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Fads and Fallacies in the Name of ScienceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A witty look at the strange and curious beliefs that have masqueraded as science.
author: Martin Gardner |
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Family MathClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A book for parents and children working together, learning to like math, and doing activities that make math fun for children from five to 18 years old. It covers important mathematics topics like wo...
author: Jean Kerr Stenmark, Virginia Thompson, Ruth Cossey |
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Fantastic Feats and FailuresClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Includes the engineering feats and failures of the: CN Tower, Challenger, Georgia Dome, Crystal Palace, Sydney Opera House, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Eiffel Tower, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Citicorp Building,...
author: David Garrison, Shannon Hunt, & Jude Isabella |
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Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific SpeculationClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Magueijo puts forth his theory that though the speed of light is now considered a constant, it might not have always been so. His speculation is that it once traveled faster.
author: Joćo Magueijo |
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Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintockClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
"A brilliant and convincing book" Science 83
author: Evelyn Fox Keller |
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Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathamatical ProblemClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The amazing story of the Holy Grail of Mathematics and the 356 years of struggle to find the proof, and of Andrew Wiles, the man who did.
author: Simon Singh |
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Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volumes I - IIIClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Three volumes based upon a course of introductory physics taught by Richard Feynman at Caltech in the early 1960's. Volume I focuses on mechanics, radiation and heat; Volume II on electromagnetism and...
author: Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sa |
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Field Guide to Mammal Tracking in North AmericaClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A wealth of information written in a compact format by one of America's premier tracking experts; includes tracking techniques, a guide to mammal classification, a anatomical guide to the major foot t...
author: James Halfpenny |
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe - Man, Nature, and Climate ChangeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Kolbert spoke to some of the world's leading climate scientists and visited some of the areas most affected by climate change - Alaska, Iceland, Greenland - before writing this book. Clear and underst...
author: Elizabeth Kolbert |
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Films of Charles and Ray Eames (DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Volume 1 - Powers of Ten: An adventure in magnitudes, from without and within. Journey from a picnic in Chicago to the outer edges of the universe and back again. Also included is the original 1968 ...
author: Charles Eames, Ray Eames |
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First Contact: New Guinea's Highlanders Encounter the Outside WorldClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Chronicle of the "first contact" experience of Australian explorer Michael Leahy who, in 1930, went looking for gold in Papua New Guinea and found a civilization of almost 1 million people who had ha...
author: Bob Connolly & Robin Anderson |
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Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the CoelacanthClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The tale of the coelacanth, an ancient fish thought to be the direct ancestor of reptiles, its presumed extinction and resurrection.
Includes black & white photographs and illustrations.
author: Samantha Weinberg |
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Flatland: A Romance of Many DimensionsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A physics classic that explores the fourth dimension. The narrator exists in Flatland (two dimensions) but is able to visit Pointland (no dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Spaceland (three d...
author: Edwin A. Abbott |
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Flood: Wrestling with the MississippiClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Describes the history of flooding of the Mississippi River, focusing on the 1927 and 1993 floods, the effects on people near the river, and efforts to avoid flooding.
author: Patricia Lauber |
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused ItClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A dramatic account and globe trotting adventure that relates the mystery surrounding the cause of the flu epidemic of 1918 and the current (1998)race to recover a live sample of the pathogen. Includes...
author: Gina Kolata |
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Fly in the Cathedral: How a Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the International Race to Split the AtomClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Written for the non-scientist by London author, former reporter and self-acclaimed non-scientist Brian Cathcart, "The Fly in the Cathedral" is an accessible account of the lives and work of the scient...
author: Brian Cathcart |
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Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's StoryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Michael Collins' story of his preparation and lunar flights.
author: Michael Collins |
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Food as Foe - Nutrition and Eating DisordersClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An interesting and informative look at food, nutrition, and eating disorders. Aimed at young people, this book examines the social aspects of eating, the distorted body image presented by the media, t...
author: Lesli J. Favor |
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For Love of InsectsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Exciting and humorous tales of insect life and scientific discovery combined with beautiful photographs. Forward by E. O. Wilson.
author: Thomas Eisner |
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Forensic Science Projects with a Crime Lab You Can BuildClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An interesting and thorough introduction to forensic science, this book contains information and instruction for setting up your own crime lab and collecting information from different types of eviden...
author: Robert Gardner |
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ForensicsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Explore the crime lab with Forensics and discover how detectives use science to solve crimes. From the scene of the crime to a criminal's conviction, discover how the marks of blood, footprints, and f...
author: Richard Platt |
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Forest Trees of MaineClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An excellent field guide to the trees of Maine. With a two-page spread and multiple clear photos for each species, it is extremely user-friendly. Also contains a glossary, information on tree parts an...
author: Maine Forest Service |
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Forgery: Crime-Solving Science ExperimentsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
You will learn to detect document forgery through thirteen projects, ten cases, and project analysis. Includes a glossary, index and a list of suggested books and websites.
author: Kenneth G. Rainis |
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Forgotten PollinatorsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A beautiful story of the relationship between plants and their pollinators and a reminder of the interconnectedness of all life.
author: Stephen L. Buchmann & Gary Paul Nabhan |
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Fragile SpeciesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A collection of essays about medicine, microbes, language, and humans among others, that all point to the conclusion that cooperation and communication are key to our survival.
author: Lewis Thomas |
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Frog ScientistClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A profile of Dr. Tyrone Hayes and his work studying the effect of pesticides on frogs and, by extension, on humans and our environment. Heavily illustrated with photos of Hayes and his student researc...
author: Pamela S. Turner |
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FrogsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book with the amazing photographs and content that we have come to expect from Nic Bishop. Describes the habitats, life cycle, and survival strategies of frogs from arou...
author: Nic Bishop |
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From Lucy to LanguageClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An exploration of human origins; our development from the apes that began standing upright between 6 and 7 million years ago; and the significant adaptive advantage that led to our success as the only...
author: Donald Johanson & Blake Edgar |
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Future of LifeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes a book that is both a loving description of our biosphere and all its diversity, and a call for quick, decisive action to save it. With our plane...
author: Edward O. Wilson |
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Fuzzy Logic - The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology - and How it is Changing Our WorldClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An introduction to fuzzy logic, a concept invented in 1964 by Lotfi Zadeh. Unlike conventional logic, which divides the world into yes and no, black and white, fuzzy logic deals in shades of gray an...
author: Daniel McNeill, Paul Freiberger |
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