History of science

Lively and engaging conversations with 24 Nobel Prize winners, revealing their stories and providing inspiration for the next generation.

Lively and engaging conversations with 24 Nobel Prize winners, revealing their stories and providing inspiration for the next generation.

A full and annotated collection of the correspondence between two extraordinary scientific individuals, James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis.

400 years after The Anatomy of Melancholy, this book guides readers through Renaissance medicine''s disease of the mind.

A survey of primate cognition from lemurs to great apes; studied in labs, zoos, sanctuaries, and in the field.

Introduces the diverse roles metaphors play in the life sciences and highlights their significance for theory, communication, and education.

An innovative three hundred year exploration of the social and political contexts of science and the scientific imagination in South Africa.

Introduces the diverse roles metaphors play in the life sciences and highlights their significance for theory, communication, and education.

This accessible book explains the origins, evolution, and nature of intelligence, from single cells to human culture and cognition.

An innovative three hundred year exploration of the social and political contexts of science and the scientific imagination in South Africa.

Bowler traces ideas about progress using evolutionary biology to throw light on parallel changes in the understanding of social development.

Focusing on the ultimate limits of observational astronomy, Harwit explores how well we will ever understand the Universe.

Explores how Britain''s global cable network became both the ''nervous system'' of its Empire and the key to electrical physics.

Bowler traces ideas about progress using evolutionary biology to throw light on parallel changes in the understanding of social development.

Focusing on the ultimate limits of observational astronomy, Harwit explores how well we will ever understand the Universe.

Explores how Britain''s global cable network became both the ''nervous system'' of its Empire and the key to electrical physics.

Innovative exploration of how medical knowledge was shared between and across diverse societies tied to the Atlantic World around 1800.

Innovative exploration of how medical knowledge was shared between and across diverse societies tied to the Atlantic World around 1800.

The first global study of the distinctive Korean soju, tracing cross-cultural exchanges and Korea''s place in Eurasian history.

A history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, when millions of children were saved from smallpox.

This anthology is the first sustained examination of American involvement in World War II through an environmental lens.

Examining the role of mystery in environmental history, this book is an intriguing new account of the enigmatic 1908 Tunguska disaster.

An accessible introduction to how DNA ancestry tests work, what they can be used for, and the associated ethical issues.

Examining the role of mystery in environmental history, this book is an intriguing new account of the enigmatic 1908 Tunguska disaster.

This anthology is the first sustained examination of American involvement in World War II through an environmental lens.

An innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of colonial India.

The complete guide to our closest living relative, drawing on thirty years of primate observation.

Explores the transnational movements of people, plants, agricultural sciences, and techniques from Russia''s steppes to North America''s Great Plains.

A history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, when millions of children were saved from smallpox.

An innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of colonial India.

Explores the place of science and technology in international relations through early attempts at international governance of aviation and atomic energy.

This book presents a new theoretical model, constraint theory, for how to study creativity using scientific methods and clarifying concepts.

Letters from 1880, when Darwin published On The Power of Movement in Plants.

This book presents a new theoretical model, constraint theory, for how to study creativity using scientific methods and clarifying concepts.

Letters from 1880, when Darwin published On The Power of Movement in Plants.

A brief and accessible account of the new interdisciplinary science of evo-devo for a general audience.

Using familiar examples and clear arguments, this volume offers fresh alternatives to widespread misconceptions about biological development.

Explores the place of science and technology in international relations through early attempts at international governance of aviation and atomic energy.

This volume explores modern science using different frames of reference: national, transnational, and global.

An accessible but rigorous introduction to genes for non-experts, explaining what genes are and what they can and cannot do.

The definitive story of the discovery of cosmic voids from a key protagonist in the development of the discipline.

Examines the extensive use of animal commodities in Victorian Britain and the humanitarian and ecological issues raised by their consumption.

Examines the extensive use of animal commodities in Victorian Britain and the humanitarian and ecological issues raised by their consumption.

Sets out an original perspective on Darwin''s argument for the theory of natural selection.

The first clearly-illustrated, comparative book on developmental primate skeletal anatomy, focused on the highly informative newborn stage.

Sets out an original perspective on Darwin''s argument for the theory of natural selection.

This volume explores modern science using different frames of reference: national, transnational, and global.

The first clearly-illustrated, comparative book on developmental primate skeletal anatomy, focused on the highly informative newborn stage.

A primatologist''s guide to using geographic information systems (GIS); from mapping and field accuracy, to tracking travel routes and the impact of logging.

Why is evolution so difficult to understand?