If there is anything Nobel Laureate James D. Watson does not need to worry about, it is boring people. In his autobiography, Avoid Boring People,
Take care of business. Flush. Forget. Repeat. Generating waste is a fact of life for each and every one of the six billion human beings
“HENRIETTA LACKS,” Professor Defler wrote in large letters on the blackboard of a community college class. Rebecca Skloot, sixteen-years old at the time, sat in
Solar Sails manages to present a complex topic in understandable terms and makes a convincing argument for the next generation of space exploration.
Can we as a species deal with the effects of decisions that are not our own?
In Clean Car Wars: How Honda and Toyota are Winning the Battle of the Eco-Friendly Autos (2008), Yozo Hasegawa provides a compelling overview of the current landscape of the automotive industry and how that landscape came to be.
In his new book, Dan Koeppel establishes his goal of saving “the banana that is dying” through an analysis of the fruit’s history mixed with a discussion of it current problems, along with possible solutions for its future.
In a definitional whirlwind, David Healy in Mania upsets any notions of the continuity of our time’s mental disorders, following the history of bipolar disorder from the ancient Greeks through the present.
If you opened Gregory Radick’s The Simian Tongue expecting to learn about how monkeys communicate, you would be both right and wrong.
Anthony Zee’s Fearful Symmetry: the Search for Beauty in Modern Physics distinguishes itself in its attempt to construct a way of seeing that uses both scientific and artistic approaches.