Great Discoveries

Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
Through family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years...
Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time
The year 2005 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of the paper that launched Einstein's c...
Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science
"A worthy addition to the Feynman shelf and a welcome follow-up to the standard-bearer, James Gleick...
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
"Quammen brilliantly and powerfully re-creates the 19th century naturalist's intellectual and spirit...
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary comput...
The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis...