Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

One hundred years on from his birth, and 30 since his death, Richard Feynman's discoveries in modern physics are still thoroughly relevant. Magnifi...

Reveals some of the thrilling developments that have transformed biology since the 1960s.  Highlights the challenges ahead for biologists but sugge...

So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Gene tells you what you need to know--before or after you read Siddhartha Mukherjee''s ...

Newly available in paperback, Dan Fagin's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution is environmental reporting at...

Stephen Hawking is no ordinary scientist. He has broadened our basic understanding of the universe and his theoretical work on black holes and the ...

Professor Brian Cox is among the best-known physicists in the world. As presenter of hit television series Human Universe, Wonders of the Solar Sys...

Campfire conversations with Alfred Russel Wallace on people and nature based on his travel in the Malay archipelago: the land of the orang-utan and...

Ever heard of Allied spy Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim woman whom the Nazis considered highly dangerous? Or German painter and entomologist Maria Siby...

Planck's Law, an equation used by physicists to determine the radiation leaking from any object in the universe, was described by Albert Einstein a...

Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy ...

The position of the pharmacist in the structure of health care in the United States evolved during the middle half of the 19th century, roughly fro...

In The Surprising Lives of Small-Town Doctors, physicians put down their stethoscopes and pick up their pens to share some of the most frightening ...

Henri Poincare (1854-1912) was not just one of the most inventive, versatile, and productive mathematicians of all time--he was also a leading phys...

As a teenager, Molly Case underwent an operation that saved her life. Nearly a decade later, she finds herself in the operating room again-this tim...

Niels Bohr, who pioneered the quantum theory of the atom, had a broad conception of his obligations as a physicist. They included not only a respon...

This book explores the life of Henry Dresser (18381915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twe...

Darwin and Women focusses on Darwin's correspondence with women and on the lives of the women he knew and wrote to. It includes a large number of h...

How does one deal with a diagnosis of Parkinsons disease at the age of forty-three? My Degeneration, by former Anchorage Daily News staff cartoonis...

Jill Tarter is a pioneer, an innovator, an adventurer, and a controversial force. At a time when women weren''t encouraged to do much outside the h...

Every year millions of museum visitors marvel at the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures discovered by John Bell Hatcher. The li...

With his deeply informed and compassionate bookDr. Epstein tells us that it is a moral imperative [for doctors] to do right by their patients (New ...