History of science

Andrew Janiak presents Newton as an original and sophisticated contributor to natural philosophy.

This is the first book to compare beer and wine from several important perspectives.

A study of the fate of plants during the ''great extinction'' 65 million years ago.

Definitive, broad-ranging reference work on Old World monkeys (Cercopithecoids).

Explore Darwin''s world in a unique, first hand account through his letters, many of which have never been published before.

An account and technical assessment of Marx''s economic analysis in Capital and other documents.

An investigation into the competing impulses of science and literary experience in the poetry of Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge and Keats.

This volume, explores the nature of economics as a science, including classic texts and newer essays.

This book describes how natural philosophy and exact mathematical sciences joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.

In this book, Derek Turner relates the scientific realism debate to the study of prehistory.

A unique, multi-thematic case study of the entire monkey community of the Taï forest.

A practical guide for scientists, politicians and citizens to the relationship between science and politics.

Tracing the influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 that claimed over 25 million lives worldwide.

Investigates the methods used to determine the Earth''s age from those with little scientific background to scientists in Earth sciences.

The story of the modern research university in Europe and its expansion to other continents, first published in 2004.

This book, first published in 2006, evaluates Kuhn''s most influential ideas using theories developed by cognitive scientists.

This 2004 book traces the history of evolutionary thought, and challenges many long-established assumptions.

Describes development of theories of planetary motion, emphasizing interaction between progress in mathematics and astronomy.

An encyclopaedia of ichthyology, ecology, and evolution, based upon everything that Darwin ever wrote about fish.

Explores how form is described in primate biology, and the effects of form on function and behavior.

Reviews the reasons for and the nature of great ape intelligence and its implications for human intelligence.

Sexual Selection in Primates is a comprehensive summary of primate sexual interactions.

Science and Ethics examines the ideology that denies the relevance of ethics to science.

This 2004 book focuses on three issues of debate in Darwin''s theory of evolution using a historical and philosophical perspective.

The Disappearance of the Social in American Social Psychology is a critical conceptual history of American social psychology.

Presents the history of space-time physics, from Newton to Einstein, as philosophical and scientific developments.

This book traces the careers of Roy Vagelos, who eventually became the CEO of Merck and Co.

This book examines the foundations of defeasible logic, exploring the properties of everyday reasoning patterns.

An alternative account of the development of one of the greatest states of the twentieth century.

This book explores how seasonal variation in resource abundance might have driven primate and human evolution.

This book develops a philosophical framework for understanding a scientific principle''s validation, for philosophers, historians and physicists.

This 2005 book examines the significance of the mathematician Archytas of Tarentum in fourth-century Greece.

Collection of essays exploring the strong connections between ancient philosophy and ancient medicine.

This book explores the later medieval concept of seeing and being seen which led to a unique concept of self.

This 2005 book is an exciting exploration of a century of scientific discovery.

Edited work on behavioural strategies of primates in foraging for food, and avoiding being eaten.

A 2003 synthesis of scientific, philosophical and religious issues in cosmology.

These essays form a most convenient and accessible guide to Darwin.

An introduction to the life and work of Thomas Kuhn, probably the best-known historian and philosopher of science of the last 25 years.

This book examines the relationships between humans and other primates and the implications for primate conservation.

Eight essays discussing the nature of time, ideal for the general reader.

Analysis of impact of infanticide on social organization and reproductive behavior in primates including humans.

A comprehensive and comparative reference work on the permanent and deciduous dentitions of extant primates.

This biography of Thomas Huxley reflects on the historical significance of scientific authority.

A fascinating text describing the behavioural diversity of chimpanzees and bonobos (the pygmy chimpanzee).

A unique multidisciplinary volume offering truly comparative perspective on gorilla populations.

This interesting 1999 study sets gorilla and orangutan cognitive abilities in context with the other great apes and humans.

This book provides perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought.

A new translation and edition of Bacon''s revolutionary work of scientific philosophy.

This book examines the scientific procedures devised by Ptolemy for investigating the structures underlying musical melody.