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  • Great Feuds in Mathematics

    Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever

    par Hal Hellman ...
    Praise for Hal HellmanGreat Feuds in Mathematics"Those who think that mathematicians are cold, mechanical proving machines will do well to read Hellman's book on conflicts in mathematics. The main characters are as excitable and touchy as the next man. But Hellman's stories also show how scientific fights bring out sharper formulations and better arguments."-Professor Dirk van Dalen, Philosophy ... En savoir plus

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  • Great Feuds in Science

    Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever

    par Hal Hellman ...
    The dramatic stories of ten historic feuds: How they altered the course of discovery-and shaped the modern worldHall Hellman tells the lively stories of ten of the most outrageous and intriguing disputes from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Bringing the cataclysmic clash of ideas and personalities to colorful life, Hellman explores both the science and the spirit of the times. Along ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Great Feuds in Medicine

    Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever

    par Hal Hellman ...
    "An exciting, well-researched work, which should appeal to anyone with an interest in the nature and progress of the human race."—American ScientistThe cataclysmic clash of medical ideas and personalities comes to colorful lifeIn this follow-up to the critically acclaimed Great Feuds in Science (Wiley: 0-471-16980-3), Hal Hellman tells the stories of the ten most heated and important disputes of ... En savoir plus

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  • Great Feuds in Technology

    par Hal Hellman ...
    If someone were to ask you who invented the miner’s safety lamp, you’d probably have no trouble answering I don’t know.” But what about the telegraph? The automobile? The airplane? Television? Conflicting claims over the answers to these questions have led to some of the longest and most bitter battles in the history of technology. Great Feuds in Technology takes a close look at each of these ... En savoir plus

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  • Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design

    par Jonathan Wells ...
    Darwin is an emperor who has no clothes— but it takes a brave man to say so. Jonathan Wells, a microbiologist with two Ph.D.s (from Berkeley and Yale), is that brave man. Most textbooks on evolution are written by Darwinists with an ideological ax to grind. Brave dissidents—qualified scientists—who try to teach or write about intelligent design are silenced and sent to the academic gulag. But fear ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Dark Side of Charles Darwin

    A Critical Analysis of an Icon of Science

    A single man stands behind the greatest deception in history. Charles Darwin's ideas still penetrate every aspect of our culture, including science, religion, and education. And while much has been made of his contribution to the evolutionary hypothesis, little has been publicized about the dark side of the man himself and how this may have impacted the quality and legitimacy of his research.This ... En savoir plus

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  • Newton’s Apple and Other Myths about Science

    A Guardian “Favourite Reads—as Chosen by Scientists” Selection“Tackles some of science’s most enduring misconceptions.”—DiscoverA falling apple inspired Isaac Newton’s insight into the law of gravity—or did it really?Among the many myths debunked in this refreshingly irreverent book are the idea that alchemy was a superstitious pursuit, that Darwin put off publishing his theory of evolution for ... En savoir plus

    $23.09 CAD

  • The Clockwork Universe

    Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, & the Birth of the Modern World

    par Edward Dolnick ...
    New York Times–bestselling Author: An "entertainingly written" account of the scientific revolution that emerged amid the horrors of seventeenth-century London ( Kirkus Reviews).In the late seventeenth century, chaos and disease reigned. Streets overflowed with filth and the murder rate was five times higher than it is today. Sickness was divine punishment, astronomy and astrology were ... En savoir plus

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  • The Gene

    An Intimate History

    The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BestsellerThe basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate HistoryNow includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee**’**s new book Song of the Cell!From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingen... ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Happy Accidents

    Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century

    Happy Accidents is a fascinating, entertaining, and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the twentieth century. What do penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, X-rays, Valium, the Pap smear, and Viagra have in common? They were each discovered accidentally, stumbled upon in the search for something else. In the 1990s, ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Earth's Deep History

    How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters

    "Tells the story . . . of how 'natural philosophers' developed the ideas of geology accepted today . . . Fascinating." — San Francisco Book ReviewEarth has been witness to dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it. But how was all this discovered? How was the evidence for ... En savoir plus

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  • The Tangled Tree

    A Radical New History of Life

    par David Quammen ...
    In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, “our greatest living chronicler of the natural world” (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology, evolutionary biology, and genetics and genomics affect our understanding of evolution and life’s history.In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequencing to ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD