History of Science

Immersed In Radical Feminist Politics, Scientific Ingenuity, Establishment Opposition, And, Ultimately, A Sea Change In Social Attitudes, This Is The Fascin...

Reality is Not What it SeemsCategories: Science & Math PhysicsRelativity

The Zeroth Law : The Concept Of Temperature -- The First Law : The Conservation Of Energy -- The Second Law : The Increase In Entropy -- Free Energy : The A...

Livio (head, Science Division, Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute) tells the tale of the number phi (1.6180339887) and the golden ratio. He explains ...

First published in 1988, Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is a landmark in scientific writing. For this expanded edition, Professor Hawking prepa...

Prime Obsession taught us not to be afraid to put the math in a math book. Unknown Quantity heeds the lesson well. So grab your graphing calculators, slip ...

Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved be...

By G. Gamow; Illustrated By The Author And John Hookman. Includes Music.Categories: Science & Math PhysicsGravity

Galileo, Courtier is Mario Biagioli's radical reinterpretation of Galileo's career. In the early baroque court of the Medicis and the Vatican, Galileo fashi...

Unusually Gifted As Both A Physicist And A Novelist, Alan Lightman Has Lived In The Dual Worlds Of Science And Art For Much Of His Life. In These Brilliant ...

history of nearly everythingCategories: Science & Math History & PhilosophyHistory of Science Book details Author: Bryson, Bill Format: hardc...

Title: The Universe Within( From Quantum to Cosmos) Binding: Paperback Author: NeilTurok Publisher: HouseofAnansiPressCategories:Books

Winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and She...

A Compelling History Of Science From 1900 To The Present Day, This Is The First Book To Survey Modern Developments In Science During A Century Of Unpreceden...

Theoretical physics is in trouble. At least that's the impression you'd get from reading a spate of recent books on the continued failure to resolve the 80-...

Bill's Own Fascination With Science Began With A Battered Old Schoolbook He Had When He Was About Ten Or Eleven Years Old In America. It Had An Illustration...