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Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to HiroshimaClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A chronicle of the history, science, and lives behind the development of the atomic bomb, including scientists, world leaders and citizens, from Marie Curie's 1898 discovery of radium to the bombing...
author: Diana Preston |
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Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2008 edition of this annual series. Series editor Tim Folger and editor Jerome Groopman, M.D. bring together 24 diverse and fascinating articles by leading scientists.
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Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2005Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2005 edition of the annual series. Includes essays on NASA and space expoloration, psychology, global warming, medicine and medical research, and a computer hacker.
author: Jonathan Weiner, editor & Tim Folger series editor |
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Best American Science Writing 2004Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2004 edition, edited by Dava Sobel, of this annual compliation of essays by the best of American science writers. Topics include space flight, physics, medicine and organ transplants, dark matter,...
author: Dava Sobel, editor & Jesse Cohen series editor |
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Best American Science Writing 2007Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Twenty essays from notable authors selected as the best picks of 2007 by Gina Kolata, award winning science and medicine reporter for the New York Times and author of "Flu: The Story of the Great Infl...
author: Gina Kolata, editor |
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Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and CommerceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A fascinating historical account of the medical use of human blood and its worldwide commerce; from the first documented transfusion in mid 17th century France to the AIDS epidemic.
author: Douglas Starr |
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Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered AgeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The author offers a sobering look at genetic engineering and where it could lead us if not used appropriately and thought about wisely. He questions whether we will ever decide we've grown powerful e...
author: Bill McKibben |
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Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. FeynmanClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A collection of essays: The pleasure of finding things out -- Computing machines in the future -- Los Alamos from below -- What is and what should be the role of scientific culture in modern society -...
author: Richard P. Feynman with forward by Freeman Dyson |
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Privilege of Being a PhysicistClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A collection of essays by the elder statesman of physics, Victor Weisskopf. Includes his thoughts on teaching science, art and science, science and society, science and culture, the frontiers and limi...
author: Victor F. Weisskopf |
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Technology Matters: Questions to Live WithClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
David E. Nye explores the cultural and social impacts of technology and our relationship to it by asking ten central questions, each with a devoted chapter. Notes, bibliography, index.
author: David E. Nye |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2008 edition of this annual series. Series editor Tim Folger and editor Jerome Groopman, M.D. bring together 24 diverse and fascinating articles by leading scientists.
author: Jerome Groopman, M.D., editor |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2005Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2005 edition of the annual series. Includes essays on NASA and space expoloration, psychology, global warming, medicine and medical research, and a computer hacker.
author: Jonathan Weiner, editor & Tim Folger series editor |
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The Best American Science Writing 2004Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2004 edition, edited by Dava Sobel, of this annual compliation of essays by the best of American science writers. Topics include space flight, physics, medicine and organ transplants, dark matter,...
author: Dava Sobel, editor & Jesse Cohen series editor |
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The Best American Science Writing 2007Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Twenty essays from notable authors selected as the best picks of 2007 by Gina Kolata, award winning science and medicine reporter for the New York Times and author of "Flu: The Story of the Great Infl...
author: Gina Kolata, editor |
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. FeynmanClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A collection of essays: The pleasure of finding things out -- Computing machines in the future -- Los Alamos from below -- What is and what should be the role of scientific culture in modern society -...
author: Richard P. Feynman with forward by Freeman Dyson |
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The Privilege of Being a PhysicistClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A collection of essays by the elder statesman of physics, Victor Weisskopf. Includes his thoughts on teaching science, art and science, science and society, science and culture, the frontiers and limi...
author: Victor F. Weisskopf |
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