History of science books

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Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discovering, Surveying, and Ordering

Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discovering,...

Author: Jörn Happel ,  Melanie Hussinger
ISBN: 9781032479378
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines the processes of scientific, cultural, political, technical and violent appropriation during...  Read More >>

Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States

Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the...

Author: Alex Wellerstein
ISBN: 9780226833446
Format: Paperback
$41.95

The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post–Cold War present.  Read More >>

Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaborations, and Knowledge Production

Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaborations,...

Author: David P. Baker ,  Justin J.W. Powell
ISBN: 9781503637894
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Never has the world been as rich in scientific knowledge as it is today. But what are its main sources? In accessible...  Read More >>

Methoden und chemische Prozesse der Alchemie: Chemisches Know-How um 1700

Methoden und chemische Prozesse der Alchemie: Chemisches...

Author: Tobias Schick
ISBN: 9783759713803
Format: Paperback
$57.82

Diese kurzweilige Ver�ffentlichung widmet sich den Arbeitsger�ten, den Arbeitsmethoden und der Beschreibung bekannter...  Read More >>

Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaborations, and Knowledge Production

Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaborations,...

Author: David P. Baker ,  Justin J.W. Powell
ISBN: 9781503602052
Format: Hardback
$248.99

Never has the world been as rich in scientific knowledge as it is today. But what are its main sources? In accessible...  Read More >>

Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography

Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography...

Author: Siobhan Angus
ISBN: 9781478025931
Format: Hardback
$284.99

From rare-metal mining to environmental photography, Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography from a materialist...  Read More >>

How Energy Considerations Have Shaped Our Fundamental Modern Theories of Physics: Theory and Key Historical Moments

How Energy Considerations Have Shaped Our Fundamental...

Author: E. B. Manoukian
ISBN: 9783031511981
Format: Hardback
$422.37

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Messengers from the Cosmos: An Introduction to the Physics of Cosmic Rays in Its Historical Evolution

Messengers from the Cosmos: An Introduction to the Physics...

Author: Francesco Riggi
ISBN: 9783031247644
Format: Paperback
$171.57

This book provides a complete overview of the development of cosmic ray physics, with historical and educational...  Read More >>

Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age

Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular...

Author: Peter Harrison (University of Queensland)
ISBN: 9781009477222
Format: Hardback
$90.56

What was believable in one era is no longer acceptable in another. What one culture finds utterly incredible elsewhere...  Read More >>

The Interpretation of Dreams (Concise Edition)

The Interpretation of Dreams (Concise Edition)

Author: Sigmund Freud ,  Professor Richard Stevens
ISBN: 9781804177921
Format: Paperback
$26.99

New, compact, abridged edition of The Interpretation of Dreams, one of Freud's most important contributions to modern...  Read More >>

The Republic: The Essential Philosophical Dialogue (Concise Edition)

The Republic: The Essential Philosophical Dialogue (Concise...

Author: Plato ,  Harold Tarrant
ISBN: 9781804177938
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Much of traditional Western thought began in Antiquity, flowing from the Platonic dialogues, The Republic being...  Read More >>

Planting Our World

Planting Our World

Author: Stefano Mancuso ,  Gregory Conti
ISBN: 9781635424416
Format: Paperback
$35.00

"""Originally published in Italian as La pianta del mondo in 2020 by Editori Laterza, Rome""-- t.p. verso."  Read More >>

Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand: Melancholy, Medicines, and the Information of the Soul

Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand:...

Author: James Dougal Fleming
ISBN: 9781032757490
Format: Hardback
$273.00

In Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand, J. D. Fleming brings together two areas of sixteenth-century...  Read More >>

American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World

American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the...

Author: David Baron
ISBN: 9781324094692
Format: Paperback
$31.95

Richly illustrated and meticulously researched, American Eclipse ultimately depicts a young nation that looked to...  Read More >>

Boranes and Beyond: History and the Man Who Created Them

Boranes and Beyond: History and the Man Who Created...

Author: M. Frederick Hawthorne
ISBN: 9781071632376
Format: Paperback
$527.97

Tracing the life of a giant in inorganic chemistry and key trends in his science, Boranes and Beyond follows Hawthorne...  Read More >>

The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater

The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of...

Author: Jeff Maynard
ISBN: 9780008532765
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom...  Read More >>

The Soviet Space Programme

The Soviet Space Programme

Author: Ronald D. Humble
ISBN: 9781032675473
Format: Hardback
$179.00

The Soviet Space Programme (1988) presents a comprehensive over-view of the Soviet space programme from its beginnings...  Read More >>

Handbook of Soviet Space-Science Research

Handbook of Soviet Space-Science Research

Author: George E. Wukelic
ISBN: 9781032674056
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Handbook of Soviet Space-Science Research (1968) provides a comprehensive and authoritative English language summary...  Read More >>

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know...

Author: Jason Roberts
ISBN: 9781529400472
Format: Paperback
$43.96

A thrilling account of a centuries-old rivalry - an exploration of scientific discovery and its evolution in an...  Read More >>

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know...

Author: Jason Roberts
ISBN: 9781529400465
Format: Hardback
$65.00

A thrilling account of a centuries-old rivalry - an exploration of scientific discovery and its evolution in an...  Read More >>

Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science

Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science...

Author: Eram Alam ,  Professor Dorothy Roberts
ISBN: 9780231207324
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Ordering the Human presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship that examines the racialization of science...  Read More >>

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