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2018 marked a double centenary: peace was declared in war-wracked Europe, and women won the vote after decades of struggle. A Lab of One's Own commemorates both anniversaries by revealing the untold lives of female scientists, doctors, and engineers who undertook...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-01-05
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2018 marked a double centenary: peace was declared in war-wracked Europe, and women won the vote after decades of struggle. A Lab of One's Own commemorates both anniversaries by revealing the untold lives of female scientists, doctors, and engineers who undertook...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-29
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This volume offers a wide range of both reconstructions of Nikolai Vasiliev’s original logical ideas and their implementations in the modern logic and philosophy. A collection of works put together through the international workshop "Nikolai Vasiliev’s Logical Legacy...
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Springer
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2017-11-21
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The Romance of Science pays tribute to the wide-ranging and highly influential work of Trevor Levere, historian of science and author of Poetry Realised in Nature, Transforming Matter, Science and the Canadian Arctic, Affinity and Matter and other significant inquiries...
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Springer
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2017-07-04
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Science is the first ever fully illustrated global history of science, from Aristotle to the atom bomb - and beyond.
The first part of the book tells the story of science in both East and West from antiquity to the Enlightenment: from...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-16
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Science is the first ever fully illustrated global history of science, from Aristotle to the atom bomb - and beyond.
The first part of the book tells the story of science in both East and West from antiquity to the Enlightenment: from...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-09
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This book addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. A rethinking of the disease with reference to its ambiguous status, and the ways of seeing that it generated, helps reconsider the network of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-08
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This book presents essays by eminent scholars from across the history of medicine, early science and European history, including those expert on the history of the book. The volume honors Professor Nancy Siraisi and reflects the impact that Siraisi's scholarship has had...
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Springer
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2017-05-15
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This is a rare book on a rare topic: it is about 'action' and the Principle of Least Action. A surprisingly well-kept secret, these ideas are at the heart of physical science and engineering. Physics is well known as being concerned with grand conservatory principles...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-04-28
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Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media coverage, and several meetings, conferences and...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-02-16
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Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media coverage, and several meetings, conferences and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-16
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J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) is widely appreciated as one of the greatest and most influential British scientists of the 20th century, making significant contributions to genetics, physiology, biochemistry, biometry, cosmology, and other sciences. More remarkable, then,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-12-07
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This book introduces the reader to the visible memorabilia of science and scientists in all the five boroughs of New York City - statues, busts, plaques, buildings, and other artifacts. In addition, it extends to some scientists and institutions currently operating in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-03
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This book introduces the reader to the visible memorabilia of science and scientists in all the five boroughs of New York City - statues, busts, plaques, buildings, and other artifacts. In addition, it extends to some scientists and institutions currently operating in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-03
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In his latest book, Eric Scerri presents a completely original account of the nature of scientific progress. It consists of a holistic and unified approach in which science is seen as a living and evolving single organism. Instead of scientific revolutions featuring...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-10
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This is the first of four volumes to be published as part of this book series, on the life and work of Richard Ned Lebow. In a career spanning six decades, Richard Ned Lebow has made important contributions to the study of international relations, political and...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-13
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'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian CoxThis is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2016-09-08
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Schnittstellenforschung. Mit Beginn der Kulturwissenschaften und durch die kulturelle Wende in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts formte sich ein erweitertes Kulturverständnis. Fallen in diesem Sinne die Grenzen zwischen Wissenschaft und Literatur, wird...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-08-31
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Ein neuer Blick auf die Geschichte und Macht großer Ideen In dieser bebilderten Darstellung sechs großer technologischer Neuerungen, die unsere moderne Welt auf vielfältige Weise prägen, zeichnet Steven Johnson die Geschichte der Innovation über die Jahrhunderte nach,...
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Springer
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2016-08-22
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This book addresses the ideological figure of modernity, its presumed historical significance as an era, and its theoretical adequacy as a frame. It shows how science is evoked to prevent the sociological imagination from elaborating non-Eurocentric categories and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-12
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