This book explores the human understanding of heat, from early cultural perceptions to the scientific developments that shaped thermal science. Beginning with historical musings on heat, it traces the evolution of scientific thought from 16th-cent...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691235844)
From the award-winning author of Revolutionizing the Sciences, a monumental historical account of how we came to see the world through the lens of scienceScience is the basis of our assumptions about ourselves and our world,...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822948704)
Exotic drugs and spices, from tea to opium, were among the first fruits of European commercial expansion in the sixteenth century. By the eighteenth, many had become profitable products of the European empires that had spread across the globe. Often...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691233246)
A scientific adventure story that dramatizes how profoundly our oceans have changed over the past 150 yearsIn December 1872, HMS Challenger embarked on the first round-the-world oceanographic expedition. Its goal: to shine a...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Aevo UTP, ISBN-13: 9781487567675)
The story of AI isn’t finished yet. The question is: how will you be part of it?With the unprecedented adoption of artificial intelligence and its far-reaching implications, people everywhere are witnessing the world change around them. Ar...Daugiau...
The 21st centurys bestselling popular science book has now been fully revised and updated in Bill Brysons inimitable style to reflect the many advances in science since this book was first published in 2003. This journey through time an...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822967750)
Exotic drugs and spices, from tea to opium, were among the first fruits of European commercial expansion in the sixteenth century. By the eighteenth, many had become profitable products of the European empires that had spread across the globe. Often...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111330877)
Recent studies have underlined the importance of consulting different sources to trace global histories of diseases. However, due to a lack of critical editions of medical works, leprosy is poorly understood, and a wider interpretation of it a...Daugiau...
This volume provides a broad and comprehensive overview of the many ways in which pragmatism has influenced contemporary debates in philosophy of science.Pragmatism has been undergoing a considerable revival in philosophical debates for the...Daugiau...
Reading Faces is the first book to discuss the historical contexts and theoretical underpinnings of the artificial intelligence systems (AIs) that identify individuals, or purport to ascribe emotions and characteristics to them based on the...Daugiau...
Reading Faces is the first book to discuss the historical contexts and theoretical underpinnings of the artificial intelligence systems (AIs) that identify individuals, or purport to ascribe emotions and characteristics to them based on the...Daugiau...
This book explains in an accessible way how the concept of the photon was introduced by Einstein who also helped discover many of its properties, and how it interacted with many physica...Daugiau...
For fans of accessible and fun popular science comes an exploration of evolutions quirkiest puzzles and most enduring mysteries. Why do cats live longer than dogs? Why do bees have yellow stripes? Why can we smell a skunk from a m...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: BBC Books, ISBN-13: 9781785949807)
Accompanying the 4-part documentary series from multi-award-winning filmmaker, James Bluemel. Its been 63 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first human to ever go into space. Since then, only 676 people have followed him up there. But n...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Wales Press, ISBN-13: 9781837723003)
Joseph Harris, elder brother of the methodist preacher Howell Harris, made important contributions to the sciences and public life of Great Britain in the eighteenth century. A protégé of Edmond Halley and an apprentice to globe and mapmakers, Harri...Daugiau...
Why did South Asian physicians become essential to US health care starting in 1965?For more than 60 years, the United States has trained fewer physicians than it needs, relying instead on the economically expedient option of soliciti...Daugiau...
A search for the meaning of one of natures greatest riddles: why do so many creatures transform? How many creatures walking on this earth / Have their first being in another form? the Roman poet Ovid asked two thousand years ago. He...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226722047)
A history of how the pursuit of growth has kept us from creating a more sustainable and just world. Most economists believe that growth is the surest path to better lives. This has proven to be one of humanitys most powerful and dange...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526182968)
A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain.There are turbines on the horizon. The blades whirl with metronomic rhythm. With each rotation, wind is transformed into electricity. An energy revolution is underway. Electric wind r...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526182944)
A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain.There are turbines on the horizon. The blades whirl with metronomic rhythm. With each rotation, wind is transformed into electricity. An energy revolution is underway. Electric wind r...Daugiau...
These developments are presented in France and the Spanish-speaking world, while also considering Germany and England: While Montaigne, Pedro Mexķa, Pérez de Oliva, Vives, and Graciįn prioritize literature, Pascal contrasts the esprit de finesse w...Daugiau...
What does it mean to be human in an age of rapid technological advancement? Are we on the brink of transcending our biological limitations, or are we losing touch...Daugiau...
This four-volume collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. As the physical, biological, human, and social sciences were radically reshaped across the 1800s, so the prevailing underst...Daugiau...
This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. This volume examines the development of statistical and probabilistic methods across the biological, human, and social sciences. ...Daugiau...
This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. The nineteenth century begins with what was still a largely Newtonian perspective on the nature of matter and the physical world Newto...Daugiau...
This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. Over the course of the nineteenth century, emblematically but not exclusively represented by the work of Charles Darwin, natural science...Daugiau...
This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. This volume presents the views laid out by contributors to the philosophy of science in this period. This collection of...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 10-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: The Experiment LLC, ISBN-13: 9798893030853)
A riveting appraisal of black holes, situating them at the heart of our understanding of ourselves and the universe and informed by original interviews with more than 20 world-leading researchers and Nobel laureates Facing InfinityIn late eig...Daugiau...
How key concepts in modern physics came from the work of a New Zealander whom Einstein labelled a second Newton. By the mid-nineteenth century, physicists believed they had discovered the last secrets of the universe. Then a ne...Daugiau...
Two of the worlds most respected scientists reveal the forces behind the dangerous anti-science movement and show us how to fight back. From pandemics to the climate crisis, humanity faces tougher challenges than ever. Whether...Daugiau...
This book offers a contribution to our understanding of Nicholas of Cusas theory of geometry. It is based not only on hisgenerally more famousphilosophical texts (e.g., De docta ignorantia, I...Daugiau...
This open-access volume consists of papers presented at the conference Thirty Years of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC): Histories, Achievements, Challenges, held in Berlin, 56 October 2023, as well as of additional contributions.Th...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691247861)
From acclaimed folklorist and historian Adrienne Mayor, an enchanting collection of the ancient myths that emerged out of the wondersand disastersof the natural worldMythopedia is a fun, fact-filled A-Z treasury of myths in...Daugiau...
A fresh perspective on how early scholars perceived the cosmos and the nature of knowledge through a tour-de-force study of the central role geometry played in medieval creativity.Geometry, rhetoric and creativity were intricately...Daugiau...
Drawing on alchemical theory, Édouard Laugier and Auguste Laurent set out to find the vital essence of life through the craft of perfumes. While drawing the ire of enlightened Bohemian Paris, they discovered fundamental differences in the structures...Daugiau...
This monograph provides a comprehensive overview of the key experimental and theoretical developments in electrochemistry from the 1800s to the 2020s. It gives the readers an understanding of the historical beginnings of electrochemical science an...Daugiau...
The book is about the fascinating intersection of philately and astronomy. In all countries of the world, stamps and other philatelic documents are continuously issued to celebrate scientists, places, astronomical instruments for observing the sky...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226838793)
The grasslands of the trans-Mississippi west-North Americas most endangered ecosystems-are at a critical moment in their history. The science of prairie restoration is on the verge of unlocking the secrets to rewilding the last fragments of native...Daugiau...
This book provides new perspectives on the twentieth-century history of philosophy of science through the person of Ernest Nagel. Being one of the philosophical and institutional motors of the new discipline of philosophy of science, Ernest Nagel...Daugiau...
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to a growing subfield of philosophical research, which spans traditional and contemporary debates about the nature of time, as well as a diverse set of...Daugiau...
This book offers a global, historical analysis of the changes and continuities in one of societys basic functions: seeking to protect itself from disease. This book offers a global, historical analysis of the changes and continuiti...Daugiau...
This book offers a global, historical analysis of the changes and continuities in one of societys basic functions: seeking to protect itself from disease. This book features a global, historical analysis of the changes and continui...Daugiau...
