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Traces the development of scientific concepts since ancient times. This series helps students understand not only what scientists know, but how they came to know it. It supports the recommendations of national science education standards on the history and nature of science; provides print and electronic resources for research; and more.

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An adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture.

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Did you know that as you read these words showers of high-speed particles from exploding stars are raining down on you This book reveals the startling ways life on Earth is touched by our cosmic environment, and demonstrates why without such contact, life itself wouldn't be possible.

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Did you know that as you read these words showers of high-speed particles from exploding stars are raining down on you This book reveals the startling ways life on Earth is touched by our cosmic environment, and demonstrates why without such contact, life itself wouldn't be possible.

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Examines the relationship between drugs and pleasure, choice, and motivation, both in the brain and in society. This title focuses on common ideas about race, poverty, and drugs and explain why current policies are failing.

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The historical dictionary provides information on science and technology in China from the late nineteenth century to the present including: a chronology; introduction; extensive bibliography; over 700 cross-referenced dictionary entries on major scientific and technological fields and sub-fields; entries on western scholars and educators.

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Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences is a continuing series of volumes comprising articles that elucidate the intellectual and social history of the physical sciences from the eighteenth century to the present. The articles offered in Volume 5 share a common theme: a concern with modern physics and its relation to other scientific discipline

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The first article in this volume, by Tetu Hirosige, is a definitive study of the genesis of Einstein's theory of relativity. Other articles treat topics--theoretical, experimental, philosophical, and institutional--in the history of physics and chemistry from the researches of Laplace and Lavoisier in the eighteenth century to those of Dirac and Jo

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This volume is an annual collection of essays which explore how technology is related to other aspects of life - social, cultural, economic. It shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occured.

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In a rich and fascinating history John Cornwell tells the epic story of Germany's scientists from the First World War to the collapse of Hitler's Reich.

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How do scientists develop new explanations of disease How do those explanations become accepted as true And how does medical diagnosis change when physicians are confronted with new scientific evidence These are questions that Paul Thagard pursues in this pathbreaking book that develops a new, integrative approach to the study of science.

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"The portraits of Freud, Shakespeare, Einstein, and Leonardo da Vinci on the cover symbolize a major theme of How We Know --that the creative imagination plays a role in the sciences no less than in the"

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Welcome to Human 3.0.

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John's broader coverage of the evolution of sexual intimacy in the animal kingdom demonstrates that the gap between human and animal behaviour is not as large as many of you might have thought.

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A unique resource that synthesizes existing primary and secondary sources to provide a fascinating introduction to the development and dissemination of science within history's great empires, as well as the complex interaction between imperialism and scientific progress over two centuries.