Other Sciences category: 9579 books
DNA
The Secret of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Fifty years ago, James D. Watson, then just twentyfour, helped launch the greatest ongoing scientific quest of our time. Now, with unique authority and sweeping vision, he gives us the first full account of the genetic revolution—from Mendel’s garden to the double helix to the sequencing of the...
Our Own Devices
How Technology Remakes Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
This delightful and instructive history of invention shows why National Public Radio dubbed Tenner “the philosopher of everyday technology.” Looking at how our inventions have impacted our world in ways we never intended or imagined, he shows that the things we create have a tendency to bounce...
Lamarck's Revenge
How Epigenetics Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution's Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Epigenetics upends natural selection and genetic mutation as the sole engines of evolution, and offers startling insights into our future heritable traits.
In the 1700s, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck first described epigenetics to explain the inheritance of acquired characteristics; however, his theory...
The Why Files
The Science Behind the News
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Science magazine meets The Onion, Mental Floss, and Mad magazine in this ingenious guide to the science behind the news
For more than a decade , the intrepid folks at whyfiles.org-the #1 science destination on the web-have been exploring the science behind newsworthy events. Now condensed into...
How Evolution Explains Everything About Life
From Darwins brilliant idea to todays epic theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
How did we get here? It's the journey of a lifetime.
All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of evolution on the first simple life form and its descendants.
We...
by Sussman, Brian
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Those now notorious intercepted emails documenting leading scientists conspiring to squelch global-warming skeptics and falsifying data proved exactly what Brian Sussman has been saying for years. Climategate is intended for anyone who has ever expressed skepticism about the clamorous environmentalist...
The Eerie Silence
Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
One of the world’s leading scientists explains why—and how—the search for intelligent life beyond Earth should be expanded.
Fifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake first pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization....
Mediterranean Climate
Variability and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Mohamed Larbi Selassi Deputy Director of the National Meteorology, Morocco Welcome address (translated from French) WMO, WCRP, Medias-France and scientific institutions representatives, ladies and gentlemen, to thank WMO and MEDIAS-France, who have honoured us by I want first organizing the two workshops,...
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary
A True Story of Resilience and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
The “moving” true story of a woman fighting to give a group of chimpanzees a second chance at life (People).
In 1997, Gloria Grow started a sanctuary for chimps retired from biomedical research on her farm outside Montreal. For the indomitable Gloria, caring for thirteen great apes is like...
The Demon-Haunted World
Science as a Candle in the Dark
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
**A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace
“A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought.”—Los...
Creation (Movie Tie-In)
Darwin, His Daughter & Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
**How Charles Darwin saw the world changed it forever. Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin is now a major motion picture.
In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes discovered the writing case of Charles and Emma Darwin’s beloved daughter Annie Darwin,...
by Randal Keynes
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2002
In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes discovered the writing case of Charles and Emma Darwin’s beloved daughter Annie Darwin, who died at the age of ten. He also found the notes Darwin kept throughout Annie's illness, the eulogy he delivered at her funeral—and...
Climate Change
The Facts
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
Stockade Books and The Institute of Public Affairs are proud to publish Climate Change: The Facts, featuring 22 essays on the science, politics and economics of the climate change debate. Climate Change: The Facts features the world’s leading experts and commentators on climate change.
Highlights...
by Louisa Gilder
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
In The Age of Entanglement, Louisa Gilder brings to life one of the pivotal debates in twentieth century physics. In 1935, Albert Einstein famously showed that, according to the quantum theory, separated particles could act as if intimately connected–a phenomenon which he derisively described as...