Search results for “[Subject: life-sciences-general]”

• Author(s): Jane Gregory | Steven Miller • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsDoes the general public need to understand science? And if so, is it scientists' responsibility to communi...

• Author(s): Ricard Sole | Brian Goodwin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologySigns of Life is an entirely new approach to the problems of understanding living systems. It applies the mathemati...

• Author(s): Edward J. Steele • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsThis controversial book challenges the accepted theories on the genetic mechanism of evolution. The story thes...

• Author(s): Alan Jasanoff • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - NeuroscienceA pioneering neuroscientist argues that we are more than our brains To many, the brain is the seat of personal identity and...

• Author(s): Ernst Mayr • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyAt once a spirited defence of Darwinian explanations of biology and an elegant primer on evolution for the general reader, What Evol...

• Author(s): Richard P. Feynman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Physics - Atomic & Molecular"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins...

• Author(s): Richard P. Feynman • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: Physics - RelativityThe legendary introduction to physics from the subject's greatest teacher "The whole thing was basically ...

• Author(s): David Darling • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionTo many people, the main question about extraterrestrial life is whether it exists. But to the scientific community, that quest...