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The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. New Book... More

From the bestselling author of "Longitude" and "Galileo's Daughter" comes thefifth in an annual series dedicated to collecting the best science writing ofthe year from the most prominent thinkers on current topics in science today.288 pp.Jennifer Kahn's "Stripped for Parts" was selected as the lead ... More

While Galileo Galilei was under house arrest, accused of heresy for his claim that the earth revolved around the sun, his daughter Virginia, a cloistered nun, proved to be her father's greatest source of strength through the difficult years of his trial and persecution. Winner of the Christopher Awa... More

Sobel brings science and history deftly to life as she explores the origins of the planets and reveals the exotic environments that exist in each of these fascinating alien worlds.With her bestsellers "Longitude" and "Galileoas Daughter," Dava Sobel introduced readers to her rare gift for weaving co... More

These 124 letters from the elder daughter of the scientist Galileo span three decades, providing an indelible portrait of convent life in the 17th century and a portrait of a deep affection between a father and daughter.When she was 13, Virginia Galilei, eldest daughter of the great scientist Galile... More

The story of Galileo's daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, as told through her letters to her father. A companion to the bestselling Galileo's Daughter, the letters are edited and introduced by Dava Sobel. Galileo Galilei was at the heart of the most dramatic collision in history between science and r... More

For almost forty years, Chet Raymo has walked a one-mile path from his house to the college where he taught, chronicling the universe he has found through observing every detail of his route with a scientist's curiosity, a historian's respect for the past, and a child's capacity for wonder. With eac... More

Based on the results of an unprecedented survey of sufferers nationwide and on current medical research, Backache: What Exercises Work provides a series of easy-to-follow exercises that will banish backache--even after drugs and surgery have failed. Line drawings.What is the most powerful backache t... More

Ninety-five percent of arthritis sufferers surveyed nationwide indicated that the right kind of exercises has helped their pain. Culled from the survey participants' experience, this book provides an array of exercises, each explained and described in diagrams and words so that even a beginner can p... More

The Illustrated Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the thorniest scientific problem of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Throughout the great age of exploration, sailors attempted to navigate the oceans without any means of measuring their longitude: All too often... More