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Unweaving the Rainbow
Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2000
**From the New York Times–bestselling author of Science in the Soul. “If any recent writing about science is poetic, it is this” (The Wall Street Journal).
Did Sir Isaac Newton “unweave the rainbow” by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as John Keats contended? Did he, in other...
The Discovery of Weather
Stephen Saxby, the tumultuous birth of weather forecasting, and Saxby's Gale of 1869
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
In the mid-nineteenth century, the new science of weather forecasting was fraught with controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, a bitter dispute about the nature of storms had raged for decades, and forecasting was hampered by turf wars then halted by the Civil War. Forecasters...
Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides
Volume 4 Diversity of Landslide Forms
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana,...
Lost in Wonder
Imagining Science and Other Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
The splendors of science, delightfully demystified.
How do we make sense of the modern world? Science is a profoundly affecting aspect of contemporary life, and yet the gulf between experts and everyone else is widening. Colette Brooks bridges the gap by playing the role of curious layperson,...
by Edward H. Burtt Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
On the bicentennial of his death, this beautifully illustrated volume pays tribute to the Scot who became the father of American ornithology. Alexander Wilson made unique contributions to ecology and animal behavior. His drawings of birds in realistic poses in their natural habitat inspired Audubon, Spencer Fullerton Baird, and other naturalists.
Women Scientists
Reflections, Challenges, and Breaking Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Magdolna Hargittai uses over fifteen years of in-depth conversation with female physicists, chemists, biomedical researchers, and other scientists to form cohesive ideas on the state of the modern female scientist. The compilation, based on sixty conversations, examines unique challenges that women...
by James D. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
In the years following his and Francis Crick’s towering discovery of DNA, James Watson was obsessed with finding two things: RNA and a wife. Genes, Girls, and Gamow is the marvelous chronicle of those pursuits. Watson effortlessly glides between his heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious debacles...
Being Catholic Now
Prominent Americans Talk About Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
For Kerry Kennedy, who grew up in a devoutly Catholic household coping with great loss, her family’s faith was a constant source of strength and solace. As an adult, she came to question some of the attitudes and teachings of the Catholic Church while remaining an impassioned believer in its role...
Ginkgo
The Tree That Time Forgot
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Perhaps the world’s most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its reprieve when people first found it useful about a thousand years...
by Michael Ohl
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
From Tyrannosaurus rex to Heteropoda davidbowie: scientific naming as a joyful and creative act.
Tyrannosaurus rex. Homo sapiens. Heteropoda davidbowie. Behind each act of scientific naming is a story. In this entertaining and illuminating book, Michael Ohl considers scientific naming as a...
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2005
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman-from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science-a life like no other. From...
The Earthquake Observers
Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet’s hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recordings of seismographs but also on the observations of eyewitnesses to destruction. During the nineteenth century, a scientific description of an earthquake...
Science in the Marketplace
Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2007
The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. But it was also a time when ordinary people from across the social spectrum were given the opportunity to participate in science,...
Aristotle's Ladder, Darwin's Tree
The Evolution of Visual Metaphors for Biological Order
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Leading paleontologist J. David Archibald explores the rich history of visual metaphors for biological order from ancient times to the present and their influence on humans' perception of their place in nature, offering uncommon insight into how we went from standing on the top rung of the biological...