Product Description: Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague, and fire, a world ruled by superstition and ignorance. But then a series of meetings of "natural philosophers" in Oxford and London saw the beginning of a new method of thinking based on proof and experiment...read more

A lively and humor-infused treasury of scientific lore takes readers on an illustrated tour of top ideas in the scientific world, from the range of infinity and the interior of black holes to the earth's eventual destruction by the sun to the speed of nerve impulses. Original.

Product Description: La asombrosa historia de FitzRoy (1805-1865), uno de los mejores navegantes del siglo XIX, cuya obra no solo contribuyó a que Charles Darwin desarrollara la teoría de la evolución, sino que mejoró la seguridad de todos los navegantes que vendrían después de él...read more

Product Description: Winner of a 2004 Jerwood Photography Award, Naglaa Walker trained as a scientist and worked briefly as a physics researcher before taking an MA at the Royal College of Art. Drawing on her background, Walker juxtaposes images of chalked equations with carefully staged photographs to connect the abstraction of physical laws and the reality of experience...read more

A fascinating odyssey through the complex world of mathematics, physics, and other scientific fields provides a look at the comparative scale of phenomena, from the infinitely vast to the infinitesmally small, covering such topics as fractals, codes, subatomic particles, galaxies, nanotechnology, and more. Original.

Covering an epic sweep of science, from the Greek philosophers right through to Einstein and his groundbreaking work. Ages 11+ years.

Award-winning science writers Mary and John Gribbin reveal how Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is rooted in astonishing scientific truth. Drawing on string theory and spacetime, quantum physics and chaos theory, they answer: What are the Dark Materials? With an introduction by Philip Pullman. Ages 9+.

Discusses how real science is represented and used in the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.

Product Description: Two top astronomers (and bestselling authors) take a cutting-edge look at how life itself develops, survives, evolves, becomes intelligent, and where it might exist in outer space. Illustrated with breathtaking photos and state-of-the-art graphics, this thrilling story reveals a newfound understanding of the conditions that fostered life on Earth; how stars and planets are formed; the specific qualities of the Sun and planets in our solar system; and the techniques required to observe phenomena outside our system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This series provides a beginner's guide to a wide range of scientific concepts and topical issues affecting our daily lives. 'Alternative Energy' examines the economic, environmental and political dimensions of the world's energy problems and examines how these issues are being addressed.

Product Description: Making science more accessible than ever before! The Essential Science series makes the difficult and fascinating world of cutting-edge science accessible to everyone with a stimulating mix of lively illustrations and jargon-free text...read more

Product Description: How did we develop from simple animals inhabiting small pockets of forest in Africa to the dominant species on Earth? Traveling back almost eight million years to our earliest primate relatives, Evolution: The Human Story charts the development of our species from tree-dwelling primates to modern humans...read more

Product Description: Making science more accessible than ever before! The Essential Science series makes the difficult and fascinating world of cutting-edge science accessible to everyone with a stimulating mix of lively illustrations and jargon-free text...read more

Product Description: Making science more accessible than ever before! The Essential Science series makes the difficult and fascinating world of cutting-edge science accessible to everyone with a stimulating mix of lively illustrations and jargon-free text...read more

Product Description: Big ideas made simple -- six books in an incredible new series that explains important scientific ideas more clearly than ever before. The internet and other digital technologies have transformed our world, yet many of us have little or no understanding of how they work...read more

Product Description: Big ideas made simple -- six books in an incredible new series that explains important scientific ideas more clearly than ever before. One of the greatest achievements of the age, the sequencing of the human genome is here explored and explained in detail, from the work of the earliest geneticists to the publication of the genome itself, with all the implications it has for the future...read more

Product Description: Big ideas made simple -- six books in an incredible new series that explains important scientific ideas more clearly than ever before. Climate change resulting from an increase in greenhouse gases is perhaps the greatest threat to our planet's future...read more

Product Description: Big ideas made simple -- six books in an incredible new series that explains important scientific ideas more clearly than ever before. How the universe formed, what it consists of, and how it will end are central concerns of physicists, astronomers, and other residents of planet Earth...read more

Product Description: Big ideas made simple -- six books in an incredible new series that explains important scientific ideas more clearly than ever before. In this fascinating and lucid account, the author of the groundbreaking Going inside explores the "mechanics" of the mind, re-examines concepts such as memory, intelligence, and personality, and assesses the true nature of consciousness...read more

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The age of the universe has been one of the great scientific mysteries of our time. This engrossing book tells the story of how the mystery was recently solved. Written by a brilliant science writer who was involved, as a research astronomer, in the final breakthrough, the book provides details of the ongoing controversies among scientists as they groped their way to the truth-that the universe is between 13 and 16 billion years old, older by at least one billion years than the star systems it contains. In clear, engaging language, Gribbin takes us through the history of cosmological discoveries, focusing in particular on the seventy years since the Big Bang model of the origin of the universe. He explains how conflicting views of the age of the universe and stars converged in the 1990s because scientists (including Gribbin) were able to use data from the Hubble Space Telescope that measured distances across the universe. (view table of contents)