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Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) was a Swiss professor who conceived of the Ice Age and then spent decades trying to persuade other scientists he had not gone mad. Charles Lyell (1797-1875) was the century's most influential geologist and a master politician among his fellow scientist. His scientific principles said an Ice Age was impossible, even after his eyes showed him it was real. Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857), an adventurer trapped for two winte...

Babel's Dawn" is a saga covering six million years. Like a walk through a natural history museum, Bolles demonstrates how members of the human lineage came to speak. Beginning with a scene of the last common ancestor ignoring a bird as it flies by, he guides us through generations, illuminating how it became possible for two "Homo sapiens" to not only acknowledge the songbird, but to also discuss the meaning of its song. Tracing the rise of v...

Powerful and illuminating, this book captures the soul and the science that inspired a dramatic duel between Albert Einstein and Danish genius Neils Bohr, another founder of quantum physics.

Powerful and illuminating, this book captures the soul and the science that inspired a dramatic duel between Albert Einstein and Danish genius Neils Bohr, another founder of quantum physics.

Bolles has scoured the literature of science to build a treasury that is accessible and riveting, and therefore appealing to readers unfamiliar with science, yet erudite enough for the scientifically initiated to enjoy.