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Reckoning with Matter Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage
ISBN: HB: 9780226411460, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 halftones, 1 table
From Blaise Pascal in the 1600s to Charles Babbage in the first half of the nineteenth century, inventors struggled to create the first calculating machines. All failed – but that does not mean we cannot learn from the trail of ideas, correspondence,...
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£28,00
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Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science
ISBN: PB: 9780226422336, ISBN: HB: 9780226164878, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
During the Victorian period, the practice of science shifted from a religious context to a naturalistic one. It is generally assumed that this shift occurred because naturalistic science was distinct from and superior to theistic science. As Huxley's...
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To Save the Phenomena An Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo
ISBN: PB: 9780226169217, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
152 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Duhem's 1908 essay questions the relation between physical theory and metaphysics and, more specifically, between astronomy and physics-an issue still of importance today. He critiques the answers given by Greek thought, Arabic science, medieval Chri...
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£15,00
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Making Jet Engines in World War II Britain, Germany, and the United States
ISBN: HB: 9780226388595, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 2 line drawings, 3 tables
Our stories of industrial innovation tend to focus on individual initiative and breakthroughs. With "Making Jet Engines in World War II", Hermione Giffard uses the case of the development of jet engines to offer a different way of understanding techn...
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£34,00
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Osiris, Volume 30 Scientific Masculinities
ISBN: PB: 9780226267616, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
368 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm
This volume of "Osiris" integrates gender analysis with the global history of science and medicine from the late Middle Ages to the present by focusing on masculinity. The premise is that social constructions of masculinity function simultaneously as...
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£28,00
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Groovy Science Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture
ISBN: PB: 9780226372914, ISBN: HB: 9780226372884, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 2 tables
In his 1969 book "The Making of a Counterculture", Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science "as if from a place inhabited by plague", and even seeking "subversion of the scientific worldview" itself. Roszak's view has...
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£52,50
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Radium and the Secret of Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226418742, ISBN: HB: 9780226238272, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicians, botanists, and geneticists believed that radium might hold the secret to life. Physicists and chemists early on described the wondrous new element in l...
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£44,00
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Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange A Financial History of Victorian Science
ISBN: PB: 9780226360447, ISBN: HB: 9780226360300, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the stock market, "Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange" tells a provocative story that marries the birth of the social sciences with the exploits of gl...
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£26,50
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£73,50
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History Within The Science, Culture, and Politics of Bones, Organisms, and Molecules
ISBN: HB: 9780226347325, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 6 line drawings
Personal genomics services such as 23andMe and Ancestry. com now offer what once was science fiction: the ability to sequence and analyze an individual's entire genetic code – promising, in some cases, facts about that individual's ancestry that may...
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Open Mind Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature
ISBN: PB: 9780226361901, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 3 line drawings
"The Open Mind" chronicles the development and promulgation of a scientific vision of the rational, creative, and autonomous self, demonstrating how this self became a defining feature of Cold War culture. Jamie Cohen-Cole illustrates how from 1945 t...
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