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Galileo's Daughter - A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and LoveClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Using the surviving letters of Galileo's eldest daughter, a cloistered nun, the author has created a compelling biography of one of history's most influential scientists. A great comfort to Galileo ...
author: Dava Sobel |
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Genes & DNAClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Explores the intricate mysteries of genes and their function as the code for life, forensics, gene therapy, cloning, genetic engineering and DNA technology. Illustrated with color photographs.
author: Richard Walker |
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Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's OriginClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Astrobiologist Robert Hazen has spent years studying the fundamental mechanisms of life's genesis. In this book he gives an overview of the various ongoing scientific investigations into the origin o...
author: Robert M. Hazen |
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Genius - A Photobiography of Albert EinsteinClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Compelling biography of Einstein, from his childhood in Germany through his life in the U.S. His family life, school years, and years of scientific research are profiled. Einstein formulated theori...
author: Marfe |
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard FeynmanClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Biography of Richard Feynman, the renown physicist's physicist by award-winning author James Gleick. Chapter headings: Far Rockaway; MIT; Princeton; Los Alamos; Cornell; Caltech. Includes black & whit...
author: James Gleick |
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Genome - The Autobiography of a Species in 23 ChaptersClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Ridley wrote this in 1999, just before the 2000 publication of the first draft of the human genome. He picks one newly discovered gene from each of the twenty-three human chromosomes and tells its st...
author: Matt Ridley |
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Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in PhysicsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Memoir of one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century. Includes his work with Neils Bohr, involvement with the Manhattan Project, theoretical physics with his student Richard Feynman, a...
author: John Archibald Wheeler with Kenneth Ford |
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Going, Going, Gone? - Animals and Plants on the Brink of Extinction and How You Can HelpClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Tait asked 99 conservation groups from around the world to pick one species, subspecies or habitat that needs saving, and included them in this book. (He then rounded it up to 100 by including the Be...
author: Malcolm Tait |
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Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health CrusaderClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The story of Dr. Joseph Goldberger, a physician and public health worker in the early 20th century who discovered the cause and the cure for pellagra, a disease which had mystified the world for centu...
author: Alan M. Kraut |
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Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's HistoryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A firsthand account of the search for the cause of Earth's mass extinction 250 million years ago, and of the scientists who work to uncover this mystery.
author: Peter D. Ward |
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Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great ApesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Mountain gorillas are one of the most endangered species in the world. Now they are facing a new threat, from the very tourism that is helping to protect them: exposure to human disease. This is the s...
author: Pamela S. Turner |
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Gorilla Mountain - The Story of Wildlife Biologist Amy VedderClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Another in the "Women's Adventures in Science" series, this book follows the life and career of wildlife biologist Amy Vedder and her work in Africa to save the mountain gorillas from extinction. Won...
author: Rene Ebersole |
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Gorillas in the MistClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The personal adventure and scientific work of Dian Fossey's thirteen years studying the mountain gorillas of the African rain forests. Includes black & white and color photographs.
author: Dian Fossey |
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Great Brain Book - An Inside Look At the Inside of Your HeadClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Explores the history of brain science and how it has grown and changed. The different parts of the brain and their functions are explained, as well as how you learn and remember, how you can train yo...
author: HP Newquist |
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Great Ideas in Physics: the conservation of energy, the second law of thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, and quantum mechanicsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An exploration of the four foundations of modern physics and their impact on the world, not only through science, but also the arts, social sciences, philosophy, and politics.
author: Alan Lightman |
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Great Influenza - The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in HistoryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
History of the 1918 influenza epidemic, the scientists who worked to find a cure, and how the practice of medicine was revolutionized. Also the story of how the war against the epidemic was imposed u...
author: John M. Barry |
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Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of CivilizationsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
From the Inuit to the Norse, the Polynesians to the Western Europeans, the Mayans and people of Chaco Canyon, they have all felt the impacts of climate change - here illuminated by anthropologist and ...
author: Brian Fagan |
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Great Waters: An Atlantic PassageClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A thrilling natural history of the Atlantic Ocean and the reliance of humans upon it form the Gulf of Maine to the Sargasso Sea.
author: Deborah Cramer |
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Guide to the Human Body: A Photographic Journey Through the Human BodyClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A photographic guide to the human body. Includes: skin, hair, nails, skeleton, bones, joints, muscles, brain, nerves & neuron, eyes, ears & hearing, nose & tongue, hormones, heart, blood, circulation,...
author: Richard Walker |
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Guinea Pig Scientists - Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and MedicineClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Stories of ten men and women, from the 1770's to the present, who devoted their lives, and sometimes risked them, to answer some of the big questions in science and medicine.
These accounts uncover t...
author: Leslie Dendy and Mel Boring |
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Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Guns, Germs, and Steel is a comprehensive treatise that brings together ecology, botany, anthropology, medicine and evolution. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, 1998. Also availab...
author: Jared Diamond |
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