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Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
William Rosen · Viking
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma.As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less... |
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Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing
Matt Stroud · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A wide-ranging investigation of how supposedly transformative technologies adopted by law enforcement have actually made policing worse -- lazier, more reckless, and more discriminatoryAmerican law enforcement is a system in crisis. After explosive protests responding to police brutality... |
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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
Rose George · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of breakthrough scienceBlood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil. It can save lives and transmit... |
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The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty
Robert P. Crease · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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The fascinating story of how quantum mechanics went mainstream. The discovery of the quantumthe idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead of infinitely divisible quantitiesplanted a rich set of metaphors in the popular imagination.... |
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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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Catching Breath: The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis
KATHRYN LOUGHEED · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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With more than a million victims every year--more than any other disease, including malaria--and antibiotic resistance now found in every country worldwide, tuberculosis is once again proving itself to be one of the smartest killers that humanity has ever faced. But it's hardly surprising... |
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The Cosmic Mystery Tour: A High-Speed Journey Through Space & Time
Nicholas Mee · Oxford University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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The Cosmic Mystery Tour takes us on a lightning tour of the mysteries of the universe enlivened by brief stories of the colourful characters who created modern science. It explores hot topics in physics and astronomy, including the recent discovery of gravitational waves; the quest for the origin... |
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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time
Simon Garfield · Canongate Books
Pages: 349
Format: Hardcover
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SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016OBSERVER SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently, and our lives are propelled by the notion that we will never have enough of the one thing... |
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker PhD · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert - Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab - reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.Sleep is one of the most... |
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Bears in the Backyard: Big Animals, Sprawling Suburbs, and the New Urban Jungle
Edward R. Ricciuti · Countryman Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Fang and claw have jumped the white picket fence as encounters with cougars in Chicago, alligators in Florida, and bears virtually everywhere have become increasingly commonplace. Author Edward Ricciuti explores cutting-edge research into why its happening, how it impacts all of us, and how to deal... |
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Einstein's Greatest Mistake: A Biography
David Bodanis · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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From the best-selling author of E=mc2, a brisk, accessible biography of Albert Einstein that reveals the genius and hubris of the titan of modern physics Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory... |
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Tales of the Quantum: Understanding Physics' Most Fundamental Theory
Art Hobson · Oxford University Press
Pages: 287
Format: Hardcover
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Everybody has heard that we live in a world made of atoms. But far more fundamentally, we live in a universe made of quanta. Many things are not made of atoms: light, radio waves, electric current, magnetic fields, Earth's gravitational field, not to mention exotica such a neutron stars,... |
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