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  • Making Ammonia

    Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, and the Nature of Scientific Discovery

    This Open Access book discusses the progress of science and the transfer of scientific knowledge to technological application. It also identifies the factors necessary to achieve this progress. Based on a case study of the physical chemist Fritz Haber's discovery of ammonia synthesis between 1903 and 1909, the book places Haber's work in historical and scientific (physicochemical) context. The ... Read more

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  • L'histoire de l'Inra, entre science et politique

    Series series Hors collection
    Alors que le monde industrialisé pensait en avoir fini avec la question des subsistances, la Seconde Guerre mondiale replace l’agriculture et l’alimentation au cœur des enjeux de la reconstruction. L’Europe de l’Ouest, ravagée et affaiblie, se tourne alors vers les États-Unis pour penser une modernisation capable de fonder une nouvelle expansion. En France, l’après-guerre est ainsi le théâtre d ... Read more

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  • The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease

    New Philosophical and Scientific Developments

    This open access book is a systematic update of the philosophical and scientific foundations of the biopsychosocial model of health, disease and healthcare. First proposed by George Engel 40 years ago, the Biopsychosocial Model is much cited in healthcare settings worldwide, but has been increasingly criticised for being vague, lacking in content, and in need of reworking in the light of recent ... Read more

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  • A History of Male Psychological Disorders in Britain, 1945-1980

    Series series Mental Health in Historical Perspective
    This book is open access under a CC BY license and explores the under-researched history of male mental illness from the mid-twentieth century. It argues that statistics suggesting women have been more vulnerable to depression and anxiety are misleading since they underplay a host of alternative presentations of 'distress' more common in men. ... Read more

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  • Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe

    Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange

    This open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformationsof scientific knowledge in the early modern period.It investigates the rich edition history of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera,by far the most widely disseminated textbook on geocentric cosmology, from the uniquestandpoint of the many printers, publishers, and booksellers who steered this text ... Read more

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  • Notas de um naturalista do sul do Brasil

    Fritz Müller

    "Este livro realiza uma construção biográfica de Fritz Müller (1822-1897), naturalista alemão residente no Brasil durante o século XIX. Fritz Müller publicou ao longo de sua vida 264 trabalhos (estes eram originalmente enviados como cartas a diversos correspondentes e posteriormente publicados como artigos científicos), a maioria sobre assuntos relacionados à evolução, fauna, flora e ecologia. ... Read more

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  • Elusive Phenomena, Unwieldy Things

    Historical Perspectives on Experimental Control

    Series Book 71 - Archimedes
    This open access book provides a historical treatment of scientific control in experimentation in the longue durée. The introduction distinguishes four related strands in the history of experimental control: the development of practices to stabilize experimental conditions; the career of the comparative design; the unfolding of methodological discussions about control practices and designs; and ... Read more

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  • From Models to Simulations

    Translated by Karen Turnbull ...
    This book analyses the impact computerization has had on contemporary science and explains the origins, technical nature and epistemological consequences of the current decisive interplay between technology and science: an intertwining of formalism, computation, data acquisition, data and visualization and how these factors have led to the spread of simulation models since the 1950s.Using ... Read more

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  • Isaac Newton vs. Robert Hooke on the Law of Universal Gravitation

    One of the most disputed controversy over the priority of scientific discoveries is that of the law of universal gravitation, between Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke. Hooke accused Newton of plagiarism, of taking over his ideas expressed in previous works. In this paper I try to show, on the basis of previous analysis, that both scientists were wrong: Robert Hooke because his theory was basically ... Read more

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  • The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

    by Sarah Tarlow ...
    Series series Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence.This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting (‘hanging in chains’), since the nineteenth century. Gibbeting involved placing the executed body of a malefactor in an iron cage and suspending it from a tall post. A body might remain in the gibbet for many decades, while it gradually fell to pieces. Hanging in chains ... Read more

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  • The Origin And Evolution Of Religion And Science

    This book introduces a new way to organize human understanding of nature. It reconsiders the commonly accepted yet quite arbitrary and unproven assumption about nature that space is infinite, and instead assumes that space is finite. Following the implications of this change in the most fundamental presupposition about space throughout the history of science has led to an extremely simple model of ... Read more

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  • Remembering and Disremembering the Dead

    Posthumous Punishment, Harm and Redemption over Time

    Series series Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence.This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once lived. In this ... Read more

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  • Sisters in Science

    Conversations with Black Women Scientists on Race, Gender, and Their Passion for Science

    by Diann Jordan ...
    Author Diann Jordan took a journey to find out what inspired and daunted black women in their desire to become scientists in America. Letting 18 prominent black women scientists talk for themselves, Sisters in Science becomes an oral history stretching across decades and disciplines and desires. From Yvonne Clark, the first black woman to be awarded a B.S. in mechanical engineering to Georgia ... Read more

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  • L'Institut de l'Élevage

    Du temps de la modernisation à celui des transitions

    Series series Hors collection
    Ce livre retrace l’histoire méconnue de l’ingénierie de l’élevage (bovins, ovins, caprins) en France entre 1962 et 2022. S’appuyant sur des entretiens et des archives inédites, il relate les métamorphoses de l’élevage français à travers l’évolution des instituts qui lui ont été dédiés, et de leurs missions. ... Read more

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  • Building Green

    Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai

    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Building Green explores the experience of environmental architects in Mumbai, one of the world’s most populous and population-dense urban areas and a city iconic for its massive informal settlements, extreme wealth asymmetries, and ... Read more

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  • Making Sense of the Future

    by Rick Szostak ...
    Making Sense of the Future integrates the latest thinking in Future Studies with the author’s expertise in world history, economics, interdisciplinary studies, knowledge organization, and political activism.The book takes a systems approach that recognizes the complexity of our world. It begins by suggesting a set of goals for human societies and identifying innovative strategies for achieving ... Read more

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  • Model and Mathematics: From the 19th to the 21st Century

    Series series Trends in the History of Science
    This open access book collects the historical and medial perspectives of a systematic and epistemological analysis of the complicated, multifaceted relationship between model and mathematics, ranging from, for example, the physical mathematical models of the 19th century to the simulation and digital modelling of the 21st century. The aim of this anthology is to showcase the status of the ... Read more

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  • Understanding Willing Participants, Volume 2

    Milgram’s Obedience Experiments and the Holocaust

    Horrified by the Holocaust, social psychologist Stanley Milgram wondered if he could recreate the Holocaust in the laboratory setting. Unabated for more than half a century, his (in)famous results have continued to intrigue scholars. Based on unpublished archival data from Milgram’s personal collection, volume one of this two-volume set introduces readers to a behind the scenes account showing how ... Read more

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  • Von einem Traum getrieben

    Wie der Physiker Rolf Widerøe den Teilchenbeschleuniger erfand

    Translated by Daniela Stilzebach ...
    Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschreibt das Leben und die Leistungen des norwegischen Ingenieurs und Physikers Rolf Widerøe. Zu seinen vielen bahnbrechenden Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der Beschleunigerphysik gehören unter anderem das Betatron und der Linearbeschleuniger, deren Konzepte er in seiner 27-seitigen Doktorarbeit veröffentlichte. Das Betatron revolutionierte die Bereiche der Krebsbehandlung ... Read more

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  • "The Great Builders"

    by Jack ...
    What’s the goal in life? Why are we here? What are we supposed to achieve and how? Do the goverments keep secrets from the people? Why? Is there life in other planet? We are humans there are things we aren’t suppose to understand…or are we?Pyramids all over the world, you know what that means?There was an old civilization capable of traveling around the world while constructing huges structures. ... Read more

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  • Return to China One Day

    The Learning Life of Qian Xuesen

    by Chengdong Lv ...
    Translated by Yingchun Zhang ...
    This open access book is intended for common readers who are interested in the life story of Qian Xuesen (also know as Tsien Hsue-Shen). Based on a large number of original archives and historical materials, this book focuses on Qian Xuesen’s years of seeking knowledge from his birth in 1911 to his return to China in 1955 and describes how he grows into a world-known scientist from the aspect of ... Read more

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  • Revolução Científica Simplificada

    Entender a Revolução Científica não é apenas um exercício acadêmico; é crucial para compreender as complexidades dos debates atuais em ciência, tecnologia e ética. Mesmo enquanto a pesquisa científica continua a ultrapassar fronteiras no século XXI, as questões levantadas durante a Revolução Científica sobre o papel da ciência, suas limitações e suas implicações éticas permanecem relevantes. Este ... Read more

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  • History and Speculative Fiction

    Edited by John L. Hennessey ...
    This open access book demonstrates that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative fiction perform similar work in “making the strange familiar” and “making the familiar strange” by taking their readers on journeys through space and time. Excellent history, like excellent speculative fiction, should cause readers to reconsider crucial aspects of their society that ... Read more

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  • The Taming of Evolution

    The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans

    The theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of human beings, evolutionary and preevolutionary views continue to coexist in a state of perpetual tension. The Taming of Evolution addresses the questions of how and why this is so. Davydd Greenwood offers a sustained critique of the nature/nurture debate, revealing the complexity of the relationship ... Read more

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