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Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of Free Radicals takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the most controversial areas of modern science. The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All are ideas that have revolutionized science -- and all were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven't stopped in recent years, and in At the Edge of Uncertainty, author Michael Brooks investigates the new wave of radical insights that are shaping...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
World-altering discoveries that reveal a universe of uncertainty and constant change
Whether probing the farthest reaches of the vast universe or exploring the microscopic world of genetics and the subatomic world of quantum mechanics, Instability Rules is a remarkably informative and engaging look at ten milestone discoveries and their discoverers-a wide range of very human personalities whose insights have dramatically altered our most basic assumptions...
6) Influx
Author
Language
English
Description
A tale set in a world in which technological advances have been suppressed finds particle physicist Jon Grady helping to innovate a device capable of reflecting gravity only to be targeted by a shadowy organization from the future.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning Caltech physicist and author of The Particle at the End of the Universe shares sweeping perspectives into how human purpose and meaning naturally fit into a scientific worldview,"--Amazon.com.
"Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on Higgs bosons and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions. Where are...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
The astronomer who inadvertently triggered the "demotion" of Pluto in his effort to officially recognize the solar system's tenth planet describes the ensuing debates and public outcry while revealing the behind-the-scenes story of his discovery.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A captivating journey to the outer frontiers of human knowledge by the popular presenter of Netflix's The Story of Math. Ever since the dawn of civilization we have been driven by a desire to know-- to understand the physical world and the laws of nature. But are there limits to human knowledge? This tantalizing question has inspired scientists and functioned as a spur to innovation. Now, Marcus du Sautoy invites us to join him on a journey to the...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent of creating products of immediate value. In such a scenario, it makes sense to focus on the most identifiable and urgent problems, right? Actually, it doesn't. In his classic essay 'The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge,' Abraham Flexner, the founding director of the Institute for Advanced...
16) The Water Castle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Moving into an inherited mansion in Maine with their mother and stroke-afflicted father, three siblings uncover a mystery involving hidden passageways, family rivalries, and healing waters.
17) Dispatches from planet 3: thirty-two (brief) tales on the solar system, the Milky Way, and beyond
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning science writer presents a captivating collection of cosmological essays for the armchair astronomer. The galaxy, the multiverse, and the history of astronomy are explored in this engaging compilation of cosmological "tales" by multiple award-winning science writer Marcia Bartusiak. In thirty-two concise and engrossing essays, the author provides a deeper understanding of the nature of the universe and those who strive to uncover...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Len Fisher showed just how much fun science can be in his enthusiastically praised debut, How to Dunk a Doughnut. In this new work, he reveals that science sometimes takes a path through the ridiculous and the bizarre to discover that Nature often simply does not follow common sense. One experiment, involving a bed, platform scales, and a dying man, seemed to prove that the soul weighed the same as a slice of bread. But other, no less fanciful experiments...
20) Neutrino hunters: the thrilling chase for a ghostly particle to unlock the secrets of the universe
Author
Publisher
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Detective thriller meets astrophysics in this adventure into neutrinos and the scientists who pursue them"--