In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes discovered the writing case of Charles Darwin's beloved daughter Annie, who died at the age of ten. He also found th ...more on ebook "Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evo..."

They call themselves Jason. Their group is a child of the Manhattan Project by way of the cold war, and they count among their ranks scientific stars like Freeman Dyson and Murray Gell-Mann ...more on ebook "The Jasons: The Secret History of S..."

Homer Hickam won the praise of critics and the devotion of readers with his first two memoirs set in the hardscrabble mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. The New York T ...more on ebook "Sky of Stone..."

Unlocking the Sky tells the extraordinary tale of the race to design, refine, and manufacture a manned flying machine, a race that took place in the air, on the ground, and i ...more on ebook "Unlocking the Sky..."

The triumphant true story of the man who achieved one of the greatest feats of our era--the mapping of the human genome. Growing up in California, Craig Venter didn't appear to have much o ...more on ebook "A Life Decoded..."

Sixteenth century Italy produced a genius who marked the world with his studies and hypotheses about mathematical, physical and astronomical truths. His father, musician Vincenzio Galilei s ...more on ebook "Galileo and the Magic Numbers..."

Dr. Milton Cormier spent a professional lifetime in the research laboratory investigating the mystifying bioluminescent properties of sea creatures. His principal focus, a picture of which i ...more on ebook "My Journey - Into, Through and Beyo..."