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Presents the history of a critical period in mathematics that includes accounts of the two principal influences upon Russell around 1900: the set theory of Cantor and the mathematical logic of Peano and his followers. This work provides surveys of many related topics and figures of the late nineteenth century.

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Presents an account of how the War on Cancer campaign has been distorted by economic interests. This book tells that even before its official launch, the War on Cancer was fighting many of the wrong battles, with the wrong weapons and the wrong leaders.

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But it is only by understanding what has gone wrong, that everyone - politicians, business people and us as consumers - can create a new and better material world.

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The introduction of the Seiberg-Witten invariants of smooth four-manifolds has revolutionized the study of those manifolds. This book serves as an introduction to the Seiberg-Witten invariants. It also includes a review of the classical material on Spin c structures and their associated Dirac operators.

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From the author of the widely acclaimed Y: THE DESCENT OF MEN

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This is a quirky, amusing, information-packed book for all lovers of sleep. It's the book to curl up with before falling asleep.

It looks at the history, culture, folklore, language and science of sleep. The book examines how a lack of sleep is increasingly seen as a health risk.

Sleep is also the place of dreams and nightmares.

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Slime molds are very different from other organisms; they feed as individual amoebae before coming together to form a multicellular organism that has a remarkable ability to move and orient itself in its environment. This book shows how slime molds fit into and illuminate biology as a whole.

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The idea that emerges is that infant-adult male relations are far more complex than the mere paternal caretaking or exploitation that has previously been assumed, and these relations are specific, long-term, reciprocal, and beneficial to both infants and the adult males.

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Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction Over the past eight years, David Quammen has followed the threads of island biogeography on a globe-encircling journey of discovery.

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No other research organization dominates the field of science in its country to the degree that the Soviet Academy of Sciences does. The coming to power of the Bolsheviks in 1917 presented Russian science with a new governmental attitude toward the place of science in national life. The Soviet Union's first five-year plan, the period of this study,

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Assuming power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party was soon faced with a crucial problem: how to construct the socialist 'New Man' Using Foucault's theory of 'technologies of the self', Lynteris examines the conflict between self-cultivation and the abolition of the self in the biopolitically neuralgic field of 'socialist medicine'.

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A handbook on how comprehensive statistical information on how technology affects all areas of our lives.

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A state-of-the-art survey of both classical and quantum lattice gas models, this two-volume work will cover the rigorous mathematical studies of such models as the Ising and Heisenberg, an area in which scientists have made enormous strides during the past twenty-five years. This first volume addresses, among many topics, the mathematical backgroun

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A landmark book by the senior science writer at "Time" magazine introduces readers to a medical breakthrough that can save their lives.

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From the tiniest microchip to the information superhighway, the modern world is dominated by and dependent upon science. This title examines the relationship between science and religion across time, beginning with the primitive worship of early ancestors and concluding with a vivid portrait of faith in the modern world.

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Learning the basic laws of physics - mechanics, thermodynamics, relativity, quantum mechanics - can be a struggle. This title presents Holmes, Dr Watson, Professor Challenger of "Lost World" fame, and other favourite Conan Doyle characters to solve a Baker Street dozen baffling science mysteries.

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Traditionally a scientific theory is viewed as based on universal laws of nature that serve as axioms for logical deduction. In analyzing the logical structure of evolutionary biology, Elisabeth Lloyd argues that the semantic account is more appropriate and powerful. This book will be of interest to biologists and philosophers alike.