Science Tunnel: An Exhibition of the Max Planck Society

A fascinating trip into the future of scientific discovery at the South Florida Science Museum, Jan. 16 - March 29.

BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR ADULTS:

• Brennan, Richard P. “Heisenberg Probably Slept Here: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Physicists of the 20th Century.” New York: Wiley, 1997.
  530.0922 BRE

• Campbell-Kelly, Martin. “Computer: A History of the Information Machine. 2nd ed.”
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• Hawking, Stephen W. “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes.”
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• Johnson, Steven. “Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life.”
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• Kaku, Michio. “Einstein’s Cosmos: How Albert Einstein’s Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time.”
  New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.
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• Kragh, Helge. “Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the 20th Century.”
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  530.09 KRA

• Lovelock, James. “The Revenge of Gaia: Earth’s Climate in Crisis and the Fate of Humanity.”
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  333.7 LOV

• Mawer, Simon. “Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics.”
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  576.5092 MAW

• May, Brian, Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott. “Bang!: The Complete History of the Universe, 2nd ed.”
  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
  523.1 MAY

• Sargent, Ted. “The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnolgy is Changing our Lives.”
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• Sobel, Dava. “The Planets.”
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• Watson, James D. “The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA.”
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  572.86 WAT

• “The Way We Will Be 50 Years From Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Visions of the Next Half Century.”
  Ed. Mike Wallace. Nashville,Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 2008.
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Reference Works

• “Astronomy and Space: From the Big Bang to the Big Crunch.”
  Ed. Phillis Engelbert. 3 v. Detroit, Mich.: U*X*L, 1997.
  Ref 500.503 ENG

• “McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Scientific and Technology, 10th ed.”
  20 v. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007.
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• Science Reference Center: Full-text information on science and tech-nology, with content from science encyclopedias, magazines and journals.
  

Posted: 01/08/08