History of science books

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Engineered World, An: The Role of Engineers in Global Modernity

Engineered World, An: The Role of Engineers in Global...

Author: Edward Beatty ,  Israel G. Solares
ISBN: 9780262553353
Format: Paperback
$150.00

How engineering as a modern profession emerged as a global phenomenon-and why its development and expansion are...  Read More >>

Carbon: A Biography

Carbon: A Biography

Author: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France) ,  Sacha Loeve (Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, France)
ISBN: 9781509573677
Format: Paperback
$30.95

Carbon is much more than a chemical element: it is a polymorphic entity with many faces, at once natural, cultural...  Read More >>

Climate by Proxy: A History of Scientific Reconstructions of the Past and Future

Climate by Proxy: A History of Scientific Reconstructions...

Author: Melissa Charenko
ISBN: 9780226844107
Format: Paperback
$57.95

How twentieth-century scientists used proxies to understand historic climates, shaping scientific analyses of the...  Read More >>

Simply Genetics: Facts Made Fast

Simply Genetics: Facts Made Fast

Author: DK
ISBN: 9780241723647
Format: Hardback
$27.99

The clearest, simplest guide to genetics ever published Combining bold graphics with easy-to-understand text, this...  Read More >>

Pragmatism and Philosophy of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Pragmatism and Philosophy of Science: Historical and...

Author: Roberto Gronda (University of Pisa, Italy) ,  Marianne Janack (Hamilton College, USA)
ISBN: 9781032515533
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume provides a broad and comprehensive overview of the many ways in which pragmatism has influenced contemporary...  Read More >>

Climate by Proxy: A History of Scientific Reconstructions of the Past and Future

Climate by Proxy: A History of Scientific Reconstructions...

Author: Melissa Charenko
ISBN: 9780226844084
Format: Hardback
$190.95

How twentieth-century scientists used proxies to understand historic climates, shaping scientific analyses of the...  Read More >>

Science, Politics, and the Anthropocene Working Group: What was the Anthropocene?

Science, Politics, and the Anthropocene Working Group:...

Author: Alexander Damianos
ISBN: 9781032990040
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Science, Politics, and the Anthropocene Working Group: What was the Anthropocene? provides an invaluable resource...  Read More >>

Myriad, Microscopic and Marvellous: The World of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

Myriad, Microscopic and Marvellous: The World of Antoni...

Author: Geertje Dekkers
ISBN: 9781836390978
Format: Hardback
$44.99

The hidden, minuscule worlds of pioneering Dutch microbiologist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek.  Read More >>

Pioniere der Tiefe. Hightech in Patenten: Erkunden und Nutzbarmachen des Meeresbodens, des Erdinneren und der Tiefe des Weltraums

Pioniere der Tiefe. Hightech in Patenten: Erkunden und...

Author: Thomas Heinz Meitinger
ISBN: 9783662721513
Format: Paperback
$131.97

Das Buch beschreibt die historischen und die aktuellen Möglichkeiten Rohstoffe und Bodenschätze zu erkunden und...  Read More >>

Der Briefwechsel von Johann I Bernoulli: Der Briefwechsel mit Pierre Varignon Dritter Teil: 1714-1722

Der Briefwechsel von Johann I Bernoulli: Der Briefwechsel...

Author: Johann I Bernoulli ,  Sulamith Gehr
ISBN: 9783031303449
Format: Hardback
$607.17

Das Buch besteht aus dem letzten von drei Bänden der Ausgabe der Korrespondenz zwischen den Mathematikern Johann...  Read More >>

The Giant Leap: Why Space Is the Next Frontier in the Evolution of Life

The Giant Leap: Why Space Is the Next Frontier in the...

Author: Caleb Scharf
ISBN: 9781541604179
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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NOUS, les Femmes, VOUS, les Hommes: Un ennemi commun: l'esprit de domination

NOUS, les Femmes, VOUS, les Hommes: Un ennemi commun:...

Author: Colette Trublet
ISBN: 9782322578948
Format: Paperback
$40.92

Les procès de Dominique Pélicot, celui de Joël Le Skouarnec, le scandale Abbé Pierre, les scandales des internats...  Read More >>

Intuitionism Resocialized: Individuals, Communities, and the Evolution of Mathematical Knowledge

Intuitionism Resocialized: Individuals, Communities,...

Author: Kati Kish Bar-On
ISBN: 9783032058386
Format: Hardback
$316.77

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Quantum Language and the Migration of Scientific Concepts

Quantum Language and the Migration of Scientific Concepts...

Author: Jennifer Burwell (Associate Professor, Ryerson University)
ISBN: 9780262055772
Format: Paperback
$67.36

How highly abstract quantum concepts were represented in language, and how these concepts were later taken up by...  Read More >>

The Launch Of Rocket Lab

The Launch Of Rocket Lab

Author: Peter Griffin ,  Peter Beck
ISBN: 9781775542995
Format: Hardback
$65.00

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Deaf People, Language, and Emancipation in Modern France, 1789–1914

Deaf People, Language, and Emancipation in Modern France,...

Author: Sabine Arnaud (Research Director, Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
ISBN: 9780198940128
Format: Hardback
$234.95

Drawing on a wide range of contemporary debates about deaf identity, the book considers how philosophers, teachers,...  Read More >>

The Origins and Early History of Conjugated Organic Polymers: Organic Semiconductors, Synthetic Metals, and the Prehistory of Organic Electronics

The Origins and Early History of Conjugated Organic...

Author: Seth C. Rasmussen (Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University)
ISBN: 9780197638163
Format: Hardback
$233.95

Using a range of examples of conducting polymers from the early 19th century onwards, this book shows that the history...  Read More >>

The Inventions, Research, and Writings of Nikola Tesla: The Illustrated Classic 1894 Collection of Lectures, Patents, and Papers by Nikola Tesla

The Inventions, Research, and Writings of Nikola Tesla:...

Author: Thomas Commerford Martin ,  Nikola Tesla
ISBN: 9781667307176
Format: Paperback
$47.49

""The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."" - Nikola Tesla Includes over 310 illustrations...  Read More >>

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