History of science

Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond.

The natural history museum is a place where the line between "e;high"e; and "e;low"e; culture effectively vanishes--where our awe of nature, our taste for the bizarre, and our thirst for knowledge all blend happily together.

America is a nation of ardent, knowledgeable birdwatchers.

Here is a lively history of modern physics, as seen through the lives of thirty men and women from the pantheon of physics.

This is the story of a new science.

We ask question after question of an indifferent universe that would just as soon remain mute; and slowly, patiently, one sentence at a time, we write our own version of the book of nature.

This is the story of a new science.

Haldane, Mayr, and Beanbag Genetics presents a summary of the classic exchange between two great biologists - J.

Haldane, Mayr, and Beanbag Genetics presents a summary of the classic exchange between two great biologists - J.

In this long-awaited book, pre-eminent analytical philosopher Alvin Plantinga argues that the conflict between science and theistic religion is actually superficial, and that at a deeper level they are in concord.

The systematic analysis of baseball statistics, often called "e;sabermetrics,"e; has evolved in recent years to resemble something of a science, attracting fans from diverse professional and educational backgrounds, all fascinated by the analysis itself and its insights into the game.

The systematic analysis of baseball statistics, often called "e;sabermetrics,"e; has evolved in recent years to resemble something of a science, attracting fans from diverse professional and educational backgrounds, all fascinated by the analysis itself and its insights into the game.

Why were the stars so important in Rome?

There are eight columns in the Periodic Table.

When Charles Darwin, then age 22, first saw the HMS Beagle, he thought it looked "e;more like a wreck than a vessel commissioned to go round the world.

In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a "e;democratic disease"e; to a fearsome threat in communities of color.

In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a "e;democratic disease"e; to a fearsome threat in communities of color.

There are eight columns in the Periodic Table.

Seneca's Natural Questions is an eight-book disquisition on the nature of meteorological phenomena, ranging inter alia from rainbows to earthquakes, from comets to the winds, from the causes of snow and hail to the reasons why the Nile floods in summer.

This new second edition of Enchanted Evenings offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America's best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals.

For modern scientists, history often starts with last week's journals and is regarded as largely a quaint interest compared with the advances of today.

What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group?

The Global History of Paleopathology is the first comprehensive global compendium on the history of paleopathology, an interdisciplinary scientific discipline that focuses on the study of ancient disease.

During the Victorian period, the practice of science shifted from a religious context to a naturalistic one.

Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond.

From the beginnings of industrial capitalism to contemporary disputes over evolution, nature has long been part of the public debate over the social good.

At the start of the 18th century there were no maps, anywhere in the world.

Charles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century.

What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group?

In By Parallel Reasoning Paul Bartha proposes a normative theory of analogical arguments and raises questions and proposes answers regarding (i.

Why do people find monkeys and apes so compelling to watch?

In The Intelligent Movement Machine: An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System, Michael Graziano offers a fundamentally new theory of motor cortex organization: the rendering of the movement repertoire onto the cortex.

From the gene that causes people to age prematurely to the "e;bitter gene"e; that may spawn broccoli haters, this book explores a few of the more exotic locales on the human genome, highlighting some of the tragic and bizarre ways our bodies go wrong when genes fall prey to mutation and the curious ways in which genes have evolved for our survival.

If science has the equivalent of a Bloomsbury group, it is the five men born at the turn of the twentieth century in Budapest: Theodore von Karman, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller.

Considered by many during his lifetime as the most well-known scientist in the world, Stephen Jay Gould left an enormous and influential body of work.

Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon.

In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst-a sixteen-acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood.

A House in the Sun describes a number of experiments in solar house heating in American architectural, engineering, political, economic, and corporate contexts from the beginning of World War II until the late 1950s.

A House in the Sun describes a number of experiments in solar house heating in American architectural, engineering, political, economic, and corporate contexts from the beginning of World War II until the late 1950s.

A logo on products ranging from chopsticks and toilet paper to cell phones and automobiles, the panda is one of the most ubiquitous images in China and throughout the world.

A logo on products ranging from chopsticks and toilet paper to cell phones and automobiles, the panda is one of the most ubiquitous images in China and throughout the world.

The general public has a glorified view of the pursuit of scientific research.

The general public has a glorified view of the pursuit of scientific research.

A fresh, daring, and genuine alternative to the traditional story of scientific progress Explaining the world around us, and the life within it, is one of the most uniquely human drives, and the most celebrated activity of science.

A fresh, daring, and genuine alternative to the traditional story of scientific progress Explaining the world around us, and the life within it, is one of the most uniquely human drives, and the most celebrated activity of science.

Novelist Honore de Balzac was the first to use the phrase "e;Paris savant"e; to refer to the dynamic Parisian scientific and intellectual community of the late 18th century.