The Popular science monthly (Volume XL) - Prijzen

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000

The first in a new annual anthology of the finest science writing to be published in 1999 features such works as Richard Preston's "The Demon in the Freezer," John McPhee's "Farewell to the Nineteenth...

Contemporary Organic Chemistry

The Price of Altruism

Survival of the fittest or survival of the nicest? Since the dawn of time man has contemplated the mystery of altruism, but it was Darwin who posed the question most starkly. From the selfless an...

Recreations In Astronomy, With Directions For Practical Experiments And Telescopic Work

With One Hundred and Tccelve Engravings, aad five Zaps of the bqfars. The grezt reputation which the author of this work has merited and enjoys, both in this county and in Europe, is a sufficient guar...