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Like Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name--a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement.

Presents the lives and accomplishments of the Wright brothers, high school dropouts from Dayton, Ohio, who started out repairing bicycles and went on to build and fly the first successful airplane.

A contrarian scientist wrestles with the big questions that modern physics raises, and what physics says about the human condition Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe,

After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer--and exposed a looming battle between the pursuit of justice and the right to privacy.

A New York Times Most Anticipated Book of the Summer. A taboo-busting romp through the shame, stink, and strange science of sweating.

Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world.

The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-seventeenth century.

The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah.

The first major biography of Peter Higgs, revealing how a short burst of work changed modern physics On July 4, 2012, the announcement came that one of the longest-running mysteries in physics had

The award-winning and surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming world Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E.

From the creator of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science , comes a new nonfiction picture book series ready to grow young scientists by nurturing their curiosity about the natural world -

Everyone has heard of Albert Einstein-but what exactly did he do? How much do kids really know about Albert Einstein besides the funny hair and genius label?

If you are looking for how to finish your first 5k, this book isn't for you.

The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the fi

The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon. President John F.