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Presents various aspects of how science and technology impacts the everyday life of Americans of all classes and cultures. This book covers a range of topics that are useful for students of American history and the history of science and technology: domestic technology, agricultural, and war.

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The first introductory A-Z resource on the dynamic achievements in science from the late 1600s to 1820, including the great minds behind the developments and science's new cultural role.

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Based on the most recent scholarship, this book provides students and interested lay readers with a basic introduction to key facts and current controversies concerning the Enlightenment.

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An encyclopedic collection of key scientists and the tools and concepts they developed that transformed our understanding of the physical world.

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This encyclopedia is the perfect guide to the weird, magical, superstitious, and supernatural beliefs of people from all over the world.

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This encyclopedia is the perfect guide to the weird, magical, superstitious, and supernatural beliefs of people from all over the world.

This book is devoted to those human beliefs that fall in the "gray zone" between science, religion, and everyday lifecall them superstitious, supernatural, magical, or just wrong.

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This reference volume contains alphabetically arranged entries on witch hunting in Europe, from Portugal to Russia, as well as those colonies in the Americas where Europeans exercised political domination. It covers a time span beginning with fourteenth-century sorcery trials associated with the Fre