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  • The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine

    Writing Recent Science

    de Ronald E. Doel, Thomas Söderqvist ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    As historians of science increasingly turn to work on recent (post 1945) science, the historiographical and methodological problems associated with the history of contemporary science are debated with growing frequency and urgency.Bringing together authorities on the history, historiography and methodology of recent and contemporary science, this book reviews the problems facing historians of ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Exploring Greenland

    Cold War Science and Technology on Ice

    Edición de Ronald E. Doel, Kristine C. Harper, Matthias Heymann ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Using newly declassified documents, this book explores why U.S. military leaders after World War II sought to monitor the far north and understand the physical environment of Greenland, a crucial territory of Denmark. It reveals a fascinating yet little-known realm of Cold War intrigue and a delicate diplomatic duet between a smaller state and a superpower amid a time of intense global pressures. ... Leer más

    $152.99 USD

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  • Cold Comfort, Second Edition

    My Love Affair with the Arctic

    de Graham Rowley ...
    Series Libro 13 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
    In 1936 Graham Rowley went to the still-unexplored west coast of Baffin Island as the archaeologist for a small British expedition - the last in the Canadian North that depended on traditional techniques. Cold Comfort, his acclaimed memoir of this period, captures the way of life in the North before World War II, including the experience of travelling by dogsled over unexplored land. This new ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • A Student's Guide to Geophysical Equations

    de William Lowrie ...
    The advent of accessible student computing packages has meant that geophysics students can now easily manipulate datasets and gain first-hand modeling experience – essential in developing an intuitive understanding of the physics of the Earth. Yet to gain a more in-depth understanding of physical theory, and to develop new models and solutions, it is necessary to be able to derive the relevant ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Medicine

    The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health

    de Jeanne E Abrams ...
    An engaging history of the role that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin played in the origins of public health in America.Before the advent of modern antibiotics, one's life could be abruptly shattered by contagion and death, and debility from infectious diseases and epidemics was commonplace for early Americans, regardless of social status. Concerns over health affected ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • William Osler: A Life in Medicine

    A Life in Medicine

    de Michael Bliss ...
    William Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July 12, 1849. In a life lasting seventy years, he practiced, taught, and wrote about medicine at Canada's McGill University, America's Johns Hopkins University, and finally as Regius Professor at Oxford. At the time of his death in England in 1919, many considered him to be the greatest doctor in the world. Osler, who was a brilliant, ... Leer más

    $29.69 USD

  • Weighing the World

    The Quest to Measure the Earth

    de Edwin Danson ...
    At the start of the 18th century there were no maps, anywhere in the world. No one knew, with any certainty, the shape of the earth or what lay beneath its surface. Was it hollow or solid? Were the Andes the highest mountains on the Earth or was it the peak of Tenerife? Was the Earth a perfect sphere or slightly squashed as Sir Isaac Newton prophesized? In Weighing the World, master-surveyor and ... Leer más

    $30.59 USD

  • The Brain

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Michael O'Shea ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    How does the brain work? How different is a human brain from other creatures' brains? Is the human brain still evolving? In this fascinating book, Michael O'Shea provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain research, and gives a sense of how neuroscience addresses questions about the relationship between the brain and the mind. Chapters tackle subjects ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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  • Australia's Little Space Travellers

    The Flight Shaped Tektites of Australia

    de Don McColl ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a showcase for the incredibly well-preserved flight-textured tektites of southern Australia, which are the world’s finest known examples. It provides an overview of their forms and flight features, which can be expected to appear, at least in part, on any objects falling from space. Some of these specimens are so perfectly shaped that it is hard to believe that they have been ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • The Myth of the Born Criminal

    Psychopathy, Neurobiology, and the Creation of the Modern Degenerate

    de Stephanie Griffiths, Jarkko Jalava, Michael Maraun ...
    By some estimates, there are as many as twelve million psychopaths in the United States alone. Cold-blooded, remorseless, and strangely charismatic, they commit at least half of all serious and violent crimes. Supposedly, most serial killers are psychopaths, as, surprisngly, are large numbers of corporate executives. They seem to be an inescapable, and fascinating, threat in our midst.But is ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Environmental Geochemistry of Potentially Toxic Metals

    de Frederic R. Siegel ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)

    $49.49 USD

  • A Chosen Calling

    Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century

    de Noah J. Efron ...
    Series series Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context
    Questions traditional explanations for Jewish excellence in science in the United States, the Soviet Union, and Palestine in the twentieth century.Scholars have struggled for decades to explain why Jews have succeeded extravagantly in modern science. A variety of controversial theories—from such intellects as C. P. Snow, Norbert Wiener, and Nathaniel Weyl—have been promoted. Snow hypothesized an ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD