History of Science

This book illustrates the unnaturalness of modern science and technology by tracing their cognitive, evolutionary, and religious origins. It elabor...

A study of the history of modern insomnia, this book explores how poets, journalists, and doctors of the Victorian period found themselves in near-...

The volume focuses on the relationship between migration, health and illness in a global context from c.1820 to the present day. It takes a wide ra...

Blending global scope with local depth, this book throws new light on important themes. Spanning four centuries and vast space, it combines the his...

This book is open access under a CC BY license. The narrative of 20th-century medicine is the conquering of acute infectious diseases and the rise ...

Charles Hodge engaged the leading thinkers of his day to defend the human ability to know God. This involved him in affirming the importance of bot...

Shortlisted for the 2014 Royal Historical Societys Gladstone Prize and the 2014 Templer Award for the Best First Book by a New Author.Sex and alcoh...

Developmental biology is seemingly well understood, with development widely accepted as being a series of programmed changes through which an egg t...

Why do the best-known examples of evolutionary change involve the alteration of one kind of animal into another very similar one, like the evolutio...

The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history. This cultural history reconstr...

This focused and incisive study reassesses the historic collaboration between James Clerk Maxwell and Thomas Sutton. It reveals that Maxwell and Su...

Since the 18th century, Greenland's geometric center, Eismitte, has been one of the most forbidding but scientifically rich locations in the Arctic...

This book is open access under a CC BY license. The narrative of 20th-century medicine is the conquering of acute infectious diseases and the rise ...

In 1900 Hungary was a regional power in Europe with imperial pretensions; by 1919 it was crippled by profound territorial, social and national tran...

By focusing on chromosomes, Heredity under the Microscope offers a new history of postwar human genetics. Today chromosomes are understood as macro...

Everyone knows the winds touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its soothi...

Trans seems to be everywhere in American culture. Yet there is little understanding of how this came about. Are people aware that there were earlie...

Trans seems to be everywhere in American culture. Yet there is little understanding of how this came about. Are people aware that there were earlie...

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

This is the 21st Volume in the series Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and ...

What are genes? What do genes do? These questions are not simple and straightforward to answer; at the same time, simplistic answers are quite prev...

Cosmology is in crisis. The more we discover, the more puzzling the universe appears to be. How and why are the laws of nature what they are? A phi...

A stunning visual exploration of the power and behavior of light across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Light allows humans to see things arou...