History of Science

Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 to acco...

In A Brief History of Black Holes, the award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific bre...

Throughout the world, schizophrenia is a diagnosis now in decline, representing a radical shift in our historical and medical understanding of madn...

Recovering the forgotten discipline of Natural Philosophy for the modern world This book argues for the retrieval of 'natural philosophy', a conce...

A generation or two before Socrates, thinkers classified the world's organisms into three categories: plants, animals, and man. However, Aristotle ...

Andrew Cooper presents the first systematic study of Kant's account of natural history. Cooper contends that Kant made a decisive contribution to o...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Queer Feminist Science Studies takes a transnational, trans-species, and intersectional approach to this cutting-edge area of inquiry between women...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

The humanities include disciplines as diverse as literary theory, linguistics, history, film studies, theology, and philosophy. Do these various fi...

An original study of late Enlightenment aesthetics, poetics, and environmental medicine as overlapping ways of comprehending the dislocations of hi...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Over the past 250 years, energy transitions have occurred repeatedlythe rise of coal in the nineteenth century, the explosion of oil in the twentie...

Scientists regularly employ historical narrative as a rhetorical tool in their communication of science, yet there's been little reflection on its ...

Longlisted for the 2024 SHNH Natural History Book Prize An exploration of plant wisdom, from the Southern Mountain Tea Flower to the Dawn RedwoodCh...

'Compelling' Christopher Hart, The Sunday Times'A fascinating book' Daily Mail_______________________________________________________________We thi...