A History of Mathematics

Why do we measure time in the way that we do? Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? Why are some ca...

DescriptionCoal, gas, and oil have powered our societies for hundreds of years. But the pace at which we use them changed dramatically in the twent...

Since ancient times, humans have been engaged in a continual quest to find meaning in and make sense of sights and events in the night sky. Culture...

Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah was a Syrian Arab physician of the 13th century who compiled a biographical encyclopedia of notable physicians, and scholars from...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Steven A. FrankIllustration(s): 55 b/w illus.Number of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

Reducere. This is a detailed history of one of the most important and dramatic episodes in modern science, recounted from the novel vantage point of the dawn...

Suggesting that the replacement of an animistic worldview with a mechanistic one has led humans to deny their animality, Flight from Grace calls on...

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Winner of the Frank Watson Prize in Scottish History, 2011 The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of ...

Discover the most impactful and incredible episodes from history, from the prehistoric era to the present day, told through the story of fifty of t...

An enthralling narrative journey through the history and geography of Mars by an award-winning writer, geologist and geophysicist.Publisher: Elliot...

The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving.Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Joseph JebelliNumber of page...

This volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices withi...

On this blue planet, long before pterodactyls took to the skies and tyrannosaurs prowled the continents, tiny green organisms populated the ancient...

One of the most controversial, cutting-edge ideas in cosmology-the possibility that there exist multiple parallel universes-in fact has a long hist...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Steve BrusatteNumber of pages: 528Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 236 x 164 x 39Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

Reducere. Until the publication of this book, historians had largely neglected the effects of technology on the course of human history. Political, economic,...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Clifford ConnerWe all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telesco...

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John C. Kendrew (1917-1997) was a pioneer in structural biology and a catalyst for the emergence of molecular biology in the second half of the twe...

Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co IncAuthor(s): Anthony Robert (Founder of Rees Consulting AB, Stockholm, Sweden) ReesNumber of pages: 514P...

How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origin...

Mosquitoes in Hawaii, sea lampreys in the Great Lakes, mountain goats in the Olympic Mountains of Washington State not one of these species is nati...

Contributor(s): Author: Joanne SouzaAuthor: Paul M. BinghamA new biological theory of human uniqueness and theory of everything based in human evol...

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Reducere. DescriptionGerrard Dickson proposes here a series of alternative theories of astronomy, the place of the Earth and Sun in the universe, and the mat...

A monumental, sweeping journey from the ancient roots of neurology to the most astonishing recent research, which Henry Marsh (Admissions) called a...

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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): A. C. GraylingNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 31Cover type: Paperback / so...

Charles Darwin's theories, first published more than 150 years ago, still set the paradigm of how we understand the evolution of life--but scientif...

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Reducere. What is algebra? For some, it is an abstract language of x's and y's. For mathematics majors and professional mathematicians, it is a world of axio...

How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions evolved with us?Publisher: Harp...

From the Big Bang to black holes and supernovas, this is the complete story of the universe unravelled into one concise narrative.Publisher: Orion ...

Contributor(s): Author: Hans-Jorg RheinbergerIn this powerful work of conceptual and analytical originality, the author argues for the primacy of t...

The author of this history of mankind's increasingly successful attempts to understand, to measure and to map the Earth's gravity field (commonly k...

"A History of the Human Brain is a unique, enlightening, and provocative account of the most significant question we can ask about ourselves." --Ri...

Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Henry GeeNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 136 x 188 x 28Cover type: Hardbac...

Black Holes are the universe's strangest and most fascinating objects - Dr Becky explains all, and why nearly everything you know about them is wro...

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The incredible story of how we learned about the Universe, from the earliest prehistoric observations to the first telescopes. Early astronomy rank...