Clifford A. Pickover

This richly illustrated chronology of physics contains more than 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring engaging topics such as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwell's demon, the timeline in The Physics Book extends back billions of years to the hypothetical Big Bang and forward trillions of years to a time...

The history of medicine is as old as the history of human civilisation. In The Medical Book, popular science writer Clifford A. Pickover explores 250 milestone discoveries in medicine that span more than 12,000 years. Whether writing on 'hard science' topics such as DNA structure, reverse transcriptase and AIDS, polymerase chain reaction, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or ideas from...