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- 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
