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How the tools of STS can be used to understand art and science and the practices of these knowledge-making communities. In Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge, Hannah Star Rogers suggests th……続きを見る

This book is a small but practical summary of how one can and should learn science. The author argues that science cannot be taught but has to be learnt. Based on historical examples he shows that p……続きを見る

“Wonderful . . . offers and provokes meditation on the timeless nature of censorship, its practices, its intentions and . . . its (unintended) outcomes.” ーTimes Higher Education Forbidden Knowledge……続きを見る

This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century. Th……続きを見る

China is emerging as a new superpower in science and technology, reflected in the success of its spacecraft and high-velocity Maglev trains. While many seek to understand the rise of China as a tech……続きを見る

Who are you? It’s the most fundamental of human questions. Are you the type of person who tilts at windmills, or the one who prefers to view them from the comfort of an air-conditioned motorcoach? O……続きを見る

This is an original and wide-ranging account of the careers of a close-knit group of highly influential ecologists working in Britain from the late 1960s onwards. The book can also be read as a hist……続きを見る

Since the time of Aristotle, there had been a clear divide between the three kingdoms of animal, vegetable, and mineral. But by the eighteenth century, biological experiments, and the wide range of ……続きを見る

This book aims to present the history and developments of particle physics from the introduction of the notion of particles by the Ionian school until the discovery of the Higgs boson at LHC in 2012……続きを見る

This book traces the development of British answers to the problem of childhood cancer. The establishment of the NHS and better training for paediatricians, meant children were given access to exper……続きを見る

This is the first comprehensive history of the chemistry department at Imperial College London. Based on archival records, oral testimony, published papers, published and unpublished memoirs, the bo……続きを見る

This book presents a detailed history of chemical warfare development during the First World War and discusses design approaches to gas masks and the performance of new filter materials that deconta……続きを見る

This book borrows from the intellectual labor of queer theory in order to unsettleーor “queer”ーthe discourses of “religion” and “science,” and, by extension, the “science and religion discourse.” D……続きを見る

A Chinese Physician is the portrait of a 16th century medical writer and clinical practitioner. Drawing on socio-economic/biographic, textual, and gender analysis along side a variety of sources, fr……続きを見る

**Shortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian * The Telegraph * The Times "One of America's most courageous young journalis……続きを見る

This book situates the work of the Soviet psychologist and neurologist Alexander Luria (1902-1977) in its historical context and explores the 'romantic' approach to scientific writing developed in h……続きを見る

Science in the Arctic changed dramatically over the course of the nineteenth century, when early, scattered attempts in the region to gather knowledge about all aspects of the natural world transiti……続きを見る

How did cells make the journey, one we take so much for granted, from their origin in living bodies to something that can be grown and manipulated on artificial media in the laboratory, a substantia……続きを見る

Consideriamo quali esperimenti ci possono aiutare a controllare le ipotesi: "Nel nostro mondo dobbiamo impiegare una certa geometria metrica a raggio di curvatura così e così". 続きを見る

Getting and keeping teens interest in mathematics is vital to their future. But how, when there are so many dreary textbooks and repetitive curriculum requirements? Covering everything that they nee……続きを見る

Con ingenio y humor, La guía completa de absolutamente todo narra la historia de la ciencia que ha creado la suma total del conocimiento humano. Hannah Fry y Adam Rutherford colaboran en esta obra p……続きを見る

This book analyses the role of diagrammatic reasoning in Plato’s philosophy: the readers will realize that Plato, describing the stages of human cognitive development using a diagram, poses a logic ……続きを見る

Broadcasting in the Netherlands (1977) analyses Dutch broadcasting, describing the historical traditions of Dutch society, the ways in which radio and TV were set up, and shows how changes in Dutch ……続きを見る