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The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
Samuel Arbesman · Current Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
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New insights from the science of science Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that Pluto was a planet. For decades, we were convinced that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur.... |
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What is Chemistry?
Peter Atkins · Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Most people remember chemistry from their schooldays as a subject that was largely incomprehensible For many the topic was seen as being fact-rich but understanding-poor smelly and so far removed from the real world of events and pleasures that there seemed little point except for the most... |
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Are Numbers Real?: The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World
Brian Clegg · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organized their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What would your life be like without them?Numbers began as simple representations of everyday things, but mathematics rapidly took on a life of its own,... |
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Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
Geoffrey Parker · Yale University Press; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Book
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Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America,... |
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Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
Jon Ronson · Riverhead Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times–bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson writes about the dark, uncanny sides of humanity with clarity and humor. Lost at Sea reveals how deep our collective craziness lies, even in the most mundane circumstances. Ronson investigates the strange things... |
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Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
James T Costa · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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Darwin's Backyard goes beyond the portrait of Charles Darwin as a brilliant thinker to concentrate on him as a nimble experimenter delving into some of evolution's great mysteries.James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin's childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle where... |
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Einstein's Masterwork: 1915 and the General Theory of Relativity
John Gribbin · Pegasus Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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One of the world's most celebrated science writers reveals the origins of Einstein's General Theory -- and provides a greater understanding of who Einstein was at the time of this pivotal achievement.In 1915, Albert Einstein presented his masterwork to the Prussian Academy of Sciences -- a theory... |
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The Cat in the Box: A History of Science in 100 Experiments
Mary Gribbin · Race Point Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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This book distills the history of science into 100 epic experiments that have fueled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond. Everything in the scientific world view is based on experiment, including observations of phenomena predicted by theories and hypotheses, such as the bending... |
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The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration
Bernd Heinrich · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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"A noted naturalist explores the centrality of home in the lives of humans and other animals . . . A special treat for readers of natural history." - Kirkus Reviews Every year, many species make the journey from one place to another, following the same paths and ending up in the same... |
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Mary Roach · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 285
Format: Print book
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A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind... |
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The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities
Caleb Scharf · Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Longlisted for the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardThe Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2014An NBC News Top Science and Tech Book of 2014A Politics & Prose 2014 Staff PickIn the sixteenth century, Nicolaus... |
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