Science Books

A Zloor for Your Trouble!

Mack Reynolds

After leaving the dome through one of the airlocks, I headed out onto the surface of Mars, weighted down with my leaded boots, standard equipment for cutting down some of the effect of the one-sixth g..

Icarus - The Future of Science

Bertrand Russell

Mr. Haldane’s Daedalus has set forth an attractive picture of the future as it may become through the use of scientific discoveries to promote human happiness. This subject is so vast that it is impos..

Our Atomic World - The Story of Atomic Energy

C. Jackson Craven

 Nuclear energy is playing a vital role in the life of every man, woman, and child in the United States today. In the years ahead it will affect increasingly all the peoples of the earth. The nam..

Winter Butterflies in Bolinas

Mary D. Barber

The Monarch Butterfly Anosia Plexippus is a familiar object in many parts of the United States, but the fact that it migrates, covering in its flights hundreds and even thousands of miles, is not gene..

Summer Flowers of the High Alps

Somerville Hastings

The coloured plates of Alpine plants, which are the special feature of this book, are all reproduced from colour photographs taken directly from nature. The flowers here photographed were selecte..

Self-Organizing Systems, 1963

James Emmett Garvey

The papers appearing in this volume were presented at a Symposium on Self-Organizing Systems, which was sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and held at the California Institute of Technology, Pa..

Guide to Rocks and Minerals of Illinois

Anonymous

The complexity of Illinois geology is not produced by the upturning and sharp folding of rock layers such as can be seen in the Rocky Mountains, but rather by the changes in composition, thickness, an..

Stray Feathers From a Bird Man's Desk

Austin Loomer Rand

This collection of articles, if it were a painting, could be called a conversation piece. Or it might be compared to a well-filled whatnot. Each of the sixty chapters is an independent unit, illustrat..