History of Science

Darwinian Feminism in Early Science Fiction provides the first detailed scholarly examination of womens SF in the early magazine period before the ...

A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a warped lens, one focused narro...

How a new mathematical field grew and matured in America Graph Theory in America focuses on the development of graph theory in North America from 1...

An inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing women astronomers from around the globeThe Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse col...

Architects of Structural Biology is an amalgam of memoirs, biography, and intellectual history of the personalities and single-minded devotion of f...

By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centur...

The little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the worldThe Sahara is the ...

The history of particle physics, the hunt for the most elusive particle, and the fundamental questions the search has inspired How did physicists c...

Biologist James Watson and physicist Francis Cricks 1953 revelation about the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every ad...

Of all the senses, touch is the most ineffable--and the most neglected in Western culture, all but ignored by philosophers and artists over millenn...

Of all the senses, touch is the most ineffable--and the most neglected in Western culture, all but ignored by philosophers and artists over millenn...

Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From ope...

Sprinter and Sprummer challenges the traditional four seasons, and encourages us to think about how we view changes in our natural world.Since 1788...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my c...

'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY...

Reviewing the history and causes of climatic change and evaluating regional models, this New Naturalist volume offers an important analysis of clim...