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Women scientists leave the profession in greater proportions than men and are under-represented in leadership roles. In this book, Kate White looks at the challenges that women face, which often result from discrimination and being positioned as outsiders. She asks the question: Why is it so important to keep women in science research

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Johannes Kepler contributed importantly to every field he addressed. This book offers the study of Kepler's philosophical views and shows how those views helped him construct and justify the astronomy. It explores the complex interplay between changes in his philosophical views and the status of his astronomical discoveries.

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More people than ever are using alternative medicine. But, as expert Dr Paul Offit explains, these untested therapies are ineffective, expensive and even deadly.

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Dovring explores the limits of science as causes of ignorance. This book will be of interest to scientists as well as the lay public interested in the theory of science and questions of truth and faith.

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Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" is arguably one of the influential books of the twentieth century and a key text in the philosophy and history of science. This book offers an account of this key philosophical work. It provides a review of the key themes and a commentary that enables readers to navigate the text.

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Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" is arguably one of the influential books of the twentieth century and a key text in the philosophy and history of science. This guide offers an account of this key philosophical work. It provides a review of the key themes and a commentary that enables readers to navigate the text.

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Looks at how ancient microorganisms in primordial oceans transformed the chemistry of the planet over billions of years, eventually allowing the development of more complex forms of life, and how they continue to make life on earth possible.

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In his characteristically iconoclastic and original way, Stephen Jay Gould argues that progress and increasing complexity are not inevitable features of the evolution of life on Earth.

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How the noisy atomic cloud gives rise to the orderly world of the molecular machine-and to life itself

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In Lifelines, neuroscientist Steven Rose offers a theory of life that insists that we as humans - along with all living creatures - create our own futures, though in circumstances not of our own choosing.

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This study focuses on the dilemmas faced by Chinese modernizers of the yangwu movement. It examines the tensions between the Chinese and the foreign companies seeking to extend telegraph technology to East Asian cities and how the domestic network was shaped by social and cultural forces.

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Hailed as a paragon of science journalism, "Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos" is the dramatic, heartbreaking, and often comical story of cosmology, and the men and women devoted to discovering the secrets of the universe.

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Love drugs and anti-love drugs exist and more powerful versions will be available in the near future: What are the ethics of using them, how will they affect society, and will they take the magic out of love A cutting-edge book by two prominent ethicists on 'love drugs', and the implications they may have for us all. -- .

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Covers the historical and biochemical roots of our connection with animals, and theirs with us. This book reveals both sides of this deep mutual connection and the way it has evolved since prehistoric times.

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Blends scientific biography, institutional history, and cultural history to show how genetically standardized mice came to play a central role in contemporary American biomedical research. This work introduces us to mouse "fanciers" who bred mice for different characteristics, and to the structures of modern biomedical research.

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A thrilling and gruesome look at the science that influenced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.