The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Hardcover - C. P. Snow

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The prize-winning fifth book in C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers sequence. Set in 1937, it follows the struggle for the mastership of a Cambridg...

DescriptionAlchemy can't be science--common sense tells us as much. But perhaps common sense is not the best measure of what science is, or was. In...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Gertrude HimmelfarbNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2001Dimensions: 202 x 130 x 13Cover type: Paperb...

The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain - Guy Ortolano

Publisher: North Atlantic Books, U.S.Author(s): Philip Ashley FanningNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 228 x 153 x 18Cover type...

In this fascinating look at the European scientific advances of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, historian Lisa Jardine demonstrates...

Description"There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it." With this provocative and apparently paradoxical cl...

This book tells the story of how the "servile arts" turned into the "mechanical arts, " which in turn developed into a kind of philosophical appara...

The first textbook covering the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution. Providing students of all backgrounds with the...

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the "Scientific ...

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Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remark...

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DescriptionNanotechnology is a buzz word many of us have heard but are uncertain what it really means. This book works to dispel the myths and unra...

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DescriptionThis book is concerned with cheating in Science and the harm that it does, concentrating on three disasters in cell culture, which cause...

An FBI agent hunts a new kind of terrorist through a Washington, DC, of the future in this groundbreaking book - at once a gripping technothriller ...

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Reducere. This volume brings together a collection of seven articles previously published by the author, with a new introduction reframing the articles in th...

DescriptionA journey through the Index Revolution from the man who started it allStay the Course is the story the Vanguard Group as told by its fou...

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