History

The history of artificial cold has been a rather intriguing interdisciplinary subject (physics, chemistry, technology, sociology, economics, anthropology, consumer studies) which despite some excellent monographs and research papers, has not been...

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A comprehensive chronicle of Edison's industrial, technological, and electrical pursuits from 1890 to 1892.Thomas A. Edison started the 1890s as one of the most famous people in the Western world, with his name celebrated in small-town newspapers and...

The environment is currently a matter of international public and academic concern, but is often considered separately from health issues. This book brings together work from environmental and health historians to conceptualise the connection between...

A Computer Perspective is an illustrated essay on the origins and first lines of development of the computer. The complex network of creative forces and social pressures that have produced the computer is personified here in the creators of instruments...

The influence and reputation of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), the greatest English political theorist and one of the greatest of all intellectuals, has never been higher than it is now. This book gives a comprehensive treatment of Hobbes' thought in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503508894Author G SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 4260g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528771498Author Gerrard HicksonFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm

Edited by Daniel Rothbart of George Mason University in Virginia, this book is a collection of Rom Harre's work on modeling in science (particularly physics and psychology). In over 28 authored books and 240 articles and book chapters, Rom Harre of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791041985982Author Charles LyellFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint CultureaPublisher CultureaWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791041985708Author Isabel Martin LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint CultureaPublisher CultureaWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791041985463Author William Allan ChappleFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint CultureaPublisher CultureaWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791041985357Author John LubbockFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint CultureaPublisher CultureaWeight(grams) 141g

Due to the current revolution in brain research the search for the "moral brain" became a serious endeavour. Nowadays, neural circuits that are indispensable for moral and social behaviour are discovered and the brains of psychopaths and...

The present anthology, edited by Marcel Herbst, is partially based on a conference, held in 2009, to reflect on the legacy of Ben-David, and contains a selection of substantially revised papers, plus four contributions specifically written for this...

Describes the development and the ultimate demise of the practice of mathematics in sixteenth century Antwerp. Against the background of the violent history of the Religious Wars the story of the practice of mathematics in Antwerp is told through the...

This book examines the textual, social, cultural, practical and institutional environments to which the expression "teaching and learning contexts" refers. It reflects on the extent to which studying such environments helps us to better...

Viewed as a flashpoint of the Scientific Revolution, early modern astronomy witnessed a virtual explosion of ideas about the nature and structure of the world. This study explores these theories in a variety of intellectual settings, challenging our view...

This book uses the reaction of a number of biologists in the United States and Great Britain to provide an overview of one of the most important controversies in Twentieth Century biology, the "Lysenko Affair." The book is written for advanced...

Viewed as a flashpoint of the Scientific Revolution, early modern astronomy witnessed a virtual explosion of ideas about the nature and structure of the world. This study explores these theories in a variety of intellectual settings, challenging our view...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361900020Author VariousFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint UnknownPublisher Unknown

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503514468Author E IhsanogluFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 6250g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503514147Author E NeuenschwanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 821g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503513690Author Maurice DorikensFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 590g

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Success is a slippery, fickle thing. How much is down to luck, being in the right place at the right time or knowing the right people, and how much to innate talent? Why are some people less successful than others? Taking as its frame of reference the...

From 1930-62 the idea of race was studied across a range of academic disciplines. This book explores expert thinkings on race in the period and explains the relationship between scientific racial research, social policy and attitudes regarding...

For more than 40 years politicians, activists, advocates, and individuals have been seeking ways to solve the problem of climate change. Governments and the United Nations have taken an economic path, while others seek solutions in the equality of...

This book examines the striking way in which medical and scientific work on hearing in 18th and 19th-century France helped to shape modern French society and culture. The author argues that of all the senses hearing offered the greatest resources for...

Medical ethics in Imperial Germany were entangled with professional, legal and social issues. This book shows how doctors' ethical decision-making was led by their notions of male honour, professional politics and a paternalistic doctor-patient...

The Mass Image situates the creation of the first photographically illustrated magazines within the social relations of the emerging popular culture of late Victorian London. It demonstrates how photomechanical reproduction allowed the illustrated press...

The fascinating correspondence between Paul Levy and Maurice Frechet spans an extremely active period in French mathematics during the twentieth century. The letters of these two Frenchmen show their vicissitudes of research and passionate enthusiasm for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410205346Author W Stanley JevonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

The last century saw two great revolutions in genetics; the development of classic Mendelian theory and the discovery and investigation of DNA. Each fundamental scientific discovery in turn generated its own distinctive technology. Biotechnology is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079506Author John BrockmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312g

This volume challenges the widespread belief that scientific knowledge as such is international. Employing case studies from Austria, Poland, the Czech lands, and Hungary, the authors show how scientists in the late Habsburg Monarchy simultaneously...

As people of the modern era were singularly prone to nervous disorders, the nervous system became a model for describing political and social organization. This volume untangles the mutual dependencies of scientific neurology and the cultural attitudes...

This book looks at the types of new research organizations that drive scientific innovation and how ground-breaking science transforms research fields and their organization. Based on historical case studies and comparative empirical data, the book...

Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World presents a new interpretation of the development of the English East India Company between 1660 and 1720. The book explores the connections between scholarship, patronage, diplomacy, trade, and...

Eleven essays by historians and sociologists examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and North America. These are not stories of inevitable medical progress and obstacles overcome, but of historical contingencies,...