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The New Math: A Political Histor...
An era of sweeping cultural change in America, the postwar years saw the rise of beatniks and hippies, the birth of feminism, and the release of the first video game It was also the era of new math...
The Neptune File: A Story of Ast...
The Neptune File is the first full account of the dramatic events surrounding the eighth planets discovery, and the story of two remarkable men who were able to see on paper what astronomers lookin...
Occult Scientific Mentalities [P...
The essays in this volume present a collective study of one of the major problems in the recent history of science: To what extent did the occult sciences alchemy, astrology, numerology, and natura...
The Theory That Would Not Die: H...
A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice: A vivid account of the generationslong dispute over Bayes rule, one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of applied mathematics and statisticsAn...
Conscious Evolution: Awakening O...
A wellknown futurist reveals a quantum change in society and points the way to the third millennium Barbara Marx Hubbard issues a call to action for the current generation to fulfill its creative p...
Convergence: The Idea at the Hea...
A brilliant history of science over the past 150 years that offers a powerful new argumentthat the many disparate scientific branches are converging on the same truthsConvergence is a history of mo...
Strange Universe: The Weird and ...
An illuminating and entertaining scientific exploration of everyday odditiesBob Bermans Strange Universe is a unique guidebook to some of the more bizarre moments in astronomy and astonishingly tru...
Einstein: A Life [Paperback] Bri...
Blends the brilliance of the scientific genius with the compassion, playfulness, and wit of the private figureA fascinating read with more interesting material about Einstein as a human being than ...
Galileos Daughter: A Historical ...
- ISBN10: B000S5JEDG ISBN13: B000S5JEDG Material Type: hardcover
Martial meditation: Philosophy a...
ISBN10: B0007263TI ISBN13: 978B0007263T8 Material Type: hardcover
LET THERE BE LIGHT: THE STORY OF...
This book is the first of its kind to devote itself at this level to the key role played by light and electromagnetic radiation in the universe Readers are introduced to philosophical hypotheses su...
The Oldest Enigma of Humanity: T...
Thirty thousand years ago our prehistoric ancestors painted perfect images of animals on walls of tortuous caves, most often without any light How was this possible? What meaning and messages did t...
The Calculus Wars: Newton, Leibn...
Now regarded as the bane of many college students existence, calculus was one of the most important mathematical innovations of the seventeenth century But a dispute over its discovery sewed the se...
Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin ...
Drawing on the lives of five great scientists, this scholarly, insightful, and beautifully written book Martin Rees, author of From Here to Infinity illuminates the path to scientific discoveryChar...
The Immortal Life of Henrietta L...
1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The story of modern medicine and bioethicsand, indeed, race relationsis refracted beautifully, and movinglyEntertainment WeeklyNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO STARR...
Soviet Space: Presented by the F...
Book by Miller, Jay ISBN10: 0962986739 ISBN13: 9780962986734 Material Type: paperback
A More Perfect Heaven: How Coper...
By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had written and handcopied an initial outline of his heliocentric theoryin which he defied common sense and received wisdom to place the sun, not t...
An Acre of Glass: A History and ...
Ever since Galileo glimpsed the moons of Jupiter through his tiny telescope, astronomers have striven to understand how the universe is constructed and how it evolves Every increase in the size and...
Lyell in America: Transatlantic ...
A pioneering geologist from Scotland, Charles Lyell 17971875 was one of the nineteenth centurys most important and controversial scientists His landmark 1830 book Principles of Geology, for example...
Geology in the Nineteenth Centur...
Mott T Greene traces the history of geology in nineteenthcentury Europe and America in a clear and comprehensive introduction to the geological thought of the period Greene asserts that the standar...
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