History of science books

A landmark history of early radio in Germany and the quest for broadcast fidelity When we turn on a radio or stream...  Read More >>

This multidisciplinary work celebrates Wayne Orchiston's career and accomplishments in historical and cultural astronomy...  Read More >>

A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Albert Einstein This volume finds Einstein recovered...  Read More >>

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Traces a commonplace average—sea level—from its origins in charting land to its emergence as a symbol of global...  Read More >>

Since virtually its first moments as an academic science, women have played a major role in the development of psychology,...  Read More >>

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"""Magnetic Moments'"" is the first publication to tell not only the story of its author and his contribution to...  Read More >>

An insight into the lives of 14 male chemists who enabled women to thrive in chemistry at the turn of the 20th Century....  Read More >>

Dadurch eignet es sich ausgezeichnet als flexibles Begleitbuch zu unterschiedlichen Vorlesungen auf verschiedenem...  Read More >>

Yet, historians did not have a monopoly on the persona as readers and reviewers offered their interpretations of...  Read More >>

Thomas Kuhn is widely considered as one of the most important philosophers of science in the 20th century and his...  Read More >>

In 1971, psychologist Philip Zimbardo ran the now famous Stanford prison experiment to show that prison could make...  Read More >>

In 1927, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein began a debate about the interpretation and meaning of the new quantum theory....  Read More >>

Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman...  Read More >>

This book is the first to explore memory, misremembering, forgetting, and anniversaries in the history of psychiatry...  Read More >>

For the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today....  Read More >>

Why Stuff Falls Down is the story of how we have understood gravity, from the time of the ancient Greeks right...  Read More >>

Quantum theory is the bedrock of contemporary physics and the basis of understanding matter in its tiniest dimensions...  Read More >>

The book examines the life and the writings of Gabriele Biondo, a secular priest who lived in the little town of...  Read More >>

Journey to the ancient past with cutting-edge science and new data to discover how horses forever altered the course...  Read More >>

From early efforts to understand vision and colours, through relativity and quantum theory, visual art and laser...  Read More >>

Long before the foundations of the concept of sustainability were laid down and green chemistry became a hot topic,...  Read More >>

Now in paperback (26,000 copies sold in hardcover), Light is the definitive visual exploration of the power and...  Read More >>

A bold new story of human progress, told through six materials that built our world and will transform our future....  Read More >>