Scientists

Presented in an informal, narrative style, this text looks at science, from the ancient world , to medieval science, the scientific revolution, through to 2...

What do you care what other people think further adventures of a curious character is a captivating collection of reminiscences from freewheeling scientific...

American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb,” the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led t...

Unknown to all but a few, Newton was a practicing alchemist who dabbled with the occult, a tortured, obsessive character who searched for an understanding...

Used book in good condition, due to its age it could contain normal signs of useCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Professionals & AcademicsScientist...

The great politician, agriculturalist, economist, author, and businessman—loved and reviled, and finally now revealed. The first full biography of Henry ...

history Buffs, Science Enthusiasts, Backyard Inventors, And Anyone Who Has Ever Dared To Dream Big Will Find The Life Of Nikola Tesla, Written In His Own W...

A Bricklayer's Guide To The Galaxy . . . The Inspirational Memoir Of A Former Brickie Who Followed His Passion For The Stars And Built His Own Observatory. ...

francis Crick, Who Died At The Age Of Eighty-eight In 2004, Will Be Bracketed With Galileo, Darwin, And Einstein As One Of The Great Scientists Of All Tim...

Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Sta...

"A fascinating account of inner and outer exploration and discovery in one of the last remote regions of the world - sharp-eyed, insightful, candid, and we...

we Cannot Change The Cards We Are Dealt, Just How We Play The Hand.--randy Pausch a Lot Of Professors Give Talks Titled The Last Lecture. Professors Are As...

In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the English Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the center o...

An Economist BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\As the data economy grows in power, Carissa Véliz exposes how our privacy is eroded by big tech and governments, why tha...

In 1961, twenty-eight-year-old Dr. Judah Folkman saw something while doing medical research in a United States navy lab that gave him the first glimmering...

He read the classics but he adored pulp science fiction. He had no academic credentials but he was a co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Ae...

This Volume Is The First Fully Illustrated Book About Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) And The Early Years Of The Telephone - An Invention That Transformed...

Tells The Interwoven Stories Of Two Men--hawley Crippen, A Very Unlikely Murderer, And Guglielmo Marconi, The Obsessive Creator Of A Seemingly Supernatural ...

#1 on Amazon Charts, New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller--Over 100,000 Copies in Print! "Kent Heckenlively and Judy Mikovits are the new dynamic...

Neil White, a journalist and magazine publisher, wanted the best for those he loved nice cars, beautiful homes, luxurious clothes. He loaned money to fami...

Sigmund Freud is one of the twentieth century's greatest minds and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. His works included here are The E...

The remarkable story of an ordinary man who was transformed when a traumatic injury left him with an extraordinary giftNo one sees the world as Jason Padge...

The New York Times bestseller: sequel to "Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!"—funny, poignant, instructive. One of the greatest physicists of the twen...

Heavenly Intrigue is the fascinating, true account of the seventeenth-century collaboration between Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe that revolutionized our ...

A unique individual with a fascinating life story, Ivar Giaever is a scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Experimental Physics in 1973. In his own words, Gi...

With the 2006 publication of The God Delusion, the name Richard Dawkins became a byword for ruthless skepticism and "brilliant, impassioned, articulate, im...

In Ginger Zee's Follow-up To The Bestselling Natural Disaster, The Abc Chief Meteorologist Takes Readers On A Much Deeper Journey Of Self Discovery. When Gi...

The Unlikely Story Of Dr. Bennet Omalu, The Pathologist Who Made One Of The Most Significant Medical Discoveries Of The Twenty-first Century, A Discovery Th...

By his early thirties, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire-and that was just the beginning. In 2007 and 2008, Time named Paul Allen, the cofounder o...

Two Berkeley Scientists Explore The Potential Of A Revolutionary Genetics Technology Capable Of Easily And Affordably Manipulating Dna In Human Embryos To P...

No One Sees The World As Jason Padgett Does. Water Pours From The Faucet In Crystalline Patterns, Numbers Call To Mind Distinct Geometric Shapes, And Intric...

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 moder...

National Bestseller Npr Best Book Of 2017 “not All Superheroes Wear Capes, And Elizebeth Smith Friedman Should Be The Subject Of A Future Wonder Woman Mov...

A Riveting Medical Mystery About A Young Woman's Quest To Uncover The Truth About Her Likely Fatal Genetic Disorder That Opens A Window Onto The Exploding F...

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovato...

An Introduction To The Life And Thought Of Kurt Gödel, Who Transformed Our Conception Of Math Forever -- Provided By Publisher. A Platonist Among The Posit...

An Account Of The Worst Cholera Outbreak In Victorian London--and An Exploration Of How Dr. John Snow's Solution Revolutionized The Way We Think About Disea...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires.” —The New York Times Best...

Anyone alive in the 18th century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day - and had been for centuries....

New York Times Bestseller - Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Audible and AmazonIn the spirit of Steve Jobs and Mone...

The son of a musician, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) tried at first to enter a monastery before engaging the skills that made him the foremost scientist of hi...

Traces The Life Of The American Researcher Who Studied And Fought For The Survival Of The African Mountain Gorilla. Farley Mowat. Ill., Map On Lining Papers...

A Portrait Of Albert Einstein Shares Critical Insights Into Both The Genius And Hubris Of Modern Physics, Linking Einstein's Popular Downfall Through The Fi...

In December 1942, A Team At The University Of Chicago Achieved A Milestone In Human History: A Nuclear Chain Reaction. At The Forefront Of This Breakthrough...

With The Publication Of The International Bestseller The Selfish Gene Some Thirty Years Ago, Richard Dawkins Powerfully Captured A Newly Emerging Way Of Und...

A Revelatory History Of The People Who Created The Computer And The Internet Discusses The Process Through Which Innovation Happens In The Modern World, Cit...

Gathers scientific illustrations from ancient Egyptian astronomical predictions to thirteenth-century maps of the universe, and explains the significance of...

Examines The History Of Behavioral Economics, Discussing The Theory Of Israeli Psychologists Who Wrote The Original Studies Undoing Assumptions About The De...