Science books

DNA: The Secret of Life

James D. Watson, Andrew Berry · 2009

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins · 1989

Heart: A History

Sandeep Jauhar · 2019

The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick<br/><br/>For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart: A History, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that have changed the way we live.<br/><br/>Deftly alternating between key historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ. He introduces us to Daniel Hale Williams, the African American doctor who performed the world’s first open heart surgery in Gilded Age Chicago. We meet C. Walton Lillehei, who connected a patient’s circulatory system to a healthy donor’s, paving the way for the heart-lung machine. And we encounter Wilson Greatbatch, who saved millions by inventing the pacemaker―by accident. Jauhar deftly braids these tales of discovery, hubris, and sorrow with moving accounts of his family’s history of heart ailments and the patients he’s treated over many years. He also confronts the limits of medical technology, arguing that future progress will depend more on how we choose to live than on the devices we invent. Affecting, engaging, and beautifully written, Heart: A History takes the full measure of the only organ that can move itself.

Elementary: The Periodic Table Explained

James M. Russell · 2022

Chemistry's most significant chart, the Periodic Table, and its 118 elements, is laid bare in this lively, accessible and compelling expose. The periodic table, created in the early 1860s by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, marked one of the most extraordinary advances in modern chemistry. This basic visual aid helped scientists to gain a deeper understanding of what chemical elements really were and the role they played in everyday life. Here, in the authoritative Elementary, James Russell uses his engaging narrative to explain the elements we now know about. From learning about the creation of the first three elements, hydrogen, lithium and helium, in the big bang, through to oxygen and carbon, which sustain life on earth – along with the many weird and wonderful uses of elements as varied as fluorine, arsenic, krypton and einsteinium – even the most unscientifically minded will be enthralled by this fascinating subject. This is the story of the building blocks of the universe, and the people who identified, isolated and even created them. Perfect for: • Readers interested in learning more about the elements in an accessible, engaging manner • Chemistry students

Is Maths Real?

Eugenia Cheng

Why is -(-1) = 1?<br/>Why do odd and even numbers alternate?<br/>What's the point of algebra?<br/><br/>Is maths even real?<br/><br/>From imaginary numbers to the perplexing order of operations we all had drilled into us, Eugenia Cheng - mathematician, writer and woman on a mission to rid the world of maths phobia - brings us maths as we've never seen it before, revealing how profound insights can emerge from seemingly unlikely sources.<br/><br/>Written with intelligence and passion, Is Maths Real? is a celebration of the true, curious spirit of the discipline.

MICROBIOLOGIA MEDICA

Kenneth Ryan, George Ray, Nafees Ahmad, W. Lawrence Drew, James Plorde · 2011

Crónicas del espacio

Neil deGrasse Tyson · 2016

ASTROFISICA PARA GENTE APURADA

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON · 2014