Author: Jonathan Shectman
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: discoveries, groundbreaking, inventions, experiments, scientific, ages, century
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-09-30
List price: $76.95
ISBN-10: 0313320152
ISBN-13: 9780313320156

In over 60 alphabetical entries, Shectman examines at the tremendous scientific discoveries, inventions, and inquiries of the period. Familiar topics such as the steam engine and hot air balloon are covered, along with lesser-known topics such as the Watt copy press and Newton’s experimentum crucis. A thorough discussion of each entry’s scientific impact provides readers with an understanding of the lasting social and political importance of these advancements.

Author: p>Michael</p> <p>Windelspecht</p
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: discoveries, groundbreaking, inventions, experiments, scientific, ages, century
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-11-30
List price: $76.95
ISBN-10: 0313315019
ISBN-13: 9780313315015

Author: Robert E. Krebs
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: discoveries, ages, groundbreaking, inventions, scientific, experiments, renaissance, middle
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2004-03-30
List price: $71.95
ISBN-10: 0313324336
ISBN-13: 9780313324338

The Middle Ages and the Renaissance were a period of scientific and literary reawakening. This reference work describes more than 75 experiments, inventions, and discoveries of the period, as well as the scientists, physicians, and scholars responsible for them. Individuals such as Leonardo da Vinci, Marco Polo, and Galileo are included, along with entries on reconstructive surgery, Stonehenge, eyeglasses, the microscope, and the discovery of smallpox.

Author: Sam Parnia M.D.
Publisher: Hay House
Keywords: life, death, nature, study, groundbreaking, happens
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1401907113
ISBN-13: 9781401907112

Dr. Sam Parnia faces death every day. Through his work as a critical-care doctor in a hospital emergency room, he became very interested in some of his patients’ accounts of the experiences that they had while clinically dead. He started to collect these stories and read all the latest research on the subject, and then he decided to conduct his own experiments. That work has culminated in this extraordinary book, which picks up where Raymond Moody’s Life After Life left off.             Written in a scientific, balanced, and engaging style, this is powerful and compelling rea

Author: Solomon H. Snyder
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: molecluar, neuroscience, discoveries, groundbreaking, psychiatry, science
Number of Pages: 513
Published: 2008-03-15
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 1585622737
ISBN-13: 9781585622733

A pioneer in the identification of receptors for neurotransmitters and drugs and in the explanation of the actions of psychotropic agents, Solomon Snyder has been instrumental in the establishment of modern psychopharmacology.Science and Psychiatry is a collection of some of his best scientific papers from the past forty years, representing important advances in psychopharmacology and molecular biology. Some offer insight into modern neuroscience to help make sense of available psychotropic medications and point the way toward more effective and safer agents; others describe the underpinnings

Author: Mark Buchana
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: theory, networks, groundbreaking, worlds, small, nexus
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0393324427
ISBN-13: 9780393324426

As Chaos explained the science of disorder, Nexus reveals the new science of connection and the odd logic of six degrees of separation. "If you ever wanted to know how many links connect you and the Pope, or why when the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank sneezes the global economy catches cold, read this book," writes John L. Casti (Santa Fe Institute). This "cogent and engaging" (Nature) work presents the fundamental principles of the emerging field of "small-worlds" theory—the idea that a hidden pattern is the key to how networks interact and exchange information, whether that network is the i

Author: Michael Gershon
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: disorders, stomach, intestine, nervous, understanding, brain, groundbreaking, new, second
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0060930721
ISBN-13: 9780060930721

Dr. Michael Gershon has devoted his career to understanding the human bowel (the stomach, esophagus, small intestine, and colon). His thirty years of research have led to an extraordinary rediscovery: nerve cells in the gut that act as a brain. This "second brain" can control our gut all by itself. Our two brains -- the one in our head and the one in our bowel -- must cooperate. If they do not, then there is chaos in the gut and misery in the head -- everything from "butterflies" to cramps, from diarrhea to constipation. Dr. Gershon’s work has led to radical new understandings about a wi