History of science books

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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know...

Author: Jason Roberts
ISBN: 9781529400465
Format: Hardback
$65.00

A thrilling account of a centuries-old rivalry - an exploration of scientific discovery and its evolution in an...  Read More >>

Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science

Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science...

Author: Eram Alam ,  Professor Dorothy Roberts
ISBN: 9780231207331
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Ordering the Human presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship that examines the racialization of science...  Read More >>

Petroleum from Coal: A Century of Synthesis

Petroleum from Coal: A Century of Synthesis

Author: Anthony Stranges
ISBN: 9789004544116
Format: Hardback
$506.88

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Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science

Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science...

Author: Eram Alam ,  Professor Dorothy Roberts
ISBN: 9780231207324
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Ordering the Human presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship that examines the racialization of science...  Read More >>

Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America

Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America

Author: Beth Linker
ISBN: 9780691235493
Format: Hardback
$49.99

The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America - from eugenics and...  Read More >>

Chasing the Stars: How the Astronomers of Observatory Hill Transformed Our Understanding of the Universe

Chasing the Stars: How the Astronomers of Observatory...

Author: James Lattis ,  Kelly Tyrrell
ISBN: 9781976600241
Format: Paperback
$79.20

"A richly illustrated history of Wisconsin's astronomical innovations Explore the remarkable story of Wisconsin...  Read More >>

Cosmic Chronicles: A Journey Through Space and Time

Cosmic Chronicles: A Journey Through Space and Time...

Author: Daniel Lucier
ISBN: 9798224773046
Format: Paperback
$21.09

The universe, with its vast expanse of galaxies, stars, and planets, has intrigued humanity for centuries. At the...  Read More >>

Astronomy of Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Perspective

Astronomy of Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Perspective

Author: Juan Antonio Belmonte ,  José Lull
ISBN: 9783031118319
Format: Paperback
$362.22

This book is a comprehensive reference on ancient Egyptian astronomy, one of the most important topics in historical...  Read More >>

Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World

Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs...

Author: Tim James
ISBN: 9781472148414
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A hugely entertaining exploration of unintentional world-changing discoveries in science, for fans of ELEMENTAL...  Read More >>

Sleeping Beauties: The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture

Sleeping Beauties: The Mystery of Dormant Innovations...

Author: Andreas Wagner
ISBN: 9780861548064
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Why do some of nature’s marvels have to wait millions of years for their time in the sun?  Read More >>

Arztgeschichten: Zur Chinesischen Medizinkultur, 1926-2015

Arztgeschichten: Zur Chinesischen Medizinkultur, 1926-2015...

Author: Lena Springer
ISBN: 9783110447873
Format: Hardback
$303.57

In this book senior Chinese physicians share how they have contributed to Chinese medicine throughout their careers....  Read More >>

Einstein at Work on Unified Field Theory: The Five-Dimensional Einstein-Bergmann Approach

Einstein at Work on Unified Field Theory: The Five-Dimensional...

Author: Tobias Schütz
ISBN: 9783031521263
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book meticulously examines over one hundred documents of research notes by Albert Einstein, many of which were...  Read More >>

Cryptids: How We Know They are Real

Cryptids: How We Know They are Real

Author: James Maxey
ISBN: 9798869299086
Format: Hardback
$66.00

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Creolised Science: Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Indo-Pacific

Creolised Science: Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Dorit Brixius
ISBN: 9781009200448
Format: Hardback
$219.94

The first comprehensive study of cross-cultural plant knowledge in eighteenth-century Mauritius, Creolised Science...  Read More >>

Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World

Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs...

Author: Tim James
ISBN: 9781472148407
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A hugely entertaining exploration of unintentional world-changing discoveries in science, for fans of ELEMENTAL...  Read More >>

The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation

The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation...

Author: Sarah Wise
ISBN: 9780861544554
Format: Hardback
$39.99

The shocking story of how the British government locked up thousands of innocent people – then forgot about them....  Read More >>

The Diaries of a Bonedigger: Harold Rollin Wanless in the White River Badlands of South Dakota, 1920–1922

The Diaries of a Bonedigger: Harold Rollin Wanless in...

Author: Harold Rogers Wanless ,  Emmett Evanoff
ISBN: 9783031251207
Format: Paperback
$284.60

Through the original writings and photography of renowned geologist Harold Rollin Wanless, this book paints a thorough...  Read More >>

Moses among the Moderns: German Constructions of Biblical Law, 1750–1930

Moses among the Moderns: German Constructions of Biblical...

Author: Paul Michael Kurtz
ISBN: 9789004691766
Format: Hardback
$335.28

This book explores the many framings of Moses in modern Germany, from historic lawgiver to founder of a nation....  Read More >>

Tropes and the Literary-Scientific Revolution: Forms of Proof

Tropes and the Literary-Scientific Revolution: Forms...

Author: Michael Slater
ISBN: 9781032422718
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machines from Descartes to the Digital Age

An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking...

Author: David W. Bates
ISBN: 9780226832104
Format: Hardback
$74.95

A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines. We imagine...  Read More >>

From Automated to Autonomous Driving: A Transnational Research History on Pioneers, Artifacts and Technological Change (1950-2000)

From Automated to Autonomous Driving: A Transnational...

Author: Fabian Kröger
ISBN: 9783031498800
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book presents the most important milestones of the research on automated and autonomous driving in the United...  Read More >>

Metamorphosis: How insects are changing our world

Metamorphosis: How insects are changing our world

Author: Erica McAlister ,  Adrian Washbourne
ISBN: 9781486318902
Format: Hardback
$34.99

Delve into the weird and wondrous world of insects, and what we can learn from them.  Read More >>

Silk: A World History

Silk: A World History

Author: Aarathi Prasad
ISBN: 9780063160255
Format: Hardback
$85.80

""In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of...  Read More >>

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