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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,...

This book presents key documents from the pre-1915 history of the extraterrestrial life debate. Introductions and commentaries accompany each source document, some of which are published here for the first time or in a new translation. Authors included...

Henry Becquerel’s accidental discovery, in Paris in 1896, of a faint smudge on a photographic plate sparked a chain of discoveries which would unleash the atomic age.Destroyer of Worlds is the story of how pursuit of this hidden source of nuclear power,...

What changes in education, when it is not just humans whose teaching is sought and acknowledged? And how can educational research be accountable to the voices and agency of such more-than-human teachers, interlocutors, and kin? These have become pressing...

Capturing the stories of sixteen women who made significant contributions to the development of quantum physics, this anthology highlights how, from the very beginning, women played a notable role in shaping one of the most fascinating and profound...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621378228Author Rodrigo FernosFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Virtualbookworm.com PublishingPublisher Virtualbookworm.com PublishingWeight(grams)...

The past three decades have seen a remarkable growth of interest in intellectual history and this book provides the first comprehensive survey of recent research in this field. Each chapter considers developments in intellectual history, and shows the...

This remarkably ambitious work relates changes in scientific and medical thought during the Scientific Revolution (circa 1500-1700) to the emergence of new principles and practices for interpreting language, texts, and nature. An invaluable history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791041985449Author H Beam PiperFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint CultureaPublisher CultureaWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621822349Author Franklin W StahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 357Imprint Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory PressPublisher Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988942100Author Francis Rolt-WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Diamond PublishersPublisher Diamond PublishersWeight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791041985586Author Francis FlaggFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint CultureaPublisher CultureaWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227333681Author A J DelvecchioFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint A.J. DelvecchioPublisher A.J. DelvecchioWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789369079650Author William Scott PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Double 9 Books LLPPublisher Double 9 Books LLP

This book fills a significant gap in the historiography of science by examining the overlooked contributions of non-astronomical personnel in the early National Astronomical Observatory of Chile. Drawing upon David Edgerton's critique of the bias towards...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791041985418Author Charles LyellFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint CultureaPublisher CultureaWeight(grams) 603g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791041986200Author Algernon Charles SwinburneFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint CultureaPublisher CultureaWeight(grams) 82g

Up to now there have been scarcely any publications on Leibniz dedicated to investigating the interrelations between philosophy and mathematics in his thought. In part this is due to the previously restricted textual basis of editions such as those...

The authors' novel approach to some interesting mathematical concepts - not normally taught in other courses - places them in a historical and philosophical setting. Although primarily intended for mathematics undergraduates, the book will also appeal to...

This book is about the life and times of Richard Congreve. This polemicist was the first thinker to gain instant infamy for publishing cogent critiques of imperialism in Victorian Britain. As the foremost British acolyte of Auguste Comte, Congreve...

This volume contains essays that examine the optical works of Giambattista Della Porta, an Italian natural philosopher during the Scientific Revolution. Coverage also explores the science and technology of early modern optics. Della Porta's...

Through an examination that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary literature, this book places the twentieth-century mental hygiene movement within the broad sweep of modern British psychiatry, offering its own reinterpretation of...

This book explores continuity and ruptures in the historical use of visual representations in science and related disciplines such as art history and anthropology. The book also considers more recent developments that attest to the unprecedented...

This volume approaches the history of water in the Iberian Peninsula in a novel way, by linking it to the ongoing international debate on water crisis and solutions to overcome the lack of water in the Mediterranean. What water devices were found? What...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786599689031Author Roberto De Andrade MartinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Quamcumque EditumPublisher Quamcumque EditumWeight(grams) 318g

This book presents a novel methodology to study economic texts. The author investigates discrepancies in these writings by focusing on errors, mistakes, and rounding numbers. In particular, he looks at the acquisition, use, and development of practical...

Little is known about Christopher Davy (c.1803-49), despite his regular contributions to architectural and engineering magazines in Britain and America. Describing himself as an 'architect and teacher of architecture', he also took an interest in steam...

In his study of optics, Newton postulated that light, like sound, must be carried through a medium, and that this medium must exist even in a vacuum. By the late nineteenth century, this theoretical substance was known as the luminiferous ether. But the...

Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944) was both a key figure in the development of astrophysics during the early part of the twentieth century and a notable philosopher of science. Originally published in 1935, this book contains the substance of the Messenger...

Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), made a peer of France in 1819 in recognition of his work, was perhaps the most important European scientist of his day. His most famous work, Le Regne Animal, was published in French in 1817; Edward Griffith (1790-1858), a...

Originally published in 1931, this volume was created to mark the centenary of James Clerk Maxwell's birth. Comprised of ten essays dealing with various aspects of Maxwell's life and achievements, the text includes contributions from the following...

At long last, with sufficient technical details, emphasizing key historical moments, a book that develops all of fundamental modern theoretical physics from energy considerations in a compact form. Starting with a few electron-volts of atoms in the...

For almost three quarters of a century, the United States has spent billions of dollars and countless person-hours in the pursuit of a national missile defense system that would protect the country from intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) carrying...

Offering a valuable resource for medical and other historians, this book explores the processes by which pharmacy in Britain and its colonies separated from medicine and made the transition from trade to profession during the nineteenth and twentieth...