The Mummy Congress, The Human Face, and An Intimate Look at the Night Sky
Editor's Choice
Amateur astronomy Featured
Author: Chet_Raymo
How I Became Intimate with the Night
Bestsellers
Top science titles
New in Paperback
Supersymmetry, The Monk in the Garden,
Swampwalker's Journal, and Angles of Reflection
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What We're Reading
The Mummy Congress:
Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead
by Heather Pringle
When journalist Heather Pringle headed to Chile to cover a professional
meeting, she walked into the middle of one of the strangest gatherings of
scientists ever--the Third World Congress on Mummy Studies. In The Mummy
Congress, Pringle unwraps the fascinating secrets of the anthropologists,
archaeologists, forensic pathologists, and just-plain-eccentrics who make a
living studying the preserved dead. Pringle doesn't shy away from the
difficult issues inherent in mummy science--she deals with racism,
grave-robbing souvenir hunters, and religious beliefs, as well as DNA
sequencing, embalming methods, and the chemistry of decomposition.
The Human Face
by Brian Bates, John Cleese (Contributor)
Two eyes, a nose, and a mouth. The basic ingredients for the human face don't seem to add up to much, but put them all together and they add up to such odd--and evolutionarily important -- notions as beauty, personality, trustworthiness, and other qualities we think we see. In The Human Face, the profusely illustrated companion volume to the Learning Channel television series, British funnyman John Cleese and biologist Brian Bates team up to examine how our faces reveal our primate nature.From facial expressions to the function of tears, markings and makeup to the essence of beauty, this big, fun book faces the facts...
Who Owns the Moon?
Extraterrestrial Aspects of Land and Mineral Resources Ownership (Space Regulations Library Series)
by Virgiliu Pop
This work investigates the permissibility and viability of property rights on the celestial bodies, particularly the extraterrestrial aspects of land and mineral resources ownership. In lay terms, it aims to find an answer to the question "Who owns the Moon?"
The sources of law are examined in their dual dimension – that is, the facts that have caused and shaped the law of extraterrestrial real estate, and the norms which express this law. It is found that the norms and rules regarding property rights in the celestial realms are rather limited, failing to define basic concepts such as celestial body ...
By Martin Rees (Britain's Astronomer Royal)
Just six numbers govern the shape, size, and texture of our universe. If their values were only fractionally different, we would not exist: nor, in many cases, would matter have had a chance to form. If the numbers that govern our universe were elegant--1, say, or pi, or the Golden Mean--we would simply shrug and say that the universe was an elegant mathematical puzzle. But the numbers Martin Rees discusses are far from tidy. Was the universe "tweaked" or is it one of many universes, all run by slightly different, but equally messy, rules?
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by Eric Drexler
Read it on-line: Engines of Creation
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Editor's Choice
Science Editor's Choice
It's summer, and unless you live in a cloudy place like Seattle, it's
stargazing time. Astronomy is one of those hobbies that let you set your own
gear-intensity level--if you get away from city lights, you can see quite a lot
without any equipment at all. From a naked-eye viewing guide and binocular star
maps to basic astrophotography, you'll find 10 of the best amateur astronomy
books in this month's
Science Editor's Choice.
Featured Author: Chet Raymo -
How I Became Intimate with the Night
Chet Raymo, author of
An Intimate Look at the Night Sky, reflects on his Tennessee
childhood and how fireflies, Flash Gordon, and his grandmother's porch
acquainted him with the
pleasures of stargazing.
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Bestsellers
Longitude: The
Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module,
by Thomas J.
Kelly
The Triumph of Evolution and the Failure of Creationism,
by Niles Eldredge
New in Paperback
Supersymmetry: Unveiling the Ultimate Laws of Nature
by Gordon Kane, Edward Witten
Are we on the brink of a revolution in subatomic physics? Proof of the
theory of supersymmetry may be close, bringing about a Grand Unifying
Theory--the Holy Grail of physics--and tying together electromagnetism, gravity,
and the strong and weak nuclear forces. Physicist Gordon Kane offers an
introduction to the esoteric difficulties of solving the biggest mysteries in
the cosmos.
The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the
Father of Genetics
by Robin Marantz Henig
We all studied Gregor Mendel's pioneering pea patch in high school biology
class. Now find out more about the man called the father of genetics.
Award-winning science author Robin Marantz Heinig brings humanity to the mythic
story of Mendel Read
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Swampwalker's Journal: A Wetlands Year
by David M. Carroll
Wetlands, the underdogs of ecosystems, are crucial to life on Earth--they
shelter an astonishing variety of plants and animals, clean and filter water,
and absorb storm runoff. Yet we are actively destroying our remaining wetlands,
thereby ensuring difficult times ahead. David M. Carroll's lyrical
Swampwalker's Journal is a love song to what may soon be lost. Read
more
Angles of Reflection: A Memoir of Logic and a Mother's Love
by Joan L. Richards
Mathematician Joan L. Richards was researching the life of Augustus De
Morgan when her son was diagnosed with a brain tumor. She wrote Angles of
Reflection as a memoir of this difficult time, when she found parallels
between the very male worlds of math and medicine and discovered ways to add
humanity to her chosen profession while drawing strength from its rigors. Read
more
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