(Paperback)
By: Naomi Oreskes
ISBN: 9780262526531
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.
(Hardback)
By: Russell M. Lawson
ISBN: 9781851095346
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The first A-Z resource to catalog the achievements and legacy of more than four millennia of scientific thought in the ancient world of the Mediterranean and the Near East, providing a complete overview of the physical, chemical, life, medical, and social sciences of the classical world.
(Hardback)
By: Russell M. Lawson
ISBN: 9781440873522
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Eric G. Swedin
ISBN: 9781851095247
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An introductory A-Z resource detailing the scientific achievements of the contemporary world and analyzing the key scientific trends, discoveries, and personalities of the modern age.
(Hardback)
By: Jacob Darwin Hamblin
ISBN: 9781851096657
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The first A-Z resource on the history of science from 1900 to 1950 examining the dynamic between science and the social, political, and cultural forces of the era.
(Hardback)
By: William E. Burns
ISBN: 9781576078860
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The first introductory A-Z resource on the dynamic achievements in science from the late 1600s to 1820, including the great minds behind the developments and science's new cultural role.
(Hardback)
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1985
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1975
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Robert Youngson
ISBN: 9781854879646
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1998
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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An account of the errors into which seemingly infallible humans have fallen, whether through obstinacy, arrogance or carelessness. Examples investigated include the Piltdown Man hoax and the Tay Bridge collapse.
(Hardback)
By: Robert E. Krebs
ISBN: 9780313302268
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Readers will discover how mistakes and misunderstandings led to further experimentation and eventually to scientific facts.
(Hardback)
By: Don Leggett
ISBN: 9780719090981
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Examines the connected histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in twentieth-century Britain. -- .
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By: Hans Christian rsted
ISBN: 9780691606439
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Hans Christian Orsted (1777-1851) was one of the leading scientists of the nineteenth century, having played a crucial role in founding electromagnetism. Unfortunately for the English-speaking world, almost all of his research was published in other languages, particularly his native Danish. This book will help to elevate Orsted to his rightful pla
(Hardback)
By: Hans Christian rsted
ISBN: 9780691635187
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Hedley Howell Rhys
ISBN: 9780691651996
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Hedley Howell Rhys
ISBN: 9780691625553
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Was there a continuity between the "vigorous art and the seminal science" of the seventeenth century How did they affect one another Which, if either, was dominant Four distinguished scholars explore the relation between seventeenth century science and the creative arts in a series of four essays: Introduction, by Stephen E. Toulmin of Columbia;
(Paperback)
By: Harold Gardiner Bowen
ISBN: 9780691627083
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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As Chief of the Bureau of Engineering, as Director of the Naval Research Laboratory, as industrial troubleshooter for Forrestal, Admiral Bowen frequently was forced to fight the "mossbacks" who stubbornly resisted new inventions and techniques. He was instrumental in the development of high-pressure high-temperature steam for ship turbines, diesel
(Hardback)
By: Harold Gardiner Bowen
ISBN: 9780691653198
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Ksenia Tatarchenko
ISBN: 9781350165830
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Myles W. Jackson
ISBN: 9780262527231
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2000
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Alex Roland
ISBN: 9780262529266
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2002
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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The story of the U.S. Department of Defense's extraordinary effort, in the period from 1983 to 1993, to achieve machine intelligence.
(Paperback)
By: Patricia Fara
ISBN: 9780691606071
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In this interdisciplinary study of eighteenth-century England, Patricia Fara explores how natural philosophers constructed magnetism as a science, appropriating the skills and knowledge of experienced navigators. For people of this period, magnetic phenomena reverberated with the symbolism of occult mystery, sexual attraction, and universal sympath
(Hardback)
By: Patricia Fara
ISBN: 9780691634913
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Clifford Siskin
ISBN: 9780262534673
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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The role that system has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our own computational universe.
(Hardback, 3rd edition)
By: Alan I. Marcus
ISBN: 9781137334862
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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