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Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
by Richard Fortey  Publisher Comments Richard Fortey—one of the world’s most gifted natural scientists and acclaimed author of Life, Trilobite and Earth—describes this splendid new book as a museum of the mind. But it is, as well, a perfect behind-the-scenes guide to a...
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Present at the Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature
by Ira Flatow Publisher Comments Veteran NPR® science reporter and award-winning radio and TV journalist Ira Flatow’s enthusiasm for all things scientific has made him a beloved on-air correspondent. For more than thirty-five years, Flatow has interviewed the top scientists...
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Live from Cape Canaveral
by Jay Barbree Publisher Comments Some fifty years ago, while a cub reporter, Jay Barbree caught space fever the night that Sputnik passed over Georgia. He moved to the then-sleepy village of Cocoa Beach, Florida, right outside Cape Canaveral, and began reporting on rockets that fizzled...
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Citrus: A History (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion)
by Pierre Laszlo Publisher Comments Walk into your local grocery store and down the produce aisle, and you’ll find a dazzling array of citrus, from navel oranges and clementines to grapefruit and key limes—and sometimes even more exotic fare like the Japanese yuzu or the baboon...
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American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn)
by John Krige Publisher Comments In 1945, the United States was not only the strongest economic and military power in the world; it was also the world's leader in science and technology. In American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe, John Krige describes the...
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Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn)
by Myles W. Jackson Publisher Comments Historically, music was long classified as both art and science. Aspects of musicandmdash;from the mathematics of tuning to the music of the celestial spheresandmdash;were primarily studied as science until the seventeenth century. In the nineteenth...
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Voyages of Discovery: A Visual Celebration of Ten of the Greatest Natural History Expeditions
by Tony Rice Publisher Comments A rare and beautiful selection of works handpicked from the vast archives of London's Natural History Museum. The book's greatest contribution is to showcase the work of the artists who, usually under very difficult circumstances, so brilliantly served...
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The Next Fifty Years
by John (edt) Brockman Publisher Comments A brilliant ensemble of the world’s most visionary scientists provides twenty-five original never-before-published essays about the advances in science and technology that we may see within our lifetimes. Theoretical physicist and bestselling...
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H.G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism: A Study in Translation and Transformation (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn)
by Sander Gliboff Publisher Comments The German translation of Darwin's The Origin of Species appeared in 1860, just months after the original, thanks to Heinrich Georg Bronn, a distinguished German paleontologist whose work in some ways paralleled Darwin's. Bronn's version of the book...
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Science Talk: Changing Notions of Science in American Popular Culture
by Daniel Patric Thurs Synopsis Discoveries in the sciences are occurring constantly contributing to the changing defeition of the term "science" itself. Daniel Patrick Thurs examines what these controversies say about how we understand science now and in the future. Thurs describes...
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Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science
by John D Barrow Publisher Comments A remarkable book tracing the history and influence of nearly two hundred iconic images that changed human conceptions of the universe and our place in it. e live in a visual age, an age of images—iconic, instant, and influential—that have...
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Science on the Air: Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television
by Marcel Chotkowski Lafollette Publisher Comments Mr. Wizard’s World. Bill Nye the Science Guy. NPR’s Science Friday. These popular television and radio programs broadcast science into the homes of millions of viewers and listeners. But these modern series owe much of their success to the...
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Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers During the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research (Inside Technology Inside Technology)
by Atsushi Akera Publisher Comments During the Cold War, the field of computing advanced rapidly within a complex institutional context. In Calculating a Natural World, Atsushi Akera describes the complicated interplay of academic, commercial, and government and military interests that...
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Mauve
by Simon Garfield Publisher Comments Relates how English chemist William Perkin's accidental discovery of the color mauve--and a method to mass-produce it--created new interest in the industrial applications of chemistry research....
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The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter That Made the World Modern
by Keith Devlin Publisher Comments Before the mid-seventeenth century, scholars generally agreed that it was impossible to predict something by calculating mathematical outcomes. One simply could not put a numerical value on the likelihood that a particular event would occur. Even the...
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The Florida Life of Thomas Edison
by Michele Wehr Albion About the Author Michele Wehrwein Albion, former assistant curator and registrar at the United States Holocaust Museum, was the first professional curator of the Edison and Ford Winter estates in Fort Myers, Florida. She lives in Dover, New Hampshire....
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The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World But Fueled the Rise of Hitler
by Thomas Hager Publisher Comments A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions of lives—including your own. At the dawn of the twentieth century, humanity was facing global disaster. Mass starvation, long predicted for the fast...
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One Hundred Years of Intuitionism (1907-2007): The Cerisy Conference (Publications Des Archives Henri Poincar?? / Publications of)
by Mark (edt) Van Atten Synopsis With logicism and formalism, intuitionism is one of the main foundations for mathematics proposed in the twentieth century; and since the seventies, notably its views on logic have become important also outside foundational studies, with the development...
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Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry
by Patrick Coffey Publisher Comments Cathedrals of Science describes the way modern chemistry was actually built--by scientists who were sometimes all too human. Chemists--Svante Arrhenius, Walther Nernst, Gilbert Lewis, Irving Langmuir, Fritz Haber, Linus Pauling, Glenn Seaborg, Harold...
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Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America
by Neil Safier Publisher Comments Prior to 1735, South America was largely terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a joint French and Spanish mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the...
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