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It's been a good life 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
Ghost Birds 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 snoring bird 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 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 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
The Innovators 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
Following Fifi Following Fifi Crocker, John M.D. John Crocker spent eight months in the Gombe forest working with Jane Goodall. He would follow families of wild chimpanzees and learn the fundamental behavioural traits of these chimps as they raised… OL19737780W
The great scientists 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
Oppenheimer 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
Stephen Jay Gould and the politics of evolution Stephen Jay Gould and the politics of evolution David F. Prindle Prindle, a political scientist, examines Gould's science and politics, the relation between the two, and how they influenced Gould's dealings within and outside the scientific community. OL3372433W
Most secret war Most secret war Jones, R. V. Most Secret War is R V Jones's account of his part in British Scientific Intelligence between 1939 and 1945. It was his responsibility to anticipate the German applications of science to warfare, so … OL4100790W
Gerhard Herzberg Gerhard Herzberg B. P. Stoicheff "Gerhard Herzberg (1904-1999) was one of the greatest scientists of the last century. He was born and educated in Germany and started his research just as the exciting discovery of quantum mechanics … OL6069075W