Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science - and the World by Rachel Swaby
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Category: Popular Science
Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history s brightest female scientists. In 2013, the"New York Times"published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job, and took eight years off from work to raise three children. It wasn t ...Show more
Science Is Beautiful : Disease and Medicine: Under the Microscope by Colin Salter
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Category: Popular Science
Our understanding of disease and the powers of medicine today are unparalleled, and their documentation has increased signficantly. Science is Beautiful collects the most fascinating microscopic photographs of our diseases along with the medicines we use to treat them. These photographs are profoundly f ...Show more
The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla (Leather Bound) by Nikola Tesla; Thomas Commerford Martin
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence." ― Nikola Tesla
The Sun by Leon Golub
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Category: Popular Science
Essential for life on earth and a major influence on our environment, the Sun is also the most fascinating object in the daytime sky. Every day we feel the effect of its coming and going - literally the difference between day and night. But figuring out what the Sun is, what it's made of, why it glows s ...Show more
The Secret Life of the Periodic Table by Ben Still
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Secret Life Of Ser.
Every element has character, be it volatile, aloof, gregarious or enigmatic. They also have incredible stories of how they came to be, how they were discovered and how their qualities have been harnessed to make everything we have in the world. The Secret Life of the Periodic Table gives a fascinating ...Show more
The Leonardo Da Vinci Puzzle Codex by Richard Wolfrik Galland
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Category: Popular Science
The fertile mind of Leonardo da Vinci gave so much to the world; he was an artist, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist cartographer and more. He drew sketches and plans of many objects that would not be practically assembled for many centuries after his death, and his scientific approach to researc ...Show more
The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe
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Category: Popular Science
The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. "A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theory of evolution." (Dwight Garner, New York Times) Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us o ...Show more
Science Without the Boring Bits: A Curious Chronology of Discovery, Invention and Wild Speculation by Ian Crofton
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Category: Popular Science
Forget Boyle's law, polymer chains, cellular respiration and fields of force - here's all the really interesting stuff you never learnt during science lessons at school. But this isn't fantasy, this is hard fact: Fact: The stethoscope owes its invention in 1816 to a young doctor who was too embarrassed ...Show more
Stripping Down Science: The Naked Scientist Expose by Chris Smith
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Category: Popular Science
Why does a lap dancer earn bigger tips when she's at her most fertile? Can just the whiff of a woman send a man's hormones surging? And were dinosaurs hot-blooded too? Is it true that diet portions actually make people fatter? Can toads really predict earthquakes? And what causes those ...what's the wor ...Show more
Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory by James T. Costa
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Category: Popular Science
James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin's childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle, where his ideas on evolution began, and on to Down House, his bustling home of forty years. Using his garden and greenhouse, the surrounding meadows and woodlands, and even the cellar and hallways of ...Show more
The Mice Who Sing for Sex: And Other Weird Tales from the World of Science by Lliana Bird
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Category: Popular Science
Lliana Bird and Dr Jack Lewis tackle the strange and surreal phenomena from the depths of the oceans to the limits far flung universe; the dark corners of your laundry basket to the forgotten compartments of your fridge. Packed with unusual facts and stories of the absurd each of the fascinating insight ...Show more
Einstein's Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes by Chris Impey
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Category: Popular Science
Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, and yet they are ubiquitous. Every massive star leaves behind a black hole when it dies, and every galaxy harbors a supermassive black hole at its center. Frighteningly enigmatic, these dark giants continue to astound even the scientists who spen ...Show more