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- History Resources * [http://www.maphistory.info/ History of Cartography] is an annotated gateway to comprehensive information on an… …y_culture/industrialisation/ Society and Culture: Industrialization]"; BBC history pages discussing the effect of Victorian-Age engineering on Brisith societ…824 B (109 words) - 20:47, 15 June 2006
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- Manguel: A History of Reading Alberto Manguel, ''A History of Reading''. New York : Viking, 1996. 372 pages, with notes and index. …hat play back and forth across various aspects of that theme, building its history in layers, like transparent glazes on a Renaissance oil painting. He consi…10 KB (1641 words) - 00:50, 15 April 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
- 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
- Lavers: The Natural History of Unicorns Chris Lavers, ''The Natural History of Unicorns''. New York : Harper Perennial, 2009. 272 pages; illustrated; … …ltural analysis of vampires. At a little more than 200 pages, this natural history is not in the same league as Barber's book, but is a basic introductio…841 B (117 words) - 01:08, 4 February 2011
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- Crease: The Great Equations …Rather they are essays that consider the place of these great equations in history: the intellectual milieu that saw them come into existence, their scientif… Simon Schama's book ''History of Britain'', at 1,500 pages, is a solid history of that country, and has been made the basis for a multipart documentary f…8 KB (1368 words) - 03:39, 11 September 2009
- Status Briefing August 2005 …pability within the GAO. The amendment was defeated in August 2004. Recent history is showing that it may not be wise for the Congress to rely on the White H… If history shows anything, it's that a bet against science is a bet you cannot win. F…14 KB (2023 words) - 03:09, 2 April 2009
- Presidential Science Advisors …u/gen/WW2Timeline/vannevar3.html "Vannevar Bush"], University of San Diego History Department, c. 2000.6 KB (822 words) - 02:34, 10 September 2009
- Outline ** History of Science * [[History Resources]]3 KB (351 words) - 20:10, 5 September 2009
- Beard: The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey …e book the author describes his discoveries and how they shed light on the history of primates and especially, the history of anthropoids, which are monkeys and apes. Interwoven throughout he descr…2 KB (354 words) - 23:50, 14 April 2009
- Shubin: Your Inner Fish Neil Shubin, ''Your Inner Fish : A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body''. New York : Pantheon Books, 2008. 20 pages : illustrat… A little of the history of DNA and gene sequencing gets a little confusing so that is why readabil…1 KB (222 words) - 01:29, 15 April 2009
- Statements on Teaching Evolution …h his main work and it remains one of the very great works of intellectual history. … theory of evolution will become an even more powerful explanation for the history of life on Earth.32 KB (4678 words) - 18:04, 28 December 2006
- Evolution and the Vatican …"{{ref|jp01}}. The title acknowledges the contribution of Leo XIII and the history of this metaphysical statement. It contains John Paul II's most direct rem… Seen against the long arc of history for an institution that has survived for nearly two millenia, the period s…25 KB (3967 words) - 03:09, 2 April 2009
- Submission Guidelines * Pieces that enrich our understanding of the history of science in society.2 KB (239 words) - 22:56, 31 March 2009
- Recommended Books * Jan Bondeson, ''Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear'' (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001). == History ==3 KB (389 words) - 03:16, 2 April 2009
- Citizens' Alliances for Science These excerpts from the organization's history also describes its goals: …e, religion, evolution, and creationism. Also of note is the page of local history titled [http://www.scienceormyth.org/discoveryinstitute.html "Defeating th…27 KB (4076 words) - 03:14, 2 April 2009
- Darby, Montana School Board …n the board. Two of those candidates are conservative ministers who have a history of trying to force a narrowly focused religious and social agenda on our k…28 KB (4314 words) - 22:18, 1 November 2005
- Surveying the American West Excerpted from John Rennie Short, ''The World through Maps: A History of Cartography'' (Buffalo [New York]: Firefly Books, 2003), pp. 158--160.5 KB (712 words) - 02:08, 2 September 2009
- Short: The World Through Maps John Rennie Short, ''The World Through Maps : A History of Cartography''. Buffalo [NY] : Firefly Books, 2003. 224 pages; illustrat… …utiful presentation of historical maps, broadly construed, Short tells the history of cartography in short, easily digestible essays, each accompanied by sev…1 KB (154 words) - 01:29, 15 April 2009
- Sobel: The Illustrated Longitude Dava Sobel has chosen to tell the history of solving the Longitude Problem as the heroic struggle of a lone inventor…2 KB (344 words) - 01:31, 15 April 2009
- History Resources * [http://www.maphistory.info/ History of Cartography] is an annotated gateway to comprehensive information on an… …y_culture/industrialisation/ Society and Culture: Industrialization]"; BBC history pages discussing the effect of Victorian-Age engineering on Brisith societ…824 B (109 words) - 20:47, 15 June 2006
- John Harrison and the Longitude Problem …/Longitude2.html English attack on the Longitude Problem]", ''The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University o…3 KB (409 words) - 23:46, 8 June 2006
- Robinson: Lost Languages …t scripts is a compelling intellectual and imaginative challenge; it makes history; it changes our perceptions of our place in the world; it casts new light …2 KB (309 words) - 01:22, 15 April 2009
- Jardine: Ingenious Pursuits I wanted to like this book more. Jardine is a specialist in Renaissance History and puts all the right details in place to make a fascinating study of how…5 KB (799 words) - 00:34, 15 April 2009
- Ferguson: Tycho and Kepler two remarkable figures in the history of science but also deftly explains the importance of the discoveries, inv… …s possible to write interesting, engaging prose about scientific ideas and history and not do violence to the basic scientific concepts.3 KB (462 words) - 00:12, 15 April 2009
- Blaise: Time Lord …Fleming, once the most celebrated Canadian engineer but now receeding into history, is widely called "the father of standard time" because he was the catalys…2 KB (365 words) - 23:51, 14 April 2009
- Legislating the Value of Pi … irrationality, has inspired a number of mystics and charlatans throughout history, particularly through vain efforts to "square the circle". Proof in 1882 t… …graphic.com/news/2003/03/0331_030401_aprilfool.html "April Fools' Special: History's Hoaxes"], ''National Geographic'', 1 April 2003, discussed several famou…8 KB (1303 words) - 03:20, 26 August 2006
- Ehrman: Misquoting Jesus Our author traces the history of the text of the New Testament and describes how scholars use the princi…1 KB (193 words) - 00:09, 15 April 2009
- Bondeson: Buried Alive Jan Bondeson, ''Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear''. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2001. 320 pag…3 KB (574 words) - 23:53, 14 April 2009
- Kurlansky: Salt …lence in Food Writing; however, his previous books seem to have been about history and geography.1 KB (184 words) - 00:38, 15 April 2009
- Burke: Connections …is excitement and enthusiasm about sharing all the connections he finds in history, as though the covers of his book can barely contain all the interesting s… …lves) to the modern ending point. Each one of these mental rambles through history adds depth to the modern invention the way that musical variations on a th…5 KB (834 words) - 23:56, 14 April 2009
- Ball: The Ingredients …redients'' offers a great deal of insight about the chemical elements, the history of their discovery, their value to society, and even what it means to be a…5 KB (779 words) - 23:48, 14 April 2009
- Gould: The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox … series of books that collected the monthly columns he wrote for ''Natural History'' magazine for 25 years, including ''Ever Since Darwin'', ''Bully for Bron…6 KB (978 words) - 00:16, 15 April 2009
- Diamond: Collapse …s viewpoint is largely environmental, no doubt because of his professional history, but he makes clear the notion that environmental problems can be big, thr… …le for them to do so. I instead prefer to recognize that, throughout human history, in all politically complex human societies in which people encounter othe…4 KB (642 words) - 00:08, 15 April 2009
- Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea …concede the objectivity and precision of good science, any more than it is history worship to concede that Napoleon did once rule in France and the Holocaust…7 KB (1109 words) - 00:07, 15 April 2009
- Ball: Bright Earth … colors and found it more than ample. Various cultures at various times in history have not distinguished colors that modern eyes do. Through medieval times … …lor of the robe worn by the Virgin Mary in painted representations through history is largely a record of which pigments were rarest and most expensive in an…11 KB (1801 words) - 23:47, 14 April 2009
- Ridley: The Red Queen …a pop star ushering a model into his Mercedes. From fish to Mercedes, the history is unbroken: via skins and beads, plows and cattle, swords and castles. We… Cynical? Not half as cynical as most accounts of human history. [pp. 243—244]9 KB (1456 words) - 01:19, 15 April 2009
- Manguel: A History of Reading Alberto Manguel, ''A History of Reading''. New York : Viking, 1996. 372 pages, with notes and index. …hat play back and forth across various aspects of that theme, building its history in layers, like transparent glazes on a Renaissance oil painting. He consi…10 KB (1641 words) - 00:50, 15 April 2009
- The Invention of Eyeglasses Alberto Manguel, in ''A History of Reading'', wrote{{ref|am01}} about the earliest known references to the… #{{note|am01}}Alberto Manguel, ''[[Manguel: A History of Reading|A History of Reading]]'', New York : Viking, 1996.3 KB (550 words) - 03:26, 18 November 2009
- Monmonier: Air Apparent …weather map around 1816 raises perhaps the most intriguing question in the history of environmental cartography: What took them so long? The "so long" here i… This history of weather mapping and forecasting includes a look at how weather maps wer…7 KB (990 words) - 00:55, 15 April 2009
- Sullivan: Rats Robert Sullivan, ''Rats : Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants.'' New York : Bloomsbury… …ssay, and he delves cogently into all manner of rat-related topics, from a history of infestations and the discovery of rats' associate with plague, to the m…7 KB (1160 words) - 01:34, 15 April 2009
- Allen: Vaccine Rightfully, the first act belonged to the fascinating history of the smallpox vaccine, one that stretched over nearly 300 years from Jen… Allen's book reveals that the history of vaccination is an ethical minefield, filled with dilemmas. Undeniably v…11 KB (1768 words) - 23:38, 14 April 2009
- Finlay: Jewels Victoria Finlay, ''Jewels : A Secret History.'' New York : Ballentine Books, 2006. 472 pages, with color plates, notes,… Rambling through the history, romance, and folklore of gems, this book is a collection of what we might…9 KB (1493 words) - 00:12, 15 April 2009
- Burke: Circles James Burke, ''Circles : 50 Round Trips through History, Technology, Science, Culture.'' New York : Simon & Schuster, 2000. 286 pa… …fficulty of containing Burke's breathlessly high-speed approach to telling history in a small space. Each essay of a few thousand words, when read back-to-ba…7 KB (1142 words) - 23:55, 14 April 2009
- Lienhard: How Invention Begins …ceful presentation of a provocative and profound analysis of technological history. … thesis is that big inventions, inventions that change the course of human history, are not the work of the lone genius, the "canonical inventor" (Lienhard's…4 KB (675 words) - 00:46, 15 April 2009
- Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan, ''The Omnivore's Dilemma : A Natural History of Four Meals''.1 KB (226 words) - 01:14, 15 April 2009
- Abbott: What A Way To Go …ok his subject seriously. The result is a fascinating compendium rich with history and anecdote. …ing" or "electric chair") are several pages and cover hundreds of years of history. As a rule, Mr. Abbott sticks to methods he can document as having been us…4 KB (645 words) - 23:36, 14 April 2009
- Pinker: The Stuff Of Thought …e porridge cold''. But some grammatically zealous listener in the mists of history misanalyzed it as the plural for ''peas'', from which it was a short step …7 KB (1178 words) - 01:02, 15 April 2009
- McCredie: Balance McCredie explores how the body regulates balance, the history of medical knowledge about balance, and new therapies in treating people w…3 KB (429 words) - 00:53, 15 April 2009
- Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma (2) Michael Pollan, ''The Omnivore's Dilemma : A Natural History of Four Meals''. …okstore/giftshop there at ACY, I chose ''The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals'' by Michael Pollan. The four meals: McDonald's (eaten in th…6 KB (997 words) - 01:15, 15 April 2009
- Kinsey: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male …ere are some cultures in which a history of sexuality would be primarily a history of non-marital sexual activities. …f its influence precisely because it has merged so fully into our cultural history. Recall that it was only published in 1948, by a company known for publish…10 KB (1638 words) - 00:37, 15 April 2009
- Science-Book Challenge 2008 …ing culture. The books might be popularizations of science, they might be history, they might be biography, they might be anthologies; they can be recent ti… … Peter Christie, ''The Curse of Akkad: Climate Upheavals that Rocked Human History'']]<br>[[Wiseman: Quirkology | Richard Wiseman, ''Quirkology : How We Disc…14 KB (2044 words) - 04:52, 9 January 2009
- Raymo: Walking Zero … not a detailed history of ideas, but a poetic, personal rumination on the history of the big ideas that located humankind's place in the modern universe. It… …orably intertwined with foibles of human nature and contingencies of human history." The theories of Ptolemy or Kepler can only be understood within the cont…6 KB (996 words) - 01:16, 15 April 2009
- Carroll: Endless Forms Most Beautiful … regurgitate mountains of testable facts, we should emphasize study of the history of the discovery of evolution, its major characters and ideas, and the bas…7 KB (1172 words) - 23:59, 14 April 2009
- Jeffreys: Aspirin …th clarity. It also did a good job of convincing me of the unique place in history aspirin has, and how it might be ''the'' wonder drug. … this. What you're holding is one of the most amazing creations in medical history, a drug so astonishingly versatile that it can relieve your headache, ease…5 KB (859 words) - 00:34, 15 April 2009
- 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
- Angier: The Canon (2) …one is a potential Rosetta stone, a key to a milestone moment in Earth’s history, and to accompany a geologist through a park is to leave no stone unturned…6 KB (1100 words) - 23:45, 14 April 2009
- Koff: The Bone Woman …ought it would have more of a science feel to it, and also have a bunch of history about the two genocides.5 KB (866 words) - 00:38, 15 April 2009
- Orlean: The Orchid Thief …rs, science-y chapters, and people-focused chapters. My favorites were the history and science parts: I learned lots of interesting things about Florida, abo… …' and ''City of Falling Angels''; I’m much more interested in places and history than random people who seem a few cards short of a deck.7 KB (1206 words) - 00:59, 15 April 2009
- Ridley: The Red Queen (2) …rtually all novels and plays are about the same subject, when disguised as history or adventure. If you want to understand human motives, read Proust or Trol…15 KB (2521 words) - 01:20, 15 April 2009
- Aczel: The Mystery of the Aleph So, the topic of the book is "infinity" and its history as an idea, which is why there is a chapter on the Kabbalah and it made se… I found it interesting to read, with interesting history and connections between ideas. I know of no other book that treats the sub…5 KB (746 words) - 23:38, 14 April 2009
- Livio: The Golden Ratio The history of such claims is interesting anthropology and the author adopts an admira… …at a canon for ideal beauty exists and can be turned to practical account. History has shown, however, that the artists who have produced works of lasting va…5 KB (767 words) - 00:48, 15 April 2009
- Alley: The Two-Mile Time Machine …at sheds a great deal of light on what we know about climate change in the history of the Earth. I expect all readers will not agree with me but I thought Al… The history of this climatic craziness is written in cave formation, ocean and lake se…8 KB (1366 words) - 02:55, 23 May 2013
- Rosenblum: Chocolate …history, not a scientific work, but it reveals and demystifies much of the history, economics, sociology, and technology that get involved between the time t… Besides, I thought again, would a mere social history, with no scientific relevance, mention phenylethylamines (p. 36)? Not like…5 KB (865 words) - 01:25, 15 April 2009
- Sobel: The Planets …pter, and each chapter has a different focus. The geological and discovery history is here for each planet, but it is hidden in the story of their chapter. M…2 KB (321 words) - 01:31, 15 April 2009
- Smolin: The Trouble with Physics …e solved. A bit of history and background. The second section was a "Brief History of String Theory". This got a lot more confusing and I did some skimming, …3 KB (545 words) - 01:31, 15 April 2009
- Lebans: The Quirks and Quarks Guide to Space …nvolves 'spaghettifying.' I first heard that phrase when watching 'A Brief History of Time,' the documentary based on Stephen Hawking's book of the same name…2 KB (355 words) - 00:41, 15 April 2009
- Rhodes: Arsenals of Folly …ush years as well as the years of the Cold War, Barnet adds, "It is one of history's great ironies that at the very moment when the United States had a monop…9 KB (1419 words) - 01:17, 15 April 2009
- Rigden: Hydrogen I thought that this recounting of scientific episodes in the history of the hydrogen atom was exciting and very engaging. Some of that may be b…5 KB (807 words) - 01:20, 15 April 2009
- Roston: The Carbon Age …ood throughout. In this excerpt he includes interesting facts, interesting history, and interesting observations about the way science operates. …not be, and can never have been, nuclear weaponry. Certainly a world and a history absent these weapons are desirable, but they are counterfactual. [p. 237, …10 KB (1538 words) - 04:39, 16 December 2009
- Kurlansky: The Big Oyster Mark Kurlansky, ''The Big Oyster : History on the Half Shell''. New York : Ballantine Books, 2006. xx + 307 pages, wi… …irky idea, and what could be more quirky, I thought, than a book about the history of oysters ''and'' New York City? Could even Mark Kurlansky, celebrated au…5 KB (907 words) - 00:39, 15 April 2009
- Segre: Faust in Copenhagen …, by the excellent writing and felicitous choice of detail which made this history really live. This really isn't a scientific read as much as a history of a moment in science. What I like about books like these is to have the …5 KB (887 words) - 01:27, 15 April 2009
- Science-Book Challenge 2009 … Couteur and Jay Burreson, ''Napoleon's Buttons : How 17 Molecules Changed History'']]<br>[[Lehrer: Proust Was a Neuroscientist | Jonah Lehrer, ''Proust Was … …ish | Neil Shubin, ''Your Inner Fish : A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body'']]30 KB (4321 words) - 03:04, 12 July 2010
- Christie: The Curse of Akkad Peter Christie, ''The Curse of Akkad: Climate Upheavals that Rocked Human History''. Annick Press, 2008. 144 pages.1 KB (232 words) - 00:03, 15 April 2009
- Crumpacker: Perfect Figures …es more on the sound of the numbers than anything. And so our sense of the history of counting and the lore of numbers, as promised by the subtitle, develops… For those of us who like to learn some history through etymology and the connections of words to ideas, there's plenty to…6 KB (1098 words) - 00:03, 15 April 2009
- Bodanis: E=mc2 …and each unit of the equation has a section of its own. He talks about the history of the concept represented, whether energy, mass, the speed of light, or e…2 KB (370 words) - 23:52, 14 April 2009
- Walker: Snowball Earth The "Snowball Earth" theory suggests that at some point in the earth’s history, its surface was completely frozen. I’m not going to go into all of the …7 KB (1305 words) - 01:40, 15 April 2009
- Walker: The Wisdom of the Bones …s an erudite, compelling account of the scientific attempt to discover our history.2 KB (289 words) - 01:41, 15 April 2009
- Chornook: Walking with Wolf ''Walking with Wolf'' is a personal memoir, but it is also the history of a place and a movement as well as a celebration of lives lived amongst …4 KB (625 words) - 00:02, 15 April 2009
- Le Couteur: Napoleon's Buttons (2) … Couteur and Jay Burreson, ''Napoleon's Buttons : How 17 Molecules Changed History.'' New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2003. 375 pages with selected bibl… This book sounded really neat--the subtitle is "How 17 Molecules Changed History"--and I’ve been meaning to read a pop chemistry book for awhile now. I w…9 KB (1398 words) - 00:40, 15 April 2009
- Orlean: The Orchid Thief (2) …iting style is engaging; she makes the subject very interesting. Lots of history on orchid hunting and the strange characters that found new species and th…4 KB (726 words) - 01:01, 15 April 2009
- Twigger: The Extinction Club …hilosophical musings on big questions like the meaning of extinction, part history (the carving up of the Chinese empire by Western powers is sad and fascina… …ed by the book, I can't say that I am more informed about Chinese-European history or the saga of the Milu after reading this book. Or was I?2 KB (356 words) - 00:23, 15 April 2009
- Fagan: The Little Ice Age Brian Fagan, ''The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300 – 1850''. New York : Basic Books, 2000. xxi + 246 pages; illustrate… ''The Little ice Age is a narrative history of climatic shifts during the past ten centuries and some of the ways in w…10 KB (1567 words) - 00:11, 15 April 2009
- Winchester: The Man Who Loved China …is Chinese mistress and developed into the most expansive study of Chinese history ever undertaken. He set out to prove that the Chinese really were the firs… …ldhood. The center section is focused on China: his travels there, ancient history, World War II and the surrounding years, the rise of Communism, etc. The f…3 KB (502 words) - 00:20, 15 April 2009
- Holmes: The Well-Dressed Ape Hannah Holmes, ''The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself''. Brilliance Audio, 2009. Unabridged audio book read by Joyce B…421 B (50 words) - 00:24, 15 April 2009
- Gribbin: The Birth of Time …urns out to be a fascinating story that takes in a big chunk of scientific history, the development of quite a few explosive ideas, and not a few colorful ch…7 KB (1222 words) - 00:17, 15 April 2009
- 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
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- 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
- Stenger: Quantum Gods …the scientific method (as well as many other important disciplines such as history and philosophy) is so inadequate that many people are easy prey to the cha…9 KB (1438 words) - 16:49, 28 September 2009
- Chalmers: The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone …ntist’s quantum-mechanical atom." This serves to provide a comprehensive history of the relationship between philosophy and science. === Epistemological history of atomism ===7 KB (1077 words) - 03:18, 25 September 2009
- Foster: Critique of Intelligent Design === Long history of naturalism ===10 KB (1553 words) - 01:25, 25 September 2009
- McKibben: Deep Economy …synonym for progress. We need to realise that "for the first time in human history, 'more' is no longer synonymous with 'better'".4 KB (623 words) - 16:18, 30 September 2009
- Streever: Cold …pact on human habitation and plant and animal adaptations. He includes the history of the science of cold, the search for absolute zero, and human exploratio… This is the kind of natural history-science book I love, the kind I can open up at any page and find something…2 KB (270 words) - 22:33, 25 November 2009
- Science Book Challenge 2010 …cience reading, looking for perspectives on science as part of culture and history. … Ashley Merryman<br>''Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body'', by Neil Shubin<br>''The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest…19 KB (2780 words) - 01:41, 4 February 2011
- Wolf: Proust and the Squid …in three sections: the first, a look at how reading and writing evolved in history; the second, a look at how the brain deciphers written language and shapes… …rst section, on the development of writing and alphabetic systems in human history, ties in to a couple of other books on my shelves (and doesn't reading one…3 KB (522 words) - 03:15, 22 January 2010
- Florey: Script and Scribble …d to certain pages to reread them. Florey's fervour about the process and history of handwriting is catching, and she talked further about it and this book … …our increasingly electronic society in this fascinating exploration of the history of handwriting. Weaving together the evolution of writing implements and s…5 KB (738 words) - 03:21, 22 January 2010
- Zimmerman: The Universe in a Mirror This book is an honest history of how the Hubble was built, giving credit to all of the nameless scientis… ''The Universe in a Mirror'' is an important contribution to the history of solar exploration. It is essential reading for anyone interested in ast…1 KB (234 words) - 03:30, 29 January 2010
- Tyson: The Pluto Files (2) … discovery. Tyson is an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History and is the Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York.3 KB (471 words) - 03:56, 29 January 2010
- Bradley: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie …ny Black" plays an important role. So here Flavia's dashes through a quick history lesson in British stamps, combined with some mnemonic suggestions from—w…4 KB (632 words) - 23:16, 16 February 2010
- Schewe: The Grid But how that situation came about is a history of science, engineering, and society. There was no grid at the beginning o… …e wares. Then came the ploy that earned Commonwealth Edison a place in the history of the early golden days of mass advertising. It worked like this. A cart …8 KB (1380 words) - 05:28, 19 February 2010
- Andrews: In Cold Pursuit …cott's expedition to the South Pole in 1902. Valena feel very close to the history and the adventure that had taken place there only a century before her vis…5 KB (821 words) - 04:57, 22 February 2010
- Mlodinow: The Drunkard's Walk (2) He reviews the history of probability, which I hadn't ever really thought about. The idea of figu… …streak, or admire the "hot hands" of a sports player, or trust in the good history of a broker? Watching the Olympics, I heard an announcer mention that a sk…3 KB (451 words) - 04:24, 26 February 2010
- Weisman: The World Without Us … York City subway system fills with water and must be pumped back out, the history of now-extinct large mammals in the Americas.3 KB (436 words) - 16:09, 20 March 2010
- Anderson: The Collectors of Lost Souls … that includes cultural anthropology, virology, epidemiology, and colonial history and leads to the science of medical anthropology and to questions of medic…2 KB (323 words) - 21:23, 1 June 2010
- Streever: Cold (2) …ca, the men who failed and succeed reaching the North and South Poles, the history of refrigeration, the structure of synthetic fabrics, and the biology of A… …ose explorers, or how people from various cultures handle the cold, or the history of weather prediction.2 KB (256 words) - 02:24, 2 June 2010
- Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks …s and she said, "Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was diff…19 KB (3180 words) - 03:36, 2 June 2010
- Breining: Super Volcano …c super eruptions, how it compares with famous deadly eruptions throughout history--and, finally, what will happen in the next big blast."4 KB (646 words) - 02:41, 12 July 2010
- Scarth: Vesuvius …t of the science is in the first 3 chapters. The rest of the book is pure history.2 KB (371 words) - 02:54, 12 July 2010
- Koeppel: Banana … this serious book easy and quick to read. He begins with a summary of the history, politics, and science of the banana as well as some interesting folklore.…1 KB (227 words) - 03:02, 12 July 2010
- Pollan: The Botany of Desire (2) …mesticating whom?" Pollan tackles this probing question by diving into the history of four important domesticated plants: apples, tulips, marijuana, and pota…3 KB (500 words) - 03:37, 12 July 2010
- Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2) …doctors and researchers responsible, she replied, "...if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was diff…4 KB (723 words) - 03:43, 12 July 2010
- Gallagher: The Grail Bird Tim Gallagher's book covers much of the history of the search for a bird most believed died out in the 1940âs. The Ivory…1 KB (202 words) - 22:00, 16 August 2010
- Attenborough: Amazing Rare Things … Clayton, and Rea Alexandratos, ''Amazing Rare Things : The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery''. New Haven [CT, USA] : Yale University Press, 20… …erpt to give an idea of the level of the text and the blend of aesthetics, history, and scienticity that the book exhibited.8 KB (1258 words) - 20:37, 27 August 2010
- Science Book Challenge 2011 …cience reading, looking for perspectives on science as part of culture and history. …avid Quammen, ''Monster of God : The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind'']]12 KB (1745 words) - 02:22, 21 October 2011
- Barry: The Great Influenza …. Barry, ''The Great Influenza : The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History''. New York : Penguin Books, 2005. 546 pages; illustrated; includes biblio… ''The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History'' by John M. Barry covers many topics. It is the story of the flu pandemic…2 KB (358 words) - 01:43, 13 January 2011
- Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma (3) Michael Pollan, ''The Omnivore's Dilemma : A Natural History of Four Meals''.3 KB (541 words) - 03:54, 3 February 2011
- Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel …ok to read. Sure, there was some biology in there, but I was struck by the history and the anthropology. It was interesting stuff. * How China Became Chinese: the history of East Asia;4 KB (742 words) - 04:18, 3 February 2011
- Desmond: Darwin's Sacred Cause …raham Lincoln share a birthday, but they also share a tumultuous period in history. I've always been struck by the realization that ''Origin of Species'' was…3 KB (500 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2011
- Lavers: The Natural History of Unicorns Chris Lavers, ''The Natural History of Unicorns''. New York : Harper Perennial, 2009. 272 pages; illustrated; … …ltural analysis of vampires. At a little more than 200 pages, this natural history is not in the same league as Barber's book, but is a basic introductio…841 B (117 words) - 01:08, 4 February 2011
- Bell: Lavoisier in the Year One I know practically nothing about French history. Some things that sound familiar to me include: the Bastille, Let them eat… The history part is kind of boring, quite honestly, but I did get a picture of what ha…2 KB (395 words) - 03:49, 9 September 2011
- Quammen: Monster of God …avid Quammen, ''Monster of God : The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind''. New York : W.W. Norton, 2003. 513 pages; maps; includes bi… …avid Quammen has given us an in-depth report on a great struggle in human history. What do humans do when they find themselves becoming prey and how do we …1 KB (225 words) - 04:42, 20 October 2011
- Science Book Challenge 2012 …cience reading, looking for perspectives on science as part of culture and history.7 KB (1057 words) - 23:54, 10 February 2012
- Science Book Challenge 2013 …cience reading, looking for perspectives on science as part of culture and history.6 KB (1000 words) - 22:29, 25 February 2013
- Heisenberg: Physics and Philosophy This is a history of physics and the philosophy of natural science, while at the same time b…1 KB (145 words) - 23:42, 23 May 2013
