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 Science: A Four Thousand Year HistoryBest Price: $10.76 The author reminds us that the original meaning of `science' covered all knowledge, and the... |  The Periodic Table: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)Best Price: $7.09 In this authoritative Very Short Introduction to the periodic table, Eric Scerri presents a... |  Emergence in Mind (Mind Association Occasional)Best Price: $39.93 There have long been controversies about how it is that minds can fit into a physical universe. ... |  MushroomBest Price: $15.82 The overnight appearance of mushrooms in a meadow or on a suburban lawn is a marvelous sight. It... |  Ocean Yearbook, Volume 17Best Price: $13.30 Since 1978, the Ocean Yearbook has published original, peer-reviewed articles and reference... |
 Mathematics Applied to Science: In Memoriam Edward D. Conway |  Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global WarmingBest Price: $1.99 Gale Christianson has made the science of global warming and climate change accessible to the... |  Einstein's Universe: The Layperson's GuideBest Price: $10.49 Nigel Calder's illuminating account of relativity in plain language is amazing. The summary... |  PathfindersBest Price: $13.92 For over 700 years, the international language of science was Arabic. In... |  The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus CopernicusBest Price: $0.01 This book pushes all the right buttons for me. For the book lover, it is a search for a rare... |
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 Making Modern Science: A Historical SurveyBest Price: $118.54 Bowler and Morus (B&M henceforth) set themselves two projects in this book. First, to... |  Antipredator Defenses in Birds and Mammals (Interspecific Interactions)Best Price: $69.99 In nature, the ability to defend against predators is fundamental to an animal's survival.... |  Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private LifeBest Price: $32.43 Professor Coen's book traces Vienna's Exners, a distinguished family of intellectuals,... |  Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations)Best Price: $33.50 Although the Scientific Revolution has long been regarded as the beginning of modern science,... |  Biographies of Scientific ObjectsBest Price: $59.99 Why does an object or phenomenon become the subject of scientific inquiry? Why do some of these... |
 Of Prairie, Woods, and Water: Two Centuries of Chicago Nature WritingBest Price: $35.95 I keep this book on my nightstand for a quick read. Joel Greenberg did a great job with this... |  The Essential Naturalist: Timeless Readings in Natural HistoryBest Price: $32.80 Like nearly every area of scholarly inquiry today, the biological sciences are broken into... |  The Politics of Pure ScienceBest Price: $12.90 The Politics of Pure Science, a pioneering and controversial work, set a new standard for the... |  The Scientific Literature: A Guided TourBest Price: $18.71 Many thousands of scientific articles are published every year, yet they remain opaque to the... |  Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn's Philosophy of ScienceFew philosophers of science have influenced as many readers as Thomas S. Kuhn. Yet no... |
 The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets NonsenseBest Price: $5.50 Michael Shermer gives an open and honest account about the inner workings of scientific thought... |  Reality and RationalityBest Price: $34.95 This volume of articles (most published, some new) is a follow-up to the late Wesley C.... |  Minds behind the Brain: A History of the Pioneers and Their DiscoveriesBest Price: $20.90 Item not entirely as described, but it will do. Older book, some highlighting that wasn't... |  The Price of Truth: How Money Affects the Norms of Science (Practical and Professional Ethics)Best Price: $14.98 I found this book to be very informative. It was an easier read than the literature on the topic... |  Early Maps of South-East Asia (Images of Asia)The mapping of South-East Asia is a story of adventure and endeavour involving many... |
 A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey: Volume III: Books XVII-XXIVBest Price: $80.00 This is the third and final volume of a presentation in English of a commentary on Homer's ... |  DispositionsMumford puts forward a new theory of dispositions, showing how central their role in metaphysics... |  Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View (Clarendon Paperbacks)Best Price: $61.00 After introducing the empiricist point of view in philosophy of science, and the concepts and... |  The Further Inventions of Daedalus: A Compendium of Plausible SchemesBest Price: $5.00 What a delight it is to find that David Jones has compiled another compendium of the plausible... |  Advanced Distance Sampling: Estimating Abundance of Biological PopulationsBest Price: $108.46 This advanced text focuses on the uses of distance sampling to estimate the density and... |
 Galileo (Past Masters Series)Drake says that Galileo aimed to replace the primacy of the philosophical quest for the truth... |  A Philosophical Basis of Medical Practice: Toward a Philosophy and Ethic of the Healing Professions |  A Social History of American TechnologyBest Price: $43.94 Ruth Cowan attempts to show how technology has developed since the colonial days through the... |  Late Glacial and Postglacial Environmental Changes: Quaternary, Carboniferous-Permian, and ProterozoicBest Price: $150.98 This book of contributed papers reconstructs events following the major Paleozoic glaciation,... |  Impact!: The Threat of Comets and AsteroidsBest Price: $15.95 This book really helps make a lot of things clear about comets and asteroids. I think some... |
 Thinking Like an Engineer: Studies in the Ethics of a Profession (Practical & Professional Ethics)Best Price: $79.94 "Thinking Like an Engineer" is a significant contribution mainly, from my perspective... |  Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to HawkingBest Price: $129.95 I've picked up many books over the years telling the stories of great scientists, but this... |  The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolution (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)Best Price: $2.99 ...--- Rating: "A/A+" -- another excellent essay collection by an outstanding... |  In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace: A Biographical Study on the Psychology of HistoryBest Price: $18.30 Restoring Albert Russell Wallace's reputation is an occasional occupation with historians. ... |  Stories of SicknessBest Price: $8.89 Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to... |
 Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness (Columbia Series in Science and Religion)Best Price: $17.75 I have never met the author of this enthralling book, but having now also read several of his... |  The Legacy of Malthus (Illini Books)This book is absolutely indispensable to any historian of the 19th and 20th centuries. The... |  Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific MethodBest Price: $118.25 |  The Funding of Scientific Racism: WICKLIFFE DRAPER AND THE PIONEER FUNDBest Price: $34.95 William Tucker, a careful academic, uncovered quite a story when he wrote this book. The New... |  Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture: Putting Pragmatism to WorkBest Price: $13.23 "Hickman['s]... style of pragmatism provides us with flexible, philosophical... |
 Science and Russian Culture in an Age of Revolutions: V. I. Vernadsky and His Scientific School, 1863-1945 (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)Best Price: $24.95 "... scholarship of the highest order.... Kendall Bailes's book is destined to become a... |  Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture: Putting Pragmatism to WorkBest Price: $49.95 "Hickman['s]... style of pragmatism provides us with flexible, philosophical... |  Globalizing Tobacco Control: Anti-smoking Campaigns in California, France, and Japan (Tracking Globalization)Best Price: $61.00 "[Reid] develops an approach to globalization and health that goes beyond simplistic... |  The Speed of Light: Constancy and CosmosLight -- our experience of light, our measurement of light, and the notion that light speed is... |  Ignorance and Surprise: Science, Society, and Ecological Design (Inside Technology)Best Price: $19.88 The relationship between ignorance and surprise and a conceptual framework for... |
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 Squaring the Circle: The War between Hobbes and Wallis (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)Best Price: $23.99 This book examines the ongoing (1655-1680) conflict between Thomas Hobbes and Oxford's... |  The Middle Path: Avoiding Environmental CatastropheBest Price: $17.47 The debate about global warming is over. There is no longer any question that human activity is... |  Nature's Palette: The Science of Plant ColorBest Price: $21.24 The colors of nature are complex. In fact from nature (rocks, animals and plants) is where we... |  Theories of Vision from Al-Kindi to KeplerBest Price: $24.00 The remarkable achievement of David C. Lindberg's book, "Theories of Vision From... |  The Scientific Enterprise in America: Readings from IsisBest Price: $15.00 This collection of sixteen essays on the history of science in America ranges chronologically... |
 The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance EuropeBest Price: $24.28 It took 2 attempts separated by almost 2 years to drag my attention thru this book. The subject... |  On the Nature of Limbs: A DiscourseBest Price: $16.97 The most prominent naturalist in Britain before Charles Darwin, Richard Owen made empirical... |  The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and ScienceBest Price: $23.98 This ambitious book by one of the most original and provocative thinkers in science studies... |  The Origins of Theoretical Population GeneticsBest Price: $24.16 'Evolution', in its biological sense, is simply any change in the frequencies of genes... |  Scenes from Deep Time: Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric WorldBest Price: $19.99 Dense with prose and with disappointingly few illustrations [especially for a book about... |
 The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of PsychologyBest Price: $41.97 The Sciences of the Soul is the first attempt to explain the development of the disciplinary... |  Revolution in Science: How Galileo and Darwin Changed Our World (MacSci)Best Price: $22.95 This is the compelling story of the two biggest events in the evolution of ideas: the... |  Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction (The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics) |  The Word and the World: Biblical Exegesis and Early Modern ScienceBest Price: $93.58 This book explores the impact of biblical reading practices on scientific thought in the... |  Teleology Revisited and Other Essays in the Philosophy and History of ScienceBest Price: $20.00 Ernest Nagel, one of the world's leading philosophers of science, is an unreconstructed... |
 Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and StructureBest Price: $149.00 I'm not qualified to say how good Mammals From the Age of Dinosaurs is as a reference work,... |  The Green PhoenixBest Price: $1.33 More easy to read popular books need to be written about plants transgenics. I was thrown at... |  Practicing Science, Living Faith: Interviews with Twelve Leading Scientists (Columbia Series in Science and Religion)Best Price: $26.64 This book that tells the stories of twelve individuals who all find some way to reconcile... |  What Is Life?: with "Mind and Matter" and "Autobiographical Sketches"This is another great work of Erwin Schrodinger which gives an insight into the biology of life... |  Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945Best Price: $84.49 This is a great book if you are a scientist, particularly if you are a physicist. This is a... |
 Theatre of the Mind: Raising the Curtain on ConsciousnessBest Price: $6.40 |  Quantum Self |  Origins of Modern Science 1300-1800Best Price: $8.94 This is a pretty good survey text. It is not very unique but it is well-written and quite... |  Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle AgesBest Price: $2.92 The person I gave it to, had asked for it , so it was perfect. |  Challenges Facing Higher Education at the Millennium (Issues in Higher Education)Best Price: $134.25 In May 1998, twenty representatives from the higher education communities of the United States... |
 Langue and Parole in Synchronic and Diachronic PerspectiveBest Price: $168.95 This volume contains 37 papers selected from the proceedings of the XXXIst Annual Meeting of the... |  Magic FurnaceProbably the clearest exposition of the history of modern nuclear physics. In addition, he... |  Information Tasks (Library and Information Science) (Library and Information Science)Best Price: $26.00 The user-centered approach is central to the creation of usable information systems, services,... | ||
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