A chronicle of the interactions among three men of the 1800s--Louis Agassiz, Charles Lyell, and Elisha Kent Kane--discusses how theories about the Ice Age developed and shows how human obsessions driv
Babel’s Dawn is a saga covering six million years. Like a walk through a natural history museum, Bolles demonstrates how members of the human lineage came to speak. Beginning with a scene of the last
Bolles has scoured the literature of science to build a treasury that is accessible and riveting, and therefore appealing to readers unfamiliar with science, yet erudite enough for the scientifically
This is not a biography, and not a popular science account of relativity, but partakes of both: Bolles' interest is in explaining why one of the greatest modern physicists (Einstein) was so vehemently
A scandal hovers over the history of modern physics. Albert Einstein--the century's greatest physicist--was never able to come to terms with quantum mechanics, the century's single greatest theoretica
