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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...

There Are Few Industrialists In History Who Could Match Elon Musk's Relentless Drive And Ingenious Vision. A Modern Alloy Of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howa...

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 Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets, Spycraft and Gaia TheoryCategories: Science & MathHistory & Philosophy

Susan Orlean. Includes Reader's Companion With Author Interview And Topics For Reading Group Discussion. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [283]-284)....

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...

just As Henry David Thoreau “traveled A Great Deal In Concord,” Nobel Prize–winning Physicist Steven Weinberg Sees Much Of The World From The Window Of Hi...

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...

From one of the architects of the new science of simplicity and complexity comes an explanation of the connections between nature at its most basic level a...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Marjane Sartrapi, starring Rosamund Pike and Sam Riley. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST “Vivid and ethereal”...

Directing His Polemics Against The Pedantry Of His Time, Galileo, As His Own Popularizer, Addressed His Writings To Contemporary Laymen. His Support Of Cope...

As a young physicist, Leonard Mlodinow looked for guidance from his mentor, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. Drawing on transcripts from t...

gene Kranz Was Present At The Creation Of America's Manned Space Program And Was A Key Player In It For Three Decades. As A Flight Director In Nasa's Missi...

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

The devastating accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, occurred on April 26, 1986. On April 29, Alexander ...

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet...

The Pleasure of Finding Things Outis a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard Feynman—from interviews and speeches to lectures and printe...

in This Gem, The Scientist And Noted Essayist Trains A Wry Wit And A Highly Perceptive Eye On His Two-plus Decades Of Observing Baboon Behavior In Kenya. ...

Hailed As A Masterpiece By Scientific American And As The Greatest Of All Entomology Books By Science, Bert Holldobler And Edward O. Wilson's Monumental Tre...

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...

From One Of The World’s Most Renowned Cave Divers, A Firsthand Account Of Exploring The Earth’s Final Frontier: The Hidden Depths Of Our Oceans And The ...

Isaacson, WalterCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Professionals & AcademicsScientists

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize “The future is in our hands as never before, and this book explains the stakes like no other.” — Georg...

This unique anthology brings together a marvelous collection of Darwin's most accessible and significant writings, providing the most fully rounded picture ...

An award-winning science journalist traces the development of the marine chronometer by an obscure, uneducated clock maker--an invention that revolutionized...

From his earliest days, Oliver Sacks, the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time, was irresistibly drawn...

From The Author Of The Bestselling The Professor And The Madman Comes The Fascinating Story Of William Smith, The Orphaned Son Of An English Country Blacksm...

A Brilliant And Brave Investigation By Michael Pollan, Author Of Five New York Times Best Sellers, Into The Medical And Scientific Revolution Taking Place A...

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

During The Early Twentieth Century, The Eccentric And Brilliant Inventor Nikola Tesla Blazed The Path That Electrical Development Followed For Many Years To...

Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur, and a daring risk taker who pil...

The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar ...

"how Could You, A Mathematician, Believe That Extraterrestrials Were Sending You Messages?" The Visitor From Harvard Asked The West Virginian With The Movi...

The extraordinary memoir of a mother's love, commitment and nurturing, which allowed her son, originally diagnosed with severe autism, to flourish into a u...

A bestseller in Canada and Australia, this is the incredible story of a woman who struggled with severe learning disabilities, built herself a better brain...

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir—a powerful, luminous story of comin...