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Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
xiv, 331 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Finalist for the 2006 Book Award in Science, Independent Publisher Book Awards" David Park is Webster Atwell-Class of 1921 Professor of Physics, Emeritus at Williams College. He is the author of seven previous books, including The Fire within the Eye, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1997, and The How and the Why (both Princeton).
The Grand Contraption tells the story of humanity's attempts through 4,000 years of written history to...
Author
Publisher
Helix Books/Addison-Wesley
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
133 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this collection of lectures Feynman originally gave in 1963, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses several mega questions of science. Marked by Feynman's characteristic combination of rationality and humor, these lectures provide an intimate glimpse at the man behind the legend.
Author
Series
Emergent strategy volume no. 2
Publisher
AK Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Undrowned is a book-length meditation for the human species, based on the subversive and transformative lessons of marine mammals. Alexis Pauline Gumbs has spent hundreds of hours watching our aquatic cousins. They are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions humans impose on the ocean. With a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility, naturalist observation,...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ferris is a master analogist who conveys his insights on the history of cosmology with a lyrical flair." -The New York Times Book Review
In The Science of Liberty, award-winning author Timothy Ferris-called "the best popular science writer in the English language today" by the Christian Science Monitor and "the best science writer of his generation" by the Washington Post-makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of...
Author
Series
Masters of modern physics volume 16
Publisher
AIP Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
xiii, 312 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
11) The hedgehog, the fox, and the magister's pox: mending the gap between science and the humanities
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 274 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
13) Archangel
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
©2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1908, twelve-year-old Constantine Boyd is witness to an explosion of home-spun investigation--from experiments with cave-dwelling fish without eyes to scientifically bred crops to motorized bicycles and the flight of an early aeroplane. In 1920, a popular science writer and young widow tries, immediately after the bloodbath of the First World War, to explain the new theory of relativity to an audience (herself included) desperate...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A timely investigation into the forces that are driving innovation in the four core areas of human experience: birth, food, sex, and death
In Sex Robots and Vegan Meat, award-winning journalist and documentary maker Jenny Kleeman takes us on a journey into the world of the people who are changing what it means to be human. Focusing on the central pillars of the human experience—birth, food, sex, and death-Kleeman examines the people who are driving...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 442 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World"-- and bestselling author of Warped Passages--an exhilarating and readable overview of the latest ideas in physics and a rousing defense of the role of science in our lives"--
19) Moscow stories
Author
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xi, 305 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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