Scientists & Inventors

Reviewed by: 

The graphic format of a biography of Stephen Hawking has advantages. For one, pictures explain the science.

Reviewed by: 

“Families with loved ones who are in comas or are struggling to recover from the long-term effects of one, will find The Blink of an Eye jet fuel for inspiration.”

Reviewed by: 

Have you ever wondered about the growing up years of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Marie Curie, and Stephen Hawking?

Reviewed by: 

For most people, obtaining a Ph.D in a scientific discipline is a challenging enough task.

Reviewed by: 

You were drawn to this review because of the bold title, right?

Reviewed by: 

“I believe that the principal reason we are on this planet is to have our noses constantly rubbed in our obligation to care about people who are strangers to us.

Reviewed by: 

It’s often said there’s something “ineffable” about the nature of one’s mind on LSD, magic mushrooms, or other psychedelic plants or drugs.

Reviewed by: 

“The Wizard and the Prophet shows that even the ‘latest’ ideas on creation and energy have origins in the modern beginnings of the environmental movement.”

Reviewed by: 

In Alone on the Wall, author and free solo climbing phenomenon Alex Honnold with veteran climber and mountaineering author David Roberts, make a game attempt at doing the impossible: captu

Reviewed by: 

Kepler and the Universe by David Love is an interesting, informative, and exciting book—especially if the reader has an interest in science or wants to know more about the famed scientific

Reviewed by: 

“Ms. Emling’s riveting new biography reveals in page-turning prose the life-balance struggles of a true genius.”

Reviewed by: 

“Walter Isaacson’s biography certainly won’t be the last written about this extraordinary corporate icon, but it establishes itself as the gold standard. Mr.

Reviewed by: 

“This book is recommended to anyone involved in health care—from student to practitioner to teacher or administrator—to remind us all of the traditions that nurture and feed us.

Reviewed by: 

Here, at the beginning of the 21st century, Noah Webster is an often overlooked fixture of American culture to a modern audience.

Reviewed by: 

Europe in the year 1660 was an environment of interesting mixed historical contradictions.

Reviewed by: 

For the past four hundred years, Galileo, Siderius nuncius, and Galileo’s subsequent trial at the Inquisition have been used in many contexts to tell many types of stories.

Reviewed by: 

Unlike the author of the latest biography about the physicist, Paul Dirac, I actually had dinner with Professor Dirac, and his wife, in 1975.

Reviewed by: 

In 1997, one bad decision environmental science writer and adventurer Jon Turk made during his 25 years of backcountry skiing triggered an avalanche that nearly did to him what kayaking and sailing

Pages