Malaria, now known as a disease of the tropics, badly weakened the Roman Empire. It killed thousands of British troops fighting Napoleon in 1809 and many soldiers on both sides of the Civil War. It turned back travelers exploring West...
Math and science
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Author:Rocco, FiammettaSummary: - Author:Gould, Stephen JaySummary:
When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. Yet the idea of of biology as...
- Author:Henig, Robin MarantzSummary:
Most people know that Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk who patiently grew his peas in a monastery garden, shaped our understanding of inheritance. But people might not know that Mendel's work was ignored in his own lifetime, even...
- Author:Tattersall, IanSummary:
Nothing fascinates us more than explorations of human origins, and nobody tells the story better than Ian Tattersall. What makes us so different' How did we get this way' How do we know' And what exactly are we' These questions are what...
- Author:Poliquin, RachelSummary:
A perfect STEM resource: This illustrated tour of our "leftover" body parts (like the appendix, or even goosebumps) introduces readers age 7-11 to the bizarre and fascinating science of evolution. Welcome to the weirdest museum you'll...
- Author:Jackson, Ellen B.Summary:
Follows Dr. Alex Fillippenko and his High-Z Supernova Search Team as they use the Keck telescope in Hawaii to look for supernovae, find black holes, and study the effects of dark energy.
- Author:Morris, ThomasSummary:
"Delightfully horrifying."-Popular Science This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping weirdness. A puzzling series of dental...
- Author:Barnatt, ChristopherSummary:
The Next Big Thing explores future revolutions that will determine how things are made, who we share the planet with, where resources come from, and the evolution of the human species. Beyond 2030, the way we live today will no longer...
- Author:Chivers, DannySummary:
Just as the need for action on climate change becomes more urgent and overwhelming, the campaign to deny that humans are causing it has gained more traction. This completely new book meets the skeptics head on, offering a guide to the...
- Author:Ravetz, Jerome R.Summary:
Science is still the great intellectual adventure, but now it is also seen as an instrument of profit, power, and privilege. Wrongly used, it might yet make the 21st century our last. To make sense of all this, we need to let go of old...
- Author:Boyd, David R.Summary:
A hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environment
Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges — climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we...
- Author:Rovelli, CarloSummary:
"Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book."--The Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a concise, elegant exploration of time. Why do we remember the past and...
- Author:Waltner-Toews, DavidSummary:
An entertaining and enlightening exploration of why waste matters. The Origin of Feces takes an important subject out of locker-rooms, potty-training manuals, and bio-solids management boardrooms into the fresh air of everyone'...
- Author:Darwin, CharlesSummary:
The first mature and persuasive work to explain the process of natural selection.
- Author:Carroll, Sean M.Summary:
Caltech physicist and author Sean Carroll offers listeners this profile of the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the mysterious Higgs boson particle, the subatomic building block that imbues elementary particles with mass....
- Author:Tailor, KrisaSummary:
In The Patient Revolution, author Krisa Tailor-a noted expert in health care innovation and management-explores, through the lens of design thinking, how information technology will take health care into the experience economy. In the...
- The Pentagon's brain : an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top-secret military research agencyAuthor:Jacobsen, AnnieSummary:
In the first-ever history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military R&D agency, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen paints a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain,"...
- Author:Kucharski, AdamSummary:
From roulette tables to racetracks, provides a look at how scientists and mathematicians throughout the years have tried to figure out how to beat the house while gambling.
- Author:Ferreira, Pedro G.Summary:
"Ferreira masterfully portrays the science and scientists behind general relativity's star-crossed history and argues that even now we are only just beginning to realize its vitality as a tool for understanding the cosmos."-Scientific...
- Author:Winchester, SimonSummary:
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage...
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