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Argues that we are living at the dawn of the dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This title tells the story of an unprecedented new era of networked science.

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A compelling and sweeping argument that complexity theory can build a bridge between science and religion

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Here, experts in the environment, theology and science argue that the challenge posed to society by biotechnology lies not only in risk/benefit analysis of individual genetic technologies and interventions, but also in the way we think about human identity and our relationship to the natural world.

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"Concise introduction to key concepts in repair and infrastructure studies"--

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A fresh approach to visualization practices in the sciences that considers novel forms of imaging technology and draws on recent theoretical perspectives on representation.

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A humanistic account of the changing role of technology in society, by a historian and a former Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT.

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By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into a household word. This work takes the reader into Richter's life story, setting it in the context of his family and interpersonal attachments, and the history of seismology.

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The principle of the conservation of energy was among the most important developments of nineteenth-century physics, and Robert Mayer, a physician from a small city in Germany, was one of its codiscoverers. As ship's doctor on a voyage to the Dutch East Indies in 1840, Mayer noticed that the venous blood he let from a European seaman was lighter th

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A history of rockets from their early Chinese origins to their modern use in the military, space exploration and commercial peacetime use.

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This book presents a compelling account of atomic development over the last century that demonstrates how humans have repeatedly chosen to ignore the associated impacts for the sake of technological, scientific, military, and economic expediency.

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An acclaimed biography of one of the greatest, grittiest reporters of our time

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The facts, myths, curiosities and absurdities of sports science - something for every sports fan.

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This first interdisciplinary appraisal of the pioneering perspectives on the natural history of Sarah Bowdich Lee (17911856) pivotally highlights their intercultural and multi-genre dynamics. It thereby challenges approaches to women, gender and national nineteenth-century scientific endeavour by overturning secondary or leaky pipeline narratives for women in early STEM(M).

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These iconoclastic and witty essays are about what happens when scientists jump on band-wagons. Tony Rothman applies creative skepticism to contemporary fashions in science, including the "standard model" Big Bang theory, geodesic domes, the concept of nuclear winter, and sociological applications of the second law of thermodynamics. "Rothman prove

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Science and Islam provides a detailed account of the relationship between Islam and science from the emergence of the Islamic scientific tradition in the eighth century to the present time.

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Provides an overview of the complex history of the interaction of science and religion. This book chronicles the long history of the battle between adherents of religious doctrines and the nonbelievers who adhere to the naturalism of modern science. It provides a nontechnical introduction to the leading questions that concern science and religion.