Gribbin, John R

Tells the whole story of the Universe and the people who made the discoveries, in alphabetical format with articles on major subjects like black holes, gravity, life in the Universe, and supernovae, and biographies of the scientists, and includes a timeline of cosmological discoveries.

Traces the development of science through the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientists whose discoveries and research influenced the progression of science.

An introduction to the history of quantum mechanics discussing the significance of the theory and introducing scientists who developed it.

Examines the lives and obsessions of the men associated with the scientific revolution and the birth of the Royal Society in seventeenth-century England including William Gilbert, Francis Bacon, William Harvey, Christopher Wren, and Isaac Newton.

An introduction to science that offers easy-to-understand explanations on many of the basic principles of science, including the structure of an atom, the origins of man, the birth of the universe, and other related topics.

History of the search for a the grand unified field theory beginning with the discovery of the electron in 1897 to the theories of superstrings and supersymmetry a century later.

Tells the story of how a sea of superhot gas, expanding out of the Big Bang and cooling as it did, gave rise to galaxies, stars, planets and people. Illustrated with photographs of deep space.

Profusely illustrated text discusses the causes of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, the possibility of predicting catastrophes, and the impact of major quakes and eruptions on the earth and on human society.