Other Sciences category: 9579 books
by Brian Clegg, Scientific American
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Scientific American's daily Sixty-Second Science podcast was such an unexpected success, with millions of downloads, that a spin-off site was created around the concept of bite-sized science. This new series of books will tackle the biggest topics in science by breaking them up into quick and easy...
Biotechnology in Our Lives
What Modern Genetics Can Tell You about Assisted Reproduction, Human Behavior, and Personalized Medicine, and Much More
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
For a quarter of a century, the Council for Responsible Genetics has provided a unique historical lens into the modern history, science, ethics, and politics of genetic technologies. Since 1983 the Council has had leading scientists, activists, science writers, and public health advocates researching...
Darwin's Ghosts
The Secret History of Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
“[An] extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging book [about] the men who shaped the work of Charles Darwin . . . a book that enriches our understanding of how the struggle to think new thoughts is shared across time and space and people.”—The Sunday Telegraph...
The Artificial Ape
How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
A breakthrough theory that tools and technology are the real drivers of human evolution
Although humans are one of the great apes, along with chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, we are remarkably different from them. Unlike our cousins who subsist on raw food, spend their days and nights...
The Poetic Species
A Conversation with Edward O. Wilson and Robert Hass
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Provides a manifesto for activists in education and conservation—as Wilson and Hass explain how the close observation of nature, which is central to both poetry and science, can rouse the conservationist in all of us, the conversation becomes a powerful treatise on the necessity of achieving consilience...
Bold
How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
“A visionary roadmap for people who believe they can change the world—and invaluable advice about bringing together the partners and technologies to help them do it.” —President Bill Clinton
A radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered...
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories.
Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike -- strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents -- and see...
by Nikola Tesla
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2017
Nikola Tesla was a genius who revolutionized how the world looks at electricity.
Isaac Newton
La théorie de la gravitation universelle
Language: French
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Newton et la théorie de la gravitation universelle en moins d’une heure !
Figure incontournable de l'histoire des sciences, Isaac Newton bouleverse le monde avec sa théorie de la gravitation universelle. Secrètement passionné d'alchimie, il fait...
by Abraham Flexner, Robbert Dijkgraaf
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
A short, provocative book about why "useless" science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughs
A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent...
by Howard Brinkley
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Over 3,000 dead. Buildings shaken to the ground. A city, surrounded by water, burnt to the ground. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was one of the most destructive natural disasters the world has ever known.
In the aftermath of the Earthquake, authorities learned the hard way that the city...
This is Planet Earth
Your ultimate guide to the world we call home
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
The Earth as you've never seen it before.
The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.
Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang and long-dead stars, at first it was nothing...
Pandora's Seed
The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Ten thousand years ago, our species made a radical shift in its way of life: We became farmers rather than hunter-gatherers. Although this decision propelled us into the modern world, renowned geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells demonstrates that such a dramatic change in lifestyle had a downside...
Biopunk
Solving Biotech's Biggest Problems in Kitchens and Garages
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Bill Gates recently told Wired that if he were a teenager today, he would be hacking biology. "If you want to change the world in some big way," he says, "that's where you should start-biological molecules."
The most disruptive force on the planet resides in DNA. Biotech...