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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
It's been a good life	Isaac Asimov	"As one of the most gifted and prolific writers of the twentieth century, Isaac Asimov has become a literary legend. In reflecting on his years and his career in the last volume of his autobiographic…	OL14959279W
The Earth moves	Dan Hofstadter	Galileo Galilei is a seminal figure in the history of science. His 1633 trial before the Holy Office of the Inquisition is the prime drama in the history of the conflict between science and religion.…	OL15069492W
Spiritual Evolution	John Marks Templeton	Spiritual Evolution: Scientists Discuss Their Beliefs describes the intellectual and emotional journeys traveled by esteemed scientists worldwide. Authors share the personal steps they have taken to …	OL15175835W
Ghost Birds	Stephen Lyn Bales	In 1935 naturalist James T. Tanner was a twenty-one-year-old graduate student when he saw his first ivory-billed woodpecker, one of America’s rarest birds, in a remote swamp in northern Louisiana. At…	OL15347945W
The first scientist	Brian Clegg	"Roger Bacon, a humble and devout English friar, seems an unlikely figure to challenge the orthodoxy of his day - yet this unworldly man risked his life to establish the basis for true scientific kno…	OL157321W
Scientific conversations	Claudia Dreifus	"In these thirty-eight interviews, originally published in the weekly Science Times section of The New York Times, Claudia Dreifus brings all of her colorful personality to bear on her subjects, as w…	OL15833037W
The snoring bird	Bernd Heinrich	Traces the related stories of the author's father's life, his family's past, and the ways in which his own life was shaped by the forces of nature and history, in a personal account that reveals his …	OL15839941W
Darwin's ghosts	Rebecca Stott	Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected criticism. Letters were arriving every day like …	OL16283008W
Sir Hugh Plat	Malcolm Thick	The scientific and proto-scientific community of Elizabethan and Jacobean London has lately attracted much scholarly attention. This book advances the subject by means of an investigation of the life…	OL16359774W
Henri Poincaré	Jeremy J. Gray	"Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) was not just one of the most inventive, versatile, and productive mathematicians of all time--he was also a leading physicist who almost won a Nobel Prize for physics and …	OL16672140W
The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl	Arthur Allen	Describes the true story of how the eccentric Polish scientist tasked by the Nazis to create a typhus vaccine hid the intelligentsia from the Gestapo by hiring them to work in his laboratory.	OL17053056W
The Innovators	Walter Isaacson	Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard histo…	OL17074268W
Full fathom five	Gordon Chaplin	Gordon Chaplin's father was a seemingly happy-go-lucky, charismatic adventurer who married a wealthy heiress and somehow transformed himself into the author of a landmark scientific study, Fishes of …	OL17927150W
Dawn of the new everything	Jaron Lanier	xv, 351 pages : 24 cm	OL19722032W
Life of a Scientist	Robert S. Mulliken	Robert S. Mulliken, Nobel Laureate in chemistry, always had the intention to write a book about his field of research: molecular orbital theory. This is his scientific autobiography, edited posthumou…	OL19884029W
Where Mathematics, Computer Science, Linguistics and Biology Meet	Carlos Martín-Vide	There are not many interdisciplinary scientific fields as formal language theory. In this volume, it is presented as the very intersection point between Mathematics, Computer Science, Linguistics and…	OL19911074W
The great scientists	John Farndon	Represented In this book are the some of the greatest practitioners of science from a wide range of scientific disciplines. Each entry gives a biographical background of its subject and a descriptio…	OL19956347W
The Brothers Vonnegut	Ginger Gail Strand,Ginger Strand	"Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schen…	OL20012864W
Oppenheimer	Charles Thorpe	At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulte…	OL235743W
The Picts and the Martyrs or, Not welcome at all	Arthur Michell Ransome	This is the penultimate book in the Swallows and Amazons series. Dick and Dorothea come to spend part of the summer vacation with the Amazons, but Great Aunt Maria's visit means they have to camp out…	OL2459814W