Science

Spices, scents and silks were at the centre of world trade for millennia. Exotic luxuries such as cinnamon, ginger, pepper, saffron, clove, frankin...

With a new introduction placing Plato's great work at the heart of ancient concepts of human organization and justice, this new edition of The Repu...

A clear, accessible introduction to modern and American thought by the influentual philosopher, psychologist, educator and author William James. Th...

The Interpretation of Dreams is an essential work of psychological and cultural heritage and probably the most important of Freuds impressive outpu...

The book offers an exciting, non-technical intellectual journey around applying feedback control to emerging and managing local and global crises, ...

This book contains a selection of texts written by the Rabbi and Vienna Circle member Josef Schächter after his emigration to Palestine/Israel. The...

Review of Army Research Laboratory Programs for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions examines the ways in which h...

Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons delves into the complex issue of misinformation in our daily lives. The book synthesizes thr...

The seven articles in this edited volume address the complex meanings that visual representations of plants and animals gained in early modern Chin...

This book discusses computational methods related to biological models using mathematical tools and techniques. The book chapters concentrate on nu...

The book discusses ideas concerning the order and balance of nature (or economy of nature) from the late 17th century to the early 20th century. Th...

Leemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a better basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substa...

For better and worse, the future is often conceived in technological terms. Technology is supposed to meet the challenge of climate change or resou...

This Atlas of the History of Modern Science functions as a textbook to help the student, by means of diagrams and flowcharts, to better understand ...

Have you ever looked at a word and thought: I wonder where that came from? You might well find the answer in this book, which considers the origin ...

It has been observed that rapid population expansion has raised the amount of anthropogenic activity, resulting in high levels of pollution in wate...

Professor Chen-Ning Yang is best known for his achievements in Physics. He has also made significant contributions to the development of mathematic...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of TED talks as a digital-multimodal video genre, exploring the ways in which myriad rhetorical, structur...

Visceral.Wall Street Journal     Illuminating.Publishers Weekly     Heroic.Science The immune system holds the key to human health. In The Beautifu...