History of Science
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
by Daniel J. Boorstin  
Publisher Comments Daniel Boorstin, former librarian of the Library of Congress, gives a fascinating history of world civilization. From astronomical development, microscopes, telescopes, medicine, vaccines, genetics and map-making, this book delves into the discoveries of...
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Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918 - With New Preface (04 Edition)
by Stephen Kern Synopsis Stephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and World War I that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. To mark the bookUs twentieth anniversary, Kern provides an illuminating new...
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Reenchantment of the World (81 Edition)
by Morris Berman
Synopsis A perspective study of our scientific consciousness and a cogent and forceful challenge to its supremacy. Focusing on the rise of the mechanistic idea that we can know the natural world only by distancing ourselves from it, Berman shows how science...
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The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
by Mario Livio Publisher Comments Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1...
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
by Stephen E Ambrose From Powells.com Abraham Lincoln, prior to being elected president and at the time working as a railway lawyer, met future Civil War hero General Grenville Dodge, in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1859. According to historian Stephen Ambrose, Lincoln's first words were "Dodge...
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Science and Technology in World History (2ND 06 Edition)
by James E. Mcclellan Synopsis Now in its second edition, this bestselling textbook may be the single most influential study of the historical relationship between science and technology ever published. Tracing this relationship from the dawn of civilization through the twentieth...
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Lady Tasting Tea : How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century (01 Edition)
by David Salsburg Publisher Comments An insightful, revealing history of the magical mathematics that transformed our world. At a summer tea party in Cambridge, England, a guest states that tea poured into milk tastes different from milk poured into tea. Her notion is shouted down by the...
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Ascent of Science (98 Edition)
by Brian L. Silver Publisher Comments From the revolutionary discoveries of Galileo and Newton to the mind-bending theories of Einstein and Heisenberg, from plate tectonics to particle physics, from the origin of life to universal entropy, and from biology to cosmology, here is a sweeping...
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Lever of Riches : Technological Creativity and Economic Progress (90 Edition)
by Joel Mokyr Publisher Comments In a world of supercomputers, genetic engineering, and fiber optics, technological creativity is ever more the key to economic success. But why are some nations more creative than others, and why do some highly innovative societies--such as ancient China,...
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Social Construction of Technological Systems : New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (89 Edition)
by Wiebe E. Bijker Publisher Comments The impact of technology on society is clear and unmistakable. The influence of society on technology is more subtle. The 13 essays in this book draw on a wide array of case studies from cooking stoves to missile systems, from 15thandAcirc;andshy;century...
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
by Walter Alvarez Publisher Comments "A high drama of discovery and a wonderful adventure in science....It will become a classic". -- Los Angeles Times Book Review How was Tyrannosaurus rex toppled from the apex of creation? Sixty-five million years ago, there was an apocalyptic collision...
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Social History of American Technology (97 Edition)
by Ruth S. Cowan Publisher Comments For over 250 years American technology has been regarded as a unique hallmark of American culture and an important factor in American prosperity. Despite this American history has rarely been told from the perspective of the history of technology. A...
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Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: Railroads in the West
by Dee Brown Publisher Comments From the author of the best-selling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown's classic account of the building of the transcontinental railroad. In February 1854 the first railroad from the East reached the Mississippi; by the end of the nineteenth...
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Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
by Michio Kaku Publisher Comments In Visions, theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku examines the ways the three scientific revolutions that reshaped the twentieth century -- quantum mechanics, biogenetics, and artificial intelligence -- will dramatically alter science...
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Science and Technology in World History : an Introduction (99 - Old Edition)
by James E. Iii Mcclellan Publisher Comments Science has become so identified with practical benefits that the dependence of technology on science is commonly assumed to be a timeless relationship and a single enterprise... That belief, however, is an artifact of twentieth-century cultural...
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Theories of the World From Antiquity 2ND Edition
by Michael J Crowe Publisher Comments Newly revised edition of Professor Crowe's accessible, enlightening book re-creates the change from an earth-centered to a sun-centered conception of the solar system. The work is organized around a hypothetical debate: Given the evidence available in...
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Servants of Nature a History of Scientif
by Lewis Pyenson Synopsis "Servants of Nature" explores the fascinating interaction between scientific practice and public life from antiquity to the present. The authors reveal how in Asia, Europe and the New World advances in science closely have been allied to changes in three...
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Science and Society (07 Edition)
by Richard W. Grinnell Publisher Comments Part of Longman's successful Topic's Reader series, Science and Society is a brief thematic reader that touches on the nature of science and various scientific issues and controversies. Provides information and discussion on the nature of science and...
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Crucibles the Story of Chemistry 4TH Edition
by Bernard Jaffe Publisher Comments Classic popular account of great chemists Trevisan, Paracelsus, Avogadro, Mendeleeff, Curies, Thomson, Lawrence, up to A-bomb research and recent work with subatomic particles. The Chicago Daily Tribune declared, . "The saga is exciting and Mr...
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Natures Body Gender in the Making of Mak
by Londa Schiebinger Publisher Comments Gender in the Making of Modern Science Winner of the 1994 Society for Social Studies of Science Ludwik Fleck Prize "Schiebinger's incisive book draws timely attention to the critical roles of language, metaphor, and ideology in the development of science....
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