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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
50th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas once were—and still are. The Structure of...
The Science Book
Big Ideas Simply Explained
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
The Science Book explores how scientists have sought to explain our world and the universe, and how scientific discoveries have been made.
A new title in DK's successful "Big Ideas, Simply Explained" series, this book on science and the history of science looks at topics such as why...
Visions
How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
In Visions, physicist and author Michio Kaku examines the great scientific revolutions that have dramatically reshaped the twentieth century--the quantum mechanics, biogenetics, and artificial intelligence--and shows how they will change and alter science and the way we live.
The next century...
by Rita Mary King
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Take the frustration out of learning the science of life!
Biology is the most fundamental science?yet it’s one of the most complex. Now, Biology Made Simple is here to help science and non-science majors alike understand the science of life. Covering all the major themes of biology—including...
Science Matters
Achieving Scientific Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Knowledge of the basic ideas and principles of science is fundamental to cultural literacy. But most books on science are often too obscure or too specialized to do the general reader much good.
Science Matters is a rare exception-a science book for the general reader that is informative enough...
Pieces of Light
How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Shortlisted for the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
Leading psychologist Charles Fernyhough blends the most current science with literature and personal stories in Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts.
A new...
Making Sense of Science
Separating Substance from Spin
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Cornelia Dean draws on her 30 years as a science journalist with the New York Times to expose the flawed reasoning and knowledge gaps that handicap readers when they try to make sense of science. She calls attention to conflicts of interest in research and the price society pays when science journalism declines and funding dries up.
Carbide Tipped Pens
Seventeen Tales of Hard Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Seventeen hard science fiction tales by today's top authors
Hard science fiction is the literature of change, rigorously examining the impact-both beneficial and dangerous-of science and technology on humanity, the future, and the cosmos. As science advances, expanding our knowledge of the...
by C.M. Kornbluth
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
THE SYNDIC AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES contains one novel and three other works by science fiction writer C.M. Kornbluth (1923-1958). As a teenager, Kornbluth was a member of the Futurians, an influential group of science fiction fans and writers. While a member of the Futurians, he...
The Arthur Leo Zagat Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®
15 Classic Science Fiction Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Arthur Leo Zagat was one of the most versatile pulp writers in the 1930s-1950s, the author of more than 500 short stories in many different genres. His work appeared in most of the top science fiction, mystery, and adventures magazines, including Astounding Stories, Planet Stories, Weird Tales, Thrilling...
The Science Fiction Megapack: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories
25 Classic Science Fiction Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned science fiction authors, Here are 25 science fiction stories (plus a bonus short-short):
ARENA, by Fredric Brown
EXPEDITER, by Mack Reynolds
ONE-SHOT, by James Blish
SHAMBLEAU, by C. L. Moore
SHIPWRECK IN...
Soldier of the Legion
a military science fiction adventure
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
HE JOINED THE LEGION AND SURVIVED TRAINING ON PLANET HELL. HE THOUGHT HE’D SEEN IT ALL. HE WAS WRONG.
His Legion designation is Beta 3, warname Thinker. This will be his first real mission, the first mission for all the members of Beta squad-young men and women given immortality but trained...
March of the Legion
a military science fiction adventure
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
IN THE ERA OF TOTAL GALACTIC WAR, CAN ONE SQUAD REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
On a hostile planet, Legion trooper Thinker and his comrades of Squad Beta are ordered to assault the invading encampment of alien Omins. But the moment they are dropped into the atmosphere of Andrion 3, little goes as...
Neptune Crossing
Book 1 of The Chaos Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
When John Bandicut encounters an alien intelligence on Neptune's moon Triton, his life changes irrevocably. Urged by the alien quarx now sharing his mind, he accepts an audacious mission—to steal a ship and hurtle across the solar system in a desperate bid for Earth's survival. Book 1 of The Chaos...