Overview :For two thousand years, cadavers?some willingly, some unwittingly?have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings.... Read More
Overview :From the author of the bestsellers The Disappearing Spoon and The Violinist's Thumb, fascinating tales of the brain and the history of neuro... Read More
Overview :At the beginning of the 21st century, physics is being driven to very unfamiliar territory--the domain of the incredibly small and the incre... Read More
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 :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
Overview :Napoleon's Buttons is the fascinating account of seventeen groups of molecules that have greatly influenced the course of history. These mol... Read More
Overview :An insightful, revealing history of the magical mathematics that transformed our world. At a summer tea party in Cambridge, England, a guest... Read More
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
Overview :"An eye-popping study of the history of infectious diseases, how they spread, and especially how they have been thwarted by experimentation ... Read More
Overview :Michael Strevens's "provocative and fascinating" (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times) investigation of science asks two fundamental questions: ... Read More
Overview :A fascinating deep dive on innovation from the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Farsighted The printing press, the... 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 :Nothing is quite as it seems in Victorian high society in this clever novel set against the most magnificent wedding of the season, as a mys... Read More
Overview :A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science Whether pondering black holes ... Read More
Overview :Tales of the intrepid early naturalists who set sail on dangerous voyages of discovery in the vast, unknown Pacific On the great Pacific dis... 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
Overview :Framing this history is the life story of the nineteenth-century Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who fell asleep at his desk and awoke ... Read More