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Alan M. Turing
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 24.00Containing never-before-published material, this fascinating account sheds new light on one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century. more...
Taking on Water
Sasquatch Books 2012; US$ 21.95When Wendy Pabich received a monthly water bill for 30,000 gallons (for a household of two people and one dog), she was chagrined. After all, she is an expert on sustainable water use. So she set out to make a change. Taking on Water is the story of the author's personal quest to extract and implement, from a dizzying soup of data and analysis, day-to-day... more...
Reaching for the Stars
Center Street 2012; US$ 9.99Born into a family of migrant workers, toiling in the fields by the age of six, Jose M. Hernàndez dreamed of traveling through the night skies on a rocket ship. REACHING FOR THE STARS is the inspiring story of how he realized that dream, becoming the first Mexican-American astronaut. Hernàndez didn't speak English till he was 12, and his peers often... more...
Better Off
HarperCollins 2009; Not AvailableWhat happens when a graduate of MIT, the bastion of technological advancement, and his bride move to a community so primitive in its technology that even Amish groups consider it antiquated? Eric Brende conceives a real-life experiment: to see if, in fact, all our cell phones, wide-screen TVs, and SUVs have made life easier and better -- or whether... more...
Francis Crick
HarperCollins 2012; Not AvailableFrancis Crick?the quiet genius who led a revolution in biology by discovering, quite literally, the secret of life?will be bracketed with Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein as one of the greatest scientists of all time. In his fascinating biography of the scientific pioneer who uncovered the genetic code?the digital cipher at the heart of heredity that... more...
Eureka!: Science's Greatest Thinkers
Quercus 2012; US$ 15.18From Aristotle's pioneering research into animal biology to Harvey's theory of the circulation of the blood; from Copernicus' theory of the heliocentric universe to Carl Sagan's speculations on extraterrestrial life; and from Einstein's theory of Relativity to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Eureka! condenses the essential biographies and principal... more...
Vito Volterra
Springer 2012; US$ 27.99aiVito Volterra (1860-1940) was one of the most famous representatives of Italian science in his day. Angelo Guerragio and Giovanni Paolini analyze Volterra's most important contributions to mathematics and their applications, as well as his outstanding organizational achievements in scientific policy. Volterra was one of the founding fathers of... more...
Maverick Genius
St. Martin's Press 2013; US$ 27.99Scientist. Innovator. Rebel. For decades, Freeman Dyson has been regarded as one of the world?s most important thinkers. The Atlantic wrote, ?In the range of his genius, Freeman Dyson is heir to Einstein ? a visionary who has reshaped thinking in fields from math to astrophysics to medicine, and who has conceived nuclear-propelled spaceships... more...
The Wonder of Brian Cox
John Blake 2012; US$ 14.99Professor Brian Cox is probably the best-known physicist in the world today. As presenter of the hit television series Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of the Universe, his affable charm and infectious enthusiasm has brought science to a whole new audience. Born in Lancashire in 1968, Cox was a bright, but not brilliant pupil at school?only... more...
Galileo?s Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love
HarperCollins Publishers 2011; Not AvailableFrom the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo?s Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia. more...









