A Little History of Science

Reducere. Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying he...

Reducere. Teixeira and Park present over 60 different magic tricks while introducing students to high-level math areas. Readers will learn really interesting...

In 1965, French microbiologist André Lwoff was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on lysogeny--one of the two types of ...

Reducere. Outside of scientific journals, archaeologists are depicted as searching for lost cities and mystical artifacts in news reports, television, video ...

Reducere. THE ROPEWORM PROTOCOL BIBLE - HUMAN ASCENSION MANUAL unveils the truth of how Satan has genetically sabotaged every human body in order to deceive ...

For centuries, women have played key roles in defining and developing the field of vertebrate paleontology. Yet very little is known about these im...

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...

Reducere. Charles Darwin called it "a little world within itself." Sailors referred to it as "Las Encantadas"-- the enchanted islands. Lying in the eastern P...

DescriptionThough most historians remember her as the mistress of Voltaire, Emilie Du Ch telet (1706-49) was an accomplished writer in her own righ...

DescriptionThis book presents a little-known aspect of America's aircraft development of World War II in emphasizing unique and non-production airc...

Reducere. Over the past seventy years, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, has evolved from a virtually unknown and little-use...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Britt RusertExposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing t...

Reducere. NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Pulitzer Prize Finalist and the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of...

Reducere. "The convertors would spew it out, " employee Arturo Hernandez recalled, referring to molten metal. "You'd see the ground, the dirt, catch on fire....

A lavishly illustrated celebration of each of the world's sixty-eight currently recognized eagle species in all their magnificence and beguiling di...

Reducere. WILL COVID-19 EVER END?Kids want, need, and deserve to know what just happened and what it means for their future.In this middle school resource bo...

Reducere. Identity and Difference consists of English translations and the original German versions of two little-known lectures given in 1957 by Martin Heid...

Reducere. The hundreds of millions of years of history folded within Pennsylvania's rocks tell a remarkable story of destruction, creation, and transformatio...

DescriptionIn the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street...

Reducere. DescriptionThe publication of The Alternative not only marked the inauguration of Union Movement, Oswald Mosley's post-War political party, but the...

The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce...

Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncove...

Reducere. The airfield is quiet now A warm breeze bends the grass that was once moved by the engine of the flying fortresses. Seventy-four years earlier, Gle...

DescriptionMounting failures of replication in social and biological sciences give a new urgency to critically appraising proposed reforms. This bo...

DescriptionPhilosophers and poets in times past tried to figure out why the stainless moon "smoothly polished, like a diamond" in Dante's words, ha...

DescriptionThe science, culture and history of breast cancer as told by a reporter who survived it As a health-care journalist, Kate Pickert knew t...

The history of science is replete with women getting little notice for their groundbreaking discoveries. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a tireless innov...

Reducere. This book is a sequel (or better: a prequel) to Immanuel Velikovsky's main work, the best-selling Worlds in Collision, in which he gave a detailed ...

DescriptionCarolyn's parents did not, after all, make genomics history by synthesizing her genome in a lab. She has known she is the "Human Hoax" e...

Reducere. The Red Rockets' Glare is the first academic study on the birth of the Soviet space program and one of the first social histories of Soviet science...

Reducere. Award NameLiterary AwardAward categoryScienceFrom New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, language...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, an...

Reducere. L.A. Times Book PrizeOn the eve of the centennial of the Wright brothers' historic flights at Kitty Hawk, a new generation will learn about the oth...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first popular book to explain the dramatic theory behind the Moon's genesisThis lively science history relates one of the great rece...

Reducere. DescriptionThe epic story and ultimate big history of how human society evolved from intimate chimp communities into the sprawling civilizations of...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nicholas P. MoneyThe great Victorian biologist Thomas Huxley once wrote, "I know of no familiar substance forming part of o...

Reducere. Written in a funny, charming, and conversational style, Word Origins is the first book to offer a thorough investigation of the history and the sci...

Reducere. A beautifully illustrated exploration of Edward Lear's little-known career as a natural-history artist--now in a new expanded paperback edition Edw...

Reducere. Not until Marconi has there been an in-depth biography that focuses on the inventor as businessman/entrepreneur and the global race that took place...

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Reducere. Natural philosophy encompassed all natural phenomena of the physical world. It sought to discover the physical causes of all natural effects and wa...

Reducere. This concise but thorough history encompasses the enduring contributions of the ancient Greek mathematicians whose works form the basis of most mod...

Cambridge is now world-famous as a centre of science, but it wasn't always so. Before the nineteenth century, the sciences were of little importanc...

Reducere. As a child, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter, Rose, thought those stories might make a good book, ...

The secret history of our most vital organ--the human heart The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the hea...

A captivating mixture of memoir, stories from the consulting room, history and science, The Brink of Being is a much-needed, comprehensive look at ...

Reducere. Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on t...

An authority on Alzheimer's disease offers a history of past failures and a roadmap that points us in a new direction in our journey to a cure. For...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Avrum BlumingAuthor: Carol TavrisA compelling defense of hormone replacement therapy, exposing the faulty science behind it...

Reducere. DescriptionA heartbroken belle. A missing suitor. A heroic duke in disguise. Unmask Duke of Shadows and let the highwayman-duke steal your heart En...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sharon K. GilbertThe Ripper murders did not begin in 1888, but in March of 1879, when a beautiful woman is found slain and ...

Contributor(s): Author: Yuval Noah HarariOfficial U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Yuval Noah Harari...

Reducere. The mythology of "gifted land" is strong in the National Park Service, but some of our greatest parks were "gifted" by people who had little if any...

Ethnography centers on the culture of everyday life. So it is ironic that most scholars who do research on the intimate experiences of ordinary peo...

Reducere. This book is a sequel (or better: a prequel) to Immanuel Velikovsky's main work, the best-selling Worlds in Collision, in which he gave a detailed ...

DescriptionEight hundred years ago, the Zhen Empire discovered a broken human colony ship drifting in the fringes of their space. With only a third...

A provocative, exciting exploration of the future of ideas - and the history of technological and cultural progress that has taken us to todayPubli...

Reducere. An objective guide to this fascinating science of history and culture Archaeology continually makes headlines--from recent discoveries like the fro...

Reducere. Informative and Fun! Trivial and Important! Fun Facts and Profound Facts! A treat of science and history facts and compelling stories that will inf...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jon HunnerA social history of New Mexico's "Atomic City" Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the Atomic Age, is the commu...

A mysterious stranger possesses a disturbing secret in this thrilling H. G. Wells graphic novel adaptation In the midst of winter, a snowstorm blow...

Reducere. Science is based not only on observation and experiment, but on theory as well. As Einstein said, "Theory tells us what to measure." And theories a...

E. H. Gombrich's bestselling history of the world for young readers tells the story of mankind from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb, focusing not ...

Finally, the ultimate book about climate change for kids ages 8-12 Perfect for home-schooling and virtual and blended learning, Palm Trees at the N...

As a young boy, Ian Petrie was diagnosed with autism and given little hope for a typical future. Then, unexpectedly, his parents found the answer t...

Reducere. Defining the Wind is a wonderfully written account of one man's crusade to learn about what the wind is made of by tracing the history of the Beauf...

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Reducere. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeThe early years of the nineteenth century saw an intriguing yet little-known scientific advance catapult ...

Reducere. Author Diann Jordan took a journey to find out what inspired and daunted black women in their desire to become scientists in America. Letting 18 pr...

Reducere. Research into vitamin C is progressing rapidly despite a lack of funding from conventional medicine into its clinical applications. Orthomolecular ...