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Brooks, Michael

Summary: Explores thirteen of the most hotly debated topics in modern-day science and analyzes how issues from cold fusion to dark matter are changing the way scientists work and how they will shape and define science in the twenty-first century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 BRO

Brooks, Michael

Summary: "For readers of Steven Strogatz's Infinite Powers and The Joy of x comes this illuminating exploration of the ways in which math-and the people who have mastered its inherent power through the ages-has shaped our world. In this captivating, sweeping history, Michael Brooks makes clear that mathematics was one of the foundational innovations that catapulted humanity from a nomadic existence to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 BRO

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 BRO

Balko, Radley

Summary: Relates the stories of two innocent men who were wrongly accused and convicted of crimes due largely to the legally condoned failures perpetrated by invalid forensic science and institutional racism. --Publisher. "A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614 BAL

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