Science: general issues books

Offering provocative readings of Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, Clough's Amours...  Read More >>

This edition provides the first complete, modern version of John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue, a text remarkable...  Read More >>

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This edited collection offers a unique, provocative, interdisciplinary outlook on the contemporary issues of, and...  Read More >>

This collection is a lively and engaging resource for scholars interested in the crucial impact relativism has had...  Read More >>

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Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical, alchemical, natural philosophical and commercial knowledge...  Read More >>

Siobhán Collins re-evaluates Metempsychosis as a high point of Donne's poetic canon, situating the poem’s somatic...  Read More >>

This volume looks at current and emerging technologies of war and some of the ethical issues surrounding their use....  Read More >>

Through a series of close readings of selected short poems and Lydgate's Troy Book, Fall of Princes, and Siege of...  Read More >>

Historical Disasters in Context explores the close and complex relationship between human civilization and the physical...  Read More >>

This collection offers new perspectives on the study of science and religion, bringing together articles that highlight...  Read More >>

Is the automobility regime experiencing a transition towards sustainability? To answer that question, this book...  Read More >>

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between the sciences and the concept of divine revelation....  Read More >>

Geoinformation provides complete coverage of remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, and GIS. This second edition...  Read More >>

Jesuit Science and the End of Nature’s Secrets explores how several prominent Jesuit naturalists - including Niccolò...  Read More >>

This book is about the concept of progress, its separate varieties, its current rejection, and how it may be reconsidered...  Read More >>

When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralysed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart...  Read More >>

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This book explores fish genetic resources while emphasizing the importance of genetic diversity for the sustainability...  Read More >>

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Starting with the pioneering work of Volta, Seebeck, and Peltier on thermoelectric phenomena, it takes the reader...  Read More >>

A compendium of sounds from this world and beyond, from the author of A New Map of Wonders and The Book of Barely...  Read More >>