History of Science

A contemporary defense of conservationist Aldo Leopolds vision for human interaction with the environment.   Informed by his experiences as a hunte...

A contemporary defense of conservationist Aldo Leopolds vision for human interaction with the environment.   Informed by his experiences as a hunte...

Today's science tells us that our bodies are filled with molecular machinery that orchestrates all sorts of life processes. When we think, microsco...

In today's unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answers--and often blame it when things go wrong. The Blind...

Gösta Mittag-Leffler (18461927) played a significant role as both a scientist and entrepreneur. Regarded as the father of Swedish mathematics, his ...

Scientists often try to understand the world by building simplified and idealised models of it. Adam Toon develops a new approach to scientific mod...

Through an examination that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary literature, this book places the twentieth-century mental ...

This book explores the ways in which Ayurveda, the oldest medical tradition of the Indian subcontinent, was transformed from a composite of 'ancien...

Medics learned quickly to ignore standing operating procedures in order to save lives but tensions within infantry units created a paradoxical cult...

Clerics in the Middle Ages were subjected to differing ideals of masculinity, both from within the Church and from lay society. The historians in t...

Eleven essays by historians and sociologists examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and North America. These...

Assuming power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party was soon faced with a crucial problem: how to construct the socialist 'New Man'? Using Foucault...

This volume challenges the widespread belief that scientific knowledge as such is international. Employing case studies from Austria, Poland, the C...

This beautifully written history traces the fortunes of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries in Chile. It explains how they showed Chileans a new ...

Modernism and Eugenics comprehensively explores modern Europe's fixation with eugenic programmes of racial and national purification. It convincing...

Modernism and Eugenics comprehensively explores modern Europe's fixation with eugenic programmes of racial and national purification. It convincing...

Focusing on a wide range of philosophers and writers, from Nietzsche to Derrida and Flaubert to Borges, this book charts the history of the deploym...

Two leading physicists discuss the importance of the Higgs Boson, the future of particle physics, and the mysteries of the universe yet to be unrav...

Quantum theory is the bedrock of contemporary physics and the basis of understanding matter in its tiniest dimensions and the vast universe as a wh...

This book delves into Einstein's fascinating, although lesser-known, journey to Malaya in 1922 and 1923. During a trip to Japan at the end of 1922,...