Curiosity : How Science Became Interested in Everything by Philip Ball
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There was a time when curiosity was condemned. To be curious was to delve into matters that didn't concern you - after all, the original sin stemmed from a desire for forbidden knowledge. Through curiosity our innocence was lost. Yet this hasn't deterred us. Today we spend vast sums trying to recreate t ...Show more
Hidden Evidence : Forty True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped Solve Them by David Owen
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Pioneers of Science - Nobel Prize Winners in Physics by ROBERT L WEBER
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This second edition of IPioneers of Science features 16 new Nobel Prize Winners in physics and presents a collection of biographies which tell the fascinating story of all 130 men and women who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for physics from the inception of the prizes in 1901 to the present time. ...Show more
The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester
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William Smith was not rich or well-connected, but his passion for rocks and fossils, and his 20-year obsession with single-handedly mapping the geology of Britain made him one of the most significant men of the 19th century. But his vision cost him dear
Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn
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'We are taught that medicine is the art of solving our body's mysteries. And as a science, we expect medicine to uphold the principles of evidence and impartiality. We want our doctors to listen to us and care for us as people, but we also need their assessments of our pain and fevers, aches and exhaust ...Show more
A Brief History of Time from the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
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From the Big Bang to the theory of relativity, Stephen W. Hawking will challenge your imagination and expand your grasp of the cosmos. This is the classic revelatory science book of the last century. Here is a landmark book written for those of us who prefer words to equations. Told by an extraordinary ...Show more
The Force of Nature - The Life of Linus Pauling by Thomas Hager
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A biography of Pauling who roamed across the scientific disciplines, from chemistry to biology to medical research. He decried the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War Two, agitated against nuclear weapons, promoted vitamin C as a cure for the common cold and researched the idea of DNA.
Howard Florey - The Making of a Great Scientist by Gwyn Macfarlane
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The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars : Dispatches from the Front Lines by Michael E. Mann
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In its 2001 report on global climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations prominently featured the "Hockey Stick," a chart showing global temperature data over the past one thousand years. The Hockey Stick demonstrated that temperature had risen with the increase in indus ...Show more
Zero - The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
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Popular math at its most entertaining and enlightening. Zero is really something-Washington Post A New York Times Notable Book. The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now it threatens the foundations of modern physics. For ...Show more