Other Sciences category: 9579 books
The Particle at the End of the Universe
How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Winner of the prestigious 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
“A modern voyage of discovery.” —Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate, author of The Lightness of Being
The Higgs boson is one of our era’s most fascinating scientific frontiers and the key to understanding...
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can...
by Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2004
Napoleon's Buttons is the fascinating account of seventeen groups of molecules that have greatly influenced the course of history. These molecules provided the impetus for early exploration, and made possible the voyages of discovery that ensued. The molecules resulted in grand feats of engineering...
Physics of the Impossible
A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Teleportation, time machines, force fields, and interstellar space ships—the stuff of science fiction or potentially attainable future technologies? Inspired by the fantastic worlds of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Back to the Future, renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku...
by Richard Dawkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1997
A brilliant book celebrating improbability as the engine that drives life, by the acclaimed author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker.
The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. How...
Quirk
Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Who are you? It’s the most fundamental of human questions. Are you the type of person who tilts at windmills, or the one who prefers to view them from the comfort of an air-conditioned motorcoach? Our personalities are endlessly fascinating—not just to ourselves but also to our spouses, our parents,...
Mind and Cosmos:Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem,...
Summary & Study Guide - A Crack in Creation
Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Power and Peril of Gene Editing
CRISPR/Cas9 Technology
The must-read summary of “A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution” by Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg.
This complete summary of Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg’s book...
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 Philadelphia Chromosome
A Genetic Mystery, a Lethal Cancer, and the Improbable Invention of a Lifesaving Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Philadelphia, 1959: A scientist scrutinizing a single human cell under a microscope detects a missing piece of DNA. That scientist, David Hungerford, had no way of knowing that he had stumbled upon the starting point of modern cancer research— the Philadelphia chromosome. It would take doctors and...
The Genome War
How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The long-awaited story of the science, the business, the politics, the intrigue behind the scenes of the most ferocious competition in the history of modern science—the race to map the human genome.
On May 10, 1998, biologist Craig Venter, director of the Institute for Genomic Research, announced...
God Particle
If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2006
A Nobel Prize–winning physicist’s “funny, clever, entertaining” account of the history of particle physics and the hunt for a Higgs boson (Library Journal).
In this extraordinarily accessible and witty book, Leon Lederman—“the most engaging physicist since the late, much-missed Richard...
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...