History

A Smithsonian Book of the YearA Nature Book of the Year"Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans."-SmithsonianIn 1864 a US Army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota and...

How herbaria illuminate the past and future of plant science Collections of preserved plant specimens, known as herbaria, have existed for nearly five centuries. These pressed and labeled plants have been essential resources for scientists, allowing...

This book tells the stories of scientists from Germany and other European countries who vanished during World War II. These erudite scholars contributed to diverse scientific fields and were associated with some of the world's leading universities and...

Published to commemorate the centennial of the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species", this volume brings together several important essays on the history of the idea of evolution. Included are discussions of Maupertuis, Buffon, Diderot, Kant,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143111344Author Dava SobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *...

This core textbook gathers an international team of historians to present a comprehensive account of the central themes in the histories of Britain, British America, and the British Caribbean seen in Atlantic perspective. This collection of individual...

Since the late Stone Age, approximately 10 percent of humans have been left-handed, yet for most of human history left-handedness has been stigmatized. In On the Other Hand, Howard I. Kushner traces the impact of left-handedness on human cognition,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767908160Author Mario LivioFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

This book analyzes the origins of statistical thinking as well as its related philosophical questions, such as causality, determinism or chance. Bayesian and frequentist approaches are subjected to a historical, cognitive and epistemological analysis,...

This lively collection of essays examines in witty detail the history of some of the concepts involved in bringing statistical argument "to the table," and some of the pitfalls that have been encountered. The topics range from seventeenth-century...

ESCAPE FROM EARTH is the untold story of the engineers, dreamers and rebels who started the American space programme. In particular, it is the story of Frank Malina, founder of what became Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the scientist who cracked...

Over the last forty years, scientists have uncovered evidence that if the Universe had been forged with even slightly different properties, life as we know it - and life as we can imagine it - would be impossible. Join us on a journey through how we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408765Author Janina WellmannFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

This work seeks to show that science is rooted not just in conversation but in disagreement, doubt and uncertainty. Mara Beller argues that it is precisely this culture of dialogue and controversy within the scientific community that fuels creativity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486600901Author Euclid EuclidFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked to the bodily fabric to reveal the 'truth' of mental...

This book is open access under a CC BY license and charts the rise and fall of various self-harming behaviours in twentieth-century Britain. It puts self-cutting and overdosing into historical perspective, linking them to the huge changes that occur in...

'Nominally a history of the hot air balloon, 'Falling Upwards' is really a history of hope and fantasy - and the quixotic characters who disobeyed that most fundamental laws of physics and gave humans flight' New Republic, Best Books of 2013 ...

Cambridge is now world-famous as a centre of science, but it wasn't always so. Before the nineteenth century, the sciences were of little importance in the University of Cambridge. But that began to change in 1819 when two young Cambridge fellows took a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743216760Author Ken AlderFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 141mm *...

Rising from a humble background in rural southern Ireland, John Tyndall became one of the foremost physicists, communicators of science, and polemicists in mid-Victorian Britain. In science, he is known for his important work in meteorology, climate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116721Author Tom ZoellnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 337g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170168Author Girolamo CardanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

A landmark history of early radio in Germany and the quest for broadcast fidelityWhen we turn on a radio or stream a playlist, we can usually recognize the instrument we hear, whether it's a cello, a guitar, or an operatic voice. Such fidelity was not...

How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elements, the works of Bach are often said to possess a math-like logic, and Igor Stravinsky said "musical form is...

In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156141505Author Robert JungFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 359g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805065893Author Gregg HerkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)...

Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that...

Mars has captured the human imagination for decades. Since NASA's establishment in 1958, the space agency has looked to Mars as a compelling prize, the one place, beyond the Moon, where robotic and human exploration could converge. Remarkably successful...

Have you ever heard of a four-footed bird? Can you really teach a dog to read? Where would you find a kangaroo crossed with a lion? In this brilliant and bizarre follow-up to Great Victorian Inventions, Caroline Rochford reveals the wondrous...

This comprehensive history traces the development of mathematical ideas and the careers of the mathematicians responsible for them. Originally published in 1972, it is now available as a three volume paperback edition. Volume 1 looks at the discipline's...

At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi's world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by everyone. Her deafness downplayed by society and doctors, she struggled to "pass" as hearing for most of her life...

For millennia humans have studied the skies to help them grow crops, navigate the seas, and earn favor from their gods. We still look to the stars today for answers to fundamental questions: How did the universe begin? Will it end, and if so, how? What...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735221826Author Marcus du SautoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

In 1930s Bucharest, some of the country's most brilliant young intellectuals converged to form the Criterion Association. Bound by friendship and the dream of a new, modern Romania, their members included historian Mircea Eliade, critic Petru Comarnescu,...

The Ptolemaic system of the universe, with the earth at the center, had held sway since antiquity as authoritative in philosophy, science, and church teaching. Following his observations of the heavenly bodies, Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) abandoned...

Why do aircraft fly? How do their wings support them? In the early years of aviation, there was an intense dispute between British and German experts over the question of why and how an aircraft wing provides lift. The British, under the leadership of...

Ask a scientist about Hollywood, and you'll probably get eye rolls. But ask someone in Hollywood about science, and they'll see dollar signs: moviemakers know that science can be the source of great stories, with all the drama and action that...

In Sex, Gender and Science , Myra Hird outlines the social study of science and nature, specifically in relation to 'sex', sex 'differences' and sexuality. She examines how Western understandings of 'sex' are based less upon understanding material sex...