Browsing the "Science" category: 1113 books
In his first two books, Gerald L. Schroeder illustrated how science and the Bible can be reconciled without violating the letter, or spirit, of either. Now he takes a step back, offering a tour of modern science, from the universe as a whole to the s ...more »
ISBN: 0743216830 / The Free Press / Pub Date: Jun 2001 / File Size: 969K
The fascinating true story of Gordon Gould's successful thirty-year struggle to assert himself as the rightful inventor of the laser -- and a myth-shattering, behind-the-scenes account of the American patent process. The insight struck Gould with ...more »
ISBN: 0743213211 / Simon & Schuster / Pub Date: Jun 2001 / File Size: 342K
In 1990 the U.S. and its partners around the world embarked on the quest for the holy grail of biology. Two years ago this mission became a race between the taxpayer-supported genome project led by Francis Collins and Craig Venter, the maverick scien ...more »
ISBN: 0743217241 / The Free Press / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 841K
If one quality defines our modern, technocratic age, it is acceleration. We are making haste. Our computers, our movies, our sex lives, our prayers -- they all run faster now than ever before. And the more we fill our lives with time-saving devices a ...more »
ISBN: 0446923567 / iPublish.com / Pub Date: Sep 1999 / File Size: 704K
In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. Arguing for a material, not divine, origin of species, he showed that new species are achieved by 'natural selection'. Development, diversifi ...more »
ISBN: 0679641300 / Modern Library / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 882K
Acclaimed science writer Sharon Bertsch McGrayne tells the history of the chemical revolution through the lives of nine people who helped create our modern way of life. We may not recognize their names, but their legacy is all around us. ...more »
ISBN: 0071386688 / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 523K
From within the highest ranks of the scientific community comes a startling new theory of creation that not only contradicts Darwinian orthodoxy but opens the door to theological arguments biologists have dismissed and ridiculed for more than a centu ...more »
ISBN: 0743214854 / Touchstone Press / Pub Date: Mar 1998 / File Size: 708K
In a fast-paced narrative full of colorful characters, surprising twists and turns, and several eye-opening revelations, Belinda Martineau chronicles the story behind the making of the Flavr Savr, from its conception, through its much-heralded introd ...more »
ISBN: 0071381198 / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Apr 2001 / File Size: 265K
The mysteries surrounding the origins of life are written in detective story fashion by a world famous scientist in this popular version of Genetic Takeover, originally published in 1982. ...more »
ISBN: 0511000014 / Cambridge University Press / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 935K
Is it possible that seemingly unrelated cataclysms, both natural and human, all happen for one reason? In this groundbreaking book of popular science, critically acclaimed journalist Mark Buchanan tells the story of the serendipitous discovery of a n ...more »
ISBN: 0609504320 / Crown / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 581K
There may still be disagreement about the threat to human survival posed by society's environmental impacts, but no one can doubt that individual eco-systems and the global biosphere are both increasingly shaped by human production and consumption. < ...more »
ISBN: 0312299656 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 1009K
From the internationally acclaimed author of Magnificent Universe, Ken Croswell, comes the definitive story of the golden age in our understanding of the universe -- the age we live in right now. The universe's origin, evolution, and fate have long f ...more »
ISBN: 0743218817 / The Free Press / Pub Date: Sep 2001 / File Size: 2574K
Walking on Eggs is the fascinating inside story behind one of the most significant paleontological discoveries in history. In November of 1997, Luis Chiappe and Lowell Dingus led an elite team of scientists into the rugged and desolate badlands of Ar ...more »
ISBN: 0743213777 / Scribner Book Co. / Pub Date: Jun 2001 / File Size: 206K
A philosophical call for a new biology from one of its veterans. ...more »
ISBN: 0071395660 / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 264K
The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures - the arts or humanities on one hand, and the sciences on the other - has a long history. But it was C.P.Snow's Rede lecture ...more »
ISBN: 051100009X / Cambridge University Press / Pub Date: Aug 2000 / File Size: 307K
In a story told on many fascinating levels, Gary Zweiger introduces us to the visionaries who first understood genes as information carriers and chronicles how their early efforts led to the birth of the new science of genomics. ...more »
ISBN: 0071381333 / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Apr 2001 / File Size: 570K
The Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918 killed an estimated 40 to 100 million people, striking people in every corner of the globe. In this fascinating book, Gina Kolata examines the devastating impact of the most deadly infectious disease epidemic in r ...more »
ISBN: 0374700281 / Farrar, Straus, & Giroux / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 1035K
This exhaustive survey analyzes a population of more than 16,000 U.S. research and development laboratories, and offers policymakers and scientists a blueprint for making more informed decisions about how to best utilize and develop the capabilities ...more »
ISBN: 0231500106 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 1781K
In this new work, the author asserts that organisms and human societies alike have grown more complex by mastering the challenges of internal cooperation. Wright's narrative ranges from fossilized bacteria to vampire bats, uncovering such surprises a ...more »
ISBN: 0375727817 / Knopf / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 480K
1998 was the most violent year in the history of weather, and ended as the hottest year ever recorded. According to a 1999 report, worldwide temperatures are rising much faster than expected. Global warming is about to cause the North Atlantic Curren ...more »
ISBN: 0743417410 / Pocket Books / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 269K
Susan Aldridge gives an accessible guide to the world of DNA and also explores the applications of genetic engineering in biotechnology. She takes the reader, step by step, through the fascinating study of molecular biology. Aldridge also looks at th ...more »
ISBN: 0511000006 / Cambridge University Press / Pub Date: Nov 2000 / File Size: 870K
In the bestselling short-history format of Longitude and How the Irish Saved Civilization, this elegant volume by the author of such well-known works as The Panda's Thumb and The Flamingo's Smile explores the rational and religious roots of human fas ...more »
ISBN: 0609606107 / Harmony Books / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 2151K
Including twenty-two photographs and more than fifty drawings of these strikingly beautiful early life forms, this book presents a mesmerizing documentary of a major scientific discovery. During an expedition in Sonora, Mexico, McMenamin unearthed fo ...more »
ISBN: 0231500300 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Jun 1998 / File Size: 2823K
A world-reknowned paleontologist illuminates some of the most exciting issues in current paleontology while teaching us how to understand our global ecosystem and its future prospects. ...more »
ISBN: 0374702055 / FSG / Pub Date: Feb 2002 / File Size: 2411K
EARTH REPORT 2000 re-evaluates the key issues regarding our planet's ecological fitness. It debunks many of the myths of the recent past, and persuasively argues for rethinking our approach to the most critical environmental dilemmas of the next cent ...more »
ISBN: 0071367322 / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Nov 2000 / File Size: 2884K
