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1. Explorations: A Life of Underwater Adventure
by Robert D Ballard, Ph.D., Malcolm McConnell
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2. The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession
by Chandler Burr
For as long as anyone can remember, a man named Luca Turin has had an uncanny relationship with smells. He has been compared to the hero of Patrick ... More
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3. Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection
In this meticulously researched and masterfully written book, Pulitzer Prize-winner Blum examines the history of love through the lens of its ... More
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5. A Life of Discovery: Michael Faraday, Giant of the Scientific Revolution
by James Hamilton
In a world of darkness perched on the edge of discovery, Michael Faraday lit up the world of science, contributed to the Industrial Revolution, and ... More
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6. Charles Darwin: The Naturalist Who Started a Scientific Revolution
Sixteen pages of full-color and black-and-white photos are included in this portrait of the father of evolutionary theory--a portrait balancing the ... More
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7. Thread of the Silkworm
"The definitive biography of Tsien Hsue-Shen, the pioneer of the American space age who was mysteriously accused of being a communist, deported, and ... More
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10. Isaac Newton
by Alicia Perris Villamor, Alicia Peris Villamor, Alicia Noemi Perris
Outstanding figures who have shaped the path of history are profiled in these volumes. The biographies detail the subjects' childhood, motivation, ... More
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11. Galileo
by James Reston, Jr.
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15. Albert Einstein: The Persistent Illusion of Transience
by Ze'ev Rosenkranz (Editor), Barbara Wolff (Editor)
"This beautifully designed book features a significant number of previously unreleased documents and photographs from the Albert Einstein Archives ... More
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17. The First Scientist: A Life of Roger Bacon
Legend may have transformed the thirteenth-century English friar Roger Bacon into the Faust-like sorcerer Doctor Mirabilis, but he stands today in ... More
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18. Ambition and Delight
by Henry R Bourne
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19. The End of All Diseases: An Obscure San Diego Genius Develops a Cure for Cancer in 1930
by R E Payne
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21. The Boy Who Invented Television: A Story of Inspiration, Persistence, and Quiet Passion
by Paul Schatzkin
"The Boy Who Invented Television" is a "guided tour" of Philo Farnsworth's discovery, describing his observations, and revealing how his unique ... More
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23. Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos
by William Poundstone
"Anyone who knew Carl Sagen will recognize Poundstone's biography as an accurate and very thorough presentation of a complex and productive life".- ... More
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24. Fritz Haber: Chemist, Laureate, German, Jew
by Dietrich Stoltzenberg
This long-awaited biography of Fritz Haber, now abridged by the author and translated into English, illuminates the life of one of the most gifted ... More
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25. Charles Babbage and the Countess
by Patricia S Warrick
Charles Babbage was thirty years old in 1821, as was his close friend, John Herschel, and in English intellectual circles they were both regarded as ... More
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