04375cam a2200769 4500 468432121 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307908247 0307908240 B00N6PBEY2 Amazon a8e5901b-db77-4207-8720-b6e884e1e3ee OverDrive (Reserve ID) 223574 223574 223574 2020395 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Mlodinow, Leonard, 1954- The Upright Thinkers [Libby] : The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015. History of Science. Biography. Physics. autobiographies. Stephen Hawking. philosophy. classic. Science. Autobiography. Theoretical Physics. Evolution. mathematics. Innovation. biographies. History. Essays. subliminal. history books. science books. gifts for history buffs. biographies of famous people. science book. physics books. history gifts. science books for adults. science gifts. The Grand Design. physics book. history buff gifts. history lovers gifts. history teacher gifts. physics gifts. science gifts for adults. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 15MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 14MB. Biography & Autobiography. History. Science. Nonfiction. HTML:A few million years ago, our ancestors came down from the trees and began to stand upright, freeing our hands to create tools and our minds to grapple with the world around us.<br /> <br /> Leonard Mlodinow takes us on a passionate and inspiring tour through the exciting history of human progress and the key events in the development of science. In the process, he presents a fascinating new look at the unique characteristics of our species and our society that helped propel us from stone tools to written language and through the birth of chemistry, biology, and modern physics to today's technological world.<br /> <br /> Along the way he explores the cultural conditions that influenced scientific thought through the ages and the colorful personalities of some of the great philosophers, scientists, and thinkers: Galileo, who preferred painting and poetry to medicine and dropped out of university; Isaac Newton, who stuck needlelike bodkins into his eyes to better understand changes in light and color; and Antoine Lavoisier, who drank nothing but milk for two weeks to examine its effects on his body. Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, and many lesser-known but equally brilliant minds also populate these pages, each of their stories showing how much of human achievement can be attributed to the stubborn pursuit of simple questions (why? how?), bravely asked.<br /> <br /> <i>The Upright Thinkers</i> is a book for science lovers and for anyone interested in creative thinking and in our ongoing quest to understand our world. At once deeply informed, accessible, and infused with the author's trademark wit, this insightful work is a stunning tribute to humanity's intellectual curiosity.<br /> <br /> (With black-and-white illustrations throughout.)<br /> <br /> <i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/upright-thinkers-a8e590?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/upright-thinkers-a8e590?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/upright-thinkers-a8e590?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)