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From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient lifeーone without constant, environmentally damaging growthーmight still be rich ……続きを見る

In the early twentieth century, the new technology of flight changed warfare irrevocably, not only on the battlefield, but also on the home front. As prophesied before 1914, Britain in the First Wor……続きを見る

Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a dramatic increase in its town population, as a hitherto largely rural economy transformed itself into an urban one. Though the political and social issues aris……続きを見る

In 1991, the publication of Koji Suzuki's Ring, the first novel of a bestselling trilogy, inaugurated a tremendous outpouring of cultural production in Japan, Korea, and the United States. Just as t……続きを見る

Readers will travel back in time to ancient Babylonia, Egypt, and Greece. They will meet the world's first astronomers, mathematicians, and physicists and explore the lives and ideas of such famous ……続きを見る

Robyn Williams reflects on why science matters, after 40 years of ABC RN's The Science Show. The Science Show with Robyn Williams on Radio National is one of the longest running programs on Australi……続きを見る

Un exhaustivorecorrido a través de los hitos fundamentalesde la ciencia a lo largo de los siglos Una monumental historia de la Ciencia, con un enfoque novedoso, que combina la aportación de dos de l……続きを見る

Conocimiento y diversión a partes iguales Desde la muerte de Fernando el Católico por sobredosis de un Viagra medieval hasta el embarazo psicológico de María Tudor, pasando por la insaciable sexuali……続きを見る

Aunque a muchas personas los números les den tranquilidad y confianza, en realidad los errores matemáticos están a la orden del día. Tras el éxito de Asesinatos matemáticos, Claudi Alsina vuelve con……続きを見る

The mainstream view of the immune system is concerned with molecular and cellular details resulting in a picture of immense complexity. Many immunologists live with this complexity, hoping that a se……続きを見る

The past 100 years of accelerator-based research have led the field from first insights into the structure of atoms to the development and confirmation of the Standard Model of physics. Accelerators……続きを見る

The eighteenth century has often been viewed as a period of relative decline in the field of microscopy, as interest in microscopes seemed to wane after an intense period of discovery in the sevente……続きを見る

From white coats to Bunsen burners the laboratory is a controlled space of experimentation, research and invention. But how have the desired functions of the laboratory influenced the way that the l……続きを見る

Asteroids suggest images of a catastrophic impact with Earth, triggering infernos, tidal waves, famine, and death -- but these scenarios have obscured the larger story of how asteroids have been dis……続きを見る

‘Highly readable, subtle and thought-provoking scientific history’ Scotsman In this penetrating work, Pyenson and Pyenson identify that major advances in science stem from changes in three distinct ……続きを見る

The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life – from trade and transportation to health and recreation. Full Steam Ahead reveals how t……続きを見る

This volume gathers essays that focus on the worldliness of science, its inseparable engagement in the major institutional bases of social life: law, market, church, school, and nation. With a chron……続きを見る

Carl Gustav Jung has always been a popular but never a fashionable thinker. His ground-breaking theories about dream interpretation and psychological types have often been overshadowed by allegation……続きを見る

The first book to provide a detailed analysis of the body-trafficking networks of the dead poor that underpinned the expansion of medical education from Victorian times. With an even-handed approach……続きを見る

Beginning in the early days of the Space Age - well before the advent of manned spaceflight - the United States, followed soon by other nations, undertook an ambitious effort to study the planets of……続きを見る

In this remarkable oral history, Slava Gerovitch presents interviews with the men and women who witnessed Soviet space efforts firsthand. Rather than comprising a "master narrative," these fascinati……続きを見る

The book presents the state of the art of research into the legacy of interwar Polish analytic philosophy and exemplifies different approaches to the history of philosophy. It contains discussions a……続きを見る

Racism, race hygiene, eugenics, and their histories have for a long time been studied in terms of individual countries, whether genocidal ideology in Nazi Germany or scientific racial theories in th……続きを見る

"You read with a rising sense of despair and outrage, and you finish it as if awakening from a nightmare only Kafka could have conceived."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times David Baltimore ……続きを見る

When the real intelligence is used in life's most difficult questions, our understanding of life and reality will surely change and our lifestyle will also change. What will be the explanations of l……続きを見る

Since Einstein first described them nearly a century ago, gravitational waves have been the subject of more sustained controversy than perhaps any other phenomenon in physics. These as yet undetecte……続きを見る

The first academic study of this subject is an entertaining look at the search for Sasquatch which considers not just the nature of monsters and monster hunting in the late 20th century, but the mor……続きを見る

Eleven essays by historians and sociologists examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and North America. These are not stories of inevitable medical progress and……続きを見る

While there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts, this book uses primary source material and interviews with key participants to provide a comprehensive ac……続きを見る

A Smithsonian Book of the Year A Nature Book of the Year “Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans.” ーSmithsonian In 1864 a US Army doctor dug up the……続きを見る