Other Sciences category: 9579 books
The Casebook of Forensic Detection
How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
“Brilliant and persistent scientific work that brought murderers like John List, Ted Bundy, and Jeffrey MacDonald to justice.”—Publishers Weekly
“Landmarks of forensic science [that] are representative of the evolution of the discipline and its increasingly prominent role in crime solving.”—Library...
Discoverers of the Universe
William and Caroline Herschel
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Discoverers of the Universe tells the gripping story of William Herschel, the brilliant, fiercely ambitious, emotionally complex musician and composer who became court astronomer to Britain's King George III, and of William's sister, Caroline, who assisted him in his observations of the night sky...
Evolution
The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
“I often said before starting, that I had no doubt I should frequently repent of the whole undertaking.” So wrote Charles Darwin aboard The Beagle, bound for the Galapagos Islands and what would arguably become the greatest and most controversial discovery in scientific history. But the theory...
Show Me the Bone
Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty—“Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal!” Paleontologists such as Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen were heralded...
The Good Book of Human Nature
An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
How reading the Bible as a work of cultural and scientific evolution can reveal new truths about how our species conquered the Earth
The Bible is the bestselling book of all time. It has been venerated--;or excoriated--as God's word, but so far no one has read the Bible for what it is: humanity's...
by Richard Fortey
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
This edition does not include illustrations. ‘Dry Store Room No. 1’ is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of scientific endeavour, academic rigour and imagination. Behind the public façade...
by John Scotney
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Today the theory of evolution by natural selection and the science of genetics are the twin keys to our understanding of how life on earth came about. Yet when an English naturalist called Charles Darwin first published his ideas in 1859 in a book called On the Origin of Species the world was horrified...
The Origin of Darwinism
Charles Darwin and The Origin of Species
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
On 24th November 1859, Charles Darwin published 'On the Origin of Species'. His master-work laid down the theory of evolution by natural selection. In the century and half since publication, this theory has become firmly entwined with our instinctive view of how the planet's species came to be. It has...
by Nathaniel Harris
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The Atlas of the World's Deserts examines the hostile and extreme environments that characterize deserts, and is divided into chapters that concentrate on specific aspects of a desert's geology, life forms, history, and future.
For more information including sample pages, visit the Atlas of the World's Deserts web site.
Also includes 160 color maps and photos.
Quantum Philosophy
Understanding and Interpreting Contemporary Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2002
In this magisterial work, Roland Omnès takes us from the academies of ancient Greece to the laboratories of modern science as he seeks to do no less than rebuild the foundations of the philosophy of knowledge. One of the world's leading quantum physicists, Omnès reviews the history and recent development...
The Great Fossil Enigma
The Search for the Conodont Animal
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
A fascinating, comprehensive, accessible account of conodont fossils—one of paleontology’s greatest mysteries: “Deserves to be widely read and enjoyed” (Priscum).
Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the eel-like conodont animal as a riddle wrapped in...
Richard Owen
Biology without Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen. Mentioned in the same breath as Isaac Newton and championed as Britain’s answer to France’s Georges Cuvier and Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt, Owen was, as the Times declared in 1856, the most “distinguished...
by Michael Ruse
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
This book provides a unique discussion of human evolution from a philosophical viewpoint, looking at the facts and interpretations since Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man. Michael Ruse explores such topics as the nature of scientific theories, the relationships between culture and biology, the problem...
The Sublime Engine
A Biography of the Human Heart
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
The heart has consistently captured the human imagination. It has been singled out as a cultural icon, the repository of our deepest religious and artistic impulses, the organ whose steady functioning is understood, both literally and symbolically, as the very life force itself. The Sublime Engine will...