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Dragons of Eden
Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
“A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday . . . It's a delight.”—The New York Times
Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin...
The Age of Wonder
How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science.
When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired...
by Edwin S. Grosvenor, Morgan Wesson
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
". . . rarely have inventor and invention been better served than in this book." New York Times Book Review. Here, Edwin Grosvenor, American Heritage's publisher and Bell's great-grandson, tells the dramatic story of the race to invent the telephone and how Bell's patent for it would become...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
*Includes pictures of Tesla, Edison and important people and places in their lives. *Includes some of the inventors' most inspiring quotes and explanations of their inventive techniques.*Discusses the relationship and rivalry between Edison and Tesla*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes...
The Drug Hunters
The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.
The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity- by chewing, brewing, and snorting-some Neolithic souls discovered opium,...
An Ocean of Air
Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
We don’t just live in the air; we live because of it. It’s the most miraculous substance on earth, responsible for our food, our weather, our water, and our ability to hear. In this exuberant book, gifted science writer Gabrielle Walker peels back the layers of our atmosphere with the stories...
No Shadow of a Doubt
The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativity
In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein’s revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the...
Laika's Window
The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Laika began her life as a stray dog on the streets of Moscow and died in 1957 aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik II. Initially the USSR reported that Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth, had survived in space for seven days, providing valuable data that would make future manned space flight...
Einstein's Greatest Mistake
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
“What Bodanis does brilliantly is to give us a feel for Einstein as a person. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book that does this as well” (Popular Science).
In this “fascinating” biography, the acclaimed author of E=mc2 reveals that in spite of his indisputable brilliance, Albert...
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...
Prophet of Purpose
The Life of Rick Warren
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Rick Warren is arguably the most influential man in American religion today. Megachurch pastor, friend of world leaders, and trend-setting spiritual entrepreneur, he is widely recognized as the new public face of evangelical Christianity in America. No other modern churchman has matched his success...
Spiritual Envy Paperback
An Agnostic's Quest
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
As the host of one of National Public Radios most popular interview programs, Michael Krasny has spent decades leading conversations on every imaginable topic and discussing lifes most important questions with the foremost thinkers of our time. Now he brings his wide-ranging knowledge and perceptive...
I am White
The Creation Story of Black and White people
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
I start writing this book because of the question:” Why am I white and other people black?”
To find the answer to my question I had to go to the beginning. You will see that I used the Bible and build my story around it. The Bible was my starting point as it gives us some ideas of what...