History of Science

In 1972, James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis began collaborating on the Gaia hypothesis. They suggested that over geological time, life on Earth has h...

A New Scientist Book of the Year Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look. Juan José Millás has always felt like he doesnt q...

In this deeply researched chronology, Colin Burgess describes the Soviet Unions extraordinary success in the pioneering years of space exploration....

Everything in the universe is made up of the elements including us. Forged in the Big Bang, the elements and their resulting compounds created the...

Science & Scientists in Berlin is a richly illustrated guidebook providing informative biographies of 22 major scientists and 11 mathematicians...

Australia is home to an incredible diversity of native animals. While Australian animals are among the most unique in the world, they are also amon...

In this book, Daniel P. Todes provides concise introduction to the life and science of the great Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936). Tode...

Exceptionally absorbing and thrilling. ... Masterful. NatureA magnificent (Scientific American), genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious scie...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Sean Carroll has achieved something I thought impossible: a bridge between popular science and the mathematical univ...

This students guide explores how the Christian faith impacts our understanding of science, arguing that the Christian worldview stands as the best ...

All people desire to know. We want to not only know what has happened, but also why it happened, how it happened, whether it will happen again, whe...

Maxwell s Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism brought about what Einstein called the greatest change in the axiomatic basis of physics since Newt...

Shortlisted for the André Simon Food & Drink Book Award An intoxicating interconnected history of booze and m...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Explores just about every area of life' DAILY MAIL'If only Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry were on tap to all of us, all...

Racing Green is the story of how advances in motorsport science are changing the world, helping it become smarter and more environmentally friendly...

The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg was widely regarded as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth century. A Jewish homosexual living o...

A series of engaging essays that explore iconic moments of discovery and debate in physicists' ongoing quest to understand the quantum world. The...

Alexander von Humboldt was the most admired scientist of his day. But the achievements for which he was most celebrated in his lifetime always fell...

This is the first thorough English commentary on the geographical books of Pliny the Elder, written in the AD 70s. Pliny's account is the longest i...

This is a revealing account of the family life and achievements of the Third Earl of Rosse, a hereditary peer and resident landlord at Birr Castle,...

With the recent landing of the Mars rover Curiosity, it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science--th...

The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017Successful Canadians write about failure, and how it got them where they are today. What does it mean to fail? To...

Once considered marginal members of the animal world (at best) or vile and offensive creatures (at worst), insects saw a remarkable uptick in their...

Humanity has always looked to the stars, but it hasnt been until relatively recently that we have managed to travel into space. Carolyn Collins Pet...

In 1816, the climate went berserk. The winter brought extreme cold, and torrential rains unleashed massive flooding in Asia. Western Europe and Nor...

An ambitious, landmark history of the Scientific Revolution, from the age of Columbus to the age of Cook In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlant...