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Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey by Peter J. Bowler Publisher Comments The development of science, according to respected scholars Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus, expands our knowledge and control of the world in ways that affect-but are also affected by-society and culture. In Making Modern Science, a text designed... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $27.75 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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What Science Is and How It Works by Gregory N. Derry Publisher Comments How does a scientist go about solving problems? How do scientific discoveries happen? Why are cold fusion and parapsychology different from mainstream science? What is a scientific worldview? In this lively and wide-ranging book, Gregory Derry talks... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Essays of a Soviet Scientist by Vitaliĭ Iosifovich Golʹdanskiĭ Publisher Comments "Vitalii Goldanskii has captured the restless, vital and often violent spirit of much of the last century in science and politics, particularly in the former Soviet Union. These essays offer a fascinating look into the workings of one of today's most... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $43.26 Google eBooks - Electronic
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An Essay on the Use of the Celestial & Terrestrial Globes by George Adams Publisher Comments How to navigate using 18th-century instruments. George Adams was the mathematical instrument maker to the King of England and the optician to the Prince of Wales. Utilizing simple scientific truths, Adams describes how to find the longitude and latitude... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $22.19 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos by Michael Lemonick Publisher Comments A tribute to the scientific contributions of Uranus planet discoverer William Herschel and his pioneering sister, Caroline, describes their establishment of surveying techniques that are still in use today, Caroline's cataloguing of nebulae and William's... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.27 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life by Jessica Riskin Publisher Comments Since antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life’s measure by reproducing it. Aiming to reenact Creation, at least in part, these experimenters have hoped to understand the links between body and spirit, matter and mind, mechanism... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $27.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Chemical Philosophy by Allen G. Debus Publisher Comments This rich record of the major interests of Paracelsus andother 16th-century chemical philosophers covers chemistry and nature in the Renaissance, Paracelsian debates, theories of Fludd, Helmontian restatement of chemical philosophy, and other fascinating... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Ptolemy and the Foundations of Ancient Mathematical Optics: A Source Based Guided Study by A. Mark Smith Publisher Comments Virtually all survey-accounts of ancient science leave the mistaken impression that ancient ray-theory shared the same basic aims and methods as its modern counterpart and, therefore, that the two are genetically linked. The source of confusion lies in... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $15.93 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Ancient Science through the Golden Age of Greece by George Sarton Publisher Comments More than a history of Greek science, this fascinating book by an eminent science historian also provides a lucid account of ancient and early Greek cultures. Remarkably readable, thoroughly documented, and well illustrated, it covers problems of... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $29.24 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Zeno's Paradox: Unraveling the Ancient Mystery behind the Science of Space and Time by Joseph Mazur Publisher Comments Traces the epic history of ancient Greek philosopher Zeno's yet-unsolved paradox of motion, citing the contributions of such top minds as Aristotle, Newton, and Hawking to furthering the scientific community's understanding of the elusive basic structure... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - the First Muslim Nobel Scientist by Gordon Fraser Publisher Comments This book presents a biography of Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for Science (Physics 1979), who was nevertheless excommunicated and branded as a heretic in his own country. His achievements are often overlooked, even besmirched... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $46.20 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Origins of Natural Science: Nine Lectures Delivered in Dornach, December 24 to 28, 1922, and January 1 to 6, 1923 by Rudolf Steiner Publisher Comments These lectures trace the subtle changes in people's ideas and feelings in connection with the development of natural science. Through this, Steiner shows the significance of scientific research and the mode of thinking that goes with it. As we look at... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $5.32 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Atmospheric Science at NASA: A History by Erik M. Conway Publisher Comments This book offers an informed and revealing account of NASA's involvement in the scientific understanding of the Earth's atmosphere. Since the nineteenth century, scientists have attempted to understand the complex processes of the Earth's atmosphere and... (read more) Your price: $57.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Galileo's Pendulum: Science, Sexuality, and the Body-Instrument Link by Dušan I. Bjelić Publisher Comments A volume in the SUNY series in Science, Technology, and Society Sal Restivo and Jennifer Croissant... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $27.70 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Exploring the Moon: The Apollo Expedition by David Michael Harland Publisher Comments David Harland opens with a review of the robotic probes, namely the Rangers which returned television before crashing into the Moon, the Surveyors which 'soft landed' in order to investigate the nature of the surface, and the Lunar Orbiters which mapped... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $38.45 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences by Bernard V. Lightman Publisher Comments The ideas of Charles Darwin and his fellow Victorian scientists have had an abiding effect on the modern world. But at the time The Origin of Species was published in 1859, the British public looked not to practicing scientists but to a growing group of... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $28.21 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, 1927-1945: Crossing Boundaries by Hans-Walter Schmuhl Publisher Comments When the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics opened its doors in 1927, it could rely on wide political approval, ranging from the Social Democrats over the Catholic Centre to the far rightwing of the party spectrum. In... (read more) List Price $189.00 Your price: $181.91 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives by Tiiu Kull Publisher Comments This is the 10th volume in a series which was initiated in 1977. Like previous volumes, it contains scientific peer reviewed reviews on topics dealing with orchids. These topics include 1) a history of orchid breeders in Singapore, 2) discussion of... (read more) List Price $329.00 Your price: $316.66 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries by Joshua Gilder Publisher Comments Traces the collaboration of revolutionary astronomers Tyco Brahe and Johannes Kepler, documenting how their seventeenth-century work during the Counter-Reformation era established current understanding in physics, and analyzing recent forensic evidence... (read more) Your price: $13.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Century of Nature: Twenty-One Discoveries That Changed Science and the World by Laura Garwin Publisher Comments 's greatest hits—reproductions of seminal contributions that changed science and the world, accompanied by essays written by leading scientists (including four Nobel laureates) that provide historical context for each article, explain its insights in... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $27.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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