D.P - History 1

Une œuvre scientifique en construction est une entreprise souvent incertaine, à l'aspect buissonnant, rarement linéaire, où le vrai et le faux peuvent se côtoyer. Des idées contestables, périssables……続きを見る

This title was first published in 2001. Nineteenth-century employers played a crucial role in the training and education of young workers in England. This multi-disciplinary study traces the connect……続きを見る

One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that "buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist" (Science Digest). Ri……続きを見る

From the beginning of the space age, scientists and engineers have worked on systems to help humans survive for the astounding 28,500 days (78 years) needed to reach another planet. They’ve imagined……続きを見る

In the Victorian era, James Watt became an iconic engineer, but in his own time he was also an influential chemist. Miller examines Watt’s illustrious engineering career in light of his parallel int……続きを見る

The Life and Legend of James Watt offers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer. Stripping away layers of legend built over generations, David Phil……続きを見る

Promising an end to global hunger and political instability, huge climate-controlled laboratories known as phytotrons spread around the world to thirty countries after the Second World War. The Unit……続きを見る

Când vine vorba de științe medicale antice, predomină neînțelegerile și confuzia. Se pretinde că totul și orice este leacul pentru asta sau asta. În această confuzie, mulți oportuniști, inclusiv uni……続きを見る

This volume deals with the psychological, metaphysical and scientific ideas of two major and influential Aristotelian philosophers of the Italian Renaissance - Nicoletto Vernia (d. 1499) and Agostin……続きを見る

Why evolution is like a network, not a family treeーand why it matters for understanding the health of all living things In The Network of Life, David Mindell explains why the conventional narrative……続きを見る

Never has the world been as rich in scientific knowledge as it is today. But what are its main sources? In accessible and engaging fashion, Global Mega-Science examines the origins of this unprecede……続きを見る

Die Kanarischen Inseln, deren Topographie stets herausfordernd für eine wettbewerbsfähige Tourismusstrategie war, dienen als Fallstudie zur Transformation hin zu einem nachhaltigen Tourismusmodell s……続きを見る

L'histoire d’Heinrich Schliemann commence en 1822 à Ankershagen, un petit village du nord est de l’Allemagne. Lecteur passionné de l’Iliade et l’Odyssée, polyglotte (il parle 11 langues), le jeune H……続きを見る

This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical writing. Notions like 'denumerability', 'modal scope distinction', 'Bayesian condit……続きを見る

This comparative history examines the divergent paths taken by Britain and France in managing opiate abuse during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Though the governments of both na……続きを見る

A book which offers fresh perspectives on the scientific developments of the past hundred years through the complementary work of two of the century’s greatest thinkers, Einstein and Freud. At the t……続きを見る

A richly illustrated introduction to the engineering triumphs that made America modern In this age of microchips and deep space probes, it's hard to imagine life before electricity or passenger trai……続きを見る

Power, Speed, and Form is the first accessible account of the engineering behind eight breakthrough innovations that transformed American life from 1876 to 1939ーthe telephone, electric power, oil r……続きを見る

In the 150 years since Darwin, evolutionary biology has proven as essential as it is controversial, a critical concept for answering questions about everything from the genetic code and the structur……続きを見る

The Grand Contraption tells the story of humanity's attempts through 4,000 years of written history to make sense of the world in its cosmic totality, to understand its physical nature, and to know ……続きを見る

Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology in America from the 1600s to the 21st century. Alan I Marcus and Howard P. Segal explore the effec……続きを見る

Perception and analogy explores ways of seeing scientifically in the eighteenth century. The book examines how sensory experience is conceptualised during the period, drawing novel connections betwe……続きを見る

Presenting recent developments and applications, the book focuses on four main topics in current model theory: 1) the model theory of valued fields; 2) undecidability in arithmetic; 3) NIP theories;……続きを見る

Bizarre illnesses and plagues that kill people in the most unspeakable ways. Obsessive and inspired efforts by scientists to solve mysteries and save lives. From The Hot Zone to The Demon in the Fre……続きを見る

This is a book for those who enjoy thinking about how and why Nature can be described using mathematical tools. Approximating Perfection considers the background behind mechanics as well as the math……続きを見る

Rudolph Koenig was one of the more prolific and colourful instrument makers in the renowned nineteenth-century precision instrument trade of Paris. Beginning his career as a violin maker, in 1858 th……続きを見る

This title was first published in 2001. Nineteenth-century employers played a crucial role in the training and education of young workers in England. This multi-disciplinary study traces the connect……続きを見る

Imagineriez-vous aujourd'hui une vie sans rasoirs ni machine à laver ? Nous sommes prêts à parier que non ! Pourtant, les objets de notre quotidien n'ont pas toujours existé ! Pour que l'on puisse e……続きを見る

The 'water controversy' concerns one of the central discoveries of modern science, that water is not an element but rather a compound. The allocation of priority in this discovery was contentious in……続きを見る

Throughout his remarkable career, Donald Pfaff has demonstrated that by choosing problems and methods with care, biologists can study the molecular mechanisms of brains more complex than those of fr……続きを見る