Books like Evolution by iMinds

A gripping tale of two brilliant chemists who revolutionized agriculture, but at a high cost.

Marcia Bartusiak chronicles how Edwin Hubble’s 1925 observations, bolstered by earlier work from astronomers such as Leavitt, Slipher, Lemaitre, and Humason, shattered the Milky‑Way‑only view and proved the universe is vast and expanding.

A fascinating look at the historic gathering of the world's leading physicists in Copenhagen, 1932, where the future of science was about to be altered by the Faustian bargains of the era.

Discover the truth about time. This book chronicles the most amazing and secretive research project in recorded history. We all know something is out there, we're just not sure exactly what. This book begins to provide some solid clues.

AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison wrongly bet in the fierce war between supporters of alternating current and direct current. The savagery of this electrical battle can hardly be imagined today. The showdown between AC and DC began as a rather straightforward conflict between technical standards, a battle of competing methods to deliver essentially the same product, electricity. But the skirmish soon metastasized into something bigger and darker. In the AC/DC battle, the worst aspects of human nature somehow got caught up in the wires; a silent, deadly flow of arrogance, vanity, and cruelty. Following the path of least resistance, the war of currents soon settled around that most primal of human emotions: fear. AC/DC serves as an object lesson in bad business strategy and poor decision making. Edison's inability to see his mistake was a key factor in his loss of control over the ?operating system? for his future inventions?not to mention the co...

Adrian Johns' The Nature of the Book traces how print culture shaped intellectual, commercial, and political life in Britain during the first two centuries after the printing press.

Richard Holmes charts the groundbreaking scientific adventures of the late eighteenth century, spotlighting figures such as Joseph Banks, William Herschel, and Humphry Davy, whose discoveries ignited Britain’s Romantic Age of Science.