Leon M. Lederman

Dick Teresi

In this extraordinarily accessible and enormously witty book, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman guides us on a fascinating tour of the history of particle physics. The book takes us from the Greeks' earliest scientific observations through Einstein and beyond in an inspiring celebration of human curiosity. It ends with the quest for the Higgs boson, nicknamed the God Particle, which scientists hypothesize will help unlock the last secrets of the subatomic universe. With a new preface by Lederman, The God Particle will leave you marveling at our continuing pursuit of the infinitesimal.

If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?

The God Particle

Important and provocative, The Undead examines why even with the tools of advanced technology, what we think of as life and death, consciousness and nonconsciousness, is not exactly clear and how this problem has been further complicated by the business of organ harvesting. Dick Teresi, a science writer with a dark sense of humor, manages to make this story entertaining, informative, and accessible as he shows how death determination has become more complicated than ever. Teresi introduces us to brain-death experts, hospice workers, undertakers, coma specialists and those who have recovered from coma, organ transplant surgeons and organ procurers, anesthesiologists who study pain in legally dead patients, doctors who have saved living patients from organ harvests, nurses who care for beating-heart cadavers, ICU doctors who feel subtly pressured to declare patients dead rather than save them, and many others. Much of what they have to say is shocking. Teresi also provides a brief history of how death has been determined from the times of the ancient Egyptians and the Incas through the twenty-first century. And he draws on the writings and theories of celebrated scientists, doctors, and researchers—Jacques-Bénigne Winslow, Sherwin Nuland, Harvey Cushing, and Lynn Margulis, among others—to reveal how theories about dying and death have changed. With The Undead, Teresi makes us think twice about how the medical community decides when someone is dead.

Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death

The Undead

Documents scientific investigations and discoveries that were made by ancient civilizations, including the lowest common denominator, negative numbers, eclipses, the awareness of a round planet, geocentric cosmology, and rubber vulcanization. 25,000 first printing.

The Ancient Roots of Modern Science--from the Babylonians to the Maya

Lost Discoveries

Judith Hooper

"Wonderfully provocative...a relentlessly fascinating tour of neuroscience."-The New York Times Book Review.

The Three-pound Universe

Boldly challenging conventional wisdom, acclaimed science writer and Omni magazine cofounder Dick Teresi traces the origins of contemporary science back to their ancient roots in an eye-opening account and landmark work. This innovative history proves once and for all that the roots of modern science were established centuries, and in some instances millennia, before the births of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton. In this enlightening, entertaining, and important book, Teresi describes many discoveries from all over the non-Western world -- Sumeria, Babylon, Egypt, India, China, Africa, Arab nations, the Americas, and the Pacific islands -- that equaled and often surpassed Greek and European learning in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, cosmology, physics, geology, chemistry, and technology. The first extensive and authoritative multicultural history of science written for a popular audience, Lost Discoveries fills a critical void in our scientific, cultural, and intellectual history and is destined to become a classic in its field.

«Si piensa usted -como yo creía- que la ciencia floreció en la antigua Grecia, entonces lea este libro de Dick Teresi para comprender la grandeza de los genios anteriores», nos dice Daba Sobel, autor del best seller La hija de Galileo. En efecto, Dick Teresi, que ha realizado un inmenso trabajo de erudición, nos muestra aquí lo mucho que debemos a babilonios y a egipcios, a los indios, a los africanos, al Nuevo Mundo, a las tribus oceánicas y a las civilizaciones medievales no europeas. Los cimientos matemáticos de la ciencia occidental, por ejemplo, proceden de los indios, los chinos, los árabes, los babilonios y los mayas; la astronomía comenzó en la antigua India y floreció en el mundo árabe. Los chinos observaron, dataron e interpretaron los eclipses hacia 1400 a.C; hace cinco mil años, los sumerios sostuvieron que la Tierra era esférica; eruditos chinos y árabes utilizaron fósiles para estudiar científicamente la historia de nuestro planeta; la química china fue hoy un tesoro olvidado por casi todos; los indios quechuas del Perú fueron los primeros en vulcanizar el caucho... así cientos y cientos de ejemplos. Nos cansamos de hablar de los beneficios del multiculturalismo, hora es de tomárselo en serio y nada mejor que este libro para comprobar cuán firmemente y desde cuándo está instalado en la historia.

Las antiguas raíces de la ciencia, desde Babilonia hasta los mayas

Los grandes descubrimientos perdidos

Examines how the business of organ harvesting further complicates the process of death declaration and evaluates how death has been determined throughout history.

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