History of Science

Drawing on a decade of immersive ethnography with NASAs robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of two great space missions of the...

A New Scientist Best Book of 2023 Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite as the experi...

Since the beginning of humanity's existence, plants have provided us with everything we need for our survival - they sustain us with air to breathe...

The British Arctic Expedition of 18756 was the first major British naval expedition to the high Arctic where science was almost as important as geo...

A fascinating and funny guide to history's favorite genius-and why he still matters. -A.J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling authorA fascinating l...

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY SUNDAY TIMES AND HISTORY TODAY'Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical thriller th...

A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths'Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday...

What happens when you really get under the skin of the world around you? Everything that surrounds us - and we ourselves - are made of molecules, c...

The brain sciences are influencing our understanding of human behavior as never before, from neuropsychiatry and neuroeconomics to neurotheology an...

When the National Science Foundation funds research about the earth's crust and the Department of Energy supports studies on the disposal of nuclea...

In these articles John Henry argues on the one hand for the intimate relationship between religion and early modern attempts to develop new underst...

Jungs lectures on the history of psychologyin English for the first timeBetween 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at ...

DNA. The double helix; the blueprint of life; and, during the early 1950s, a baffling enigma that could win a Nobel Prize. Everyone knows that Jame...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION War-torn, unstable and virtually bankrupt, revolutionary Russia tried to light its way to ...

In A History of Modern Psychology in Context, the authors resist the traditional storylines of great achievements by eminent people, or schools of ...

'The best book ever written' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianRobert Burton's labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his attempt to 'anatomize and...

Instruments for solving astronomical problems are part of a continuous tradition reaching far back through the Middle Ages into the Hellenistic wor...

Charles Darwin's Historical Sketch has appeared as a preface to nearly every authorized edition of Darwin's Origin of Species since the second Engl...

A global history of malaria that traces the natural and social forces that have shaped its spread and made it deadly, while limiting efforts to eli...

How vermin went from being part of everyone's life to a mark of disease, filth, and lower status.For most of our time on this planet, vermin were c...