History of Science

Why has the chicken become the meat par excellence, the most plentifully eaten and popular animal protein in the world, consumed from Beijing to Ba...

With the Soviet Unions launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into ...

'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter Frankopan'A wonderful book' Sunday Telegraph, 5*'Triumphant' Literary ReviewDURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, ...

Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon's The Epochs of Nature, originally published as Les Époques de la Nature in 1778, is one of the first gre...

In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibilitythe capacity to be transformed by one's e...

In 1971, psychologist Philip Zimbardo ran the now famous Stanford prison experiment to show that prison could make normal people behave in patholog...

When Hitler came to power in 1933 he promised the German people a technocratic state where science, technology and education would grow and flouris...

A timely history of the connections between science, segregation, and species in twentieth-century South Africa.Throughout the twentieth century, r...

Since virtually its first moments as an academic science, women have played a major role in the development of psychology, gaining from the outset ...

The themes running through the book are friends and friendships. It is not an academic study of friendship. It is about the relationships with some...

By early morning 30 June 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford Universitys brand-new Museum of Natural History. The occasion w...

Over the last half century, a quiet revolution has taken place. In a series of breathtaking discoveries, biochemist Thomas Cech and a diverse cast ...

An innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe--highlighting his fascination and feuds with science. Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one...

Tracing the life of a giant in inorganic chemistry and key trends in his science, Boranes and Beyond follows Hawthorne from his mid-American origin...

Volume I introduces the history of scientific thought (including social and human science). The area covered in this volume is ancient Mesopotamia,...

Discover the true genius behind history's greatest madmen. From Dr. Frankenstein to Dr. Jekyll, the image of the mad scientist surrounded by gl...

If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years! With...

Since their invention, computers have kept revolutionizing the world at a staggering pace. And yet, through recent conquests in AI and computer gra...

'A delight' Dara O Briain'A witty, smart writer who has a great talent' Bill Gates'A winning blend of education and anecdote' Clive Cookson, FTWhy ...