A PROMISE OF MIRACLES, Robyn Williams

Judul/Title: A PROMISE OF MIRACLES
Penulis/Author: Robyn Williams
Penerbit/Publisher: Penguin Books
Edisi/Edition: 1993
Halaman/Pages: 311
Dimensi/Dimension: 13 x 20 x 2.5cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: English
Call No.: 500/Wil/p/C.1

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For the first time in human history we are forced to confront global events every day - the bombardment of be wildered minds on a planetary scale is incessant. Only a scientifically aware population can avoid bamboozied by spurious promise of miracles and can know how to build a scientific culture that will last. Science is the best means we have to test what the future has in store for us.

HOW DO ASTRONAUTS SCRATCH AN ITCH? David Feldman

Judul/Title: HOW DO ASTRONAUTS SCRATCH AN ITCH?
Penulis/Author: David Feldman
Penerbit/Publisher: G.P Putnam Sons
Edisi/Edition: 1996
Halaman/Pages: 315
Dimensi/Dimension: 14.5 x 22.5 x 1.5cm
Sampul/Cover: Hardcover
Bahasa/Language: English
Call No.: 031.02/Fel/h/C.1

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Once again, dear friends, its time for David Fieldman to plunge into that sea of question marks and conundrums known as Imponderables. These are the Mysteries of everyday life. They're the question that can't be answered by numbers, measurements, or a trip to the reference library. They're the things that drive you nuts -- or that you've never thought of until someone brings them up, and then they drive you nuts.

Didn't you ever wonder, for instance, how astronauts scratch a itch? Or why blank video cassettes slide out of the backs of their boxes, while prerecorded tapes fall out of the bottom? How do skywriters learn good penmanship? Why don't lizards get sunburned? How did people wake up before alarm clocks? Why is Oktoberfest in September? What's the point of those buttons on top of baseball hats? Why does sticking your finger into the foam of carbonated soft drinks drive bubbles down?

You see what we're dealing with here.

• Why phone companies charge extra for unlisted numbers?
• Why bees buzz?
• Why power lines hum?
• How do they keep more than two piece of jigsaw puzzle from fitting together?
• Why bombs create mushroom-shaped clouds?
• Why pirates wear earrings?
• Why there are nine innings in baseball games?
• Why lobsters turn bright red when boiled?
• Why potato chips are always placed above the candy and gum in vending machines?
• Why beer steins have lids?
• Why x stands for the unknown in algebra?
• Why soda machines don't freeze in winter?

PENDIDIKAN SAINS YANG HUMANISTIS, Sumaji, dkk

Judul/Title: PENDIDIKAN SAINS YANG HUMANISTIS
Penulis/Author: Sumaji, dkk
Penerbit/Publisher: Kanisius
Edisi/Edition: 1998
Halaman/Pages: 268
Dimensi/Dimension: 15.5 x 22.5 x 1.5cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Call No.: 372.3/Sum/p/C.1

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"Anak harus belajar secara bertahap bahwa kehidupan itu kompleks. Tidak gampang sederhana.Tidak hitam putih. Bukan harga mati. Anak harus belajar bahwa meski kehidupan dan persoalan hidup itu kompleks dan tidak gampang, bahkan ruwet, tetapi harus diselesaikan secara sederhana. ...Tegas dan teguh berpegang pada prinsip yang benar, tetapi luwes. (YB. Mangunwijaya. Pr)

"Pendidikan sains memberikan banyak kesempatan untuk mengungkapkan nilai-nilai. Sains menyentuh banyak segi dalam kehidupan sehingga akan membantu para siswa untuk mengintegrasikan pikiran, perasaan, serta tindakan mereka dalam berkembang." (Sumaji)

"Dari nilai-nilai konstitutif yang lengket dengan proses pengembangan sains, kita dididik untuk jujur dan tak berprasangka. Dari pengalaman bergumul keras untuk memecahkan persoalan dalam sains, kita dilatih untuk gigih dan tekun dalam menghadapi kesulitan. Dalam euforia keberhasilan menemukan jawaban yang kita cari-cari dalam sains, kita dididik untuk bersyukur atas terang yang dikaruniakan kepada kita. Dalam mengagumi keajaiban alam yang terungkap melalui sains, kita tergerak untuk memuliakan Dia, yang menciptakan alam semesta ini"
(Liek Wilardjo)

Fakta bahwa matematika dapat digunakan dengan sukses dalam begitu banyak aplikasi mengakibatkan manusia percaya akan matematika, namun belum merupakan bukti akan kebenaran matematika secara absolut." (Soehakso)

THE EMPEROR'S EMBRACE: FATHERHOOD IN EVOLUTION, Jeffrey Masson

Judul/Title: THE EMPEROR'S EMBRACE: FATHERHOOD IN EVOLUTION
Penulis/Author: Jeffrey Masson
Penerbit/Publisher: Vintage
Edisi/Edition: 1999
Halaman/Pages: 240
Dimensi/Dimension: 13 x 20 x 1.5cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: English
Call No.: 590/Mas/e/C.1

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' The greatest joy and the greatest expression of love of which the human male is capable'

With fascinating insight, impeccable research and captivating writing, Jeffrey Masson, controversial psychoanalyst and a father himself, showcases the extraordinary behaviour of outstanding fathers in the animal kingdom. From the Emperor penguin, who incubates the eggs of his young by carrying them around on his feet for two months, to the seahorse, the only male animal that gives birth to its young, Masson also examines nature's worst fathers: lions, bears, and humans. A book that will forever change our perceptions of parenthood and love.

WATER: MIRACLE OF NATURE, Thomson King

Judul/Title: WATER: MIRACLE OF NATURE
Penulis/Author: Thomson King
Penerbit/Publisher: Collier Books
Edisi/Edition: 1966
Halaman/Pages: 213
Dimensi/Dimension: 10.5 x 18 x 1.5cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: English
Call No.: 551/Kin/w/C.1

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"In water, life was conceived, and from water it was born."

Life and water on this planet are inseparable. Life began in the sea. The great majority of living things are still in the oceans. Land devoid of water is devoid of life. Water is the greatest of solvents. Protoplasm, the bearer of life, is a solution or suspension in water. Our bodies are more than three-fourths water, and our world is what water has made it. The life and welfare of man are inextricably bound to water.

Water: Miracle of Nature is a study of water as a broad elemental force in our existence, a detailed description of its individual states, and a history of how man has put it to use down through the ages. Whether it is in the ocean, a flowing stream, an iceberg, a steam boiler, or a cloud; whether it is hard water, soft water, heavy water, or soda water; whether it is a rainbow, a tear, a frost crystal, or a glacier, Thomson King describes its qualities, properties, and characteristic with authority and enthusiasm. His book is the story of what water, in all its forms, has done to the world and life, and of what man has done with and to water.

Thomson King, a commercial engineering who has long made a hobby of the study water, is the executive vice-president of the Maryland Academy of Science.

STEPHEN HAWKING: QUEST FOR A THEORY OF EVERYTHING, Kitty Ferguson

Judul/Title: STEPHEN HAWKING: QUEST FOR A THEORY OF EVERYTHING
Penulis/Author: Kitty Ferguson
Penerbit/Publisher: Bantam Book
Edisi/Edition: 1995
Halaman/Pages: 192
Dimensi/Dimension: 12.5 x 20 x 1.5cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: English
Call No.: 925/Fer/s/C.1

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This is the story of one of the most remarkable figures of the late twentieth century - Professor Stephen Hawking, the Cambridge genius who has earned an international reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. His book, A Brief History of Time, has sold 8 million copies worldwide and familiarized a whole generation with complex but intensely exciting scientific theories.

When Kitty Ferguson approached Stephen Hawking with the idea of writing a book about him and asked him to help her make certain she understood his theories, he agreed to do so and also supplied her with material about his childhood and life. This book is the splendid result.

It is not a biography per se. It is rather the story of one man's quest to find the 'Theory of Everything'. In these pages you will encounter a multitude of amazing paradoxes: Beginnings may be endings... Two great scientific theories taken together seem to give us nonsense... Empty space isn't empty... Black holes aren't black... Cruel circumstances can lead to happiness, although fame and success may not... and a man whose appearance inspires shock and pity takes us laughing to where the boundaries of space and time ought to be -- but are not.

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GEN TUHAN, Dean Hamer

Judul/Title: GEN TUHAN: IMAN SUDAH TERTANAM DALAM GEN KITA
Penulis/Author: Dean Hamer
Penerbit/Publisher: Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Edisi/Edition: I, 2006
Halaman/Pages: 253
Dimensi/Dimension: 15 x 23 x 1cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Call No.: 215/Ham/g/C.1

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Buku yang memecahkan "kode" dan menyingkap alasan mengapa manusia cenderung percaya akan Tuhan.

Kecenderungan manusia bersikap religius bukanlah suatu kebetulan, melainkan secara meyakinkan disebabkan oleh gen-gen dalam dirinya -- demikian pendirian Dr. Dean Hamer. Banyak temuan baru di bidang gentika perilaku dan neurobiologi menunjukkan bahwa setiap manusia mewarisi dalam dirinya kecenderungan yang membuat otak manusia harus sekaligus siap menerima "kekuatan yang lebih tinggi".

Dengan menganalisis pengaruh genetis yang membentuk diri manusia dan membandingkan semua sampel DNA subjek penelitiannya dengan skala pengukur kadar spiritualitas, Dr. Hamer berhasil mengindetifikasi sebuah gen, yakni yang disebutnya "gen Tuhan", yang tampaknya membangun spiritualitas manusia.

Dalam buku yang ditulis dengan seimbang dan jujur tanpa berusaha meneguhkan atau menyangkal keberadaan Tuhan ini, ia dengan brilian menjelaskan bagaimana kecenderungan kita pada iman dipengaruhi oleh gen-gen kita.

Sebuah buku yang dapat menjembatani jurang antara agama dan ilmu pengetahuan.