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The Science of Sports: Winning in the Olympics

de Scientific American & Scientific American Editors

The Olympics are the world's most prestigious stage for athletic competition. Fans both casual and hardcore tune in religiously every few years to watch as men and women push themselves to the limits of human...

Backyard Bigfoot: The True Story of Stick Signs, UFOs, & the Sasquatch

de Lisa A. Shiel & Nick Redfern

Backyard Bigfoot was a finalist in the 2007 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Awards.

"As informative as it is entertaining." -Midwest Book Review

*****

Bigfoot...Fact or Fiction? Read this book before you decide!...

Future of Disease: Existing, Emerging, and Novel Infectious Diseases

de David P. Clark

This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.

This Element is an excerpt from Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics...

Genome: The Story of the Most Astonishing Scientific Adventure of Our Time - The Attempt to Map All the Genes in the Human Body

de Jerry Bishop & Michael Waldholz

Genome tells the story of the most ambitious scientific adventure of our time. By gradually isolating and identifying all the genes in the human body - the blueprint for life - scientists are closing in on the...

Social Life in the Insect World

de Jean Henri Fabre

Fabre had many scholarly achievements. He was a popular teacher, physicist, chemist, and botanist. However, he is probably best known for his findings in the field of entomology, the study of insects, and is...

The Story Book of Science

de Jean-Henri Fabre

Fabre had many scholarly achievements. He was a popular teacher, physicist, chemist, and botanist. However, he is probably best known for his findings in the field of entomology, the study of insects, and is...

The Life of the Spider

de J. Henri Fabre

Fabre had many scholarly achievements. He was a popular teacher, physicist, chemist, and botanist. However, he is probably best known for his findings in the field of entomology, the study of insects, and is...

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

de Kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

Written partly in response to Social Darwinism and in particular to Thomas H. Huxley's nineteenth-century essay, "The Struggle for Existence," Kropotkin's book drew on his experiences in scientific expeditions...

Origin of Species

de Charles Darwin

The Origin of Species is the landmark book that, for better or worse, puts science and religion at odds. Very few people have read this book and come away not believing in evolution. The detail of research is...

The Higgs Boson

de Scientific American & Scientific American Editors

As the old adage goes, where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Where there is effect, there must be cause. The planet Neptune was found in 1846 because the mathematics of Newton's laws, when applied to the orbit...

Challenging Creation - Questions and Answers for Christians and Atheists

de Daniel Copeland

The Creation/Evolution debate has become one of the great philosophical arguments of the modern era. Many people have sided with Creationism because evolution doesn't add up for them. Many side with evolution...

The Cosmogony of Eternal Design

de Christopher Alan Anderson

This article arose out of the debate between Intelligent Design and Evolution. The author suggests an eternal design/order that is procreant in its nature and simply is what it is. Author Bio: Christopher Alan...

From Flying Carpets to Flying Saucers: How Far Have We Come

de Margaret Granger

‘As if by magic'; a term used when we do not understand things, science is now explaining these ‘mysteries’. Frankincense given to the biblical baby Jesus, more precious than gold at that time, was called...

Theoretical Total Antioxidant Capacity (TTAC) expressed by the food budgets (Food Balances Sheets) of different European populations: a comparison between countries and geographical areas, the contributions of various food groups.

de Gianluca Lo Forte

The epidemiological-descriptive study presented in this paper has placed in evidence a method of assessing the available theoretical assumption of total antioxidant capacity (TTAC) in European populations. People...

The Slim Book of Health Pearls: Man the Barricades - The Story of the Immune System

de Sheldon Cohen M.D. & Barbara Schugt

The immune system is a complicated mechanism whose principle actors are organs, cells, chemicals and a vast collection of proteins tuned by billions of years of evolution to work in a harmonious manner for the...

Holy Warrior Trojan Horses

de Sheldon Cohen & Donna R Love

Ben Marzan–-Searching for meaning in his life, Marzan studies with The Imam and converts to a radical sect of Islam. He's the perfect candidate for a terrorist...American-born, assimilated, and eager to embrace...

Super Species: The Creatures That Will Dominate the Planet

de Garry Hamilton

A gripping examination of invasive species' impact.

Super species are the phenomenally successful invasive life-forms that are dominating ecosystems. These animals, plants and microbes have spread far from their...

Arctic Fox: Life at the Top of the World

de Garry Hamilton & Norbert Rosing

Curious, innovative and mysterious survivors of the arctic tundra.

Ever since explorers began venturing north into the harsh lands of the arctic, they have encountered arctic foxes in the unlikeliest of places....

On the Origin of the Species and The Voyage of the Beagle

de Charles Darwin

From 1831-1836 Charles Darwin embarked on a journey aboard the H.M.S. Beagle that eventually led to him to the famous conclusions he drew in Origins of Species by Means of Natural Selection. As the ship's naturalist,...

The Koala of Death: A Gunn Zoo Mystery #2

de Betty Webb

When zoo keeper Theodora "Teddy" Bentley fishes the body of Koala Kate out of Gunn Landing Harbor, she discovers that her fellow zoo keeper didn't drown; she was strangled. The clues to Koala Kate's killer implicate...