, or technology...


Alfred Russell Wallace Contributions to the theory of Natural Selection, 1870, and Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace , 'On the Tendency of Species to

by Noel Thompson

Wallace noticed on expeditions to the Amazon and the Malay archipelego that mammals in Southeast Asia are more advanced than their Australian cousins. His suggestion was that the two continents had split before...


The Science Magpie: A Miscellany of Paradoxes, Explications, Lists, Lives and Ephemera from the Wonderful World of Science

by Simon Flynn

From the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton, The Science Magpie is a compelling collection of scientific curiosities. Expand your knowledge as you view the history of the Earth on the face...


Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man, 1863

by Charles Lyell

Charles Lyell's argument in this classic volume is that the processes of nature are slow and uniform, and that the Earth is in consequence hundreds of millions of years old. This work includes his prediction...


A Little History of Science

by William Bynum

Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted...


Discarded Science: Ideas that Seemed Good at the Time

by John Grant

A bestseller in its hardback incarnation, this is an erudite but delightfully readable journey through the history of scientific ideas that once seemed plausible, at least to some, but which turned out to be...


Geology & Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, Volume I, 1836

by William Buckland

Moving away from his earlier belief in a short, catastrophic history of the Earth, this volume shows how Buckland envisages instead progressive change as the Earth gradually cooled as it was prepared for human...


On the Origin of Species, 1859

by Charles Darwin

On the Origin of Species caused an uproar when it was first published in 1859. Darwin's theory was that species had evolved from simpler organisms by natural selection acting upon the variability of populations....