A Comparative History

Stephen Chrisomalis

This book is a cross-cultural reference volume of all attested numerical notation systems (graphic, non-phonetic systems for representing numbers), encompassing more than 100 such systems used over the past 5,500 years.

Natural History and the Spirit of Conservation in America, 1740–1840

Richard W. Judd

This study traces the origins of conservation thinking in America to the naturalists who explored the middle-western frontier between 1740 and 1840. Their inquiries yielded a comprehensive natural history of America and inspired much of the conservation and ecological thinking we associate with later environmental and ecological philosophy.

Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857–1957

Asif A. Siddiqi

The Red Rockets' Glare is the first academic study on the birth of the Soviet space program and one of the first social histories of Soviet science. Based on many years of archival research, the book situates the birth of cosmic enthusiasm within the social and cultural upheavals of Russian and Soviet history.

W. F. Bynum, Anne Hardy, Stephen Jacyna, Christopher Lawrence, E. M. Tansey, Lawrence I. Conrad, Michael Neve, Vivian Nutton, Roy Porter, Andrew Wear

This set comprises two paperback volumes. The first volume, The Western Medical Tradition, 800BC–1800AD, examines the system of medical ideas that went back to the Greeks of the eighth century BC, and played a major role in the understanding and treatment of health and disease. The second volume, The Western Medical Tradition, 1800–2000,describes the most important people, events, and transformations in 'Western' medicine, with explanations for why medicine developed as it did.

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$90.00 (Z)

Susanne Heim, Carola Sachse, Mark Walker

During the first part of the twentieth century, German science led the world. The most important scientific institution in Germany was the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, including institutes devoted to different fields of scientific research.

Peenemünde, National Socialism, and the V-2 Missile

Michael B. Petersen

Missiles for the Fatherland tells the story of the scientists and engineers who built the V-2 missile in Hitler’s Germany. This is the first scholarly history of the culture and society that underpinned missile development at Germany’s secret missile base at Peenemünde.

Science and the Public Sphere

Cathryn Carson

Heisenberg in the Atomic Age explores the transformations of science’s public presence in the postwar Federal Republic of Germany. It shows how Heisenberg’s philosophical commentaries, circulating in the mass media, secured his role as science’s public philosopher, and it reflects on his policy engagements and public political stands, which helped redefine the relationship between science and the state.

Edited by Peter J. Bowler, John V. Pickstone

This book in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of the life and earth sciences since 1800. It provides comprehensive and authoritative surveys of historical thinking on major developments in these areas of science, on the social and cultural milieus in which the knowledge was generated, and on the wider impact of the major theoretical and practical innovations.

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$160.00 (R)