science

Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.

Octavian, a young African-American, is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years prior to and during the American Revolution.

Explores how science and technology have helped to shape America during the twentieth century in areas such as agriculture, transportation, medicine, and education.

Discusses the concept of intelligent design (ID), addressing its claims of irreducible complexity and looks at related philosophical issues and the problem of replacing modern science with a theistic science that could adversely influence society.

Tells the stories of ten of the most fascinating experiments in the history of science, looking at the work of Galileo, William Harvey, Isaac Newton, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Luigi Galvani, Michael Faraday, James Joule, A.A. Michelson, Ivan Pavlov, and Robert Millikan.

Presents a general overview of career opportunities for geniuses and other gifted people, discussing different fields of science, medicine, invention, aeronautics, engineering, music and art, and computers and math, each with information on training, compensation, and other aspects of the job.

Presents a general overview of career opportunities for people with inquiring minds, covering different fields of science, including biological and medical, physical, and agricultural, as well as engineering, and computer science and mathematics; and discussing job settings, earnings, training and education, and other topics.

Collects more than thirty "Career of the Month" columns from the National Science Teachers Association high school journal "The Science Teacher," each of which profiles a person working in a science-related job.

Examines the scientific and technological advancements that impacted medieval European life, profiling the men and women responsible for those developments and the lasting influence they had on history and development.

Relates the stories of twenty-two of the most significant scientific discoveries of the twentieth century, from Max Planck's discovery of the quantum in 1900, to Paul Berg's discovery of recombinant DNA in 1972, and includes reprints of the original papers announcing the findings.