This third edition includes bibliography, chronology, introduction, annotated bibliography, appendixes, and certain legal cases.

Discover the behind-the-scenes stories of the inventors and inventions that primed the world for our current communications explosion.

Artificial Intelligence models have offered provocative insights into the human mind. This book presents portraits of the men and women in the vanguard of this innovative field.

For most people, mathematics is an abstraction with little connection to the "real" universe. But profiled here are mathematicians who have discovered relatively simple yet exceedingly powerful patterns that yield insight into aspects of natural and human behavior.

In the 20th century, the family name Leakey became synonymous with paleoanthropology and the search for human origins. Born to British missionaries in Kenya in the early 20th century, patriarch Louis S.B. Leakey explored East Africa and what is now Tanzania, finding skulls of human ancestors to fill in the evolutionary roadmap to modern man. Leakey worked alongside his wife, Mary, herself an experienced archaeologist and anthropologist at a time when women did not pursue science as a career. The Leakey Family outlines this fascinating family's struggles and accomplishments, including its...

Marie and Pierre Curie, their daughter IrYne Joliot-Curie, and her husband FrUdUric Joliot-Curie were one of science's most remarkable and influential families. Their painstaking research into the mysteries of radioactivity allowed scientists to reach a new understanding about the structure of atoms and opened a new field of medical treatment. The Curie Family: Exploring Radioactivity illustrates how the Curies' startling discoveries were major factors in the development of nuclear physics. This new branch of science would have profound implications for our understanding of matter and energy,...