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Glut : Mastering Information Through the Ages by Alex Wright
In Glut author, journalist and “information architect” Wright takes on the entire history of information – from pre-human bacterial activity and plant photosynthesis to human attempts at information organization, storage and retrieval ...
(January 2009)
Einstein : His Life and Universe by Walter Issacson
In writing this biography, Isaacson had access to research unavailable to previous scholars. Thus, we learn more about the circumstances surrounding the birth of Einstein’s first child, a daughter. Einstein eventually married ...
(October 2007)
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe by Peter D. Ward, David Brownlee
Carl Sagan's estimate of the chances of intelligent life in the universe ("BILLions and BILLions of stars which must have BILLions and BILLions of planets ...") may have been unpersuasive to his ...
(November 2005)
Darwin's Black Box : the Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J. Behe
Could the Darwinian paradigm of evolution by natural selection need a realignment? This critique of contemporary Darwinian thought figuratively turns the Darwin car ornament on its head. In a witty discourse bereft ...
(March 2005)
Defining the Wind : the Beaufort Scale... by Scott Huler
In Defining the Wind the question is how to couple wind speed to the physical effects of wind to create a usable scale. This became important in the 18th and 19th centuries ...
(March 2005)
Dr. Eckener's Dream Machine: the Great Zeppelin and the Dawn of Air Travel by Douglas Botting
It almost seems as though zeppelins never existed; only a few immense hangars, like those at Moffett Field, stand as cenotaphs to their memory; but for a few decades between the world ...
(September 2003)
Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Castastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It. by Gabrielle Walker
Briefly stated, the Snowball Earth theory holds that at one or two points in the earth's past - most recently over 700 million years ago - this planet became completely frozen over; ...
(September 2003)
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