History & Philosophy

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...

It is hard to imagine any device more crucial to modern life than the microchip and the transistor from which it sprang. Every waking hour people of the wor...

Draws On Interviews With Some Of The Top-level Professionals, Ground-breaking Research, And Mcdermid's Own Original Interviews And Firsthand Experience On S...

Three of the most original thinkers of our time explore issues that call into question our current views of reality, morality, and the nature of life. •...

A Compelling Case for Intelligent Design Based on Revolutionary Discoveries in Science In Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer has written the first com...

Beliefs in mysterious underworlds are as old as humanity. But the idea that the earth has a hollow interior was first proposed as a scientific theory in 169...

Unabridged private reflections of the Emperor of Rome, on how one is to exist in a world of chaos. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and in the most accepted ...

Tom Standage. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [214]-217) And Index.Categories: Engineering & Transportation Engineering ReferenceHistory

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...

Voted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space HipstersThe dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia space shuttle...

A Preeminent Scientist Asserts The Irrationality Of Belief In God And The Grievous Harm Religion Has Inflicted On Society From The Crusades To 9/11. He Crit...

It's time to honor the significant scientific contributions of Esther Zimmer Lederberg. In A Hidden Legacy, Thomas E. Schindler shares the story of this rem...

Nestled near the Hamptons, the fashionable summer playground of America's rich and famous, and in the shadow of New York City, lies an unimposing 840-acre ...

Elon Musk, The Entrepreneur And Innovator Behind Spacex, Tesla, And Solarcity, Sold One Of His Internet Companies, Paypal, For $1.5 Billion. Ashlee Vance Ca...

In This Book, The Authors Investigate An Array Of Instruments From The 17th To The 19th Century That Seem At First To Be Marginal To Science. By Looking At ...

A vast and diversified religious movement originating from Sai Baba of Shirdi, is often referred to as "The Sai Baba Movement." Through the chronological p...

Some of the chief goals of science - understanding, explanation, prediction, and application in new technologies - can only be conducted with any purpose if...

In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine mill...

An Exhilarating History Of Humankind, Chronicling Thousands Of Years Of Trial And Error--but Mostly Error--in The Rise Of Civilization Modern Humans Have Co...