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Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence (Helix Books)
by George Dyson  Publisher Comments Darwin Among the Machines retraces the steps that led us into the digital wilderness, no less wild for being a universe of our own device. Introducing a cast of known and unknown characters, George B. Dyson traces the course of the information revolution,...
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Galileo's Daughter
by Dava Sobel 
Publisher Comments Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of...
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Biographical Dictionary of Internationalists
by Warren F Kuehl Review ...this is a very useful reference book that offers the user in an easily digestible form over 600 biographies of `major proponents of world organization and cooperation' from around the world.... Each entry is accompanied by one or more bibliographical...
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Masters of Modern Physics #6: In the Shadow of the Bomb: Physics and Arms Control
by Sidney Drell Book News Annotation Subtitled, An Insider's Look at the Rise and Fall of the Nuclear Threat, collects articles presented or published by Drell on physics, physicists, Andrei Sakharov, the Cold War years, deterrence and arms control, Star Wars and scientists, progress...
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World Prehistory in New Perspective 3RD Edition
by Grahame Clark Publisher Comments This book provides a bibliography designed to give access to the whole of man's history before written records began....
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Scientist of the Empire: Sir Roderick Murchison, Scientific Exploration & Victorian Imperialism
by Robert A Stafford Publisher Comments A life of the eminent Victorian who 'sold' science to the imperial government....
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Formation of Science in Japan: Building a Research Tradition
by James Bartholomew Book News Annotation Bartholomew (history, Ohio State), focusing on the years 1868-1921, shows how the cultural background of Japanese feudalism combined with selective borrowing of American and European achievements to create a tradition of domestic scientific research....
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Piltdown :a scientific forgery
by Frank Spencer Publisher Comments On the night of December 18, 1912, a packed meeting of the Geological Society of London listened to Charles Dawson, a rural lawyer and an amateur geologist, make an exciting announcement: he had found evolution's missing link in an old gravel pit near...
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Unity of Purpose, or Rational Analysis
by Augustus Young
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Social Relations of Physics, Mysticism & Mathematics
by Sal P Restivo
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The Origin of Modern Humans: A Scientific American Library Volume
by Roger Lewin Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-192) and index....
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Shore & Sea Boundaries Volume 3
by Michael W Reed TOC 1. Boundary problems associated with the submerged lands cases and the submerged lands acts (including recent developments in the international law of the sea)--2. Interpretation and use of Coast and Geodetic Survey data--3. The development of...
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Report Smithsonian Institution 1862
by Board of Trustees Description Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution up to January, 1863, and the Proceedings of the Board up to February, 1863. To the Senate and House of...
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Predicting the Future: An Illustrated History & Guide to the Techniques
by Albert S Lyons Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [420]-422) and index....
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Joys of Research
by Walter Shropshire TOC Einstein and research / Paul Forman -- Biochemical pharmacology / Julius Axelrod -- Mathematics / I.M. Singer -- Oncology and virology / Howard M. Temin -- Theoretical astrophysics / George B. Field -- "On first hearing" : the act of creation in music...
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Manipulated Science the Crisis of Scienc
by Mark Popovsky TOC Tale of a one-way street.--The lions.--Bridget's hat.--The goodbye song.--The queen of the moon.--Clean sheets.--The alarm cock.--The tractor, the duck, and the drum....
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History & Philosophy of Science: Selected Papers, Vol. 412
by Joseph W Dauben TOC Medical care in the countryside near Paris, 1800-1914 / by Evelyn Ackerman -- The developing technology of apparatus in psychology's early laboratories / by Fairfid M. Caudle -- Mathematical probability and the reasonable man of the eighteenth century...
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Rise of NEC: How the World's Greatest C & C Company Is Managed
by Koji Kobayashi Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]) and index....
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Profile of Science
by Ritchie Calder
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Understanding Technology
by Charles Sussind
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