Natural Experiments of History

Reducere. Lightopia investigates the development of light design, taking a novel perspective by placing the current paradigm shift in the larger context of c...

Reducere. More than 10, 000 years ago spectacularly large mammals roamed the pampas and jungles of South America. This book tells the story of these great be...

DescriptionIf the twentieth century saw the rise of "Big Science, " then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As ...

Reducere. The Great Depression coincided with a wave of natural disasters, including the Dust Bowl and devastating floods of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers....

DescriptionThis sequel to A Life of Experimental Economics, Volume I, continues the intimate history of Vernon Smith's personal and professional ma...

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. "Fascinating. . . . Jardine takes a complex view, according Hooke with the respect and dignity that eluded him for so long. . . [and] with this com...

Reducere. Alchemy offers tremendous insight into alternative therapies, new medicines, and the depths of the human mind. Illuminating a truly esoteric practi...

What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something...

Reducere. Description"An enlightening chronological history." -- ALA BooklistHere is an ideal book for youngsters who are curious about natural forces and wa...

Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard. Mea...

Reducere. Galen of Pergamon, was a prominent Roman physician, surgeon and philosopher. The most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity, Galen c...