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Physics: 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, satisfying your scientific curiosity and helping you to understand the biggest concepts in physics in concise, 100-word summaries. One of the first titles in a cutting-edge new series created...
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Dk
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2024-03-07
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The U.S. government conducts a population census every 10 years, adds up the counts by geographic location, and uses the resulting numbers in formulas to allocate seats in the House of Representative and Electoral College, and to make public funding and...
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Springer
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2024-01-02
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This open access book demonstrates that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative fiction perform similar work in “making the strange familiar” and “making the familiar strange” by taking their readers on journeys through space and time....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-14
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The book marks the Platinum Jubilee of the Indian Institute of Metals, closely matching independent India's age. It is envisaged as a compilation of technical articles tracing the birth and growth trajectory of metallurgical science, engineering and technology in the...
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Springer
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2023-11-15
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From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake, an inspirational human history of space travel, from the Apollo missions to our future forays to Mars. The Right Stuff for a new generation.THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANY SPACE TRAVEL...
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Penguin
Parution :
2023-10-26
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WINNER OF THE 2024 ASJA BOOK AWARD, BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW YORKER NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE SELECTIONFrom award-winning journalist Kenneth Miller comes the definitive story of the scientists who set...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2023-10-03
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Sonar to Quartz Clock examines how the unapplied phenomenon of piezoelectricity became applied for technologies such as sonar, crystal frequency control, the quartz clock, and how its research has consequently changed during WWI and the interwar period. It aims at...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-23
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In 1922, an unlikely team of researchers in Toronto made one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the century: insulin. Their discovery seemed miraculous. When it was given to diabetic patients on the brink of death, their condition rapidly improved. Those...
Editeur :
Polity
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2023-06-08
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History of Health and Illness
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Ancient Greece is often considered to be the birthplace of science and medicine, and the explanation of natural phenomena without recourse to supernatural causes. The early natural philosophers - lovers of wisdom...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-10
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Ancient Greece is often considered to be the birthplace of science and medicine, and the explanation of natural phenomena without recourse to supernatural causes. The early natural philosophers - lovers of wisdom...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-04-25
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'A wonderful connecting of two women writers' stories more than a century apart.' Julia Kuehn, The University of Hong Kong
The first-ever biography of the pioneering female journalist who fought to bring Japanese cherry trees to Washington, DC
Every age has strong,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-04-14
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Editeur :
Wildfire
Parution :
2023-04-04
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There is no doubt science is currently suffering from a credibility crisis.
This thought-provoking book argues that, ironically, science's credibility is being undermined by tools created by scientists themselves. Scientific disinformation and damaging conspiracy...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-08
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This book offers a critical update of current Wittgenstein research on the Tractatus logico-philosophicus (TLP) and its relation to the Vienna Circle. The contributions are written by renowned Wittgenstein scholars, on the occasion of the "Wittgenstein Years" 1921/1922...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-03-03
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There is no doubt science is currently suffering from a credibility crisis.
This thought-provoking book argues that, ironically, science's credibility is being undermined by tools created by scientists themselves. Scientific disinformation and damaging conspiracy...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-21
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'A wonderful connecting of two women writers' stories more than a century apart.' Julia Kuehn, The University of Hong Kong
The first-ever biography of the pioneering female journalist who fought to bring Japanese cherry trees to Washington, DC
Every age has strong,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-14
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Although women participated in shaping scientific thinking from the outset, they very rarely became visible. This imbalance continues today, although there are currently more female scientists than ever before. Lars Jaeger spans an arc from antiquity to the present...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-01-13
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This book brings together leading scholars in the history of science, history of universities, intellectual history, and the history of the Royal Society, to honor Professor Mordechai Feingold. The essays collected here reflect the impact Feingold's scholarship has had...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-01-01
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This book explores continuity and ruptures in the historical use of visual representations in science and related disciplines such as art history and anthropology. The book also considers more recent developments that attest to the unprecedented importance of scientific...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-01-01
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This open access book presents a new translation, interpretation and analysis of selected passages from the so-called Mohist Canon, a Chinese text from ca. 300 BCE, and discusses the role of the text in the world history of science, arguing that it represents an...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-01-01
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