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Einstein in 90 Minutes
by John Gribbin Mary GribbinBrief biography and description of Einstein's contributions.
Nuclear Energy: An Answer to Climate Change?
by Michael W. Toffel Glen W. S. Dowell James WeberEnvironmental activist groups have traditionally opposed nuclear energy. However, the growing environmental problems associated with global climate change require major changes to reduce the carbon intensity of electricity generation. Should environmental groups reverse course and support the construction of new nuclear plants—using technology that could be rapidly deployed at scale—to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are causing global climate change?
An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology
by James R. HoltonThis revised text presents a cogent explanation of the fundamentals of meteorology, and explains storm dynamics for weather-oriented meteorologists. It discusses climate dynamics and the implications posed for global change. Formulas have been removed.
Moonwalk: The First Trip to the Moon
by Judy DonnellyNarrates the preparations and activities which culminated in man's first landing on the moon in July 1969.
The Persecuted Drug: The Story of DMSO
by Pat McgradyDMSO remains a truly amazing substance. It is a versatile solvent; it probably will dissolve more chemicals than any other solvent. It penetrates the skin and is in the bloodstream within seconds; and it carries many dissolved chemicals with it. It freezes at a couple of degrees below room temperature. As a runoff product of the paper industry, it is abundant and should be cheap. (With inflation and the middleman's profits, its price during the last half-dozen years has multiplied thirty fold. But considering its many uses, it still is cheap at the current $10 a pint.)
Our Final Hour: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster in This Century Threaten humankind's Future on Earth and Beyond
by Martin ReesWhat we might do to destroy ourselves.
The Human Essence: The Sources of Science and Art
by George ThomsonThis book is a short introduction to Marxism that addresses its political, historical and ideological aspects of science and art.
Hymn of the Universe
by Pierre Teilhard De ChardinIn this book it is almost always Pere Teilhard, the man of prayer rather than the man of science, who speaks to us. As Sir Julian Huxley wrote of The Mass on the World, it is a 'truly poetical essay ... at one and the same time mystical and realistic, religious and philosophical'. This does not mean, of course, that the author ever forgets or betrays his science; what it does mean is: that the reader's approach, and response, to these pages must of necessity be quite different from those demanded by the scientific works. The mystic, the poet use language in a way essentially different from that of the scientist.
The Rocket Kids of NIH
by Don LuckettFifty-two years ago, members of a review committee at the National Institutes of Health dug into their wallets and purses to give a "grant" to a 9-year-old boy named Terence Boylan of Snyder, N.Y. His energetic request for $10 to build a rocket ship with his 14-year old friend Bruce Cook moved distinguished members of this NIH committee to invest in the future. Bookshare demo title.
Adult Continuing Education and High School Course Catalog
by Hadley Institute for the Blind Visually ImpairedAdult Continuing Education and High School Course Catalog 2016-2017. Catalog of current distance education courses for the blind or visually impaired. Various media for the courses is available including; Braille, CD, Digital Talking Books, Large Print, Online and more. Not all courses are available in all formats.
Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics
by Amir D. AczelWhy packages separated by thousands of miles change together.
Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension
by Stephen S. HallWhat biologists are doing for immortality.
The First Woman Doctor
by Rachel BakerIn 1847, there were no women doctors. Elizabeth Blackwell was however, determined to become the first woman doctor, no matter what everyone else told her.
Emanuel Swedenborg
by Inge JonssonLife and works of the mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). 224 pages. Academic style - not light reading.
The Birth of Modern Science
by Paolo RossiOne of a series on the historic development of Europe, covers the development of science.
Inquiries into Life's Secrets, General Biology for Majors I, Bio 181
by Terry Ponder Peter Brown Linda J. Wegener Ronald K. Dinchak Lewis ObermillerThe book introduces you to basic procedures that will apply to all laboratory exercises in General Biology for Majors I, Bio 181.
The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
by Karl SabbaghHistorical discussion of the still unsolved problem of the Riemann Hypothesis.
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet (Mushroom Planet #1)
by Eleanor CameronChuck and David pay a visit to the Mushroom Planet.
Pasteur and Modern Science
by Rene DubosThis is a fresh account of the extraordinary life of Louis Pasteur, and the monumental impact he had on biochemistry, microbiology, bacteriology and immunology.
A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE POSITION OF MR. DARWIN'S WORK, "ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES,"
by Thomas Henry HuxleyA Critical Examination of the Position of Mr. Darwin's Work, "On the Origin of Species," in Relation to the Complete Theory of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature Lecture VI. (of VI.), "Lectures to Working Men", at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1863, on Darwin's Work: "Origin of Species"