American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer72 reviews Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin Vintage, 2006 How the bomb got built here first + First rate biography + A brilliant presentation of history + Missing book + Do you remember when Gulliver woke on the beach bound and helpless?             Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time264 reviews Dava Sobel Penguin (Non-Classics), 1996 Longitude - Great for science-minded kids over 10 + Longitude is terrific + Surprisingly fantastic! + Very Interesting + Genuinely great story, but BEWARE of some inaccuracies in this book.             The Ghost Map102 reviews Steven Johnson Riverhead Hardcover, 2006 Like fiction + Scientific research at its best + Definitely Worth The Read Steven Johnson gets draw a clasical Snow's Story like a fiction but anchored to the reality throught tree "dramatic lines": 1. The comming of a epidemiology like a new science. 2. The borning of geographic inference. How we can infer what happen in the micro world trough the macro world. ...             The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting5 reviews Darren Wershler-Henry Cornell University Press, 2007 A facinating exploration of a fascinating subject This work is about a fascinating subject, especially I suspect to all those who have known the transition, first from the handwriting to the typing , and then from the typing to the word- processor modes of human expression. Wershler- Henry is interested in revealing to us the way the parts of the ...             Experimental Researches in Electricity3 reviews Michael Faraday Dover Publications, 2004 Not His Complete Works - no Electromagnetic Induction + FARADAY ELECTRICAL PIONEER This is NOT Faraday's complete works, despite the implications of its title. A reprint of a 1914 publication, this is the Faraday of the chemical equivalent and the Law of Electrolysis, not the Law of Electromagnetic Induction. The price is right for the Master's own words on investigations into ...             The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London9 reviews Lisa Jardine HarperCollins, 2004 REVIEW OF LISA JARDINE'S ROBERT HOOKE BY JOHN CHUCKMAN + The Curious Life of Robert Hooke + Hooked on Hooke Robert Hooke's life was curious, a neglected topic that makes good reading, although a full, living sense of this man is missing from the book. He was an ingenious, creative man, abounding with energy and interests in his younger years, whose acquaintances and friends included Boyle, Pepys, and ...             The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914131 reviews David McCullough Simon & Schuster, 1978 A man, a plan, a canal . . . + Audacious and improbable (4.25*s) + Lighting a path thru history + A great story             A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable23 reviews John Steele Gordon Harper Perennial, 2003 A little niche of history that changed the world + Deep Six + Breezing across the Atlantic... + Persistence of vision             James Watt & The Steam Engine (Uncharted, Unexplored, and Unexplained) (Uncharted, Unexplored, and ... Jim Whiting Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2005 James Watt was a sickly boy who was often bullied at school. He wasn't very self-confident and doubted his ability. He was often paralyzed by the fear of going into poverty. He lived most of his life with ferocious headaches. His first wife, who always supported and encouraged him, died when he was still a relatively young man. Yet he overcame these problems to become one of the most important ...             Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science28 reviews David Lindley Doubleday, 2007 God Not Only Plays Dice, She Cheats! + A Scientific History for Quantum + Disturbing Uncertainties + terrific read, short on physics + amuse and interesting             Heisenberg's War: The Secret History Of The German Bomb15 reviews Thomas Powers Da Capo Press, 2000 One of the best written books I have ever read! + The relative nature of history + How History should be written This book is amazing on so many different levels I am not really sure where to begin. It is an amazingly well written, compelling, insightful, and utterly fascinating book on it's own. Fortunately, it is so much more than just a really well written book, it is TRUE story that everyone needs to ...             The Forgotten Genius: Biography of Robert Hooke 1635-17034 reviews Stephen Inwood MacAdam/Cage, 2004 A biography well worth your time + Evocative History of Science + The Man Who Knew Too Much This book provides a great deal of information about Robert Hooke not only as a contributor to modern science, but as a person during his lifetime. The issue of Newton being an antagonistic force in Hooke's life is emphasized greatly, and helps the reader understand how much power Hooke had to ...             Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton (Cambridge Paperback Library)8 reviews Richard S. Westfall Cambridge University Press, 1983 Pebbles on a shore + Superb + Awesome! + A magnificent book about a great life + Everyone who pay a tribute to Newton must buy             Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal12 reviews Zachary Karabell Vintage, 2004 Building the Canal + How it got built against the odds... + A political essay on the Suez Canal + Very well-written, interesting             Yellow Jack: How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered Its Deadly Secrets5 reviews John R. Pierce, James V. Writer Wiley, 2005 Yellow Fever - The Journey of its Cause + Excellent History + most interesting + The eradication of yellow fever was one of the great achievements of the 20th century + Scary History of Yellow Fever in N. America             The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history177 reviews John M. Barry Penguin Books, 2005 Terrifying + Great history of medicine and the early 20th Century + A Hot Read + The Great Influenza + informative but "wordy"             The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the ...12 reviews Thomas Hager Harmony, 2006 The Story of the Sulfa Drugs + Review for "Demon under The Microscope" + Fascinating + Sulfanilamide is still on the American market + Great read             Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward ...20 reviews Gregg Herken Holt Paperbacks, 2003 Opje was an Elfin King of Many a Thing... + Well Researched, Well Written + Worthy of a Shakespearean Drama Thunderous clouds, brilliant purple and multicolor radioactive plumes jettisoning what were once precious sought after kilograms of chemistry's beyond bizzare materials. Such is the ballad that was played one mid-July morning, 1945, at Trinity Test Site, some 20 miles east south east of San ...             NOVA - Genius: The Science of Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Galileo5 reviews Stacy Keach; Peter Thomas (VI); Don Wescott WGBH Boston, 2006 A marvelous collection of 4 Nova programs + Fabulous! + NOVA does it again. Here, in one box, are 4 superb Nova programs that function as absorbing discussions of some of the most profound scientific discoveries in history and as biographies of the scientists responsible for them. Very few breakthroughs in science follow a linear path: there are usually a host of ancillary ...             Degrees Kelvin: A Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy10 reviews David Lindley Joseph Henry Press, 2004 Degrees Kelvin - a biography that does justice to it's subject + An obstinate genius! + Science Enthusiast + Applied physicist + Powerful Forgotten Scientist