Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time
by David Prerau


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Benjamin Franklin conceived of it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt went to war with it, and more recently the United States fought an energy... (read more)

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Why the Sky Is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life
by Götz Hoeppe


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"This delightful combination of science and history should be required reading for poets, pilots, artists, weather watchers, and anyone who ever marveled at the manifest colors of the sky or wondered why it is only sometimes 'blue.'"--James Rodger... (read more)

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Postcards from the Brain Museum: The Improbable Search for Meaning in the Matter of Famous Minds
by Brian Burrell


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What makes one man a genius and another a criminal? Is there a physical explanation for these differences? For hundreds of years, scientists have been fascinated by this question. In Postcards from the Brain Museum, Brian Burrell relates the story of the... (read more)

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The Science of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
by John Gribbin


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Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is renowned for its mystery and magic. What’s the truth behind it all? Is the golden compass actually based in science? How does the subtle knife cut through anything? Could there be a bomb like the... (read more)

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A Left-Hand Turn Around the World: Chasing the Mystery and Meaning of All Things Southpaw
by David Wolman


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Traveling from the halls of history to the halls of science, Wolman explores a Scottish castle designed for left-handed swordfights, visits a Paris museum to inspect nineteenth-century brains that hold clues to this biological puzzle, and observes chimps... (read more)

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Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse
by Kenne Silverman


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This brilliantly conceived biography is the very American tale of a quiet man, raised by religious zealots, who became a gifted and prolific painter (more than three hundred portraits and historical canvases), became the first Professor of Fine Arts at... (read more)

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Adventures from the Technology Underground: Catapults, Pulsejets, Rail Guns, Flamethrowers, Tesla Coils, Air Cannons and the Garage Warriors Who Love Them
by William Gurstelle


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The technology underground is a thriving, humming, and often literally scintillating subculture of amateur inventors and scientific envelope-pushers who dream up, design, and build machines that whoosh, rumble, fly—and occasionally hurl pumpkins... (read more)

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Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
by Galileo Galilei


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This latest installment in ourOn the Shoulders of Giants series presents the provocative essay by Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) in its entirety. Famed for its unapologetic support of Copernicus's theory and subsequent proof that the earth did indeed... (read more)

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The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Anonymous Genius Who Proved Newton Wrong and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Surprising Feats
by Andrew Robinson


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A portrait of scientist Thomas Young relates the life of the remarkable man who made major contributions in such fields as physics, languages, and music, describing how he proposed the light-wave theory and the three-color theory of vision, and was... (read more)

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The Man Who Tried to Clone Himself: And Other True Stories of the World's Most Bizarre Research and the IG Nobel Prizes
by Marc Abrahams


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A hilarious collection of the world's most improbable research in the sciences, arts, and humanities The Nobel Prize brings well-deserved recognition to the world's greatest accomplishments. But for some who are not lucky enough to become Nobel laureates... (read more)

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The Way Toys Work: The Science Behind the Magic 8 Ball, Etch a Sketch, Boomerang, and More
by Ed Sobey and Woody Sobey


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Profiling 50 of the world’s most popular playthings (including their history, trivia, and the technology involved) this guide uncovers the hidden science of toys. Discover how an Etch A Sketch writes on its gray screen, why a boomerang returns... (read more)

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Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes
by Walter Gratzer


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The march of science has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, by outrageous strokes of luck, deserved and undeserved, and sometimes by human tragedy. In Eurekas and Euphorias, Walter Gratzer... (read more)

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Big Fleas Have Little Fleas: How Discoveries of Invertebrate Diseases Are Advancing Modern Science
by Elizabeth Davidson


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Ever since Louis Pasteur saved the French silk industry by identifying a disease affecting silkworms, scientists have focused their attention on smaller and smaller organisms. Once upon a time, the rhinoceros beetle threatened the coconut plantations of... (read more)

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The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture
by Mordechai Feingold


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Isaac Newton is a legendary figure whose mythical dimension threatens to overshadow the actual man. The story of the apple falling from the tree may or may not be true, but Isaac Newton's revolutionary discoveries and their importance to the... (read more)

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Introduction to the Philosophy of Science: Cutting Nature at Its Seams
by Robert Klee


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A clear and lively explanation of key concepts and issues in the philosophy of science. It surveys the field from positivism to social constructivism, focusing on the metaphysical implications of science as a form of knowledge gathering that explains... (read more)

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Hacking Matter: Levitating Chairs, Quantum Mirages, and the Infinite Weirdness of Programmable Atoms
by Wil Mccarthy


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Programmable matter is probably not the next technological revolution, nor even perhaps the one after that. But it's coming, and when it does, it will change our lives as much as any invention ever has. Imagine being able to program matter itself--to... (read more)

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Curious Minds
by John Brockman


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What makes a child decide to become a scientist? For Robert Sapolsky, Stanford professor of biology, it was an argument with a rabbi over a passage in the Bible. Physicist Lee Smolin traces his inspiration to the volume of Einstein's work he picked up as... (read more)

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The March of Unreason: Science, Democracy, and the New Fundamentalism
by Dick Taverne


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In The March of Unreason, Dick Taverne expresses his concern that irrationality is on the rise in Western society, and argues that public opinion is increasingly dominated by unreflecting prejudice and an unwillingness to engage with factual evidence... (read more)

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