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- Le Couteur: Napoleon's Buttons … Couteur and Jay Burreson, ''Napoleon's Buttons : How 17 Molecules Changed History.'' New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2003. 375 pages with selected bibl… …t with a condescending attitude about this book. "How 17 molecules changed history" sounded histrionic to me, so I was predisposed to find the text hyperboli…8 KB (1283 words) - 00:40, 15 April 2009
- Diamond: The Third Chimpanzee …red. Diamond recounts the beginning of the end of that long phase of human history at the start of the chapter "The Last First Contacts": …istory made a discovery that hastened toward its end a long phase of human history. That was the date on which the advance patrol of the Third Archbold Exped…10 KB (1644 words) - 16:24, 13 September 2009
- Hecht: Doubt, a History Jennifer Michael Hecht, ''Doubt, A History : The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesu… …"doubt": what it is, how it manifests, its history as an idea, doubters in history, the influence of doubt on religion, doubt in culture, doubt as an idea—…6 KB (1003 words) - 00:21, 15 April 2009
- Vogel: Cat's Paws and Catapults …the distinction we biologists make between natural selection and natural history. The more basic problem is that an analogy doesn't explain. One judges an …11 KB (1794 words) - 01:40, 15 April 2009
- Pollan: The Botany of Desire There's plenty of plant science but also history (American settlement, witchcraft, Irish potato famine), biochemistry (brai…1 KB (208 words) - 01:05, 15 April 2009
- Dennett: Freedom Evolves …xtraordinary composition job could be accomplished, we need to look at the history of the design processes that did all the work, the evolution of human cons…4 KB (740 words) - 00:07, 15 April 2009
- Lienhard: Inventing Modern Whether this is history of technology via memoir, or memoir via history of technology is difficult to say and it doesn't really matter. Lienhard i…8 KB (1244 words) - 00:47, 15 April 2009
- Huler: Defining The Wind … example below is entirely parenthetical, fascinating science and cultural history, outside the main course of the narrative but still close enough to merit …8 KB (1407 words) - 00:25, 15 April 2009
- Tudge: The Time Before History Colin Tudge, ''The Time Before History : 5 Million Years of Human Impact.'' New York : Scribner, 1996. 366 pages,… …can be said about human history before there was history, at least written history.4 KB (697 words) - 01:36, 15 April 2009
- Watson: Ideas Peter Watson, ''Ideas : A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud''. New York : HarperCollinsPu… …ize is not really surprising for a book that promises to survey the entire history of ideas from prehistory to the beginning of the twentieth century (but ''…17 KB (2936 words) - 01:41, 15 April 2009
- Tyson: Death by Black Hole …Grasse Tyson is an astrophysicist who writes a monthly column in ''Natural History'' about the universe. ''Death by Black Hole'' collects forty-two of these … "The history of human discovery is characterized by the boundless desire to extend the …8 KB (1293 words) - 01:38, 15 April 2009
- Rhazes and Avicenna …amic doctors from this time must rank among the greatest physicians in all history. Al-Razi, known in the West by his Latin name, Rhazes, was born in 865 in … #{{note|pw01}}Peter Watson, [[Watson: Ideas | ''Ideas : A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud'']], New York : HarperCollins…3 KB (467 words) - 01:02, 10 May 2008
- The Latin Transmitters …. Besides identifying titles that should be read, Cassiodorus outlined the history of each of the liberal arts, even including authors whose views were by th… #{{note|pw01}}Peter Watson, [[Watson: Ideas | ''Ideas : A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud'']], New York : HarperCollins…7 KB (1249 words) - 01:10, 10 May 2008
- Larson: Isaac's Storm …ik Larson, ''Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History''. New York : Crown Publishers, 1999. 323 pages, with notes, sources, and … …ne thing to write Great Man history, quite another to explore the lives of history's little men. [p. 275]9 KB (1514 words) - 00:39, 15 April 2009
- Winchester: The Map That Changed The World For the first time the earth had a provable history, a written record that paid no heed or obeisance to religious teaching and… One wonders, at the outset, how so much scientific history could have been bound up in the fortunes of this one individual, William S…7 KB (1125 words) - 01:47, 15 April 2009
- Dawkins: Climbing Mount Improbable From later in the book, here's a nice bit of history about notions of design and how difficult they can be to set aside. …l's answer was not too different from the one that most adults, throughout history, would have given. It has long been widely believed that brute creation is…8 KB (1397 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2009
- Bird: American Prometheus … science, in America, and in the world. He is at the center of a vortex in history with world-altering events swirling around him. To learn about Oppenheimer…9 KB (1556 words) - 23:50, 14 April 2009
- Boslaugh: When Computers Went to Sea This is a book about the history of the US Navy's secret Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) program, possibl…2 KB (311 words) - 23:53, 14 April 2009
- Schwartz: In Pursuit of the Gene This book is a history of the '''idea''' of the gene. That characteristics could be inherited has… … dramatic story and a fascinating case study in the history of ideas, this history of one profound idea: the "gene".9 KB (1452 words) - 01:26, 15 April 2009
- Marcus: Kluge # Remnants of History1 KB (228 words) - 00:53, 15 April 2009
