Posts tagged with ‘History of Science’
February 9, 2013
QUIRKY, LAID-BACK HISTORY of gene research has lots of wacky examples of how the building blocks of life work.
Grade: B PLUS
THE VIOLINIST'S THUMB: AND OTHER LOST TALES OF LOVE, WAR, AND GENIUS, AS WRITTEN BY OUR GENETIC CODE
Little, Brown
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, History of Science, Non-Fiction, Science Writing
January 30, 2013
ELOQUENT, COMPASSIONATE WORK by a Polish physician and researcher links medicine with the arts and humanities.
Grade: A MINUS
KORE: ON SICKNESS, THE SICK, AND THE SEARCH FOR THE SOUL OF MEDICINE
Counterpoint
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Art History, Health, History of Science, Literary History, Medicine, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary, Social History
December 28, 2012
FASCINATING SOCIAL HISTORY of “pseudoscience” debates focuses on Velikovsky’s “worlds in collision” theory.
Grade: B PLUS
THE PSEUDOSCIENCE WARS: IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY AND THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN FRINGE
University of Chicago Press
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, History of Science, Non-Fiction, Science, Social History
July 8, 2012
WHY AND HOW we were the only human species to survive, impeccably explored by a leading paleoanthropologist.
Grade: B PLUS
LONE SURVIVOR: HOW WE CAME TO BE THE ONLY HUMANS ON EARTH
Henry Holt & Company
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, History of Science, Non-Fiction, Science
June 10, 2012
JOKEY, CHATTY TOUR through the fringes of science, from Ben Franklin’s electrocuted turkey to nuking the moon.
Grade: SOLID B
ELECTRIFIED SHEEP: GLASS-EATING SCIENTISTS, NUKING THE MOON, AND OTHER BIZARRE EXPERIMENTS
Thomas Dunne Books
2012
Tags: History of Science, Non-Fiction, Science, Solid B Reviews
June 6, 2012
A DEEPLY RESEARCHED LOOK at the Institute for Advanced Study’s post-WWII computer innovations; alas, too vague.
Grade: B MINUS
TURING'S CATHEDRAL: THE ORIGINS OF THE DIGITAL UNIVERSE
Pantheon
2012
Tags: B Minus Reviews, History of Science, Non-Fiction, Science
May 7, 2012
THE IMPACTS OF HUMAN society on the evolution of other species, and vice versa, explored with admirable clarity.
Grade: B PLUS
EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY: UNITING HISTORY AND BIOLOGY TO UNDERSTAND LIFE ON EARTH
Cambridge University Press
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Health, History, History of Science, Non-Fiction, Science
May 4, 2012
A LAID-BACK LOOK AT a wide range of “clean energy” inventors, from the mainstream to the maverick. Fascinating!
Grade: SOLID B
MAD LIKE TESLA: UNDERDOG INVENTORS AND THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF CLEAN ENERGY
ECW Press
2011
Tags: History of Science, Non-Fiction, Science, Social and Cultural Commentary, Solid B Reviews
April 9, 2012
CHATTY, ENGAGING BOOK summarizes what scientists know about the sun, as well as the history of solar astronomy.
Grade: SOLID B
THE SUN'S HEARTBEAT: AND OTHER STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF THE STAR THAT POWERS OUR PLANET
Little, Brown
2011
Tags: Astronomy, Astrophysics, History of Science, Non-Fiction, Science, Solid B Reviews