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- Mlodinow: The Drunkard's Walk …Prosecution spent the first ten days of the trial entering evidence of his history of abusing her and claimed that this alone was a good reason to suspect hi…13 KB (2065 words) - 00:54, 15 April 2009
- Johnson: The Invention of Air …e and places, demonstrating just how intertwined are scientific and social history. As with his friends and colleagues Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson… Or, perhaps this book is a political history with good scienticity. Priestly gives an opportunity to consider historica…8 KB (1206 words) - 00:35, 15 April 2009
- Seife: Sun in a Bottle Charles Seife, ''Sun in a Bottle : The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking''. (New York : Viking, 2008.…8 KB (1209 words) - 01:27, 15 April 2009
- Nabhan: Where Our Food Comes From …is much more than a food; it is part of what is sacred for us, part of our history, our currency, and our destiny."8 KB (1349 words) - 00:58, 15 April 2009
- Johanson: Lucy's Legacy …itten and easy to read book has three parts. The first part is basically a history of the discovery of Lucy (the famous ''Austalopithecus afarensis'' skeleto…3 KB (445 words) - 23:18, 15 April 2009
- Fagan: The Long Summer …ory of civilization, largely because it mostly takes place before recorded history began. This book, whose first chapter is "The Late Ice Age Orchestra: 18,0… …mple of how different and harsh life was for most of human history and pre-history.7 KB (1153 words) - 02:54, 15 May 2009
- Wolverton: A Life in Twilight J. Robert Oppenheimer was certainly a central figure in the history of the United States, and the World, in the first half of the twentieth ce…12 KB (1993 words) - 02:34, 7 October 2009
- Crouch: Lighter than Air Tom D. Crouch, ''Lighter than Air : An Illustrated History of Balloons and Airships.'' Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, … The earliest history of human flight came about through the development of balloons, "lighter t…8 KB (1223 words) - 23:37, 21 May 2009
- Potter: You Are Here Christopher Potter, ''You Are Here : A Portable History of the Universe''. New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2009. 194 pages, wi…7 KB (1240 words) - 04:11, 27 July 2009
- Schultz: The Stuff of Life …s, genetic technologies, and human evolution are then covered. Snippets of history are thrown in where appropriate. There was even a snippet devoted to the p…2 KB (323 words) - 17:19, 26 May 2009
- Science Book Challenge === Some History ===6 KB (882 words) - 22:26, 25 February 2013
- Livingston: Edible Plants and Animals …been a nice feature.) It is a broad look at what human cultures throughout history have eaten, covering those foods that are tasty and easy to get as well as…4 KB (657 words) - 18:00, 3 June 2009
- Gribbin: Stardust …to understand how it works, providing plenty of groundwork information and history to complete the story. He does this and keeps his writing lively, precise,… The history of science isn't always as neat and tidy as some of the accounts you read …7 KB (1218 words) - 15:33, 8 June 2009
- Gardner: The Science of Fear …tions, in answer to the questions "Why are so many of the safest humans in history scared of their own shadows? Why do we worry about things we shouldn't and…3 KB (539 words) - 16:38, 15 June 2009
- Hutchins: The Secret Doorway … the imagination of man has driven scientific discoveries throughout human history and continues to do so today. Act 3 discusses the development of space tec…3 KB (505 words) - 20:21, 18 June 2009
- Carroll: Remarkable Creatures A book to fill my head with thoughts of fieldwork! Great stories from the history of geology, zoology, anthropology, and genetics. … geneticists Vincent Sarich and Allan Wilson as they pursue the geological history of earth and the evolution of life over time. Covering the past 150 years …1 KB (194 words) - 16:59, 10 July 2009
- Sacks: Oaxaca Journal …f course!), his fellow travelers, the Mexicans he meets, the landscape and history of Oaxaca, and it’s all written in such a refined, curious, intelligent …1 KB (221 words) - 21:00, 15 July 2009
- Blum: Ghost Hunters …overing the death of most of the principals. And as you might imagine in a history of afterlife exploration, when the various friends die, things get even mo… While the history-being-brought-to-vivid-life thing was awesome, it’s not what made me fal…7 KB (1226 words) - 21:19, 15 July 2009
- Starlings Arrive in North America …//discovermagazine.com/2001/jan/featreviews Tinkering With Eden: A Natural History of Exotics in America, by Kim Todd]" (book review), Discover, 1 January 20…10 KB (1505 words) - 02:23, 10 September 2009
- Reeves: A Force of Nature I enjoyed this short history of Rutherford's life, even though I know there is much more about him to l…4 KB (750 words) - 02:35, 24 September 2009
