Other Sciences category: 9579 books
The Tragic Sense of Life
Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Prior to the First World War, more people learned of evolutionary theory from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwin’s foremost champion in Germany, Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), than from any other source, including the writings of Darwin himself. But, with detractors ranging from paleontologist...
The Dancing Bees
Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
We think of bees as being among the busiest workers in the garden, admiring them for their productivity. But amid their buzzing, they are also great communicators—and unusual dancers. As Karl von Frisch (1886–1982) discovered during World War II, bees communicate the location of food sources to...
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind
The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences—psychology,...
Citizen Science
Public Participation in Environmental Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Citizen science enlists members of the public to make and record useful observations, such as counting birds in their backyards, watching for the first budding leaf in spring, or measuring local snowfall. The large numbers of volunteers who participate in projects such as Project FeederWatch or Project...
by Laura J. Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world.
On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek—a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural philosopher—gazed through...
The Cancer Chronicles
Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is a revolution under way—an explosion...
Science in the Soul
Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time.
For decades, Richard Dawkins...
Panic in Level 4
Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Bizarre illnesses and plagues that kill people in the most unspeakable ways. Obsessive and inspired efforts by scientists to solve mysteries and save lives. From The Hot Zone to The Demon in the Freezer and beyond, Richard Preston’s bestselling works have mesmerized readers everywhere by showing...
by Mary Roach
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
**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...
Inferior
How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew
For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less...
Nine Pints
A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of breakthrough science
Blood 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...
Abundance
The Future Is Better Than You Think
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Providing abundance is humanity’s grandest challenge—this is a book about how we rise to meet it.
We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive...
by Richard Munson
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Tesla’s inventions transformed our world, and his visions have continued to inspire great minds for generations.
Nikola Tesla invented the radio, robots, and remote control. His electric induction motors run our appliances and factories, yet he has been largely overlooked by history. In Tesla,...
Don't Know Much About Geography
Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Don't Know Much About Geography by New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis is a fascinating and fun exploration of our planet.
Geography is the hub from which other disciplines radiate: meteorology, ecology, geology, oceanography, demographics, cartography, agricultural studies, economics,...