(Hardback)
By: William E. Burns
ISBN: 9781440878473
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This encyclopedia is the perfect guide to the weird, magical, superstitious, and supernatural beliefs of people from all over the world.
This book is devoted to those human beliefs that fall in the "gray zone" between science, religion, and everyday lifecall them superstitious, supernatural, magical, or just wrong.
(Paperback)
By: John Monahan
ISBN: 9780425236963
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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Discover the true genius behind history's greatest "madmen." Monahan recounts the amazing stories of such historical luminaries as Archimedes, the calculator of pi; Isaac Newton, the world's first great scientist; and Nikola Tesla, who built the precursors of robots.
(Paperback)
By: Giuliano Pancaldi
ISBN: 9780691122267
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Sets us within the cosmopolitan cultures of Enlightenment Europe to tell the story of Alessandro Volta - the brilliant man whose name is forever attached to electromotive force. This work depicts Volta as an inventor who used his international network of acquaintances to further his quest to harness the power of electricity.
(Hardback)
By: Leigh Ann Whaley
ISBN: 9781576072301
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A comprehensive historical review of the debates surrounding women's contributions and roles in science, with emphasis on women's access to education, training, and professional careers.
(Paperback)
By: Joseph Mazur
ISBN: 9780452289178
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2008
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Andrew W. Bernstein
ISBN: 9780691256290
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2026
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Martin Griffiths
ISBN: 9781837723003
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2026
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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(Paperback)
By: Thomas Levenson
ISBN: 9781800249059
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An immersive and epic journey by a masterly historian of science through the history of the fight against bacteria, from pioneering medical breakthroughs to the vital race to stay ahead of their rapid evolution.
(Hardback)
By: Thomas Levenson
ISBN: 9781800249042
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An immersive and epic journey by a masterly historian of science through the history of the fight against bacteria, from pioneering medical breakthroughs to the vital race to stay ahead of their rapid evolution.
(Hardback)
By: Richard Holmes
ISBN: 9780007386932
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2026
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A dazzling new biography of young Tennyson by the prize-winning, bestselling author of The Age of Wonder.
(Hardback)
By: DK
ISBN: 9780241720301
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2025
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Peter Dear
ISBN: 9780691235844
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2026
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Amelia Bonea
ISBN: 9781526178381
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This volume documents the (in)visibility of women in science in the twentieth century. It combines individual and collective portraits with discussions of institutional structures, work cultures, science and domesticity, the pedagogy of science and the gendered dimensions of science communication.
(Paperback)
By: Paul A. Elliott
ISBN: 9781526171764
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Focuses upon the activities of a group of Midland intellectuals that included the evolutionist and physician Erasmus Darwin, Rev Thomas Gisborne the evangelical philosopher and poet, Robert Bage the novelist, and Charles Sylvester the chemist and engineer.
(Paperback)
By: Jimena Canales
ISBN: 9780691241685
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Donald R. Kirsch
ISBN: 9781956763393
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2024
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Kurt Caswell
ISBN: 9781595349729
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Trinity University Press,U.S.
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The unforgettable story of Laika-the Soviet space dog, the Cold War, and the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union
(Paperback)
By: Lawrence Principe
ISBN: 9780691050829
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Presents a provocative view of Robert Boyle (1627-1691), one of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution, by revealing his avid and lifelong pursuit of alchemy. This title shows that his alchemical quest positions him more accurately in the intellectual and cultural crossroads of the seventeenth century.
(Hardback)
By: David N. Livingstone
ISBN: 9780691236704
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Jrgen Renn
ISBN: 9780691171982
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Jrgen Renn
ISBN: 9780691218595
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback, New edition)
By: Theodore M. Porter
ISBN: 9780691208428
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Susan Mattern
ISBN: 9780691171630
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Taking readers from the rainforests of Paraguay to the streets of Tokyo, Mattern draws on historical, scientific, and cultural research to reveal how perceptions of menopause developed from prehistory to today. She goes on to introduce new ways of understanding life beyond fertility.
(Paperback)
By: Susan Mattern
ISBN: 9780691216720
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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