History of Science, Paperback

A comprehensive account of knowledge of the natural world in Europe, c.1500-1700. Articles by leading specialists describe how new ideas, discoveri...

An introduction to constructivism, this book is a research paradigm that reflects on the importance of this theory, tells the history of its rise t...

This sweeping volume provides a thorough accounting of Gramsci's relevance to the history of science.Publisher: Haymarket BooksNumber of pages: 440...

Reducere. A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin's Ghosts--a groundbreaking examination of the greatest e...

Weaving together intellectual history, philosophy, and social studies, this book offers an appraisal of the history of science and the nature of th...

Publisher: Elsevier Science & TechnologyAuthor(s): Izumi (Professor, Graduate School of Sport and Health Science, Japan) TabataNumber of pages: 152...

This ambitious volume paints a rich picture of the tools and techniques of printing, publishing, and reading that shaped the ideas and practices th...

'[A] gripping study of Western attitudes to women of a certain age and older ... Scared of the change, or just keen on social history? Here's your ...

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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...

Reducere. This classic MUP text discusses the historical development of science, technology and medicine in Western Europe and North America from the Renaiss...

Reducere. One of the world's most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey--into the most intriguing and intractable q...

Beginning with the birth of the scientific method, through the Scientific Revolution to the present day, The History of Science in Bite-sized Chunk...

Reducere. Explore the sand dunes of Mars; Saturn's giant moon, Titan; the Moon's Sea of Tranquility, and other distant worlds in this thrilling coloring book...

Reducere. S ances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century. Though skep...

Publisher: The Islamic Texts SocietyAuthor(s): Osman BakarNumber of pages: 276Publication date: 1999Dimensions: 208 x 142 x 21Cover type: Paperback...

Reducere. Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination - John Dewey In A History of Science, Mary Cruse takes readers on a fa...

Beginning with the birth of science in the ancient Greeks, the collection contains just about every major textual source in the growth of science, ...

Reducere. Count Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (1879- 1950), was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist most remembered for developing the theory of g...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Jimena CanalesIllustration(s): 16 b/w illus.Number of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

Reducere. DescriptionHorse racing and the Commonwealth of Kentucky are synonymous. The equine industry in the state dates as far back as the eighteenth centu...

Reducere. DescriptionNow in its third edition, The Rise of Early Modern Science argues that to understand why modern science arose in the West it is essentia...

Reducere. Crime novelist and former police officer Nigel McCrery provides an account of all the major areas of forensic science from around the world over th...

From man's first exploration of natural materials and their transformations to today's materials science, chemistry has always been the central dis...

A fascinating tour of the latest genetic discoveries, Rutherford reveals what our genes tell us about human history and what history can now tell u...

Reducere. DescriptionUntil the sixteenth century, people believed in magic as a way of explaining how the world worked. Indeed Queen Elizabeth I had a court ...

Reducere. Welcome to the first in a series of books that showcases writings from Zygote Quarterly magazine. The Science of Seeing collects firsthand reports ...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Hannah Star RogersIllustration(s): 42 figuresNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 3...

Reducere. "A carefully reasoned history of astronomy ... clearly the work of a man who loved his subject." -- The Times (London) Literary Supplement.Few hist...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: MR Robin Oliver WalkerInformation on Black scientists and inventors is becoming more readily available to the general publi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Supreme UnderstandingAuthor: C'Bs Alife AllahTHIS BOOK WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE SCIENCE The Science of Self is a dynamic...

Reducere. Over the past five centuries, advances in Western understanding of and control over the material world have strongly influenced European responses ...

Reducere. This Is A New Release Of The Original 1915 Edition.

Reducere. DescriptionAntarctica is a land about to be exposed over its well-guarded secrets and ancient hidden mysteries ... In 1955, as a result of a secret...

Reducere. No institution is as critically important to America's security. No American institution is as controversial. And, after the White House, Congress,...

A masterful survey of the history of Marxist philosophy of science Sheehan retraces the development of a Marxist philosophy of science through deta...

Reducere. A surprising look at the role of menopause in human history-and why we should change the ways we think about it Are the ways we look at menopause a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: MR Robin WalkerBlacks and Science Volume Two Did YOU know any of the following facts? o The Bamoun Kingdom, now in today's ...

Reducere. The dramatic stories of ten historic feuds: How they altered the course of discovery-and shaped the modern worldHall Hellman tells the lively stori...

Detailed, engaging, and beautifully written, the fourth edition of A History of Science in Society explores the many ways in which science and soci...

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

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The printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet, the battery--these are all great ideas. But where do they come from? What kind of environment bre...

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

This textbook presents the modern history of psychology through a lively and engaging survey of eminent thinkers in the field. Covering 1850 to the...

This Element denaturalises political science, stressing the contestability and contingency of ideas, traditions, subfields, and even the discipline...

Drawing on the past 400 years of history, Susan D. Jones and Peter A. Koolmees present the first global history of veterinary medicine and animal h...

Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Sidarta RibeiroTranslator: Daniel HahnNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 19...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Francois JacobNumber of pages: 376Collection: Princeton Science LibraryPublication date: 2022Dimens...

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

Learn how to navigate the world of science through mind maps

Contributor(s): Author: Stefanos GeroulanosAuthor: Todd MeyersThe injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How ...

Reducere. Nearly two-thirds of the Civil War's approximately 750, 000 fatalities were caused by disease--a staggering fact for which the American medical pro...

Description"Riveting . . . The Vaccine Race] invites comparison with Rebecca Skloot's 2007 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks."--Nature "This is ...

From the pestilence which contributed to the downfall of Rome to the dancing manias of medieval Europe, the aristocracy's fashion for wearing wigs ...

Why do we see the world the way we do? An unusual history of sight across 500 million years.Publisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Susan Denham...

Reducere. The history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is nevertheless a mirror of the history of man. Petr Beckman...

Evolution is one of the most fundamental principles that governs life. Its actions may be subtle, but they can be observed every day, such as preda...

Reducere. The Natural History of Ireland by Philip O'Sullivan Beare (c.1590 - 1660) is an important source of the history of Ireland's natural environment an...

Reducere. Specifically designed as an integrated survey of the development of analytic geometry, this classic study takes a unique approach to the history of...

Reducere. This book is ideal for a junior or senior level course in the history of mathematics for mathematics majors intending to become teachers. This titl...

Reducere. Noboru Hirota has produced a major historical analysis of how the field of chemistry has evolved over centuries. Spanning more than eight hundred p...

Find out what vaccines are, how they were invented and how they are developed todayPublisher: Hachette Children's GroupAuthor(s): Sarah RidleyNumbe...

Reducere. The Lucifer Priciple is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the...

A collection of the weirdest and wackiest theories from science and history by bestselling author of Elephants on Acid, Alex Boese.

DescriptionSince its beginnings at the start of the 20th century, educational scholarship has been a marginal field, criticized by public policy ma...

How we walk, where we walk, why we walk tells the world who and what we are. Whether it's once a day to the car, or for long weekend hikes, or as c...

Yuval Noah Harari's bestselling phenomenon now in a beautifully packaged new special edition. Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old.

Reducere. When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-sp...