History & Philosophy

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 ...

In This Illustrated Volume, Steven Johnson Explores The History Of Innovation Over Centuries, Tracing Facets Of Modern Life (refrigeration, Clocks, And Eyeg...

In This Remarkable Groundbreaking Book, A Documentarian And Conservationist, Determined To Dispel Misplaced Fear And Correct Common Misconceptions, Explores...

Snyder Transports Us To The Streets, Inns, And Guildhalls Of Seventeenth-century Holland, Where Artists And Scientists Gathered, And To Their Studios And La...

Argues That A Global Conspiracy Has Enslaved Americans With Poor Education, A Misguided Mass Media, And A Buffet Of Prescription Drugs, And Issues A Call To...

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

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

Wall Street Legend Alfred Lee Loomis, Who Once Owned Hilton Head Island, Was Devoted To His Hobby Of Science Experiments In His Mansion. During World War Ii...

Examines The Immense Impact Intelligent Technology Will Have On Humanity. These Machines, While Challenging Our Personal Beliefs And Our Socioeconomic World...

Describes How A Quirky Band Of Misfit Science Students At Berkeley In The 1970s Altered The Course Of Modern Physics While Studying Quantum Theory Alongside...

It Is Often Said, Even By Critical Scholars Who Should Know Better, That Writing In The Name Of Another Was Widely Accepted In Antiquity. But Religion Schol...

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory is a groundbreaking scientific work written by Albert Einstein, one of the most renowned physicists of all ti...

The Author Of Zero Chronicles The Last Half Century's Haphazard Attempt To Harness Fusion Energy, Describing How Governments And Research Teams Throughout T...

Working Women Today Are Better Educated And More Well Qualified Than Ever Before. Yet Men Still Predominate In The Corporate World. In The Confidence Code, ...

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...

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...

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 ...

In How Brains Make Up Their Minds, Walter J. Freeman Charts The Brain's Mind, Progressing From Single Nerve Cells To Cooperative Nerve Cell Assemblies To Th...

There is a war going on between the established scientific community and those who would explore new theories, realities, energy, and dynamics. J. Douglas K...

A Visual Guide To The Brain, Discussing The Work Of Scientists Who Are Using Modern Imaging Techniques To Locate The Precise Brain Activity That Creates Spe...

The leading guide to driving growth and profits through green strategy—now revised and updated "Green to Gold provides the definitive thinking on how busi...

Imre Lakatos' philosophical and scientific papers are published here in two volumes. Volume I brings together his very influential but scattered papers on t...

The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories. Early studies of the...

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

A Painstakingly Researched, Revelatory Portrait Of The Soviet Dictator's Daughter Traces Her Formative Years In The Kremlin, The Losses Of Numerous Loved On...

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...

Reality is Not What it SeemsCategories: Science & Math PhysicsRelativity

With her bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel introduced readers to her rare gift for weaving complex scientific concepts into a compel...

It is now abundantly clear that we have at our fingertips all of the tools we need to solve the climate crisis. The only missing ingredient is collective w...

A fascinating exploration of the relationship between music and the mind-and the role of melodies in shaping our lives Whether you load your iPod with Bach...

Stefan Nowak. -- Includes Bibliographies And Index.Categories: Science & Math History & PhilosophyGeneral

Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Patricia K. Kuhl. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [227]-264) And Index.Categories: Medical Books PsychologyChild ...

As a young speechwriter in the Reagan White House, Peter Robinson was responsible for the celebrated "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech. He was a...

For Four Years, The Author Interviewed Extremist Members Of Three Religions Around The World: Christians, Jews, And Muslims. Traveling Extensively To Refuge...

An Award-winning Theoretical Physicist And Best-selling Author Of A Universe From Nothing Traces The Dramatic Discovery Of The Counterintuitive World Of Rea...

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...

For Fifteen Years, Bestselling Author Michael Shermer Has Written A Column In Scientific American Magazine That Synthesizes Scientific Concepts And Theory F...

The march of science has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, by outrageous strokes of luck, dese...

Many At Work In The Field Of Cultural Studies Argue That Science Is Politics By Other Means, Insisting That Scientific Inquiry Is Profoundly Shaped By Ideol...

In This Rich, Irreverent, Compelling History, Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Steven Weinberg Takes Us From Ancient Miletus To Medieval Baghdad And Oxford, Fr...

In This Visionary Look Into The Future, Freeman Dyson Argues That Technological Changes Fundamentally Alter Our Ethical And Social Arrangements And That Thr...

The Man Who Touched His Own Heart Tells The Raucous, Gory, Mesmerizing Story Of The Heart, From The First Explorers Who Dug Up Cadavers And Plumbed Their He...

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...

IN THIS TIME OF TURBULENCE, scientists, economists, social innovators, corporate and civic leaders, and citizens alike are asking the same basic questions: ...

Is The Universe Actually A Giant Quantum Computer? According To Seth Lloyd--professor Of Quantum-mechanical Engineering At Mit And Originator Of The First T...

Includes Material On Warts, Dna, Cloning, And Medical Economics. The Medusa And The Snail -- The Tucson Zoo -- The Youngest And Brightest Thing Around -- On...

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