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The book Hunger Fighters profiles the scientists who defeated hunger: Carleton and other wheat breeders, livestock disease fighters, corn hybridizers, and researchers of hidden famines. The famous sequel to Microbe Hunters.
The exciting history of the discovery of microbes and the development of microbiology, told through the lives and work of great scientists. Paul de Kruif vividly and accessibly portrays their experiments, successes, and battles against disease.
This book is intended for those who do not have time to study history textbooks.
David Whitehouse, a British astronomer and journalist, creates a living "biography" of our star in the book "The Sun: A Biography," combining history, myth, and science in a journey from the birth of the Sun to its final extinction.
Michael A. Cook, Princeton professor of Islamic history, provides an overview of human history from the Neolithic to the fall of the Twin Towers in 2001 in this witty and intelligent synthesis, asking the key question: why did everything happen exactly th