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Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science is a brilliantly optimistic book about how new communication options are changing the way scientists can collaborate and help them produce much better, faster results. It is written by a scientist who … Continue reading →

Written by a British-Iraqi scientist (hence the interesting contrast between his first and last name), The House of Wisdom tells the story of Arabic science, carefully defined as the science carried out in Arabic countries, by many Arabs and non-Arabs, … Continue reading →

Naming Nature tells the story of taxonomy, organizing animals and plants into families, from the 18th century efforts of Linnaeus and others to create order by simply looking carefully at specimens all the way to today’s DNA-driven and sometimes counter-intuitive … Continue reading →

The goal of Evolution for Everyone is to show that evolution explains everything in the world and it is wonderfully instructive when showing how infanticide can be a rational decision or how sensitive people fared relatively well in concentration camps … Continue reading →

Evolution tells the story of the theory of evolution, starting with the French scientists of the 18th century, who delighted in comparative anatomy, to Darwin and all the way to the discovery of DNA. The author tells about scientific rivalries … Continue reading →