History of science books

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Wigmore on Carbon Monoxide: Medicolegal and Forensic Aspects of an Ancient, Silent Killer and Other Toxic Gases in Fires, Exhausts, and Explosions

Wigmore on Carbon Monoxide: Medicolegal and Forensic...
Author: James G. Wigmore ISBN: 9781487570606 Format: Paperback	$270.00
Wigmore on Carbon Monoxide uncovers the fascinating history and ongoing dangers of carbon monoxide, the invisible... Read More >>

Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America

Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America
Author: Beth Linker ISBN: 9780691235516 Format: Paperback	$39.99
The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America - from eugenics and... Read More >>

The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the...
Author: Jessica Riskin ISBN: 9780593852576 Format: Hardback	$70.00
The tumultuous life and radical science of a thinker ahead of his time, and the history of an idea that changed... Read More >>

Foreign Astral Sciences in China: From the Six Dynasties to the Northern Song

Foreign Astral Sciences in China: From the Six Dynasties...
Author: Bill M. Mak (Kyoto University, Japan) ISBN: 9781138477599 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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The Rise and Fall of the Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear

The Rise and Fall of the Sunbed in Britain: Tanning...
Author: Fabiola Creed (University of Warwick, UK) ISBN: 9781350461123 Format: Paperback	$59.99
Explores changing representation of sunbed providers and consumers in Britain by analysing the role of the media,... Read More >>

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence...
Author: John Green ISBN: 9781529961447 Format: Paperback	$26.99
John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare... Read More >>

The Politics of the Table: Nutrition and the Body in Modern Germany

The Politics of the Table: Nutrition and the Body in...
Author: Kristen Ann Ehrenberger ISBN: 9781421454122 Format: Paperback	$135.00
How nutrition and the body became matters of national importance in modern Germany. What does it mean to eat well,... Read More >>

Toward a Philosophy of Error in Science

Toward a Philosophy of Error in Science
Author: Douglas Allchin ISBN: 9780197827673 Format: Hardback	$73.95
History is littered with scientific errors. This contrasts sharply with the image of science as providing a systematic... Read More >>

I Told You So!: Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right

I Told You So!: Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled,...
Author: Matt Kaplan ISBN: 9781250372277 Format: Hardback	$50.00
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Traversal

Traversal
Author: Maria Popova ISBN: 9781837265619 Format: Hardback	$65.00
From the Marginalian creator and bestselling author Maria Popova, a bold exploration of what makes a meaningful... Read More >>

Gems and the New Science: Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution

Gems and the New Science: Matter and Value in the Scientific...
Author: Michael Bycroft ISBN: 9780226644608 Format: Hardback	$74.95
The first book-length history of gems in early modern science offers a thought-provoking new take on the Scientific... Read More >>

The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal

The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal
Author: Jon Stock (Editor) ISBN: 9780349128917 Format: Paperback	$24.99
The disturbing true story of an all-powerful British doctor called William Sargant who in the 1960s and 1970s abused... Read More >>

Critical History for Tomorrow's Paleontology

Critical History for Tomorrow's Paleontology
Author: Victor Monnin (Archives Henri-Poincaré) ISBN: 9781009771375 Format: Paperback	$46.58
This Element argues for the benefits of integrating the perspectives of a new historiography of paleontology in... Read More >>

Critical History for Tomorrow's Paleontology

Critical History for Tomorrow's Paleontology
Author: Victor Monnin (Archives Henri-Poincaré) ISBN: 9781009771320 Format: Hardback	$142.31
This Element argues for the benefits of integrating the perspectives of a new historiography of paleontology in... Read More >>

Tobacco Through Time: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Tobacco Through Time: Interdisciplinary Perspectives...
Author: Sarah Inskip (University of Leicester, UK) , Jason Hughes (Senior Lecturer, Grad Tutor, Deputy Head of Sch, University of Leicester, UK) ISBN: 9781350510524 Format: Hardback	$170.00
An interdisciplinary study of the history of tobacco to explore the impact it has had on societies both past and... Read More >>

Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science

Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science...
Author: Colin Williamson ISBN: 9781517914875 Format: Hardback	$270.00
How twentieth-century developments in science influenced the aesthetics of the burgeoning American cartoon What... Read More >>

Probing the Consistency of Quantum Field Theory I: From Nonconvergence to Haag's Theorem (1949–1954)

Probing the Consistency of Quantum Field Theory I: From...
Author: Alexander S. Blum (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) ISBN: 9781009265331 Format: Paperback	$46.58
This Element covers the years immediately following the development of renormalized quantum electrodynamics. It... Read More >>

There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness

There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important...
Author: Carlo Rovelli , Erica Segre ISBN: 9780141993256 Format: Paperback	$26.99
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Advancing Excellence: The History of Texas a&M University's Hagler Institute for Advanced Study

Advancing Excellence: The History of Texas a&M University's...
Author: Tim Gregg ISBN: 9781648433771 Format: Hardback	$92.99
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Women in STEM: The Matilda Effect: A Trivia Book

Women in STEM: The Matilda Effect: A Trivia Book
Author: Sara Winslow ISBN: 9798994924709 Format: Paperback	$39.57
An engaging collection of 200 trivia questions highlighting the achievements of women across science, technology,... Read More >>

Geschichte und Kultur des Senizids

Geschichte und Kultur des Senizids
Author: Raimund Pousset ISBN: 9783658511906 Format: Paperback	$171.57
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A Brief History of Cams and Cam Mechanisms

A Brief History of Cams and Cam Mechanisms
Author: Umberto Meneghetti ISBN: 9783031811500 Format: Paperback	$475.17
This book offers a description of the evolution of cams and their uses from the Middle Ages to the present day,... Read More >>

Probing the Consistency of Quantum Field Theory I: From Nonconvergence to Haag's Theorem (1949–1954)

Probing the Consistency of Quantum Field Theory I: From...
Author: Alexander S. Blum (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) ISBN: 9781009619271 Format: Hardback	$142.31
This Element covers the years immediately following the development of renormalized quantum electrodynamics. It... Read More >>

The Face: A Cultural History

The Face: A Cultural History
Author: Fay Bound-Alberti ISBN: 9780241670712 Format: Hardback	$55.00
A pioneering study into how we interpret faces and what they reveal about us, from a world-renowned cultural historian... Read More >>

Anthropology and AI

Anthropology and AI
Author: Lora Koycheva , Angela K. VandenBroek ISBN: 9781032866192 Format: Paperback	$77.99
Anthropology and AI explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and human society through a collection... Read More >>

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