Product Description: The debate over Intelligent Design seemingly represents an extension of the fundamental conflict between creationists and evolutionists. ID proponents, drawing on texts such as Darwin's Black Box and Of Pandas and People, urge schools to "teach the controversy" in biology class alongside evolution...read more

A textbook that describes American history, culture, and innovations. (view table of contents)

Provides a history of the United States, emphasizing America's innovations in politics, economics, social relations, culture, science, technology, and adaptation to the natural environment.

A textbook that describes American history, culture, and innovations.

An analysis of the case of David Baltimore, a Nobel Prize-winning medical scientist whose academic leadership became the target of a political inquiry that derailed his promising career, questions the integrity of Baltimore's accusers. Reprint. NYT.

Traces the history of eugenics, the science of improving human beings by exploiting theories of heredity, from its late-nineteenth-century origins to the present, addressing such controversial issues as cloning and genetic engineering (view table of contents)

Recounts the establishment and growth of the interaction between physicists and government, highlighting the creation of important agencies, the military importance of physicists' work, and the activities of such key men as Bohr, Einstein, and Oppenheimer

Examines the Human Genome Project and its impact on the understanding of human development, and explores the scientific, social, and ethical issues it raises