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Success and Suppression: Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance

The Renaissance marked a turning point in Europe’s relationship to Arabic thought. On the one hand,...

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Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age

Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceCybernetics—the science of communication and control as it applies...

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Radical Innovators: The Blessings of Adversity in Science and Art, 1500-2000

In this book leading cultural anthropologist Anton Blok sheds new light on the lives and achievement...

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Kepler and the Universe: How One Man Revolutionized Astronomy

A contemporary of Galileo and a forerunner of Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a pionee...

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Einstein at Home

These intimate, candid descriptions of the private life of Albert Einstein come from a series of int...

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The Hippocrates Code: Unraveling the Ancient Mysteries of Modern Medical Terminology

In this book lies a key for decoding modern medical terminology, a living language that, despite som...

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Telescopes: A Very Short Introduction

From the first, telescopes have made dramatic revelations about the Universe and our place in it. Ga...

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The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time

On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. E...

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Symmetry

Symmetry is a classic study of symmetry in mathematics, the sciences, nature, and art from one of th...

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The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire

In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and co...

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Einstein: A Biography

Albert Einstein is an icon of the twentieth century. Born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, he is most famou...

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The Edge of Objectivity : An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas

Originally published in 1960, The Edge of Objectivity helped to establish the history of science as...

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The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution

We live in a world made by science. How and when did this happen? This book tells the story of the e...

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The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos

From the bestselling author of The Drunkard's Walk and Subliminal, this is the inspiring and illumin...

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A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design

A Nobel Prize-winning physicist argues that beauty is the fundamental organizing principle for the e...

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