Science : History

The Disappearance of the Social in American Social Psychology is a critical conceptual history of American social psychology. In this challenging work, John ......

In 1902, Andrew Carnegie founded the Carnegie Institution of Washington, to support innovative science research. Since its creation two years later, the Dep......

During the past century approximately fifty percent of the world's wetlands have been destroyed, largely due to human activities. Increased human population ......

Collected for the first time in a single volume are essays which examine the developments in three fundamental biological disciplines - embryology, evolution......

In this volume Smith examines the early modern science of generation, which included the study of animal conception, heredity, and fetal development. Analyzi......

All of life is a game and evolution by natural selection is no exception. The evolutionary game theory developed in this book provides the tools necessary fo......

The development of populations over time, and, on longer timescales, the evolution of species, are both influenced by a complex of interacting, underlying pr......

Rivers differ among themselves and through time. An individual river can vary significantly downstream, changing its dimensions and pattern dramatically over......

Black holes and gravitational radiation are two of the most dramatic predictions of general relativity. The quest for rotating black holes - discovered by Ro......

Andrea Falcon's work is guided by the exegetical ideal of recreating the mind of Aristotle and his distinctive conception of the theoretical enterprise. In t......

Presenting the history of space-time physics, from Newton to Einstein, as a philosophical development DiSalle reflects our increasing understanding of the co......

Natural philosophy encompassed all natural phenomena of the physical world. It sought to discover the physical causes of all natural effects and was little c......

Charles Darwin is a towering figure in the history of science, who changed the direction of modern thought by establishing the basis of evolutionary biology.......

Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to international law, yet ranks among the most unpredictable facets of......

Eugene Skolnikoff treats the roles of science and technology across the entire range of relations among nations, including security and economic issues, envi......

After 1905, Einstein's miraculous year, physics would never be the same again. In those twelve months, Einstein shattered many cherished scientific beliefs i......

In the decades following World War II, American scientists were celebrated for their contributions to social and technological progress. They were also widel......

This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century......

Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by Wall Street Journal reporter G. Pascal Zachary. Driven by the legendary Bruc......

With commentary by the greatest physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, this anthology has garnered impressive reviews. PW has called it “a gem of a col......