History of science books

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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 >>

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 >>

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

An energetic and impassioned work of popular science about scientists who have had to fight for their revolutionary...  Read More >>

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 >>

Tobacco Through Time: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Tobacco Through Time: Interdisciplinary Perspectives...

Author: Sarah Inskip ,  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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Making Movement Modern: Science, Politics, and the Body in Motion

Making Movement Modern: Science, Politics, and the Body...

Author: Whitney E. Laemmli
ISBN: 9780226845807
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Explores how researchers used systems for recording human movement to navigate the relationship between mind and...  Read More >>

Anthropology and AI

Anthropology and AI

Author: Lora Koycheva ,  Angela K. VandenBroek
ISBN: 9781032874647
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Anthropology and AI explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and human society through a collection...  Read More >>

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and...

Author: Renée Bergland
ISBN: 9780691235301
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature. Emily Dickinson and...  Read More >>

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