Overview :For two thousand years, cadavers?some willingly, some unwittingly?have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings.... Read More
Overview :A fascinating tour of particle physics from Nobel Prize winner Leon Lederman. At the root of particle physics is an invincible sense of curi... 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 :Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a ne... Read More
Overview :A compelling, often hilarious and occasionally horrifying exploration of how modern medicine came to be Wondering whether eating powdered m... 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 :Widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement when published 50 years ago, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring had a profound i... 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
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 :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 :The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighte... Read More
Overview :Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionFinalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Pronged ants, horned humans... Read More
Overview :A dazzling, irresistible collection of the ten most groundbreaking and beautiful experiments in scientific history. With the attention to de... 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
Overview :What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we kn... Read More
Overview :From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People), little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to... Read More