History of science books

27278 books were found.

Der vibrierende Dildo: Vibratoren als Sex Toy, Gesundheits- und Empowerment-Tool - eine kulturwissenschaftliche Spurenlese

Author: Nadine Beck
ISBN: 9783942818407
Format: Paperback
$153.12

"Was haben Vibratoren mit Doppelkinn, Rheuma und Female Empowerment zu tun? Sehr viel, wenn man sich die reich bebilderte...  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

Petroleum from Coal: a Century of Synthesis provides a global and comparative history of the twentieth-century coal-to-petroleum...  Read More >>

Relativity: The Special and The General Theory A Popular Exposition

Relativity: The Special and The General Theory A Popular...

Author: Albert Einstein
ISBN: 9781715276928
Format: Hardback
$88.67

"The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those...  Read More >>

Space: A thrilling human history by Britain's beloved astronaut Tim Peake

Space: A thrilling human history by Britain's beloved...

Author: Tim Peake
ISBN: 9781804946268
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The first human history of space travel - from the Apollo missions to our journey to Mars - by Britain's beloved...  Read More >>

Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist's Guide to the Historical Sciences

Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist's Guide to the Historical...

Author: Adrian Currie (Research Associate, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780262552035
Format: Paperback
$74.99

An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists,...  Read More >>

1924–1927: Der Frühling der Quantenmechanik

1924–1927: Der Frühling der Quantenmechanik

Author: Hans-Hennig von Grünberg
ISBN: 9783662685037
Format: Hardback
$79.17

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The Moonlight Doctor: Art and Science of Carl Gustav Carus

The Moonlight Doctor: Art and Science of Carl Gustav...

Author: Jaan Valsiner
ISBN: 9783031525308
Format: Hardback
$369.57

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Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the Battle against Thalidomide

Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the Battle against...

Author: Cheryl Krasnick Warsh (Professor of History, Professor of History, Vancouver Island University)
ISBN: 9780197632543
Format: Hardback
$63.95

The woman scientist who saved Americans from thalidomideIn the early 1960s, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey of the U.S....  Read More >>

The Struggle of Parts

The Struggle of Parts

Author: Wilhelm Roux ,  David Haig
ISBN: 9780674290648
Format: Hardback
$78.95

Among the late nineteenth-century profusion of evolutionary ideas, Wilhelm Roux’s theory of a struggle for existence...  Read More >>

Silk: A World History

Silk: A World History

Author: Aarathi Prasad ,  Aarathi Prasad
ISBN: 9798212902779
Format: Audio
$110.85

A Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for April In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi...  Read More >>

Silk: A World History

Silk: A World History

Author: Aarathi Prasad ,  Aarathi Prasad
ISBN: 9798212902762
Format: Audio
$124.05

A Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for April In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi...  Read More >>

Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Source Analysis

Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Source Analysis...

Author: Olivia Weisser
ISBN: 9780367557225
Format: Paperback
$73.99

This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection of sources...  Read More >>

Italian Contributions to Planetary Astronomy: From the Discovery of Ceres to Pluto's Orbit

Italian Contributions to Planetary Astronomy: From the...

Author: Ileana Chinnici
ISBN: 9783031483882
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book describes the most important contributions of Italian astronomers to the development of planetary astronomy...  Read More >>

Walking with Christiaan Huygens: From Archimedes' Influence to Unsung Contributions in Modern Science

Walking with Christiaan Huygens: From Archimedes' Influence...

Author: Tijmen Jan Moser ,  Enders Anthony Robinson
ISBN: 9783031461576
Format: Hardback
$422.37

For example, we show how Huygens used symmetry arguments to derive conservation laws for momentum and for energy,...  Read More >>

Athanasius Kircher, the Mysteries of the Geocosmos, Magnetism, and the Universe

Athanasius Kircher, the Mysteries of the Geocosmos,...

Author: Agustín Udías
ISBN: 9783031530074
Format: Hardback
$169.00

Athanasius Kircher, the eminent 17th-century German Jesuit professor of mathematics at the Roman College emerges...  Read More >>

Women of Science: 100 Inspirational Lives

Women of Science: 100 Inspirational Lives

Author: Professor John S. Croucher ,  Professor Rosalind F. Croucher
ISBN: 9781398119581
Format: Paperback
$33.61

New paperback edition - An investigation into the lives of some of the more remarkable women in the history of scientific...  Read More >>

Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever

Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists...

Author: Rachel Lance
ISBN: 9780593184936
Format: Hardback
$84.48

"""This is a previously classified story of one group of scientific researchers-men and women-who exposed themselves...  Read More >>

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 2: Quanta and Fields

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 2: Quanta and Fields...

Author: Sean Carroll
ISBN: 9780861546480
Format: Hardback
$42.99

'Luminous and straightforward.’ Carlo Rovelli  Read More >>

Hearsay Is Not Excluded: A History of Natural History

Hearsay Is Not Excluded: A History of Natural History...

Author: Michael R. Dove
ISBN: 9780300270105
Format: Paperback
$51.95

This chronicle of natural history argues that the modern environmental crisis and rise in science skepticism codeveloped...  Read More >>

Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress Image

Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress...

Author: Gowan Dawson
ISBN: 9780300270624
Format: Hardback
$61.95

The first book to examine the iconic depiction of evolution, the “march of progress,” and its role in shaping our...  Read More >>

Reconciling Art and Technology: A Shared Cognitive History

Reconciling Art and Technology: A Shared Cognitive History...

Author: Subrata Dasgupta
ISBN: 9781032673363
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines two venerable cultures, art and technology, and uses the young ‘interdiscipline’ of cognitive...  Read More >>

Hearsay Is Not Excluded: A History of Natural History

Hearsay Is Not Excluded: A History of Natural History...

Author: Michael R. Dove
ISBN: 9780300273670
Format: Hardback
$186.95

This chronicle of natural history argues that the modern environmental crisis and rise in science skepticism codeveloped...  Read More >>

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