Dr. Michio Kaku, one of the most influential living scientists and a New York Times best-selling author, selects the year's top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and, in the process, uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines.
Representative Men (Modern Library Classics (eBook)) (Marsilio Classics)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"At first reading, Representative Men seems the most alien of Emerson's books. First published in 1850 (having taken form over the five preceding years as a series of lectures intended as 'winter evening entertainments'), it was inspired by the romantic belief that there exists a 'general mind' that expresses itself with special intensity through certain individual lives. It was an appreciation of genius as a quality distributed to the few for the benefit of the many. When, according to Longfell...
Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fictiongenre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is one person sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction", as are Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback.His most notable science fiction works include The War of the Worlds, The...
From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams, here is an inspires, lyrical meditation on religion and science that explores the tension between our yearning for permanence and certainty, and the modern scientific discoveries that demonstrate the impermanent and uncertain nature of the world. As a physicist, Alan Lightman has always held a scientific view of the world. As a teenager experimenting in his own laboratory, he was impressed by the logic and materiality of a universe governed by a s...
Pièces Déposées À l'Hôtel de la Préfecture Du Rhône, Pour Servir de Base À l'Enquête Administrative (Sciences)
by ""
There are days when, if we hunt or fish or watch birds, we just want to be alone with our thoughts. Other times, however, contemplating the great outdoors that contains so many unknowns, we may wish to learn about moaning moose . . . or mumbling carp . . . or magnetic deer. And this is where Robert M. Zink enters the scene. A writer who humorously bridges the gap between esoteric information and nature as we have come to know it, Zink distills the latest news from the world of science into thr...
Fragments of Science (Volume 2); A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses and Reviews
by John Tyndall
For over fifty years Martin Gardner has been writing witty, entertaining, and highly intelligent articles on an amazing range of topics. Best known for his works on popular science and mathematics, and as an incisive skeptical commentator on the paranormal, Gardner is also an accomplished writer of children's literature, a novelist, and essayist on religion and philosophy. This collection of essays and book reviews takes its name from the bookend articles, "The Wandering Jew and the Second Comin...
Plans d'Appareils Inventés Par Louis Vasseur, Pour Améliorer l'Éducation Des Vers À Soie
by Vasseur-L
Lettres À Messieurs de l'Institut de France, Académie Royale Des Sciences (Sciences)
by Dat-J
Des Eaux de Capbern, À l'Occasion d'Un Article Inséré Dans l'Annuaire Des Hautes-Pyrénées (Sciences)
by Tailhade-J-P
La Chaleur Et l'Humidité À La Surface de la Terre (Sciences)
by Dujardin
