Public Understanding of Science (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology, and, #26)
by David M. Knight
Histoire Des Sciences Sous Napoleon Bonaparte - Primary Source Edition
by Georges Barral
Long before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers," American capitalism embraced "risk"--and proceeded to number our days. Life insurers led the way, developing numerical practices for measuring individuals and groups, predicting their fates, and intervening in their futures. Emanating from the gilded boardrooms of Lower Manhattan and making their way into drawing rooms and tenement apartments across the nation, these practices soon came to change the futures they purpor...
Three Works of Ripley (The R.A.M.S. Library of Alchemy, #5)
by George Ripley
An Islamic Response to Greek Astronomy is an edition, translation of and commentary on the astronomical work of the fourteenth-century Central Asian religious scholar sadr al-Shari'a al-Bukhari. sadr al-Shari'a develops the works of the thirteenth-century Maragha researchers, which set the tone for the astronomical research until the eventual demise of Ptolemaic astronomy. This work elucidates the development and achievement of the long tradition of reforming Ptolemaic astronomy. It corroborates...
Political Essay on the Kingdom of New-Spain Volume 1 (Alexander von Humboldt in English)
by Alexander von Humboldt
The acclaimed Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was referred to by Charles Darwin as 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived'. Several of his works were in the library aboard the Beagle, including the multi-volume Personal Narrative of Travels, two books on geology and Tableaux de la nature (all reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). Darwin's copy of this two-volume 1811 New York edition of Humboldt's Political Essay (originally published in French earlier...
Монеты ханов улуса Джучиева или Золотой оl
by Х.М. Френ
Сборник судебных решений, состязательных
by В.В. Гуров
Atomic Frontier Days (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography)
by John M. Findlay and Bruce W. Hevly
Outstanding Title by Choice Magazine On the banks of the Pacific Northwest’s greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation, an industrial site that appears to be at odds with the surrounding vineyards and desert. The 586-square-mile compound on the Columbia River is known both for its origins as part of the Manhattan Project, which made the first atomic bombs, and for the monumental effort now under way to clean up forty-five years of waste from manufacturing plutonium for nuclear weapons...
Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries, Pulse and Pneuma (Studies in Ancient Medicine)
by Orly Lewis
THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF RUSSIAN CHRONICLES. Volume 21 Part 2 The Book of Degrees king's lineage
by A Koshelev
Empire of Reason (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, #13)
by Professor Lewis Pyenson
Иллюстрированная история карикатуры с др
by А.В. Швыров