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Witches, Scientists, Philosophers : Essays and Lectures
Robert E. Butts
Hardcover - $216.95
Robert E. Butts (1928-1997) was a philosopher andhistorian of science whose central concerns were the distinctionbetween the rational and the irrational. He viewed scientificrationality as our major defence against the various conditions thatencourag ...
Out of the Shadows : Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics
Nina Byers
Hardcover - $74.95
Why are there so few prominent female physicists? Traditionally women have faced barriers in higher education, denying them access to higher learning and scientific laboratories. Today many of these barriers have been breached, but the female pioneer ...
Advances in Cognition and Educational Practice : Conceptual Issues in Research in Intelligence Vol 5
Ca98
Hardcover - $231.95
Intelligence is considered in its widest sense, representing diverse viewpoints and areas of specialization in this volume. Contributors represent an international network of intelligence and cognition researchers, coming from a wide range of countri ...
From Natural Philosophy to the Sciences : Writing the History of Nineteenth-Century Science
Cahan
Paperback - $63.95
During the nineteenth century, much of the modern scientific enterprise took shape: scientific disciplines were formed, institutions and communities were founded, and unprecedented applications to and interactions with other aspects of society and cu ...
Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology
John Cairns
Hardcover - $56.95
First published in 1966 as a 60th birthday tribute to Max Delbrck, this influential work is republished as "The Centennial Edition." The book was hailed as "[introducing] into the literature of science, for the first time, a self-conscious historical ...
The Many Faces of God : Science's 400-Year Quest for Images of the Divine
Jeremy Campbell
Hardcover - $44.95
In this grand work of philosophy and history, Campbell shows how religious conceptions have been shaped by advances in technology and science over a 400-year period.
A Vital Rationalist : Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem
Georges Canguilhem
Paperback - $45.95
i>A Vital Rationalist brings together for the first time a selection of Canguilhem's most important writings, including excerpts from previously unpublished manuscripts and a critical biography by Camille Limoges.
Nature, Empire, and Nation : Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World
Jorge Canizares-Esguerra
Paperback - $45.95
“ Pathbreaking and provocative throughout, Nature, Empire, and Nation represents revisionist history at its best. The eight essays assembled here focus new attention on a much-neglected area of research: the place of both Spain and Spanish Amer ...