History of Science

Explores the intellectual history of Americans divergent assumptions about God, nature, and science Offering fascinating examples from the works of...

Why have elephantsand our preconceptions about thembeen central to so much of human thought?From prehistoric cave drawings in Europe and ancient ro...

A Mind Over Matter is a biography of the Nobel-prize winner Philip W. Anderson, a person widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influe...

Explores the intellectual history of Americans divergent assumptions about God, nature, and science Offering fascinating examples from the works of...

The first major biography of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered neurons and transformed our understanding of the human mind-illustrat...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR**Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award**Picked as a Boo...

In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people o...

The story of mankind's struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medici...

Once the United States landed on the moon in July 1969, it was up to President Nixon to decide what to do in space after Apollo. This book chronicl...

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...

Drawing upon economic history, cultural studies, intellectual history and the history of science and medicine, this collection of case studies exam...

In this remarkable oral history, Slava Gerovitch presents interviews with the men and women who witnessed Soviet space efforts firsthand. Rather th...

Post-industrial landscape scars are traces of 20th century utopian visions of society; they relate to fear and resistance expressed by popular move...

The first academic study of this subject is an entertaining look at the search for Sasquatch which considers not just the nature of monsters and mo...

While there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts, this book uses primary source material and interviews ...

The story of mankind's struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medici...

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a grand vision project to build the most sensitive radio telescope in the world. This open access book tells th...

Giordano Brunos The Ash Wednesday Supper is the first of six philosophical dialogues in Italian that he wrote and published in London between 1584 ...

A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary scienceThe 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) ...

From the primordial soup to meteorite impact zones, the Manhattan Project to the latest research, this book is the first full history of the scient...

The Alphabet of Galen is a critical edition and English translation of a text describing, in alphabetical order, nearly three hundred natural produ...

In the early twentieth century, people in the southwestern Pacific nation of Vanuatu experienced rapid population decline, while in the early twent...

In A History of Science in Society, Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the ...