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Power of Knowledge How Information and Technology Made the Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9780300208672, ISBN: HB: 9780300167955, Yale University Press, June 2015
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country's ability to acquire knowledge and technical skill and transform them into strength and prosperity. Leading historian Jeremy Bla...
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Voyaging in Strange Seas The Great Revolution in Science
ISBN: PB: 9780300212754, Yale University Press, May 2015
336 pp., 25x15 cm, 32 black&white illus.
In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed – Luther's Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the ignorance of the an...
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Jefferson's Shadow The Story of His Science
ISBN: PB: 9780300205930, ISBN: HB: 9780300184037, Yale University Press, June 2014
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Hundreds, even thousands, of books have been written about Thomas Jefferson's many accomplishments as statesman, leader of men, country farmer, inventor, lawyer, architect, and philosopher. But until now, no author has focused on the important role o...
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Liberty's Dawn A People's History of the Industrial Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9780300205251, Yale University Press, March 2014
320 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16-page section of black&white illus.
This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. "The Industrial Revolution" brought not simply misery...
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Little History of Science
ISBN: PB: 9780300197136, Yale University Press, August 2013
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.
Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted to make sense of the world and harness its...
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Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine
ISBN: HB: 9780300186635, Yale University Press, July 2013
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.
A collection of ten essays paired with substantial prefaces, this book chronicles and contextualizes Roger Cooter's contributions to the history of medicine. Through an analysis of his own work, Cooter critically examines the politics of conceptual a...
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£53,00
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Elementary Particles
ISBN: PB: 9780300183184, Yale University Press, October 2012
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
First published in 1951, Enrico Fermi's "Elementary Particles" continues to guide physicists and scholars. Fermi's descriptions of the then-known particle universe and its nascent conceptual framework allow readers to glimpse the foundations of the f...
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Theory That Would Not Die How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
ISBN: PB: 9780300188226, Yale University Press, September 2012
336 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm
Drawing on primary source material and interviews with statisticians and other scientists, "The Theory That Would Not Die" is the riveting account of how a seemingly simple theorem ignited one of the greatest scientific controversies of all time. Bay...
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