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“toby e huff”

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  • The Rise of Early Modern Science

    Islam, China, and the West

    by Toby E. Huff ...
    Now in its third edition, The Rise of Early Modern Science argues that to understand why modern science arose in the West it is essential to study not only the technical aspects of scientific thought but also the religious, legal and institutional arrangements that either opened the doors for enquiry, or restricted scientific investigations. Toby E. Huff explores how the newly invented ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution

    A Global Perspective

    by Toby E. Huff ...
    Seventeenth-century Europe witnessed an extraordinary flowering of discoveries and innovations. This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608, casts Galileo's discoveries into a global framework. Although the telescope was soon transmitted to China, Mughal India, and the Ottoman Empire, those civilizations did not respond as Europeans did to the new instrument. In Europe, there ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Western Civilization and the Academy

    by Stephen H. Balch, Patrick J. Deneen, Toby Huff, Rob Koons, Daniel J. Mahoney, Anthony O’Hear, Norma Thompson, Anthony M. Esolen ...
    This volume brings together leading thinkers who offer reflections on the place of Western civilization in the academy, at a time when there is indifference or even antipathy toward the study of the West at most institutions of higher learning. Alternative narratives—including multiculturalism, diversity, and sustainability—have come to the fore in the stead of Western civilization. The present ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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  • Bunker Hill

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    The bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and In the Hurricane's Eye tells the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution, in this "masterpiece of narrative and perspective." (Boston Globe)**In the opening volume of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick turns his keen eye to pre-Revolutionary Boston and the spark that ignited the ... Read more

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  • Thunderstruck

    by Erik Larson ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “irresistible” (The Washington Post) true story of love, murder, and the last moments of the “great hush” before wireless radio connected the world, from the renowned author of The Devil in the White City and The Demon of Unrest“Gripping . . . an edge-of-the-seat read.”—PeopleIn Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Cripp... ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Renaissance

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jerry Brotton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    More than ever before, the Renaissance stands as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Europe but the entire world. This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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  • Eccentric Orbits

    The Iridium Story

    by John Bloom ...
    "Good corporate drama . . . an enlightening narrative of how new communications infrastructures often come about." — The Economist, "A Book of the Year 2016"In the early 1990s, Motorola developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement. Its constellation of 66 satellites in polar orbit was a mind-boggling technical accomplishment, surely the ... Read more

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  • Technology Matters

    Questions to Live With

    by David E. Nye ...
    Discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that illuminate what technology is and why it matters.Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. We have used tools for more than 100,000 years, and their central purpose has not always been to provide necessities. People excel at using old tools to solve new problems and at inventing ... Read more

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  • We Are All Stardust

    Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

    by Stefan Klein ...
    Translated by Ross Benjamin ...
    "The dazzling clutch of scientific minds caught in mid-thought here makes for a read that provokes thought in its turn. Delights abound." —Nature"What distinguishes scientists, in your eyes?" —Stefan Klein"First and foremost, curiosity." —Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Prize–winning chemistWhen Stefan Klein, an acclaimed journalist, sits down to talk with 18 of the world's leading scientists, he finds they ... Read more

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  • Cromwell's War Machine

    The New Model Army, 1645–1660

    by Keith Roberts ...
    A historian of the English Civil Wars shares a fascinating study of the seventeenth century New Model Army, examining its formation, tactics, and significance.The New Model Army was one of the best-known and most effective armies ever raised in England. Oliver Cromwell was both its greatest battlefield commander and the political leader whose position depended on its support. In this meticulously ... Read more

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  • People, Parasites, and Plowshares

    Learning from Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders

    by Dickson Despommier ...
    Dickson D. Despommier's vivid, visceral account of the biology, behavior, and history of parasites follows the interplay between these fascinating life forms and human society over thousands of years. Despommier focuses on long-term host-parasite associations, which have evolved to avoid or even subvert the human immune system. Some parasites do great damage to their hosts, while others have ... Read more

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