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The Guardian of All Things: The Epic Story of Human Memory by Michael S. Malone Publisher Comments A fascinating exploration of the history of memory and human civilization Memory makes us human. No other animal carries in its brain so many memories of such complexity nor so regularly revisits those memories for happiness, safety, and the... (read more) Available August 21, 2012 Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover 
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Newton and the Netherlands: How Newton's Ideas Entered the Continent (Aup - Leiden University Press) by Eric Jorink Publisher Comments The Dutch Republic proved to be extremely receptive to the groundbreaking ideas of Isaac Newton (1643-1727). Dutch scholars such as Willem Jacob Gravesande and Petrus van Musschenbroek played a crucial role in the dissemination of Newton’s... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $46.75 New - Trade Paper
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The Ingenious Dr Darwin: Sex, Science, and Serendipity by Patricia Fara Publisher Comments Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side to him. Botanist, inventor, Lunar inventor and popular poet, Darwin was internationally renowned for breathtakingly... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $42.25 New - Hardcover
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Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany by Sachiko Kusukawa Publisher Comments Because of their spectacular, naturalistic pictures of plants and the human body, Leonhart Fuchs’s De historia stirpium and Andreas Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica are landmark publications in the history of the printed book. But as... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $50.95 New - Hardcover
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A Little History of Science by William Bynum Publisher Comments Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted to make sense of the world and harness its... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Electrified Sheep: Glass-Eating Scientists, Nuking the Moon, and More Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese Publisher Comments Welcome to some of the most weird and wonderful experiments ever conducted in the name of science—“Perfect summertime reading—preferably with a friend nearby who can be constantly interrupted with unsettling facts.” &... (read more) Available June 5, 2012 Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover
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Ballpoint: A Tale of Genius and Grit, Perilous Times, and the Invention That Changed the Way We Write by Gyoergy Moldova Publisher Comments The triumphs and the trials of the men who invented the modern ballpoint pen as they battled corporate greed, dark eras--and each other. László Bíró's last name is, in much of the world, a synonym for his revolutionary writing... (read more) Available August 7, 2012 Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Great Fossil Enigma: The Search for the Conodont Animal (Life of the Past) by Simon J. Knell Publisher Comments Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the conodont animal as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. This animal confounded science for more than a century. Some thought it a slug, others a fish, a worm, a plant... (read more) Available August 1, 2012 Your price: $45.00 New - Hardcover
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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos by Dava Sobel Publisher Comments By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had developed an initial outline of his heliocentric theory—in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to place the sun, and not the earth, at the center of our universe, and set the... (read more) Available October 16, 2012 Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World: Parapegmata and Related Texts in Classical and Near-Eastern Societies by Daryn Lehoux Publisher Comments The focus of this book, first published in 2007, is the interplay between ancient astronomy, meteorology, physics and calendrics. It looks at a set of popular instruments and texts (parapegmata) used in antiquity for astronomical weather prediction and... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $51.95 New - Trade Paper
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Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing: From Proteins to DNA, 1945-2000 (Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History) by Miguel Garc A-sancho Publisher Comments Sequencing is often associated with the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this practice comprises not only academic biology, but also the world of computer-assisted information... (read more) Available June 19, 2012 Your price: $94.25 New - Hardcover
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Prize Fight: The Race and the Rivalry to Be the First in Science (Macsci) by Morton Meyers Publisher Comments We often think of scientists as dispassionate and detached, nobly laboring without any expectation of reward. But scientific research is much more complicated and messy than this ideal, and scientists can be torn by jealousy, impelled by a need for... (read more) Available June 5, 2012 Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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American Sunshine: Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light by Daniel Freund Publisher Comments In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these new... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $45.75 New - Hardcover
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The Scientists: An Epic of Discovery by Andrew Robinson Publisher Comments The ideas, experiments, and inventions of great scientists have revolutionized our understanding of the world around us. Theories, discoveries, and technologies--from relativity, the genetic code, and the periodic table to synthetic drugs, nuclear... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $45.00 New - Hardcover
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Before Galileo: The Advancement of Science in the Middle Ages by John Freely Synopsis Histories of modern science often begin with the heroic battle between Galileo and the Catholic Church, which ignited the Scientific Revolution and led to the world-changing discoveries of Isaac Newton. Virtually nothing is said about the European... (read more) Available August 30, 2012 Your price: $28.95 New - Hardcover
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Radiation: What It Is, What You Need to Know by Robert Peter Gale Publisher Comments A clarifying, fascinating, urgently needed book on radiation—what it is, what should and shouldn't concern us about it, and what place radiation and radiation-related technologies have in our world. The universe and our galaxy and planet Earth were... (read more) Available January 29, 2013 Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
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How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser Publisher Comments In the 1970s, an eccentric group of physicists in Berkeley, California, banded together to explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing themselves the "Fundamental Fysiks Group," they pursued an audacious, speculative approach to physics, studying quantum... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages by Nancy Marie Brown Publisher Comments The medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during the Dark Ages—in fact, the pope in the year 1000 was the leading mathematician and astronomer of his day. Called “The... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Hawking Incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject by Helen Mialet Publisher Comments These days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality, as we are all, in one way or another, constantly connected, extended, wired, and dispersed in and through technology. One wonders where the individual, the... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $109.50 New - Hardcover
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The Global History of Paleopathology: Pioneers and Prospects by Jane Buikstra Publisher Comments The Global History of Paleopathology is the first comprehensive global compendium on the history of paleopathology, an interdisciplinary scientific discipline that focuses on the study of ancient disease. Offering perspectives from regions that have... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $195.75 New - Hardcover
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