Gregor Mendel
description: Silesian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822–1884)
123 results
The Gene: An Intimate History
by Siddhartha Mukherjee · 16 May 2016 · 824pp · 218,333 words
explain . . . the phenomena of the living world. —Hugo de Vries As Darwin was beginning to write his opus on evolution in the spring of 1856, Gregor Mendel decided to return to Vienna to retake the teacher’s exam that he had failed in 1850. He felt more confident this time. Mendel had
…
that no time ought to be lost in . . . compiling personal and family histories.” Galton was born in the winter of 1822—the same year as Gregor Mendel—and thirteen years after his cousin Charles Darwin. Slung between the two giants of modern biology, he was inevitably haunted by an acute sense of
…
indivisible, but mutable, particles of heredity that transmit information between parents and offspring. Yet Darwin, having never read Gregor Mendel’s paper, never found an adequate formulation of such a theory during his lifetime. Gregor Mendel holds a flower, possibly from a pea plant, in his monastery garden in Brno (now in the Czech
…
of Mendel’s life and the Augustinian monastery are from several sources, including Gregor Mendel, Alain F. Corcos, and Floyd V. Monaghan, Gregor Mendel’s Experiments on Plant Hybrids: A Guided Study (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993); Edward Edelson, Gregor Mendel: And the Roots of Genetics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999); and Robin
…
Marantz Henig, The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000). The tumult of 1848: Edward Berenson, Populist Religion and Left-Wing Politics in France, 1830–1852 (Princeton
…
in the Garden, 37. he applied for a job to teach mathematics: Ibid., 38. In the late spring of 1850, an eager Mendel: Harry Sootin, Gregor Mendel: Father of the Science of Genetics (New York: Random House Books for Young Readers, 1959). On July 20, in the midst of an enervating heat
…
Darwin read Mendel?” Quarterly Journal of Medicine 102, no. 8 (2009): 588, doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcp024. “Flowers He Loved” “Flowers He Loved”: Edward Edelson, Gregor Mendel and the Roots of Genetics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), “Clemens Janetchek’s Poem Describing Mendel after His Death,” 75. “We want only to
…
disclose the [nature of] matter and its force”: Jiri Sekerak, “Gregor Mendel and the scientific milieu of his discovery,” ed. M. Kokowski (The Global and the Local: The History of Science and the Cultural Integration of Europe
…
world is the result”: Hugo de Vries, Intracellular Pangenesis; Including a Paper on Fertilization and Hybridization (Chicago: Open Court, 1910), “Mutual Independence of Hereditary Characters.” Gregor Mendel decided to return to Vienna: Henig, Monk in the Garden, 60. “remained constant without exception”: Eric C. R. Reeve, Encyclopedia of Genetics (London: Fitzroy Dearborn
…
of which suggested the particulate quality of hereditary information, but Darwin had failed to appreciate their importance. “the history of the evolution of organic forms”: Gregor Mendel, Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (New York: Cosimo, 2008), 8. By the late summer of 1857, the first hybrid peas: Henig, Monk in the Garden, 81
…
: The Development of Some of the Main Lines of Thought, 1864–1939 (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991), 15. “only empirical . . . cannot be proved rational”: Gregor Mendel, “Gregor Mendel’s letters to Carl Nägeli, 1866–1873,” Genetics 35, no. 5, pt. 2 (1950): 1. “I knew that the results I obtained”: Allan Franklin et
…
. 1 (2006): 1–6. On January 6, 1884, Mendel died: Henig, Monk in the Garden, 170. “Gentle, free-handed, and kindly . . . Flowers he loved”: Edelson, Gregor Mendel, “Clemens Janetchek’s Poem Describing Mendel after His Death,” 75. “A Certain Mendel” The origin of species is a natural phenomenon: Lucius Moody Bristol, Social
…
Pursuit of the Gene, 143. “Each of us who now looks at his own patch”: William Bateson, Mendel’s Principles of Heredity: A Defence, ed. Gregor Mendel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1902), v. “We have only touched the edge”: Ibid., 208. “is second to no branch of science”: Ibid., ix. Johannsen shortened
…
and the Origin of Species. New York: Columbia University Press, 1937. ———. Heredity and the Nature of Man. New York: New American Library, 1966. Edelson, Edward. Gregor Mendel, and the Roots of Genetics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Feinstein, Adam. A History of Autism: Conversations with the Pioneers. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell
…
: A History of Molecular Biology. Berlin: Springer Science & Business Media, 2013. Henig, Robin Marantz. The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Herring, Mark Youngblood. Genetic Engineering. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2006. Herrnstein, Richard, and Charles Murray. The Bell Curve
…
. New York: Basic Books, 2012. ———. Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution. Cambridge: Perseus, 2003. Mendel, Gregor, Alain F. Corcos, and Floyd V. Monaghan, eds. Gregor Mendel’s Experiments on Plant Hybrids: A Guided Study. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993. Morange, Michel. A History of Molecular Biology. Trans. Matthew Cobb
Keeping Up With the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics
by Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim · 10 Jun 2013 · 204pp · 58,565 words
famous statistician and the founder of the world’s first university statistics department, acknowledged Nightingale as a “prophetess” in the development of applied statistics.4 Gregor Mendel: A Poor Example of Communicating Results For a less impressive example of communicating results—and a reminder of how important the topic is—consider the
…
work of Gregor Mendel.5 Mendel, the father of the concept of genetic inheritance, said a few months before his death in 1884 that, “My scientific studies have afforded
…
; P. Nuttall, “The Passionate Statistician,” Nursing Times 28 (1983): 25–27. 5. Gregor Mendel, “Experiments in Plant Hybridization,” http://www.mendelweb.org/; “Gregor Mendel,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel; Seung Yon Rhee, Gregor Mendel, Access Excellence, http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/BC/Gregor_Mendel.php; “Mendel’s Genetics,” anthro.palomar.edu/mendel/mendel_1.htm; David
…
Paterson, “Gregor Mendel,” www .zephyrus.co.uk/gregormendel.html; “Rocky Road: Gregor Mendel,” Strange Science, www.strangescience.net/mendel
…
.htm; Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, “Johann Gregor Mendel: Why His Discoveries
…
Were Ignored for 35 Years,” www.weloennig .de/mendel02.htm; “Gregor Mendel and the Scientific Milieu of His Discovery,” www.2iceshs
She Has Her Mother's Laugh
by Carl Zimmer · 29 May 2018
themselves in the latest scientific advances. One of the young men in whom Napp took a special interest was a poor farmer’s son named Gregor Mendel. Mendel’s first job at the priory was to teach languages, math, and science in a local school. He proved so good at it that
…
Royal Society on “the facts of heredity.” Those facts, Bateson explained, had just been thrown into sharp relief with the rediscovered, newly appreciated work of Gregor Mendel. Bateson and other scientists were confirming the patterns that Mendel had observed. Those patterns were so trustworthy and so profound, Bateson said, that they deserved
…
Strange Encounter of Luther Burbank and George Harrison Shull.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 124:133–53. Gliboff, Sander. 2013. “The Many Sides of Gregor Mendel.” In Outsider Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology. Edited by Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Goddard, Henry H. 1908
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee · 16 Nov 2010 · 1,294pp · 210,361 words
by a retiring, nearsighted monk in the isolated hamlet of Brno, Austria, who bred pea plants as a hobby. In the early 1860s, working alone, Gregor Mendel had identified a few characteristics in his purebred plants that were inherited from one generation to the next—the color of the pea flower, the
…
: Karl Landsteiner et al., “La transmission de la paralysie infantile aux singes,” Compt. Rend. Soc. Biologie 67 (1909). 343 In the early 1860s, working alone: Gregor Mendel, “Versuche über Plfanzenhybriden,” Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn. IV für das Jahr 1865, Abhandlungen (1866): 3–47. English translation available at http://www.esp
…
/genetics/classical/gm-65.pdf (accessed January 2, 2010). Also see Robin Marantz Henig, The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics (Boston: Mariner Books, 2001), 142. 343 decades later, in 1909, botanists: Wilhelm Ludwig Johannsen, Elemente der Exakten Erblichkeitlehre (1913), http://caliban
…
to Synthesize a Human Gene. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. Henig, Robin Marantz. The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics. New York: Mariner Books, 2001. Hill, John. Cautions against the Immoderate Use of Snuff. London: R. Baldwin and J. Jackson, 1761
The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis
by Ruth Defries · 8 Sep 2014 · 342pp · 88,736 words
than those bred from parents of the same variety. Only a few years after Darwin published On the Origin of Species, the devout Austrian monk Gregor Mendel began his eight-year experiment with the common pea in the monastery’s garden. Although he was a brilliant student, Mendel’s upbringing in a
…
. Corn and Its Early Fathers, rev. ed. Iowa State University Press, Ames. Weiling, F. 1991. Historical study: Johan Gregor Mendel, 1822–1884. American Journal of Medical Genetics 40:1–25. Zirkle, C. 1951. Gregor Mendel and his precursors. Isis 42:97–104. Chapter 8: Competition for the Bounty Abate, T., A. van Huis, and
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
by Adam Rutherford · 7 Sep 2016
. And since the 1960s we’ve known how DNA encodes proteins, and that all life is built of, or by, proteins. Those titans of science, Gregor Mendel, Francis Crick, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, stood on their predecessors’ and colleagues’ shoulders, and would in turn be the giants from whose
…
great leaps were being made in the study of life, which would lead to further unifying theories of biology. The great nineteenth-century Moravian scientist17 Gregor Mendel’s work from exactly the same mid-century time, though ignored until the beginning of the twentieth century, described the rules of inheritance – how characteristics
…
of probability, not of destiny. It’s not just the headline writer’s fault though. The history of science is clearly to blame too. Recall Gregor Mendel, who gave us the rules of inheritance by studying individual characteristics in pea plants. Through the twentieth century we beavered away at the laws of
…
versions of the same gene; homozygous means they are both the same. Mendelian/Mendel’s Laws The basic rules of biological inheritance were set by Gregor Mendel in the nineteenth century, as a result of his experiments in which he bred thousands of pea plants and observed how various characteristics were passed
A Dominant Character
by Samanth Subramanian · 27 Apr 2020
of inheritance. The explanatory power of these laws was only just being appreciated, and they were transforming the state of science in the Western world. Gregor Mendel, the Augustinian friar, had conducted his experiments on pea plants five decades earlier in his abbey in Brünn, now a town called Brno in the
…
National Academy of Sciences 104, no. 52 (December 2007): 20753–58. Henig, Robin Marantz. The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. Hermiston, Roger. All Behind You, Winston: Churchill’s Great Coalition 1940–45. London: Aurum Press
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe
by Johnjoe McFadden · 27 Sep 2021
Abbey in Brno in 1843 as a novice friar. There he adopted the name Gregor. As he later wrote, ‘my circumstances decided my vocational choice’. Gregor Mendel was first trained as a priest and given his own parish but, in a 1849 letter to the local bishop, Abbot Cyril Napp admits of
…
Resemblances Among Animals (Read Books Limited, 2016). 2. Vorzimmer, P., ‘Charles Darwin and Blending Inheritance’, Isis, 54, 371–90 (1963). 3. De Castro, M., ‘Johann Gregor Mendel: Paragon of Experimental Science’, Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 4, 3 (2016). 4. Mendel, G., Experiments on Plant Hybrids (1866), translation and commentary by Staffan Müller
Complexity: A Guided Tour
by Melanie Mitchell · 31 Mar 2009 · 524pp · 120,182 words
the 1940s. Many theories of heredity were proposed in the 1800s, but none was widely accepted until the “rediscovery” in 1900 of the work of Gregor Mendel. Mendel was an Austrian monk and physics teacher with a strong interest in nature. Having studied the theories of Lamarck on the inheritance of acquired
…
the plants’ offspring did not take on any traits that were acquired by the parents during their lifetimes. Thus, Lamarckian inheritance did not take place. Gregor Mendel, 1822–1884 (From the National Library of Medicine) [http://wwwils.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/galleries/ technologies/dna.html]. Second, he found that heredity took place
Europe: A History
by Norman Davies · 1 Jan 1996
Great Britain.’37 Sinn Fein, which had always looked to the USA for support, now sought aid from Germany. [FAMINE] [ORANGE] GENES IIN 1866 Father Gregor Mendel (1811–84), abbot of the Augustinian I monastery at Brno in Moravia, published the findings of his experiments into the propagation of the common green
…
as ‘illiterate’. In return, Lysenko derided all orthodox geneticists as ‘reactionary decadents grovelling before Western capitalism’. Foremost among the targets of his scorn was Father Gregor Mendel.3 The Ukrainians lived under two ‘Eastern autocracies’. Once subjects of Poland, they were now subjects either of Russia or of Austria. An overwhelmingly peasant
Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code
by Matthew Cobb · 6 Jul 2015 · 608pp · 150,324 words
The End of Illness
by David B. Agus · 15 Oct 2012 · 433pp · 106,048 words
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
by Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili · 14 Oct 2014 · 476pp · 120,892 words
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by Walter Isaacson · 9 Mar 2021 · 700pp · 160,604 words
The Kingdom of Speech
by Tom Wolfe · 30 Aug 2016
Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room
by David Weinberger · 14 Jul 2011 · 369pp · 80,355 words
Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend
by Barbara Oakley Phd · 20 Oct 2008
Abundance
by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson · 18 Mar 2025 · 227pp · 84,566 words
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
by Kathryn Paige Harden · 20 Sep 2021 · 375pp · 102,166 words
Gene Eating: The Science of Obesity and the Truth About Dieting
by Giles Yeo · 3 Jun 2019 · 351pp · 112,079 words
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
by Richard Dawkins · 3 Oct 2011 · 208pp · 67,288 words
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson · 5 May 2003 · 654pp · 204,260 words
Coming of Age in the Milky Way
by Timothy Ferris · 30 Jun 1988 · 661pp · 169,298 words
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
by Matt Ridley · 395pp · 116,675 words
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by Richard Dawkins · 21 Sep 2009
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie · 1 Mar 2018
Is God a Mathematician?
by Mario Livio · 6 Jan 2009 · 315pp · 93,628 words
Living in a Material World: The Commodity Connection
by Kevin Morrison · 15 Jul 2008 · 311pp · 17,232 words
A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings
by Richard Dawkins · 1 Jan 2004 · 460pp · 107,712 words
Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing
by Kevin Davies · 5 Oct 2020 · 741pp · 164,057 words
Epigenetics: How Environment Shapes Our Genes
by Richard C. Francis · 14 May 2012
Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
by Juli Berwald · 14 May 2017 · 397pp · 113,304 words
Howard Rheingold
by The Virtual Community Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier-Perseus Books (1993) · 26 Apr 2012
Hacking the Code of Life: How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures
by Nessa Carey · 7 Mar 2019 · 182pp · 45,873 words
The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
by Michael Strevens · 12 Oct 2020
Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
by Stephen Budiansky · 10 May 2021 · 406pp · 108,266 words
The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
by Sonia Shah
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by James Gleick · 1 Mar 2011 · 855pp · 178,507 words
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
by Laurie Garrett · 15 Feb 2000
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
by Daniel C. Dennett · 15 Jan 1995 · 846pp · 232,630 words
Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
by Richard Dawkins · 15 Mar 2017 · 420pp · 130,714 words
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek · 15 Feb 2013
The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
by George Johnson · 26 Aug 2013 · 465pp · 103,303 words
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
by Kwame Anthony Appiah · 27 Aug 2018 · 285pp · 83,682 words
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
by Robert Kanigel · 25 Apr 2016
The Age of the Infovore: Succeeding in the Information Economy
by Tyler Cowen · 25 May 2010 · 254pp · 72,929 words
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
by Thor Hanson · 1 Jul 2018 · 317pp · 79,633 words
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 2002 · 901pp · 234,905 words
The Locavore's Dilemma
by Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu · 29 May 2012 · 329pp · 85,471 words
What Technology Wants
by Kevin Kelly · 14 Jul 2010 · 476pp · 132,042 words
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
by Katharina Pistor · 27 May 2019 · 316pp · 117,228 words
The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets
by Alan Boss · 3 Feb 2009 · 221pp · 61,146 words
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
by Timothy Ferriss · 1 Dec 2010 · 836pp · 158,284 words
Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain
by Werner Loewenstein · 29 Jan 2013 · 362pp · 97,862 words
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
by Aaron Bastani · 10 Jun 2019 · 280pp · 74,559 words
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
by Temple Grandin, Ph.d. · 11 Oct 2022
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by Matt Ridley · 14 Aug 1993 · 474pp · 136,787 words
The Idea of Decline in Western History
by Arthur Herman · 8 Jan 1997 · 717pp · 196,908 words
As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Work, Health & Wealth
by Juan Enriquez · 15 Feb 2001 · 239pp · 45,926 words
The Blind Watchmaker; Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by Richard Dawkins · 1 Jan 1986 · 420pp · 143,881 words
The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins · 12 Sep 2006 · 478pp · 142,608 words
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
by Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein · 14 Sep 2021 · 384pp · 105,110 words
Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
by Charles Murray · 28 Jan 2020 · 741pp · 199,502 words
The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey Into the Dark Side of the Brain
by James Fallon · 30 Oct 2013
How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks
by Robin Dunbar and Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar · 2 Nov 2010 · 255pp · 79,514 words
When Einstein Walked With Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
by Jim Holt · 14 May 2018 · 436pp · 127,642 words
Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
by J. Craig Venter · 16 Oct 2013 · 285pp · 78,180 words
The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilisation
by Nicholas P. Money · 22 Feb 2018
Civilization: The West and the Rest
by Niall Ferguson · 28 Feb 2011 · 790pp · 150,875 words
Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn From Their Mistakes--But Some Do
by Matthew Syed · 3 Nov 2015 · 410pp · 114,005 words
The Sellout: A Novel
by Paul Beatty · 2 Mar 2016 · 271pp · 83,944 words
The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
by Samuel Arbesman · 31 Aug 2012 · 284pp · 79,265 words
Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation
by Steven Johnson · 5 Oct 2010 · 298pp · 81,200 words
How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 1997 · 913pp · 265,787 words
The Age of Wonder
by Richard Holmes · 15 Jan 2008 · 778pp · 227,196 words
Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution
by John Gribbin · 1 Mar 2012 · 287pp · 87,204 words
The Industries of the Future
by Alec Ross · 2 Feb 2016 · 364pp · 99,897 words
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by Laurie Garrett · 31 Oct 1994 · 1,293pp · 357,735 words
The State and the Stork: The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History
by Derek S. Hoff · 30 May 2012
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
by Michael Specter · 14 Apr 2009 · 281pp · 79,958 words
Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs
by Juli Berwald · 4 Apr 2022 · 495pp · 114,451 words
Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World
by Joshua Paul Dale · 15 Dec 2023 · 209pp · 81,560 words
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities
by Vaclav Smil · 23 Sep 2019
Central Europe Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins · 1 Jan 1976 · 365pp · 117,713 words
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig · 14 Jul 2019 · 2,466pp · 668,761 words
Why We Run: A Natural History
by Bernd Heinrich · 6 May 2002 · 306pp · 86,242 words
12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
by Jeanette Winterson · 15 Mar 2021 · 256pp · 73,068 words
The Mission: A True Story
by David W. Brown · 26 Jan 2021
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 1 Jul 2008 · 453pp · 132,400 words
The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere
by Kevin Carey · 3 Mar 2015 · 319pp · 90,965 words
Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee
by Hattie Ellis · 25 Apr 2006 · 216pp · 69,480 words
Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports From My Life With Autism
by Temple Grandin · 10 Jan 2006 · 291pp · 92,406 words
The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity
by Peter Schwartz, Peter Leyden and Joel Hyatt · 18 Oct 2000 · 353pp · 355 words
Against Intellectual Monopoly
by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine · 6 Jul 2008 · 607pp · 133,452 words
The Story of Philosophy
by Will Durant · 23 Jul 2012 · 685pp · 203,431 words
Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions
by Toby Segaran and Jeff Hammerbacher · 1 Jul 2009
CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans
by Henry T. Greely · 22 Jan 2021
Germany Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
The Origins of the British
by Stephen Oppenheimer · 1 Jul 2007 · 852pp · 157,181 words
The autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X; Alex Haley · 15 Aug 1999 · 508pp · 192,524 words
Women and Autoimmune Disease
by Robert G. Lahita · 1 Jan 2004 · 301pp · 86,278 words
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson · 26 Jun 2017 · 472pp · 117,093 words
The Map That Changed the World
by Simon Winchester · 1 Jan 2001 · 361pp · 105,938 words
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow · 1 Jan 1997 · 1,106pp · 335,322 words
The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki · 1 Jan 2004 · 326pp · 106,053 words
The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
by Tim Flannery · 10 Jan 2001 · 427pp · 111,965 words
The Knowledge Illusion
by Steven Sloman · 10 Feb 2017 · 313pp · 91,098 words
The Art of Statistics: Learning From Data
by David Spiegelhalter · 14 Oct 2019 · 442pp · 94,734 words
The Other Americans
by Laila Lalami · 26 Mar 2019 · 324pp · 104,934 words
Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health
by H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa M. Schwartz and Steven Woloshin · 18 Jan 2011 · 302pp · 92,546 words
An Optimist's Tour of the Future
by Mark Stevenson · 4 Dec 2010 · 379pp · 108,129 words
The Scientist as Rebel
by Freeman Dyson · 1 Jan 2006 · 332pp · 109,213 words
Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America
by Shawn Lawrence Otto · 10 Oct 2011 · 692pp · 127,032 words
Information: A Very Short Introduction
by Luciano Floridi · 25 Feb 2010 · 137pp · 36,231 words
What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society
by Paul Verhaeghe · 26 Mar 2014 · 208pp · 67,582 words
Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers
by David Perlmutter and Kristin Loberg · 17 Sep 2013
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 1994 · 661pp · 187,613 words
The Descent of Woman
by Elaine Morgan · 1 Feb 2001 · 293pp · 92,446 words
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
by Sean B. Carroll · 10 Apr 2005 · 312pp · 86,770 words
The Art of Statistics: How to Learn From Data
by David Spiegelhalter · 2 Sep 2019 · 404pp · 92,713 words
The Genius Within: Unlocking Your Brain's Potential
by David Adam · 6 Feb 2018 · 258pp · 79,503 words
Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
by Elle Reeve · 9 Jul 2024