What could be more fascinating than the workings of the human mind? This stunningly illustrated survey in Sterling's Milestones series chronicles the history of psychology through 250 landmark events, theories, publications, experiments and discoveri...

First published in 1928, this introduction to 'the study of the heavens' includes chapters on: 'The Celestial Sphere and its Motions';'The Sun and its Systems'; and 'The Universe of the Stars'. It also features an appendix of interesting astronomical...

Calling all creative, curious, confident girls everywhere! If you're a girl who loves to get hands-on and tinker, here's your chance to create to your heart's content. Full of imaginative stuff to do and make, 'Curious Jane' offers plenty of spectacu...

Philosophy explores the deepest, most fundamental questions of reality – and this accessible and entertaining chronology presents 250 of the most important theories, events, and seminal publications in the field. Brief, enaging and beautifully illust...

From atoms and fluorescent pigments to sulfa drug synthesis and buckyballs, this lush and authoritative chronology presents 250 milestones in the world of chemistry. As the "central science" that bridges biology and physics, chemistry plays an import...

Join author Michael H. Roffer as he explores 250 of the most fundamental, far-reaching, and often-controversial cases, laws, and trials that have profoundly changed our world – for good or bad. Offering authoritative context to ancient documents as w...

Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problems and solves them. It's the source of some of our greatest inventions, from the wheel to the jet engine. Marshall Brain, creator of the How Stuff Works series and a professor at the Enginee...

From the emergence of life, to Leewenhoek's microscopic world, to GMO crops, "The Biology Book" presents 250 landmarks in the most widely studied scientific field. Brief, engaging, and colourfully illustrated synopses introduce readers to every major...

In NanoScience:Giants of the Infinitesimal, award-winning science writer Peter Forbes and sculptor Tom Grimsey explore the amazing possibilities that nanotechnology offers us, from clean harvesting solar energy and finding cost-effective methods to d...

The history of medicine is as old as the history of human civilization. In "The Medical Book", popular science writer Clifford A. Pickover explores 250 milestone discoveries in medicine that span more than 12,000 years. Whether writing on "hard scien...