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By: Eve-Marie Engels
ISBN: 9780826458339
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Charles Darwin is a crucial figure in nineteenth-century science. This title covers Darwin's reception across Europe and his influence on European science and culture. It conveys the many-sidedness of Darwin's reception and exhibits his far-reaching impact on our self-understanding as human beings.
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By: Denise Pilato
ISBN: 9780275966003
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Throughout the 19th century, women inventors developed significant technologies, yet, because of complex cultural barriers and the pervasive image of the inventor as male, their technological contributions have until now been ignored and undervalued.
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By: Adele E. Clarke
ISBN: 9780691603421
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This volume examines scientific practice through studies of research tools in an array of twentieth-century life sciences. The contributors draw upon and extend the multidisciplinary perspectives in current science studies to understand the processes through which scientific researchers constructed the right--and, in some cases, the wrong--tools fo
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By: Adele E. Clarke
ISBN: 9780691632759
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Fabiola Creed
ISBN: 9781350450332
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Wilbur Applebaum
ISBN: 9780313323140
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Designed as an introduction to the age of the scientific revolution, this book offers readers and researchers an appealing mix of narrative chapters, biographical sketches of key figures, and annotated primary documents.
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By: William E. Burns
ISBN: 9780874368758
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An encyclopedic collection of key scientists and the tools and concepts they developed that transformed our understanding of the physical world.
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By: Loren R. Graham
ISBN: 9780691622842
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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No other research organization dominates the field of science in its country to the degree that the Soviet Academy of Sciences does. The coming to power of the Bolsheviks in 1917 presented Russian science with a new governmental attitude toward the place of science in national life. The Soviet Union's first five-year plan, the period of this study,
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By: Loren R. Graham
ISBN: 9780691649573
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: C. Lynteris
ISBN: 9781137293824
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Assuming power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party was soon faced with a crucial problem: how to construct the socialist 'New Man' Using Foucault's theory of 'technologies of the self', Lynteris examines the conflict between self-cultivation and the abolition of the self in the biopolitically neuralgic field of 'socialist medicine'.
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By: Lisa M. Dolling
ISBN: 9780691090856
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The development of physical theory is one of our greatest intellectual achievements. Its products - the prevailing theories of physics, astronomy, and cosmology - have proved themselves to possess intrinsic beauty and to have enormous explanatory and predictive power. This anthology chronicles the birth and maturation of five such theories.
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By: Ann Blair
ISBN: 9780691654386
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Ann Blair
ISBN: 9780691606569
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Edward Jones-Imhotep
ISBN: 9780262051200
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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By: Paul Frame
ISBN: 9781837720095
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2025
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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By: Carlo Rovelli
ISBN: 9781802063042
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Bernadette Hince
ISBN: 9781486319459
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
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From aaqsiiq to zucchini, discover words and phrases from the world's polar regions.
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By: Jason Roberts
ISBN: 9781529400489
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th April 2025
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A thrilling account of a centuries-old rivalry - an exploration of scientific discovery and its evolution in an ever-changing and displaced world.
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By: Andrew W. Bernstein
ISBN: 9780691256290
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2026
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Martin Griffiths
ISBN: 9781837723003
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2026
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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