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  • When the Grass Stops Growing

    A War Memoir

    by Carol Mather ...
    Sir Carol Mather MC had a fascinating war. His memoirs, which quickly sold out, covers service with Sterling's SAS, his escape from a POW camp in Italy and his two tours on Montgomery's small personal staff. No wonder this book was widely reviewed and described as 'a classic' in The Spectator. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Passionate Minds

    The Inner World of Scientists

    The popular stereotype of the scientist as mad boffin or weedy nerd has been peddled widely in film and fiction, with the implication that the world of science is far removed from the intellectual and emotional messiness of other human activities. In Passionate Minds, distinguished scientist Lewis Wolpert investigates the style and motivation of some of the most eminent scientists in the world. In ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Winds of Change

    Fifty Years of Achievements in the CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research 1946-1996

    This book describes the evolution and development of the Division's research throughout the years and the ways in which scientists responded to the needs of the community. Winds of Change also presents a very human face of science, chronicling the personalities, and the highs and lows of scientific research. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Rich and Diverse Fauna

    The History of the Australian National Insect Collection 1926-1991

    by MS Upton ...
    This volume is the first comprehensive account of the formation of CSIRO Entomology and the Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC) and covers the growth of this national collection over its first 65 years. In 1927, Robin John Tillyard stated that "the future of Australian entomology depends to a large extent on the gathering together of a really national collection." On taking charge of the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Australian Ark

    A History of Domesticated Animals in Australia

    by Ian Parsonson ...
    This definitive work on the introduction of domestic animals to Australia begins with the first white settlement at Botany Bay. It explores the foundations of our wool and beef industries, examining the role of early leaders like Phillip, King, Macarthur and Bligh.The book considers the successful introduction of the horse, Australia's first live animal export, and goes on to explore the role of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Wait for the Waggon

    The Story of the Royal Corps of Transport and Its Predecessors, 1794–1993

    Edited by John Sutton ...
    The first ever published comprehensive history of the Royal Corps of Transport and its Predecessors, relating the proud part played in helping to develop the highly successful logistic system that the British Army now possesses. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Steam to Diesel

    Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry

    Series series Princeton Studies in Business and Technology
    This overview of the leading locomotive producers in the United States during the twentieth century shows how they responded to a radical technological change: the replacement of steam locomotives by diesels. The locomotive industry provides a valuable case study of business practices and dramatic shifts in innovation patterns, since two companies--General Motors and General Electric--that had no ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • This Is Biology

    The Science of the Living World

    by Ernst Mayr ...
    Biology until recently has been the neglected stepchild of science, and many educated people have little grasp of how biology explains the natural world. Yet to address the major political and moral questions that face us today, we must acquire an understanding of their biological roots. This magisterial new book by Ernst Mayr will go far to remedy this situation. An eyewitness to this century's ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy

    by James Evans ...
    The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy combines new scholarship with hands-on science to bring readers into direct contact with the work of ancient astronomers. While tracing ideas from ancient Babylon to sixteenth-century Europe, the book places its greatest emphasis on the Greek period, when astronomers developed the geometric and philosophical ideas that have determined the subsequent ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Visual Language for the World Wide Web

    In this digital age, are there cultural lessons for us in looking to the earliest kinds of communications? The icons used in ancient Mayan and Sumerian language systems are presented here as direct cultural links to the visual presentation of World Wide Web pages on the Internet. The book shows how the development of digital screens has caused visual human communication to come full circle from ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • La science impure

    Anthropologie et médecine en France, Grande-Bretagne, Italie, Pays-Bas

    Peut-il exister une science à l’état pur, une science à la fois pure de toute scorie étrangère et de toute origine métisse ? La science impure raconte cette histoire de la quête impossible de cette pureté mythique, à propos des rapports entre la médecine et l’anthropologie dans quatre pays européens (France, Grande-Bretagne, Italie et Pays-Bas) depuis bientôt deux siècles. L’anthropologie médicale ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy

    Edited by Michael Hoskin ...
    Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences, and one which has repeatedly led to fundamental changes in our view of the world. This book covers the history of our study of the cosmos from prehistory through to a survey of modern astronomy and astrophysics (sure to be of interest to future historians of twentieth-century astronomy). It does not attempt to cover everything, but deliberately concentrates ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • War Resistance & Intelligence

    Essays in Honour of M.R.D. Foot

    Edited by K. G. Robertson ...
    A collection of authoritative and often controversial essays that will hold the attention of even the most informed reader. This fascinating book covers such important and relevant topics as Churchill and the Secret Services, ULTRA codebreaking and Soviet espionage and much more. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gospel of Germs

    Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life

    by Nancy Tomes ...
    AIDS. Ebola. "Killer microbes." All around us the alarms are going off, warning of the danger of new, deadly diseases. And yet, as Nancy Tomes reminds us in her absorbing book, this is really nothing new. A remarkable work of medical and cultural history, The Gospel of Germs takes us back to the first great "germ panic" in American history, which peaked in the early 1900s, to explore the origins ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • More Than Houses

    How Habitat for Humanity is Transforming Lives and Neighborhood

    In these pages you will find inspiring, true stories of people who didn't have hope?until they had a home. Stories of children who gained identity and confidence for their future. Of families made stronger and healthier and prison inmates who are now giving back to their communities. Of entire communities bonding together around an ethic of hard work and mutual respect. Of denominational, ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

  • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)

    by Roy Porter ...
    Series Book 0 - The Norton History of Science
    **Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize"A panoramic and perfectly magnificent intellectual history of medicine…This is the book that delivers it all." —Sherwin Nuland, author of How We Die**Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking…a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book" (Los Angeles Times ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Mathematical Footprints

    Discovering Mathematics Everywhere

    by Theoni Pappas ...
    MATHEMATICAL FOOTPRINTS takes a creative look at the role mathematics has played since prehistoric times, and will play in the future, and uncovers mathematics where you least expect to find it from its many uses in medicine, the sciences, and its appearance in art to its patterns in nature and its central role in the development of computers. Pappas presents mathematical ideas in a readable non ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Nothing that Is

    A Natural History of Zero

    by Robert Kaplan ...
    A symbol for what is not there, an emptiness that increases any number it's added to, an inexhaustible and indispensable paradox. As we enter the year 2000, zero is once again making its presence felt. Nothing itself, it makes possible a myriad of calculations. Indeed, without zero mathematics as we know it would not exist. And without mathematics our understanding of the universe would be vastly ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • John Dee's Conversations with Angels

    Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature

    John Dee's angel conversations have been an enigmatic facet of Elizabethan England's most famous natural philosopher's life and work. Professor Harkness contextualizes Dee's angel conversations within the natural philosophical, religious and social contexts of his time. She argues that they represent a continuing development of John Dee's earlier concerns and interests. These conversations include ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Ladies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science, 1800-1900

    A Survey of Their Contributions to Research

    A systematic survey and comparison of the work of 19th-century American and British women in scientific research, this book covers the two countries in which women of the period were most active in scientific work and examines all the fields in which they were engaged. The field-by-field examination brings out patterns and concentrations in women's research (in both countries) and allows a ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character

    "You read with a rising sense of despair and outrage, and you finish it as if awakening from a nightmare only Kafka could have conceived."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York TimesDavid Baltimore won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1975. Known as a wunderkind in the field of immunology, he rose quickly through the ranks of the scientific community to become the president of the distinguished ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • With Alex at War

    From the Irrawaddy to the Po, 1941–1945

    by Rupert Clarke ...
    As a young Irish Guards Officer in 1940, Sir Rupert Clarke became ADC to Alexander, already a distinguished officer thanks to his intelligence and courage.Alex had been the last senior officer to leave the Dunkirk beaches. For the next 4 years, the author was Alex's constant companion. In this book he shares the excitement and experiences of those years. Alex had Churchill's unwavering confidence, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Planning Armageddon

    Britain, the United States and the Command of Western Nuclear Forces, 1945-1964

    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    Planning Armageddon provides the first detailed account of Britain's Command, Control, Intelligence and Communications infrastructure. A central theme of the book is the British-American atomic relationship and its implications for NATO strategy. Based on the recollections of officials and military officers in both Britain and the United States and ... Read more

    $56.99 USD $39.99 USD

  • Francis Bacon: The New Organon

    by Francis Bacon ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
    When the New Organon appeared in 1620, part of a six-part programme of scientific inquiry entitled 'The Great Renewal of Learning', Francis Bacon was at the high point of his political career, and his ambitious work was groundbreaking in its attempt to give formal philosophical shape to a new and rapidly emerging experimentally-based science. Bacon combines theoretical scientific epistemology with ... Read more

    $40.99 USD