History of science books

"These letters between the pioneering environmentalist and her beloved friend reveal ""a vibrant, caring woman behind...  Read More >>

A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks  Read More >>

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"""See the universe like never before, through brief portraits of 100 stars with incredible stories and science...  Read More >>

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Conoce los sucesos, inventos y descubrimientos cientâificos que han revolucionado el mundo, desde la rueda en las...  Read More >>

An astronomer ""who writes like a poet"" (Wall Street Journal) gives a sweeping, ""beautifully written"" (Nature)...  Read More >>

""Bold and intriguing.""--Wall Street Journal - ""Penetrating. . . . Provocative and profound.""--Publishers Weekly...  Read More >>

The book discusses ideas concerning the order and balance of nature (or ""economy of nature"") from the late 17th...  Read More >>

"This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victorian natural historian T. H. Huxley (""Darwin's...  Read More >>

"This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victorian natural historian T. H. Huxley (""Darwin's...  Read More >>

Through a sample comparative historical study focusing on the question of the emergence of the large-scale steel...  Read More >>

The volume concludes with three indexes, one with all biblical citations, one of all Malachy's other citations,...  Read More >>

Explores the intersection of Enlightenment ideas and colonial realities amongst White, male colonists in the eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

The astonishing true story behind sleep science: from staying awake for 115 consecutive hours to living in a cave...  Read More >>

In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows...  Read More >>

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Their comments are confined to the footnotes and to brief explanatory paragraphs, added simply to provide certain...  Read More >>

Explores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms...  Read More >>

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In this book, a case study of a humanistic reading of an essential evolutionary theorist, George C. As the most...  Read More >>

This book tells the inside story of Germany's first contributions to space research by experiments with artificial...  Read More >>

A popular history of the eccentric and nonscientific methods used in oil exploration.  Read More >>

Cruel Habitations (1974) looks at the pre-industrial background in which housing problems are rooted, with the decay...  Read More >>