Stephen Jay GouldTime's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological TimeRarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and...

Steven WeinbergA masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg—a thought-provoking and important book by one of the most...

Seth M. SiegelNew York Times bestselling author Seth M. Siegel shows how our drinking water got contaminated, what it may be doing to us, and what we must do to...

Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel MicroworldsMitchel ResnickDoes every group have a leader? Does every pattern have a central cause? Most people tend to think so. Increasingly,...

Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy's adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind.Oliver Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing...

Scientific AmericanDrawn from the pages of Scientific American and collected here for the first time, this work contains updated and condensed information, made accessible to a general popular science audience,...

Kostas KampourakisWhat are genes? What do genes do? These questions are not simple and straightforward to answer; at the same time, simplistic answers are quite prevalent and are taken for...

Robert Jastrow This book examines the two great mysteries which have defied science—the riddle of life and the riddle of creation. August 17, 1977 by Readers Library

Conrad Mason Illustrated by Colin KingFeatures inventions, machines, gadgets and devices, and facts and information about how they work. This flap book contains over 90 flaps which reveal the insides...

Katie Dayes and Colin KingThis astonishingly inventive title allows young children to discover the inner workings of the human body in a gently humorous, yet wholly accurate way. Bright, original...

Henry David Thoreau is considered one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most influential book.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan...

Robert G Dean Robert A Dalrymple “Chapter on wave maker theory is new material, generally not found in text books. The authors pull together good stuff from various widely scattered...