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How Do We Know How the Brain Works
Don Cleveland, Donald Cleveland
Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, Jan. 1, 2005)Our understanding of the human brain has come a long way since the days of our ancestors, but we still lack a complete knowledge of how the mind works. This thought-provoking text travels the paths taken in our quest to decipher the brain and its processes, a quest that continues today.
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How Do We Know the Laws of Thermodynamics
Jeffrey B. Moran
Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, Sept. 1, 2001)Discusses the scientific questions and the scientists who answered them about the laws governing heat and temperature.
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How Do We Know the Speed of Light
Charles J. Caes
Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, Aug. 1, 2001)Discusses the scientific research which led to the current theories of the speed of light, from classical ideas and the challenges of the Middle Ages to new theories and modern measurements.
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How Do We Know How Stars Shine
Allan B. Cobb
Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, July 1, 2001)Discusses the scientific research which led to the current theories of how the stars shine, including the contributions of Karl Jansky, Arthur Eddington, Annie Jump Cannon, and Hans Bethe.
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How Do We Know the Nature of Energy
Robert Greenberger
Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, Jan. 1, 2005)Energy exploration has been an exciting journey, filled with contributions from history's greatest scientists, inventors, and philanthropists. This book is the story of human exploration and harnessing of energy on Earth. These discoveries and inventions have shaped the course of history, from the invention of the steam engine and the Industrial Revolution to subatomic levels of matter and nuclear power.
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How Do We Know the Nature of Disease
Paul Kupperberg
Library Binding (Rosen Publishing Group, Jan. 1, 2005)This book takes the reader into compelling discoveries that have led understanding the nature of viruses a bacteria and how this world, unfathoma in its smallness, has led to the eradication some of the most deadly diseases. This is a comprehensive look at plagues, epidemics, and the role of genetics in disease.
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How Do We Know About Genetics and Heredity
Jeri Freedman
Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, April 1, 2004)Traces the development of the science of genetics and heredity from Mendel to Watson and Crick, exploring how genes help determine individual traits.
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How Do We Know the Nature of Time
Josepha Sherman
Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, Jan. 1, 2005)Explores mankind's developing notion of time, from the first primitive clocks and sundials to the expanding space-time of the theory of relativity.
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How Do We Know the Age of the Universe
Mary Lynn Germadnik
Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, Jan. 1, 2001)Discusses the scientific research which led to the current theories of the age of the universe by examining the lives and work of prominent scientists in the field.
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How Do We Know the Laws of Motion
Jeremy Roberts
Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, June 1, 2001)Discusses the scientific research which led to the current ideas about the laws of motion, including the contributions of Ptolemy, Kepler, Galileo, Hubble, and Lemaitre.
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How Do We Know the Nature of the Ocean
Natalie Goldstein
Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, Jan. 1, 2005)Examines mankind's discoveries of the nature of the Earth's seas, how they were formed, and their role in regulating climate and weather.
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How Do We Know the Nature of Human Origins: Great Scientific Questions and the Scientists Who Answered Them
Dale Anderson
Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, June 1, 2004)Discusses the scientific research which led to the theories of human origian, including the contributions of Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, and Louis Leakey.
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