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Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science
by David Lindley  Publisher Comments Werner Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle" challenged centuries of scientific understanding, placed him in direct opposition to Albert Einstein, and put Niels Bohr in the middle of one of the most heated debates in scientific history. Heisenberg's...
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Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them
by Clifford Pickover Publisher Comments Archimedes to Hawking takes the reader on a journey across the centuries as it explores the eponymous physical laws--from Archimedes' Law of Buoyancy and Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Hubble's Law of Cosmic...
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In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA
by James Schwartz Publisher Comments If you have ever wondered what goes on in a genetics lab, here is the answer. In this sparkling and timely book James Schwartz reveals the remarkable history of the gene from its nineteenth-century origins as an entirely imaginary concept to the modern...
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The Mechanical Mind in History (Bradford Books)
by Phillip Husbands Publisher Comments The idea of intelligent machines has become part of popular culture. But tracing the history of the actual science of machine intelligence reveals a rich network of cross-disciplinary contributions--the unrecognized origins of ideas now central to...
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Charles Darwin (Blackwell Great Minds)
by Michael Ruse Publisher Comments Charles Darwin is irrefutably the architect of modern evolutionary biology. Yet Darwin 's The Origin of Species is more than just a biological theory. It is a set of principles that portend tremendous philosophical impact beyond the limits of natural...
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You Call This the Future? The Greatest Inventions Sci-Fi Imagined and Science Promised
by Nick Sagan and Mark Frary and Andy Walker Publisher Comments Examining the 50 coolest, most stylish, and most popular futuristic inventions, this handbook peers through the lens of today’s science, looking at which ones have become reality and how they work, and which are still in the imagined future: will...
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Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius
by Silvan S. Schweber Publisher Comments Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, two iconic scientists of the twentieth century, belonged to different generations, with the boundary marked by the advent of quantum mechanics. By exploring how these men differed (in their worldview, in their...
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Notes on the Underground, New Edition Notes on the Underground, New Edition: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination an Essay on Technolo
by Rosalind Williams Publisher Comments With a new essay by the authorThe underground has always played a prominent role in human imaginings, both as a place of refuge and as a source of fear. The late nineteenth century saw a new fascination with the underground as Western societies tried to...
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Why Beauty Is Truth: The History of Symmetry
by Ian Stewart Publisher Comments Hidden in the heart of the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, string theory, and modern cosmology lies one idea: symmetry. Symmetry has been a key concept for artists, architects, and musicians for centuries, but as a mathematical principle it...
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To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S)
by Chris Gainor Publisher Comments Although the dream of flying is as old as the human imagination, the notion of actually rocketing into space may have originated with Chinese experiments with gunpowder in the Middle Ages. Rockets as weapons and entertainment, whether sprung from science...
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Memory Practices in the Sciences (Inside Technology)
by Geoffrey C. Bowker Publisher Comments The way we record knowledge, and the web of technical, formal, and social practices that surrounds it, inevitably affects the knowledge that we record. The ways we hold knowledge about the past--in handwritten manuscripts, in printed books, in file...
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Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture
by Peter L. Galison and Gerald Holton and Silvan S. Schweber Publisher Comments More than fifty years after his death, Albert Einstein's vital engagement with the world continues to inspire others, spurring conversations, projects, and research, in the sciences as well as the humanities. Einstein for the 21st Century shows us why...
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Archimedes and the Roman Imagination
by Mary Jaeger Publisher Comments The great mathematician Archimedes, a Sicilian Greek whose machines defended Syracuse against the Romans during the Second Punic War, was killed by a Roman after the city fell, yet it is largely Roman sources, and Greek texts aimed at Roman audiences...
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Adam's Ancestors: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins (Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context)
by David N. Livingstone Publisher Comments Although the idea that all human beings are descended from Adam is a long-standing conviction in the West, another version of this narrative exists: human beings inhabited the Earth before, or alongside, Adam, and their descendants still occupy the...
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Charles Darwin (Blackwell Great Minds)
by Michael Ruse Publisher Comments The definitive work on the philosophical nature and impact of the theories of Charles Darwin, written by a well-known authority on the history and philosophy of Darwinism....
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Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400 - 1800
by Pamela H. Smith Publisher Comments The fruits of knowledge—such as books, data, and ideas—tend to generate far more attention than the ways in which knowledge is produced and acquired. Correcting this imbalance, Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe brings together a wide...
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Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400 - 1800
by Pamela H. Smith Publisher Comments The fruits of knowledge—such as books, data, and ideas—tend to generate far more attention than the ways in which knowledge is produced and acquired. Correcting this imbalance, Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe brings together a wide...
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How the Gene Got Its Groove: Figurative Language, Science, and the Rhetoric of the Real
by Elizabeth Parthenia Shea
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