History of Science

A masterful biography of Alfred Wegener (18801930), the German scientist who discovered continental drift.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic...

A young theoretical physicist's guide to how the radical new science of counterfactuals can reveal the full scope of our universeThere is a vast cl...

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPHSHORTLISTED FOR THE HUGHES PRIZE'A riveting chronicle of faulty science, false promise...

The first comprehensive history of psychiatry's biblethe Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.Over the past seventy years, the Dia...

Since its publication in 2002, Science and Religion has proven to be a widely admired survey of the complex relationship of Western religious trad...

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Cybernetics-the science of communication and control as it applies to machines and to humans-originates from e...

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Cybernetics-the science of communication and control as it applies to machines and to humans-originates from e...

In Health Care in America, historian John C. Burnham describes changes over four centuries of medicine and public health in America. Beginning with...

Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities an...

How the story of Noah's Flood was central to the development of a global environmental consciousness in early modern Europe.Winner, Morris D. Forko...

Change in human understanding of the natural world during the early modern period marks one of the most important episodes in intellectual history....

How the story of Noah's Flood was central to the development of a global environmental consciousness in early modern Europe.Winner, Morris D. Forko...

A Financial Times and Scientific American Best Book of the Year.A story of alchemy in Bohemian Paris, where two scientific outcasts discovered a fu...

How landowners, drainage projectors, and investors worked with the Crown to transform England's waterlogged Fens.2017 Choice Outstanding Academic T...

David I. Spanagel explores the origins of American geology and the culture that promoted it in nineteenth-century New York. Focusing on Amos Eaton,...

For decades, the creationist movement was primarily situated in the United States. Then, in the 1970s, American creationists found their ideas welc...

A treasure for anyone interested in early modern India and the history of mathematics, this first English translation of the Siddhantasundara revea...

Gran Paradiso National Park is Italys oldest, and was instrumental in preventing the extinction of the Alpine ibex between World War I and just aft...

Since 2000, the National Science Foundation has depended upon its pioneering FastLane e-government system to manage grant applications, peer revie...

Drawing on New Testament studies and recent scholarship on the expansion of the Christian church, Gary B. Ferngren presents a comprehensive histori...

This book explores how the social sciences became entangled with the global Cold War. While duly recognizing the realities of nation states, nation...

In 1712, English naturalist Mark Catesby (16831749) crossed the Atlantic to Virginia. After a seven-year stay, he returned to England with painting...

Albert Einstein may be best known as the wire-haired whacky physicist who gave us the theory of relativity, but that's just one facet of this geniu...