Naturvetenskapens historia

This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who ...

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For more than a hundred years, physicists have taken as nearly gospel John Keats' admonition that "beauty is truth, truth beauty, -- that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." Whether they are pondering the existence of blac...

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En kortfattad historik över nästan allting är den framstående journalisten och resereportern Bill Brysons försök att förstå allt som har hänt från Big Bang till civilisationens uppkomst - hur vi tagit oss från att inte vara någonting till att bli ...

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Most historians study the littlest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from before the Big Bang up through the seemingly infinite future? How would loo...

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History and Systems of Psychology provides an engaging introduction to the rich story of psychology's past. Retaining the clarity and accessibility praised by readers of earlier editions, this classic textbook provides a chronological history of p...

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This monumental work focuses on the field of solid-state physics now more properly referred to as condensed-matter physics which grew to maturity between 1920 and 1960. The questions that were posed, and answered, during this period, regarding the...

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In this wide-ranging survey, Peter J. Bowler explores the phenomenon of futurology: predictions about the future development and impact of science and technology on society and culture in the twentieth century. Utilising science fiction, popular s...

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The revisions of both DSM-IV and ICD-10 have again focused the interest of the field of psychiatry and clinical psychology on the questions of nosology. This book reviews issues within psychiatric nosology from clinical, historical and particularl...

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Den här boken vill levandegöra såväl människorna som deras verk. Bakom namnen på de stora fysikerna finns en oanad mänsklig rikedom. Där fin ns underbarn som Gauss, lärda män som ägnat sig åt politiken som Arago , universalgenier som Young, autodi...

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From ancient times to the present day, scientifically inclined women in many cultures have had to battle against the traditional belief that men are more cognitively adept than women. At times throughout history, women were persecuted for their at...

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Psychiatry has been subject to major changes in the last 150 years. This book explores the forces that have shaped these changes and how they have impacted on the psychiatric profession in this time. The result is a dynamic discussion about the na...

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Galaxies are known as the building blocks of the universe, but arriving at this understanding has been a thousand-year odyssey. This journey is told through the lens of the evolving use of images as investigative tools. Initial chapters explore ho...

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In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text. The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism. An...

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Stjärnor och äpplen som faller (2003) är en bok om fysiken och universum. Ulf Danielsson berättar levande och åskådligt om hur världen hänger ihop - och om hur man genom tiderna har trott att den hänger ihop. Från antikens och egyptiernas världsbi...

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How the breeding of new animals and plants was central to fascist regimes in Italy, Portugal, and Germany and to their imperial expansion. In the fascist regimes of Mussolini's Italy, Salazar's Portugal, and Hitler's Germany, the first mass mobili...

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The hot-air balloon, invented by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, launched for the second time just days before the Treaty of Paris would end the American Revolutionary War. The ascent in Paris-a technological marvel witnessed by a diverse crowd ...

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George Dyson's fascinating account of the early years of computers: Turing's Cathedral is the story behind how the PC, ipod, smartphone and almost every aspect of modern life came into being. In 1945 a small group of brilliant engineers and mathem...

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This is the story of a Chinese doctor, his book, and the creatures that danced within its pages. "The Monkey and the Inkpot" introduces natural history in sixteenth-century China through the iconic Bencao gangmu (Systematic materia medic...

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The 4.4-billion-year history of the oceans and their role in Earth's climate system It has often been said that we know more about the moon than we do about our own oceans. In fact, we know a great deal more about the oceans than many people reali...

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Detta är en bok om upptäckter och katastrofer, exploatering och uppfinning, krig och vetenskap och om relationen mellan människor och de kemiska ämnen som vi och vår planet består av. Genom berättelser om vanliga och ovanliga människor runt om i v...

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Nobel laureate Erwin Schrdinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. It was written for the layman, but proved to be one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of DNA. ...

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`I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.' It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, ...

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The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative powe...

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A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging it...

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Selected as a Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Economist, Independent, Observer and Mail on Sunday THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017 `Dramatic and precise... [A] thrilling and comprehe...

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Reviews fads, hoaxes, and cults propagated under the guise of being scientifically founded and proven.

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This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who ...

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