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Nonsense on Stilts
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Massimo Pigliucci |
Recent polls suggest that fewer than 40 percent of Americans believe in Darwin's theory of evolution, despite it being one of science's best-established findings. More and more parents are refusing t… |
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Great ideas of science
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Isaac Asimov |
Discusses the background of thought leading to the revolutionary scientific discoveries of such scientists as Darwin, Pythagoras, Newton, and Galileo. |
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Scientific Exploration and Expeditions
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Neil A. Hamilton |
Scientific Exploration and Expeditions provides a unique perspective on expeditions made in the quest for scientific knowledge from the fifteenth century to the present day. Concise and appealing art… |
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Styles of knowing
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Chunglin Kwa |
"Now available in English, Styles of Knowing explores the development of various scientific reasoning processes in cultural-historical context. Influenced by historian Alistair Crombie's Styles of Sc… |
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Science in world history
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Jame Trefil |
"Science today is a truly global enterprise. This book is a comprehensive, thematic survey of the history of science from its roots in different cultures around the world through to the present day. … |
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The visioneers
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Patrick McCray |
"In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his at… |
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Your head shape reveals your personality!
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Christine Zuchora-Walske |
"What if someone told you that your liver pumped blood through your body? You'd think that person was crazy! Discover how thought about the human body has changed over the centuries."-- |
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The misinformation age
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Cailin O'Connor |
Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O'Connor and J… |
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Makers of science
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Michael Allaby |
Five volumes present the lives and work of more than 40 great Western physicists, chemists, biologists, physiologists, and more. Each biography includes two timelines: scientific and political-cultur… |
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What remains to be discovered
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John Royden Maddox |
[O]n the eve of the millennium the question about science's future reappears. In his widely discussed 1996 book, ''The End of Science,'' John Horgan argued that, indeed, the end is nigh: The big disc… |
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Situating the history of science
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Joseph Needham,Dhruv Raina,S. Irfan Habib |
Contributed articles presented at a seminar at New Delhi in Sept. 1996. |
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Trends in the Historiography of Science
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Kostas Gavroglu |
The discussions of theoretical issues involved in the history of science have not received sufficient attention. This volume is a contribution to this ongoing discussion and deals with many such issu… |
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Kettenreaktion
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Hubert Mania |
1896 spürte Henri Becquerel im Uran eine seltsame Strahlung auf, die Marie Curie Radioaktivität nannte. In den folgenden Jahrzehnten lieferten die deutschen Physiker Max Planck, Albert Einstein und W… |
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The Territories of Science and Religion
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Peter Harrison |
The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that’s not the case, says Pet… |
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Antarctic science
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D. W. H. Walton |
This beautifully illustrated book reviews the development of science in Antarctica from its early beginnings, in the age of Captain Cook, to the present complexity of the 1980s when research teams fr… |
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The Invisible Rainbow
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Arthur Firstenberg |
"The story of the invention and use of electricity has often been told before, but never from an enviromnental point of view. The assumption of safety, and the conviction that electricity has nothing… |
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Great lives from history
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Joseph L. Spradley |
Examines the lives and accomplishments of famous scientists throughout history. |
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Story of Science
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Anna Claybourne |
Introduces some of the major scientific discoveries throughout history, including the age of the Earth, gravity, atoms, and dinosaur fossils. |
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The great scientists
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John Farndon |
"From the Greek mathematicians Euclid and Archimedes, whose work is even now required reading, to the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, the greatest practitioners from a wide range of scientific… |
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Economy and nature in the fourteenth century
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Joel Kaye |
This book provides new perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought. Historians of medieval science have hesitate… |
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