Bolles, Edmund Blair

Discusses the upheaval that swept the scientific world over physicist Albert Einstein's refusal to accept the theory of quantum mechanics advanced by his colleague Niels Bohr.

Tells the story of three different investigators who forever altered man's knowledge of the history of life on Earth by proving the existence of the Ice Age.

A treasury of science writings drawn from a wide variety of disciplines and ranging throughout history, from Herodotus's comments on the creation of Egypt made in 444 B.C., to George Smoot's search for the Big Bang in 1994.