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Fool Me Twice
Fighting the Assault on Science in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
"Whenever the people are well informed," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government."
But what happens in a world dominated by complex science? Are the people still well-enough informed to be trusted with their own government? And with less than...
Making Marie Curie
Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
In many ways, Marie Curie represents modern science. Her considerable lifetime achievements—the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the only woman to be awarded the Prize in two fields, and the only person to be awarded Nobel Prizes in multiple sciences—are studied by schoolchildren across...
Novel Science
Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Novel Science is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the “heroic age” of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men, literature was an essential part of the practice...
Fabulous Science
Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
The great biologist Louis Pasteur suppressed 'awkward' data because it didn't support the case he was making. John Snow, the 'first epidemiologist' was doing nothing others had not done before. Gregor Mendel, the supposed 'founder of genetics' never grasped the fundamental principles of 'Mendelian'...
by Professor Beaver
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
If you’re playing basketball, that’s science in action! Science is all around us and in everything that we do this even more true for basketball. Issac Newton explains the concept of Motion in Physical Science by using Three Laws of Motion. In this book, you will get the chance to fully understand...
The Science Magpie
A Miscellany of Paradoxes, Explications, Lists, Lives and Ephemera from the Wonderful World of Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Fascinating lists, facts, stories, poems, drawings, diagrams and even jokes across the scientific disciplines and from science’s bejewelled history. Science, humankind’s greatest intellectual achievement, is capable equally of delight and amusement as much as learning and the advancement...
Everything's Relative
And Other Fables from Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
The surprising truth behind many of the most cherished "facts" in science history
Morse invented the telegraph, Bell the telephone, Edison the light bulb, and Marconi the radio . . . right? Well . . . the truth is slightly more complicated. The history of science and technology is riddled...
by Anne DeWitt
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Nineteenth-century men of science aligned scientific practice with moral excellence as part of an endeavor to secure cultural authority for their discipline. Anne DeWitt examines how novelists from Elizabeth Gaskell to H. G. Wells responded to this alignment. Revising the widespread assumption that...
The Boy Who Played with Fusion
Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
This story of a child prodigy and his unique upbringing is “an engrossing journey to the outer realms of science and parenting” (Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish).
A PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist
Like many young children, Taylor Wilson dreamed of becoming...
by Michael Green
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
This book is a collection of the finest mystical writings of the great physicists of the 20th Century. They are Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, James Jeans, Arthur Eddington, Eugene Wigner, David Bohm, and Freeman Dyson. The essays are...
by A.N. Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
THE ABSTRACT NATURE OF MATHEMATICS
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. The important applications of the science, the theoretical interest of its ideas, and the logical rigor of its methods, all generate the expectation of a speedy introduction to processes of...
by Rudolf Carnap
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
One of the most creative philosophers of the 20th century, Rudolf Carnap presented a series of science lectures at the University of California in 1958. The present volume is an outgrowth of that seminar, which dealt with the philosophical foundations of physics. Edited by Martin Gardner from transcripts...
Willy Ley
Prophet of the Space Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
"Beautifully written. Reveals the vicissitudes of an extraordinarily interesting life."--Michael J. Neufeld, author of Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War "Willy Ley has been a mystery among spaceflight historians for many years. His role as science writer, advocate, and popularizer...
The Scientists
A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientists, by the bestselling author of In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat
In this ambitious new book, John Gribbin tells the stories of the people...