From the author of Dreams of Iron and Steel comes a fascinating account of the competition between the Americans and Soviets for control of outer space, focusing on two brilliant and ambitious scientists--Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev--who fueled it. Reprint.

An award-winning historian takes a close-up look at seven extraordinary nineteenth-century engineering accomplishments that transformed the history of the modern world, including the construction of the London sewers, the Panama Canal, the Hoover Dam, and the Transcontinental Railway. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: A world that had changed little from the Middle Ages was altered beyond recognition by the engineering genius of the 19th cent. Tells the heroic tale of the visionaries & ordinary workers who brought to life 7 wonders of engineering that still have the power to awe & inspire us today -- from the London sewers that banished cholera to the Panama Canal that shaved thousands of miles off a dangerous sea passage, from the Hoover Dam that diverted the world's most unpredictable river to give power to over half of the country to the transcont...read more

Traces the story of the missing dauphin and heir of the executed Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, examining historic events from multiple angles and presenting DNA evidence to reveal new conclusions. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Traces the story of the missing dauphin and heir of the executed Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, examining historic events from multiple angles and presenting DNA evidence to reveal new conclusions. 20,000 first printing.

The author of The Feminization of Nature unearths the origins of 'dinosaur science' at the dawn of the nineteenth century, introducing the naturalists who initially probed the meaning of the 'monster' bones discovered all over the world. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

A cautionary exploration of the effects of toxic pollution on the environment examines how exposure to chemicals that mimic the female hormone estrogen has had a massive effect on both human and animal fertility rates and health. Originally published as Altering Eden. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

A cautionary exploration of the effects of toxic pollution on the environment examines how exposure to chemicals that mimic the female hormone estrogen has had a massive effect on both human and animal fertility rates and health. 10,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Tells the stories of research into DNA, child behavior, pain, atomic structure, molecular biology, plate tectonics, DNA, and mathematics