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112 Mercer Street
Einstein, Russell, Gödel, Pauli, and the End of Innocence in Science
Burton Feldman, Katherine Williams
2007 Edition
From the acclaimed author of The Nobel Prize comes this fascinating portrait of four of the greatest minds in the history of science.
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Publishers Weekly
Illuminating biographical sketches of these men and their earlier, groundbreaking work. . . . It sheds light on a moment when architects of the early 20th century’s most important discoveries in science and logic could only stand by and watch as their scientific discoveries directly affected events.
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Fleet Fire
Thomas Edison and the Pioneers of the Electric Revolution
L.J. Davis
2003 Edition
A brilliantly researched history of the harnessing of an unknown force--once called “fleet fire”--into the ubiquitous resource that has illuminated our world and changed our lives.
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Kirkus Reviews
Anecdotally rich, eminently entertaining tale of how fluorescent bulbs, boom boxes, and other fruits of electricity came into being. . . .A pleasure for students of technological history—and for readers with a fondness for bizarre personality types.
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Happy Accidents
Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century
Morton Meyers, M.D.
2008 Edition
A fascinating, entertaining, and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the 20th century.
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Dr. Robert Root-Bernstein, M.D. - Journal of the American Medical Association
Meyers’s book stuns the reader. . . . Meyers writes so beautifully and compellingly. . . . You will learn so much and have so much fun reading this book that you will be telling your students, colleagues, and friends stories from it, and drawing on its lessons, for years to come. . . . This is a great book! Meyers has spent years collecting stories of how modern medical marvels were actually discovered, which he tells with flair and finesse. . . . What emerges is a detailed and nuanced... cont'd
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Hidden Minds
A History of the Unconscious
Frank Tallis
2002 Edition
A brilliant synthesis that reevaluates, in accessible language, one of the major concepts of twentieth-century science in light of the latest experiments.
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Peter B. Raabe - Metapsychology
Many fascinating clinical examples . . . A very entertaining, easy to read, and informative history of the unconscious, and thereby of psychotherapy.
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Hitler's Gift
The True Story of the Scientists Expelled by the Nazi Regime
Jean Medawar, David Pyke
2001 Edition
Would Hitler have won the war had he not "given" the Allies Germany’s most talented scientists? This is the gripping story of some of the greatest scientists of our times who, forced to flee Nazism, sought refuge in the U.K. and the U.S.
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Publishers Weekly
An engrossing story of how England and the United States benefited from Hitler’s expulsion of Germany’s leading scientists. This engaging story of the demise of science in Hitler’s Germany and the subsequent rise of science in England and the United States compellingly chronicles a little-considered aspect of WWII history.
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How to Dunk a Doughnut
The Science of Everyday Life
Len Fisher
2003 Edition
From “the man who put the fun into physics” (International Herald Tribune),an entertaining and accessible look at the science behind our daily activities.
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Entertainment Weekly
A-. Like sports fans, scientists are "much more interested in the exceptional than they are in the average," notes this researcher at England's University of Bristol, whose MacGyver-ish inclinations allow him to turn his house into a laboratory for the ingenious musings. From the title experiment (doughnuts, like cookies, should penetrate the liquid almost horizontally to minimize oversaturation) to an investigation into the properties of soap foam (can you say "colloidal suspension"?), Fisher... cont'd
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The Mind Tree
A Miraculous Child Breaks the Silence of Autism
Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay
2003 Edition
From behind the wall of imposed silence, a breathtaking collection of autobiographical prose and poetry, all the more remarkable because the writer is a child with autism.
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Paul Ingram - Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, IA
I just to let you know how impressive an achievement The Mind Tree is. Coming on the heels of Mark Haddon’s novel [The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time], this one-of-a-kind memoir is bound for big sales. The story of the boy and his heroic and fascinating mother inspires rare wonder. I read every autism book and this one trumps the lot with Tito’s earnest voice and determination to be understood.
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The Molecule Hunt
Archeaology and the Search for Ancient DNA
Martin Jones
2002 Edition
A leading expert at the forefront of bio-archaeology--the discipline that gave Michael Crichton the premise for Jurassic Park--explains how this science is rewriting history and unlocking stories of the past that could never have been told before.
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Kirkus Reviews
An engaging and well-written account of the scientific underpinnings that inspired Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park . . .Thanks to elegant prose and a straightforward approach, the “hard science” in this tale of bio-archaeology’s coming of age remains well within the grasp of the layman.
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Murmurs from the Deep
Scientific Adventure in the Caribbean
Gilles Fonteneau
2006 Edition
A scientific expedition into unknown parts of the Caribbean to study the tectonic plates of the region answers the intriguing question: Is there a language of fish?
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Admiral François Bellec
Because he has the gift of suspense of a Jules Verne, Gilles Fonteneau has the ability to describe his adventures with rare talent.
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Phobias
Fighting the Fear
Helen Saul
2002 Edition
For the millions of people who suffer from one phobia or another--and for those who don’t--an enlightening, informative, and immensely helpful guide.
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Publishers Weekly
...An excellent primer for those who suffer from phobias, or know someone who does.
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