Scientists

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...

The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter company, m...

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...

On Valentine’s Day 1985, biologist Stacey O’Brien adopted Wesley, a baby barn owl with an injured wing who could not have survived in the wild. Over the...

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

In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times B...

#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...

He Was History's Most Creative Genius. What Secrets Can He Teach Us? The [bestselling Biographer] Brings Leonardo Da Vinci To Life In This Exciting New Biog...

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 ...

Max Born (1882--1970), physicist, Nobel prize winner and close friend to Albert Einstein, was one of the brilliant minds of the twentieth century. An advoca...

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...

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

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”...

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...