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By: Catherine Wilson
ISBN: 9780691017099
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Publication Date: Mar 1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Focusing on the earliest forays into microscopical research, from 1620 to 1720, this book provides technological history of the knowledge that helped launch philosophy into the modern era. It argues that the discovery of microworld presented metaphysicians with the task of reconciling the ubiquity of life with human-centered theological systems.
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By: Peter Doherty
ISBN: 9780522877038
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Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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By: James Burke
ISBN: 9780684859354
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Publication Date: Jul 2000
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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A tour through the interlocking threads of knowledge running through Western history.
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By: Kelly Lambert
ISBN: 9780399536632
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Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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Behavioral neuroscientist Lambert takes readers on a surprising and engaging guided tour into the sophisticated mental, emotional, and behavioral worlds of these frequently maligned and often misunderstood little creatures.
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By: Joan Lisa Bromberg
ISBN: 9780262519809
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Publication Date: Apr 1991
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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In this book Joan Lisa Bromberg brings a historian's broad perspective to bear on the formative years of laser research in the United States.
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By: Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN: 9780099285830
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Publication Date: Jun 2001
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In this collection of essays, the author applys biographical perspectives to the illumination of key scientific concepts and their history, ranging from the origins of palaeontology to modern eugenics and genetic engineering.
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By: Marcus Chown
ISBN: 9780099578017
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Publication Date: Aug 2000
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2000
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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From red giants - stars so enormous they could engulf a million suns - to supernova explosions - the most violent events in the universe - the birth of every atom was marked by cosmic events on an enormous scale, against a backdrop of unimaginable heat and cold, brightness and darkness, space and time.
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By: Jack Repcheck
ISBN: 9780465013371
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Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Basic Books
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James Hutton proved that the earth was likely millions of years old, rather than the six thousand calculated by the bible, and that it was continuously shaped and re-shaped by myriad everyday forces rather than any single cataclysmic event. This book tells the remarkable story of this Scottish gentleman farmer.
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By: Richard E. Cytowic
ISBN: 9780262532556
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Publication Date: Aug 2003
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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In this medical detective adventure, Cytowic shows how synesthesia, or "joined sensation," illuminates a wide swath of mental life and leads to a new view of what it means to be human.
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By: Mark Nyman
ISBN: 9781483567976
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Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Piergiorgio Odifreddi
ISBN: 9780691128054
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Publication Date: Jan 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Concentrates on thirty highlights of pure and applied mathematics. This book opens by discussing the four main philosophical foundations of mathematics of the nineteenth century and ends by describing the four important open mathematical problems of the twenty-first century.
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By: Gene Cohen
ISBN: 9780465012046
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Publication Date: Dec 2006
Publisher: Basic Books
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A renowned psychiatrist and gerontologist draws from more than thirty years of research to show that surprising positive changes in our brains have the powerful potential to enhance, not diminish, our lives after fifty
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By: Ken Alder
ISBN: 9780349115078
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Publication Date: Aug 2004
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The revolutionary adventures of two scientists who inaugurated the metric system.
Winner of the 2003 Dingle Prize for the best book on the history of science.
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By: Peter J. Bowler
ISBN: 9781474241731
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Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Eliezer Geisler
ISBN: 9781567202137
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Publication Date: Aug 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Dr. Geisler's far-reaching, unique book provides an encyclopedic compilation of the key metrics to measure and evaluate the impact of science and technology on academia, industry, and government.
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By: Keith Devlin
ISBN: 9780465017300
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Publication Date: Oct 2003
Publisher: Basic Books
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The definitive account of the Everests of mathematics--the seven unsolved problems that define the state of the art in contemporary math
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By: Fiammetta Rocco
ISBN: 9780006532354
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Publication Date: Jan 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A rich and wonderful history of quinine the cure for malaria.
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By: Bruce Stephenson
ISBN: 9780691605968
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Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Valued today for its development of the third law of planetary motion, Harmonice mundi (1619) was intended by Kepler to expand on ancient efforts to discern a Creator's plan for the planetary system--an arrangement thought to be based on harmonic relationships. Challenging critics who characterize Kepler's theories of harmonic astronomy as "mystica
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By: Bruce Stephenson
ISBN: 9780691634821
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Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Sherwin B. Nuland
ISBN: 9780684854878
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Publication Date: May 2001
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Sam Treiman
ISBN: 9780691103006
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Publication Date: Jan 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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A look at quantum mechanics.
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By: W. Warren Wagar
ISBN: 9780275970260
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Publication Date: Oct 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Yet Wells was already convinced that if only thinking people across the planet could somehow pull together and pool their expertise, energy, and insights into sort of cerebrum for humanity, then the world would be a saner, safer, better, fairer place.
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By: W. Warren Wagar
ISBN: 9780275975395
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Publication Date: Oct 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Yet Wells was already convinced that if only thinking people across the planet could somehow pull together and pool their expertise, energy, and insights into sort of cerebrum for humanity, then the world would be a saner, safer, better, fairer place.
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By: David N. Reznick
ISBN: 9780691152578
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Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species" is one of the most widely cited books in modern science. This guide to Darwin's masterwork examines "Origin" within the historical context in which it was written, and modern examples are used to reveal how this work remains a relevant and living document for today.
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