History of science books

Bullet bras, bazookas, bombshells, bikinis. In Atomic Bombshells, Isabelle Held challenges the usual narratives...  Read More >>

Award-winning journalist and international bestselling author Jo Marchant returns with a mind-bending exploration...  Read More >>

A beautifully written and accessible history of humanity’s attempts to understand our place in the cosmos.  Read More >>

Even in the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is still harder for women to make a career in science than...  Read More >>

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A beautifully written and accessible history of humanity’s attempts to understand our place in the cosmos.  Read More >>

Award-winning journalist Jo Marchant returns with a mind-bending exploration of the shifting science behind how...  Read More >>

This book establishes novel points of connection between European art and medicine in early modernity, opening up...  Read More >>

Argues that intoxication was fundamental to German physiological, psychological, and psychiatric research during...  Read More >>

A highly original first anthology on the cultural history of the unconscious that is destined to become definitive....  Read More >>

This book is about our ordinary concept of matter in the form of enduring continuants and the processes in which...  Read More >>

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How France integrated the seafloor into its national territory through an interplay of science, technology, and...  Read More >>

This book provides students with the essentials needed for a semester-long, introductory course in materials science...  Read More >>

How France integrated the seafloor into its national territory through an interplay of science, technology, and...  Read More >>

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In Sex Isn’t Real, Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create...  Read More >>

In Sex Isn’t Real, Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create...  Read More >>

This book offers an overview of existing and developing relationships between humanities and science, considering...  Read More >>

This book argues for a new direction of research, namely ‘History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences’ (HPSS)....  Read More >>

This open access book examines the historical development of the concept of the virtual particle, from the first...  Read More >>

Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, inwieweit das Vorhandensein oder das Fehlen wichtiger Rohstoffe den...  Read More >>

Science in the Ancient World presents a worldwide history of science, from prehistoric times through the medieval...  Read More >>

Explore historical and contemporary fringe remedies seen as strange, ridiculous, or even gruesome by modern Western...  Read More >>