Babel’s Dawn is a saga covering six million years. Like a walk through a natural history museum, Bolles demonstrates how members of the human lineage came to speak. Beginning with a scene of the last common ancestor ignoring a bird as it flies by, he guides us through generations, illuminating how it became possible for two Homo sapiens to not only acknowledge the songbird, but to also discuss the meaning of its song. Tracing the rise of voluntary vocalizations as well as the first word, phrases, and sentences, Bolles works against the common belief that the reason apes cannot speak is they are not smart enough. In this groundbreaking work, Bolles purposes that we now have substantial evidence that this age-old idea can no longer stand. With concrete portrayals of living individuals interwoven with evidence, data, and theory, Babel’s Dawn is a powerful account of a great scientific revolution

Product Description: The surprising story of three ambitious men and how their clash of egos, ignorance, and imaginations led to the discovery of the Ice Age. Louis Agassiz (18071873), extraordinary Swiss scientist and professor, conceived of the Ice Age and then spent decades trying to persuade other scientists he had not gone mad...read more

Product Description: Bolles has scoured the literature of science to build a treasury that is accessible and riveting, and therefore appealing to readers unfamiliar with science, yet erudite enough for the scientifically initiated to enjoy.

This anthology of science writing includes Marie Curie's reminiscences on her own and her husband's efforts to isolate radium; Herodotus observing the Nile Valley; Carl Sagan arguing that aliens regularly visit Earth; and other contributions from writers including Primo Levi and Stephen Jay Gould.

Collects science articles by such famous authors as Isaac Asimov, John Watson, Karl Popper, and Noam Chomsky, looking at a variety of topics, including evolution, the nuclear bomb, and the laws of thermodynamics (view table of contents)

Details adoption strategies for prospective parents, with information directed to both traditional and nontraditional clients, and examines adoption law, foster care, and adopting the foster child

Traces the development of scientific and psychological theories of human perception and consciousness and shows their significance in relation to such enduring questions as the nature of reality and of humanity

Explains how human memory works, describes the biological structure of the brain, and discusses amnesia, memory lapses, and examples of emotional memory

A guide to language learning in children offers parents valuable information and practical guidance on helping children develop language and communication skills