The first mature and persuasive work to explain the process of natural selection.
Math and science
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Author:Darwin, CharlesSummary: - 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...
- Author:Blaevoet, EmmanuelSummary:
The Periodic Table of Chemical Elements, with textured squares to represent the different classes of elements and a braille chart with important data.
- Author:Rickles, DeanSummary:
Does the future exist already' What is space' Are time machines physically possible' What is quantum mechanical reality like' Are there many universes' Is there a 'true' geometry of the universe'...
- Author:Kenny, CharlesSummary:
A vivid, sweeping history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease, for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and John Barry’s The Great Influenza.
For four thousand years, the size and vitality...
- Author:Nataraj, NirmalaSummary:
This magnificent volume offers a rich visual tour of the planets in our solar system. More than 200 breathtaking photographs from the archives of NASA are paired with extended captions detailing the science behind some of our cosmic...
- Author:Feynman, Richard P.Summary:
A collection of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman, from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles.
- Author:Tyson, Neil deGrasseSummary:
When the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood, Americans rallied behind this extraterrestrial underdog. Pluto is entrenched in our cultural, patriotic view of the cosmos, and Tyson is on a quest to discover why...
- Author:Newton, Sir IsaacSummary:
In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of...
- Author:Ruthsatz, JoanneSummary:
In a scientific detective story, the author, along with a reporter, investigates more than 30 child prodigies, all of whom had extraordinary memories and a keen eye for detail, and discovers a genetic link between prodigy and autism,...
- Author:Halpern, PaulSummary:
In 1939, Richard Feynman, a graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. The soft-spoken Wheeler was a raging nonconformist full of wild ideas about the universe. The...
- Author:Jones, SheillaSummary:
Theoretical physics is in trouble. At least that’s the impression you’d get from reading a spate of recent books on the continued failure to resolve the 80-year-old problem of unifying the classical and quantum worlds. The seeds of this...
- The ravenous brain : how the new science of consciousness explains our insatiable search for meaningAuthor:Bor, DanielSummary:
Bor argues his controversial new theory that consciousness evolved as a way for humans to organize and structure knowledge, as part of our natural drive to innovate.
- Author:Tong, ZiyaSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize
From one of the world's most engaging science journalists, a groundbreaking and wonder-filled look at the hidden things that shape our lives in unexpected and sometimes dangerous ways.... - Author:McIntyre, RickSummary:
The breathtaking firsthand account of two Yellowstone wolves and their remarkable bond. Wolf 21 and Wolf 42 were attracted to each other the moment they met in Yellowstone Park'but Wolf 42's jealous sister hindered their...
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