Science & Technology

Best-selling author Natalie Angier (the National Book Award finalist "Woman: An Intimate Geography") distills the scientific canon to the absolute essentials, delivering an entertaining and inspiring one-step... more info...

The compelling story of Edwin Hubble's landmark discoveries about our universe, told by award-winning scientific author Marcia Bartusiak. On January 1, 1925, Hubble first announced his startling claim:... more info...

Using groundbreaking filming techniques & state-of-the-art scientific & photographic technologies, this highly anticipated book & television series explore six of the most spectacular natural phenomena... more info...

In this book David Bodanis writes the "biography" of one of the greatest scientific discoveries in history - that the realms of energy and matter are inescapably linked - and turns a seemingly impenetrable... more info...

An account of the conflict between two of the twentieth century's leading physicists--Albert Einstein & Niels Bohr--concerning the theory of quantum mechanics, one of the most impassioned debates of modern... more info...

The authors reveal this artifact to be not only the oldest shipwreck ever recovered in the Western Hemisphere but also very likely the remains of the Vizcaina, one of the ships Christopher Columbus took... more info...

The colossal hardcover bestseller now available in paperback. From the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - and just about everything in between, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being... more info...

From the author who taught us about "The Sex Life of Food" comes a fascinating and unparalleled journey into the orgin of numbers. Amazingly able to pack thousands of years worth of history into roughly... more info...

In this classic biography of the first women scientist to win the Nobel Prize, Eve Curie chronicles her mother's legendary achievements, including her pioneering efforts in the study of radioactivity and... more info...

A light-hearted look at how all creatures, from humans to spiders, do math daily. Author Keith Devlin's examples are interesting, well-presented, and thought-provoking.This book is guaranteed to provide... more info...

Michael S. Gazzaniga, the director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California-Santa Barbara & its Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, pinpoints the change that... more info...

A study by the Harvard astronomer & historian of science of the scientific community's reception of Copernicus's famous book "De revolutionibus"--which first suggested that the Sun, not the Earth, is the... more info...

Through family interviews, diaries, letters,and workbooks that had been sealed for more than sixty years, Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth - an all-too-human woman struggling to balance... more info...

The former vice-president & Democratic contender in the hyper-contested presidential election of 2000 authors a riveting new book - a documentary film tie-in entitled "An Inconvenient Truth" - based on... more info...

This rare blend of scientific insight and writing peels away the layers of mystery surrounding string theory to reveal a universe that consists of eleven dimensions, where the fabric of space tears and... more info...

A photo-illustrated documentation of birds of the wetlands: herons, storks, ibises, spoonbills, anhingas, shorebirds, and others. The author's appreciation and understanding of the biology and ecology... more info...

The highly anticipated follow-up to science writer Bernd Heinrich's "Winter World", "Summer World" is filled with the same love of nature and richly detailed writing that made its predecessor so popular... more info...

Though Michael Faraday came from humble beginnings, he was able to elevate himself to the highest echelon of the scientific community, eventually inventing the electric generator and the electric motor.... more info...

We spend about 1/10th of our waking hours completely blind. Only one percent of what we see is in focus at any one time. There is no direct fossil evidence for the evolution of the eye. In graceful, accessible... more info...

The celebrated biography writer Walter Isaacson presents the most defintive account of the iconic Albert Einstein since the release of all his personal letters and papers in a story that focuses not only... more info...

With the attention to detail of a historian and the storytelling ability of a novel, New York Times science writer George Johnson celebrates these groundbreaking experiments and re-creates a time when... more info...

Our planet is in danger, and human actions have left us in great peril. But how well do we, as individuals, understand both the far-reaching consequences of our actions and the varied threats that have... more info...

Who hasn't feared the math Minotaur in its labyrinth of abstractions? Now, in this book, Robert & Ellen Kaplan - the founders of The Math Circle, the popular learning program begun at Harvard in 1994 -... more info...

(Kaufman Focus Guides: A New Focus on the Field series). Bird identification made easy! More than 2,000 photographs have been selected and digitally edited to show exactly how to recognize each bird. Vivid... more info...

The Supernova expert brings readers inside a research team that made an extraordinary cosmological discovery: the expansion of the universe is accelerating under the influence of a dark energy that makes... more info...

(Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering). The book features approximate and rigorous analysis methods, including design formulas that can readily be programmed to generate design data for a... more info...

There's no question that the world is going through some hard times and you (and me) are to blame, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense... more info...

From photosynthesis to sight to consciousness, biochemist Nick Lane explores what he considers to be the ten greatest inventions of evolution with an attention to detail and a knack for storytelling. He... more info...

The story of the inexorable drift of nuclear weapons technology from the hands of the rich into the hands of the poor. As more unstable and undeveloped nations find ways of acquiring the ultimate armament,... more info...

(Great Discoveries series). In 1781, William Herschel won international fame for discovering Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. In documenting a new planet - something no one had done since the dawn... more info...

The recent disastrous floods in the Mississippi delta have focused national attention on the preparedness of the Earth for natural disasters. In "Winds of Change," Eugene Linden tracks the history of climate... more info...

This book, drawing on unpublished family letters and journals, tells the story of Robert Stuart's 1812-1813 expedition for the first time. His discovery of the Oregon Trail opened up the West to settlers... more info...

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The noted Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for The New Yorker is also a shad fisherman. Here, in his twenty-sixth book, McPhee adventures in pursuit of shad, braiding together personal history, natural history,... more info...

Depicting the true nature of chance and revealing the psychological illusions that cause us to misjudge the world around us, Mlodinow gives us the tools needed to make more informed decisions. From the... more info...

An exploration of how religious ideologues, a weak education ssytem, science-phobic politicians, and the corporate media have all collaborated to create a major disconnect betweenthe scientific community... more info...

An account by the "Denver Post" journalist of a bird watching event known as the Big Year, in which birders fight to the finish for birdwatching records. more info...

About 550 million years ago there was literally an explosion of life forms. In a short span of time, the number of different classifcations of animals (phyla) suddenly and dramatically mushroomed fromthree... more info...

In Death from the Skies!, astronomer Philip Plait presents some of the most feasome end-of-the-world calamities, demystifies the scientific principles at work behind them, and gives readers the odds that... more info...

The author covers the four corners of the globe as he explores the fate of lions in India's Gir forest, saltwater crocodiles in Northern Australia, brown bears in the mountains of Romania, & Siberian tigers.... more info...

Shackleton's own compelling chronicle of his first Antarctic expedition. B&W illus. 452p. Pap. more info...

Examining fossils and DNA, Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the "fish with hands," shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are... more info...

Simon Singh provides an intriguing journey, tracing the evolution of Fermat's riddle pronouncement of 1637 - that stated there were no solution to a pythagorean type expression using powers above the value... more info...

Menacing botanical illustrations and splendidly ghastly drawing create a fascinating portrait of the evildoers that may be lurking in your own backyard. Drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend,... more info...

Renowned mathematician Ian Stewart provides letters for the latest entry in the Art of Mentoring series inspired by the classic "Letters to a Young Poet." Offering an introduction to mathematics, the former... more info...

With his guide Matt Biddle, an Ahab-like veteran storm chaser, Mark Svenvold draws a portrait of a culture enamored by extremes during a 6,000-mile journey through Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. At the... more info...

In the 1760s, a group of amateur experimenters met and formed the Lunar Society of Birmingham (so called because it met at each full moon) and kick-started the Industrial Revolution: they built canals;... more info...

(Great Discoveries series). The consummate fictionist William T. Vollmann gives an enlightening explication of Copernicus's revolutionizing book and also of his epoch, and the momentous clash between the... more info...

With energetic prose and powerful intelligence, William T. Vollmann provides a fresh and enlightening explication not only of Copernicus and his famous book The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres but... more info...

This book proposes a revolutionary & provocative vision of life's relationship with the Earth's biosphere - one that has frightening implications for our future, yet also offers hope. Using the latest... more info...

A 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction finalist. This book's global-scale dismay about humanity's environmental impact is its most important theme. But it is the author's more marginal... more info...

(The Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading). Interweaving science and metaphysics, the Principle of Relativity is commonly acknowledged as the most interesting alternative to Einstein's generaltheory... more info...

The author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman tells the story of the 19th-century engineer whose obsession with creating the world's first geological map led to his becoming the"father of... more info...

Most of us believe in some sort of religious tradition or engage in the practice of magical thinking, but why? In this compelling new book, acclaimed biologist Lewis Wolpert tackles this question head-on... more info...

In his compelling book "Catching Fire," Harvard professor of Biological Anthropology Richard Wranham argues that cooking transformed humanity and ultimately led to countless evolutionary benefits like... more info...