History of Science

How do cats land on their feet? Discover how this question stumped brilliant minds and how its answer helped solve other seemingly impossible puzzl...

How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China''s information technology successes today. Chinese w...

Look around. Clearly, we humans are radically different from the other creatures on this planet. But why? Where are the Bronze Age beavers? The Iro...

Darwinian Feminism in Early Science Fiction provides the first detailed scholarly examination of womens SF in the early magazine period before the ...

A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a warped lens, one focused narro...

How a new mathematical field grew and matured in America Graph Theory in America focuses on the development of graph theory in North America from 1...

An inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing women astronomers from around the globeThe Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse col...

Architects of Structural Biology is an amalgam of memoirs, biography, and intellectual history of the personalities and single-minded devotion of f...

By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centur...

The little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the worldThe Sahara is the ...

The history of particle physics, the hunt for the most elusive particle, and the fundamental questions the search has inspired How did physicists c...

Biologist James Watson and physicist Francis Cricks 1953 revelation about the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every ad...

Of all the senses, touch is the most ineffable--and the most neglected in Western culture, all but ignored by philosophers and artists over millenn...

Of all the senses, touch is the most ineffable--and the most neglected in Western culture, all but ignored by philosophers and artists over millenn...

Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From ope...

Sprinter and Sprummer challenges the traditional four seasons, and encourages us to think about how we view changes in our natural world.Since 1788...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my c...

'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY...

Reviewing the history and causes of climatic change and evaluating regional models, this New Naturalist volume offers an important analysis of clim...

For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendou...

When Darwin announced his theory of evolution by natural selection, he did more than transform biology. Before his great work, humans were comforta...

What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything--it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In...

The origins and development of the modern American emergency stateFrom pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming, to cybera...

The origins and development of the modern American emergency stateFrom pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming, to cybera...

An accessible history of the idea of purpose in Western thought, from ancient Greece to the presentCan we live without the idea of purpose? Should ...

A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and tech...

Many of the worlds most renowned and exciting ornamental plantsincluding magnolias, roses, rhododendrons, tree peonies, lilies, and blue poppieshav...

Did you know that Florence Nightingale pioneered the use of statistics in public health? That Marie Curie is still the only person to have won the ...

A definitive account of the natural history of the Hawkesbury River and the pivotal role it has played in history.The Hawkesbury River is the longe...

Winner of: National Science Teachers Foundation/Children's Book Council, Outstanding Science Trade Book Award Against all oddsthe paths forged by t...

Depression has colonized the world. Today, more than 300 million of us have been diagnosed as depressed. But 150 years ago, depression referred to ...

The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural eraOver the course of five mill...

Do we really need another Ned Kelly book? After all, his story is a part of Australian folklore and his legend has been captured in movies, books a...

Laika began her life as a stray dog on the streets of Moscow and died in 1957 aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik II. Initially the USSR reported t...

How herbaria illuminate the past and future of plant science   Collections of preserved plant specimens, known as herbaria, have existed for nearly...