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The seventh volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. His work remains a central subject of st……続きを見る

The second volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. His work remains a central subject of stu……続きを見る

The nineteenth volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. His work remains a central subject of……続きを見る

The 26th volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. His work remains a central subject of study……続きを見る

This volume focuses on the outstanding contributions made by botany and the mathematical sciences to the genesis and development of early modern garden art and garden culture. The many facets of the……続きを見る

Did you ever wonder which civilisation first took to water in small craft? Who worked out how to measure distance or plot a course at sea? Or why the humble lemon rose to such prominence in the diet……続きを見る

This intriguing volume provides a thorough examination of the historical roots of global climate change as a field of inquiry, from the Enlightenment to the late twentieth century. Based on primary ……続きを見る

In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsedーLuther’s Reformation divided churches, and v……続きを見る

First published in 1974. Despite the tendency of contemporary analytic philosophy to put logic and mathematics at a central position, the author argues it failed to appreciate or account for their r……続きを見る

During and after the English civil wars, between 1640 and 1690, an unprecedented number of manuals teaching cryptography were published, almost all for the general public. While there are many surve……続きを見る

What is mathematics, and what aspects of it should be taught in schools? How and to whom should it be taught, and how should its understanding be assessed? These questions continue to drive curricul……続きを見る

From the Big Bang to the future of our planet, The Little Book of Big History divides history into manageable but comprehensive time frames, encompassing the cosmos, the stars, life and everything i……続きを見る

Humans throughout history have sought ways of understanding their place within the world. Religion, science and myth have been at the forefront of this quest for meaning. A Chaos of Delight examines……続きを見る

The stories behind drug discovery are fascinating, full of human and scientific interest. This is a book on the history of drug discovery that highlights the intellectual splendor of discoverers as ……続きを見る

In the years before the Second World War agriculture in most European states was carried out on peasant or small family farms using technologies that relied mainly on organic inputs and local knowle……続きを見る

First published in 1975. This study examines one of the popular scientific philosophies of the nineteenth-century. The first part deals with the reception and diffusion of phrenology in Britain, its……続きを見る

The stories behind drug discovery are fascinating, full of human and scientific interest. This is a book on the history of drug discovery that highlights the intellectual splendor of discoverers as ……続きを見る

The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly sixty years. Founded in 1958 in response to the lau……続きを見る

Man's quest for speed is driven by two ambitions. One is the competitive urge to excel ー to go as fast as possible by any available means, and preferably to go faster than anybody else. The other, ……続きを見る

Today the theory of evolution by natural selection and the science of genetics are the twin keys to our understanding of how life on earth came about. Yet when an English naturalist called Charles D……続きを見る

This book offers a unique and comprehensive outline of the ethos, the bioethics and the sexual ethics of the renowned anatomist and founder of modern geology, Niels Stensen (1638-1686). It tells the……続きを見る

A young African American millennial filmmaker’s funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York Cityーa chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and comme……続きを見る

Si une bonne partie du Canada conserve encore les traditions et les mœurs du dernier siècle, c’est grâce aux Laurentides. La neige y est bien, il est vrai, pour quelque chose, la neige qui enveloppe……続きを見る

This book shows how bubonic plague and smallpox helped end the Hittite Empire, the Bronze Age in the Near East and later the Carthaginian Empire. The book will examine all the possible infectious di……続きを見る

This monograph explores the early development of the calculus of variations in continental Europe during the Eighteenth Century by illustrating the mathematics of its founders. Closely following the……続きを見る

John Stewart Bell (1928-1990) was one of the most important figures in twentieth-century physics, famous for his work on the fundamental aspects of the century's most important theory, quantum mecha……続きを見る

For more than a decade, Melbourne has had the fastest-growing population of any Australian capital city. It is expanding outward while also growing upward through vast new high-rise developments in ……続きを見る

The red kangaroo is at the heart of Australia’s ecological identity. It is Australia’s largest terrestrial land mammal, the largest extant marsupial, and the only kangaroo truly restricted to Austra……続きを見る

Mit "Edda" werden zwei ganz unterschiedliche Sammlungen des 13. Jahrhunderts bezeichnet: die Lieder-Edda, eine Sammlung von Götter- und Heldenliedern, deren Stoffe (wie der vom Nibelungenuntergang) ……続きを見る

Im Jahre 1024 wurde Konrad II. als erster Salier zum König gekrönt. Mit ihm begann das erste deutsche Königshaus. Drei weitere Salier – Heinrich III., Heinrich IV. und Heinrich V. – sollten ihm auf ……続きを見る