Back on Feb. 14, 1904, someone curious about the emerging possibilities of a key force of nature checked out James Clerk Maxwell’s book, "An Elementary Treatise on Electricity," from the New Bedford ...

I’ve always been a big fan of science, but to be honest I don’t always get it. Perhaps it comes from being a humanities major, or simply the limits of this Homo sapiens brain capacity, but after a ...

A book that details the discovery of electricity and how it has changed our lives has scooped this year's Aventis Prize for popular science writing. The book, Electric Universe - How Electricity ...

Brett Christophers’s account of the market-induced failure to transition to renewables is his latest entry in a series of books demystifying a multi-pronged global crisis. A figure looks at the ...

THE three books before us suggest an interesting comparison of three points of view from which any applied science can be regarded. Each covers, or attempts to cover, in a more or less suinmary ...

‘Give us electricity,” says Peter Owyia, cobbler, “I will double my daily production.” Peter’s calculation was common among the estimated 50 000 shoe, belt, and bag makers in Ariaria market in the ...