Overview :For two thousand years, cadavers?some willingly, some unwittingly?have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings.... Read More
Overview :Named a Best Book of 2020 by the Telegraph, the Times, and BBC History Magazine, The Light Ages is an illuminating guide to the scientific a... Read More
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Overview :From the bestselling author of How We Got To Now, The Ghost Map and Farsighted, a new national bestseller: the "exhilarating"( Los Angeles T... Read More
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Overview :A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civili... Read More
Overview :A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievement... Read More
Overview :New for 2020 Join the 750,000 listeners of the Sawbones Podcast as Dr Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin humorously discuss centuries of... Read More
Overview :An exploration of mankind's fascination with worlds beyond our own-by the bestselling author of The Physics of Star Trek Lawrence Krauss -a... Read More
Overview :Andrew D. White (1832-1918), historian, diplomat, and first president of Cornell University, advocated such progressive causes as equal righ... Read More
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Overview :For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every ... Read More
Overview :Unraveling the Double Helix covers the most colorful period in the history of DNA, from the discovery of "nuclein" in the late 1860s to the ... Read More
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Overview :With over 225,000 copies in print, DK's Big Ideas series has struck a chord with readers fascinated-but also intimidated-by complex subjects... Read More