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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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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 468
Format: Print book
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The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our handsThe math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows... |
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American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
Victoria Johnson · Liveright
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of Hamilton's -- and Burr's -- personal physician, whose dream to build America's first botanical garden inspired the young Republic. When Dr. David Hosack tilled the country's first botanical garden in the Manhattan soil more than two hundred years ago, he didn't just... |
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Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
Virginia Morell · Crown Publishers; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Noted science writer Virginia Morell explores the frontiers of research on animal cognition and emotion, offering a surprising and moving exploration into the hearts and minds of wild and domesticated animals. Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a fish? Or a parrot, dolphin,... |
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Dawn of the Neuron: The Early Struggles to Trace the Origin of Nervous Systems
Michel Anctil · McGill-Queens University Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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In science, sometimes it is best to keep things simple. Initially discrediting the discovery of neurons in jellyfish, mid-nineteenth-century scientists grouped jellyfish, comb-jellies, hydra, and sea anemones together under one term - "coelenterates" - and deemed these animals... |
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An Einstein Encyclopedia
Alice Calaprice · Princeton University Press
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
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This is the single most complete guide to Albert Einstein's life and work for students, researchers, and browsers alike. Written by three leading Einstein scholars who draw on their combined wealth of expertise gained during their work on the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, this... |
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Is That a Fact?: Frauds, Quacks, and the Real Science of Everyday Life
Joe Schwarcz · ECW Press
Format: Paperback
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Eat this and live to 100. Dont, and die. Today, hyperboles dominate the media, which makes parsing science from fiction an arduous task when deciding what to eat, what chemicals to avoid, and whats best for the environment. In Is That a Fact?, bestselling author Dr. Joe Schwarcz carefully... |
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Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage
Kathleen Winter · Counterpoint LLC
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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In 2010, bestselling author Kathleen Winter (Annabel) embarked on a journey across the storied Northwest Passage, among marine scientists, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and curious passengers. From Greenland to Baffin Island and all along the passage, Winter bears witness... |
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Storm Kings: The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers
Lee Sandlin · Pantheon; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrationsFrom the acclaimed author of Wicked River comes Storm Kings, a riveting tale of supercell tornadoes and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists whose discoveries created the science of modern meteorology. While tornadoes have occasionally... |
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I Died for Beauty: Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Science
Marjorie Senechal · Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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In the vein of A Beautiful Mind, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, and Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, this volume tells the poignant story of the brilliant, colorful, controversial mathematician named Dorothy Wrinch. Drawing on her own personal and professional relationship with... |
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The Mission of a Lifetime: Lessons from the Men Who Went to the Moon
Basil Hero · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Former award-winning investigative reporter Basil Hero chronicles the lives and lessons of the twelve remaining Apollo astronauts. Only twenty-four human beings have travelled to the Moon. Theirs were the most daring voyages in mankind's history and their view of Earth from the moon... |
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The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition
Gregory Hickok · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An essential reconsideration of one of the most far-reaching theories in modern neuroscience and psychology. In 1992, a group of neuroscientists from Parma, Italy, reported a new class of brain cells discovered in the motor cortex of the macaque monkey. These cells, later dubbed mirror... |
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Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptional—and What That Means for Life in the Universe
David Waltham · Basic Books a Member of Perseus Books Group
Pages: 198
Format: Hardcover
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Humankind has long fantasized about life elsewhere in the universe. And as we discover countless exoplanets orbiting other stars - among them, rocky super-Earths and gaseous Hot Jupiters - we become ever more hopeful that we may come across extraterrestrial life. Yet even as we become aware... |
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