History of Science

This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to ...

'Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thriller' Mail on Sunday'Chock full of memorable char...

The Repair Shop's Dominic Chinea takes you on an exploration of 100 essential machines found in the workshops and studios of the world's finest art...

The clarity, authority, wit and insight Lawrence brings to bear are like torches shining into the turbulent darkness of a subject we all wonder at,...

Explore the past, present and future of the everyday stuff in your home, from tinned food to tampons. Learn how 30,000 bath toys and the work of am...

The story of the rise and fall of smallpox, one of the most savage killers in the history of mankind, and the only disease ever to be successfully ...

Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler's regime? How did they justify themselves afterwards? Exam...

The first biography of a pioneering scientist who made significant contributions to our understanding of dark matter and championed the advancement...

A fitting biography of one of the most brilliant, acerbic, and under-appreciated astrophysicists of the twentieth century. John Johnson has delved ...

One animal left India in 1515, caged in the hold of a Portuguese ship, and sailed around Africa to Lisbonthe first of its species to see Europe for...

Animal products were used extensively in nineteenth-century Britain. A middle-class Victorian woman might wear a dress made of alpaca wool, drape h...

From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake, an inspirational human history of space travel, from the Apollo missions to our future for...

This crucial intervention in political epistemology offers a comprehensive discussion of the multiple applicability of Gramscian concepts and categ...