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10 Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet): A Guide to the Scientific Wilderness

Michael Hanlon

Review "Hanlon is a witty writer who takes esoteric science and makes it both intelligible and entertaining."--New Scientis...

The Best of Technology Writing 2007

Steven Levy

The Best of Technology Writing 2007...

Cogent science in context: the science wars, argumentation theory, and Habermas

William Rehg

Review "Rehg brilliantly summarizes the major debates in philosophy of science over the nature of discover...

The Evolution of Agency and Other Essays (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)

Kim Sterelny

Review "...the frequent use of examples is one of the strengths of the book..." Marlene Zuk, Quarterly Review of Biolog...

Our Universe

Stern S.A.

From Publishers Weekly Stern, an astrophysicist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., presents a fascina...

Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology

Sober E.

About the Author Timothy Besley is Kuwait Professor of Economics and Political Science and Director of STIC...

What makes biology unique

Mayr E.

Review "His mind is still remarkably sharp." Science "In this first book of the second century of his long career, the ...

Why Aren't More Women in Science?: Top Researchers Debate the Evidence

Stephen J. Ceci

Why Aren't More Women in Science?: Top Researchers Debate the Evidence...

Positioning the History of Science (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 248)

Jürgen Renn, Kostas Gavroglu

Positioning the History of Science (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 248)...

Aldo Leopold and the Ecological Conscience

Richard L. Knight, Susanne Riedel

Review ... this attractive book is wonderfully put together. It would serve either as a helpful introduction to those wh...

On Understanding Science: An Historical Approach (The Terry Lectures Series)

James Bryant Conant

On Understanding Science: An Historical Approach (The Terry Lectures Series)...

Quantum Leaps

Jeremy Bernstein

From Publishers Weekly Bernstein, a former New Yorker staff writer and prolific popular-science author (Plutonium), embar...

The Vocation Lectures: Science As a Vocation, Politics As a Vocation

Max Weber, Rodney Livingstone, David S. Owen, Tracy B. Strong

Review "...this is a highly readable tranlation of Weber's two most famous essays, and provides a good exposition of thei...

Science Research Writing: A Guide for Non-Native Speakers of English

Review I managed to dramatically improve my writing skills. The best thing is that it is not generic but filled with conc...

RiverTime: Ecotravel on the World's Rivers

Mary A. Hood

From Visually, audibly, even olfactorily, rivers are magnets for the senses and for the soul. In this profound and pensi...

What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything

John Brockman

From Publishers Weekly In this wide-ranging assortment of 150 brief essays, well-known figures from every conceivable fie...

The Intelligence of Flowers

Maurice Maeterlinck

From the Back Cover "The republication of Maurice Maeterlinck's `The Intelligence of Flowers,' regrettably forgotten in o...

Cosmic Adventure: Other Secrets Beyond the Night Sky

Bob Berman

Review "Berman uses the sky as his classroom to convey thelimits of current cosmological knowledge.And he does it with su...

The Fly in the Ointment: 70 Fascinating Commentaries on the Science of Everyday Life

Joe Schwarcz

About the Author Dr. Joe Schwarcz is the director of McGill University's Office for Science and Society. He is the author...

The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2001 (The Best American Series)

Edward O. Wilson

About the Author Edward O. Wilson is the author of two Pulitzer Prize-winning books, On Human Nature and The Ants, as wel...

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Neil Degrasse Tyson

From Publishers Weekly What would it feel like if your spaceship were to venture too close to the black hole lurking at t...

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction

Jean Stefancic, Richard Delgado

Review "Prolific contributors to the field, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic here combine their understandings in a marve...

Dr. Joe & What You Didn't Know: 99 Fascinating Questions About the Chemistry of Everyday Life

Joe Schwarcz

Review "A book with an incredibly high 'Did you know that...?' quotient...Completely captivating..." -- Daphne Dykeman, N...

The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2000

David Quammen, Burkhard Bilger

About the Author David Quammen, a former Rhodes scholar, has written the highly acclaimed SONG OF THE DODO (1997: Simon &...

Science Research Writing: A Guide for Non-Native Speakers of English

Review I managed to dramatically improve my writing skills. The best thing is that it is not generic but filled with conc...

Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos

Eric J. Chaisson

From Publishers Weekly Chaisson attempts to explain the origin of the universe and the evolution of everything in it, in ...

Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism

Sandra D. Mitchell

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely-acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-...

Sex, Drugs, Einstein & Elves: Sushi, Psychedelics, Parallel Universes and the Quest for Transcendence

Clifford A. Pickover

Sex, Drugs, Einstein & Elves: Sushi, Psychedelics, Parallel Universes and the Quest for Transcendence...

Writing for Science

Robert Goldbort

This exceptional book encompasses the entire range of writing skills that today’s experimental scientist may need to employ....

Geography and Vision: Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World

Denis Cosgrove

Geography and Vision is a series of personal reflections by leading cultural geographer, Denis Cosgrove, on the complex connection...

It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science

Graham Farmelo

From Library Journal The power of equations can seem magical, writes MIT physics professor Frank Wilczek in an essay on the Dira...

It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions

Richard Lewontin

It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions...

Great Essays in Science

Martin Gardner

Great Essays in Science...

The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

Stephen Jay Gould

With sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of Gould's books now matches their criti...

Understanding understanding: essays on cybernetics and cognition

Heinz Von Foerster

In these essays Heinz von Foerster discusses some of the fundamental principles that govern how we know the world and how we proce...

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Mind: A Tribute to Michael S. Gazzaniga

Elizabeth A. Phelps, George R. Mangun, Kathleen Baynes, Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz

These essays on a range of topics in the cognitive neurosciences report on the progress in the field over the twenty years of its ...

Broken Symmetry: Selected Papers of Y. Nambu

K. Nishijima, T. Eguchi, Y. Nambu

Review The book benefits from the inclusion of previously unpublished material, informal lectures and conference-summary talks t...

Entropy and the magic flute

Harold J. Morowitz

From Publishers Weekly In this uneven compilation of essays culled from his column for Hospital Practice , biologist and popular...

Jeff's View: on Science and Scientists

Gottfried Schatz

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Expanding on their notorious 2006 article in the London Review of Books, the authors inc...

The Golem at Large: What You Should Know About Technology

Harry Collins, Trevor Pinch

From Publishers Weekly Collins and Pinch reprise the case study format of their previous coauthored book (The Golem: What You Sh...

Falling for Science: Objects in Mind

Sherry Turkle

"This is a book about science, technology, and love," writes Sherry Turkle. In it, we learn how a love for science can s...

Ten Questions Science Can't Answer

Michael Hanlon

From the author of the bestselling The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comes another incredible trip to an even mo...

The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment

Richard Lewontin

The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment...

The Paleobiological Revolution: Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology

David Sepkoski, Michael Ruse

Paleontology has long had a troubled relationship with evolutionary biology. Suffering from a reputation as a second-tier science ...

System Modeling in Cellular Biology: From Concepts to Nuts and Bolts

Jã¶Rg Stelling, Vipul Periwal, Zoltan Szallasi

Research in systems biology requires the collaboration of researchers from diverse backgrounds, including biology, computer scienc...

Candid Science II: Conversations with Famous Biomedical Scientists

Istvan Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai

This invaluable book contains 36 interviews, including 26 with Nobel laureates. It presents a cross-section of biomedical science,...

What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty

John Brockman

From Publishers Weekly The title's question was posed on Edge.org (an online intellectual clearing house), challenging more than...

Issues and Perspectives in Landscape Ecology

John A. Wiens, Michael R. Moss

This book addresses a wide array of past, current, and future issues in landscape ecology to provide an overview of the varied vie...

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