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Aladdin's Lamp

by John Freely

Aladdin’s Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B.C. and, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the remarkable...

Insight Outlook

by Alpert Hofmann Dr.

Dr. Albert Hofmann, one of this century's greatest minds, offers a lifetime of insights, observations, and discussions. He leads us on an exploration of reality perception, where our newly discovered insights...

Cognitive Value of Philosophical Fiction

by Jukka Mikkonen

Can literary fictions convey significant philosophical views, understood in terms of propositional knowledge? This study addresses the philosophical value of literature by examining how literary works impart...

The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution

by Deborah E. Harkness

This book explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London, where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in the study of nature. These assorted merchants,...

Wittgenstein among the Sciences: Wittgensteinian Investigations into the 'Scientific Method'

by Read

Discussing the work of Kuhn, Winch and Wittgenstein in relation to fundamental question of methodology, 'Wittgenstein among the Sciences' undertakes an examination of the nature of (natural) science itself,...

Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings: How the Universe Makes Life

by Richard Grossinger, Harold B. Dowse & John E. Upledger

Why is the universe conscious? What kindles mind inside matter? Why do fundamentalist sciences and religions never ask these questions? This sequel to Embryogenesis deals with the theoretical issues brought...

On the Integration of Nature: Post-9/11 Biopolitical Notes

by Richard Grossinger

This collage-like book is an inquiry into the nature of life and of existence itself. Simultaneously philosophical, spiritual, and literary, it pushes the boundaries of this area of thought beyond the strictures...

Methodologies Applied to Archaeological Potential Predictivity

by Francesca Anichini

Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology Today: Major Themes, Mode of Causal Analysis, and Applications

by Kalberg

Bringing together the author's major scholarly work on Weber over the last thirty years , offering a rich examination of the major themes in his sociology, alongside a reconstruction of his mode of analysis...

Secrecy and Science: A Historical Sociology of Biological and Chemical Warfare

by Balmer

Drawing on classical sociological writing on secrecy by Simmel, Merton and Shils this groundbreaking book by Brian Balmer also draws in more contemporary perspectives in science and technology studies that understand...

Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-Century Britain

by Semi. Translated by Timothy Keates

Music as a Science of Mankind offers a philosophical and historical perspective on the intellectual representation of music in British eighteenth-century culture. A particularly rich field of investigation,...

Red, Black, and Objective: Science, Sociology, and Anarchism

by Restivo

Drawing on the empirical findings generated by researchers in science studies, and adopting Kropotkin's concept of anarchism as one of the social sciences, Red, Black, and Objective expounds and develops an...

Newton and the Origin of Civilization

by Jed Z. Buchwald & Mordechai Feingold

Isaac Newton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man's death, unleashed a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book presents a drastically revised...

Poison

by Gail Bell

Years after Dr. William Macbeth died, his ornate medicine case passed to his estranged son. Over the protests of his family, the son buried it deep in the ground, out of sight and out of reach.

Then ten-years-old,...

Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss

by Bradford Matsen

In Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss, Brad Matsen brings to vivid life the famous deep-sea expeditions of Otis Barton and William Beebe. Beebe was a very well-connected and internationally acclaimed...

On the Human Condition

by Dominique Janicaud

The potential to clone, augment, and repair human beings is pushing the very concept of the human to its limit. Fantasies and metaphors of a supposedly monstrous and inhuman future increasingly dominate films,...

Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited

by Vasso Kindi & Theodore Arabatzis

The year 2012 marks the 50^th anniversary of the publication of Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Up until recently, the book's philosophical reception has been shaped, for the most part,...

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

National Book Critics Circle for General Non-fiction 2009

by Richard Holmes

The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. 

When young...

Communication and Engagement with Science and Technology: Issues and Dilemmas A Reader in Science Communication

by John K. Gilbert & Susan M. Stocklmayer

Science communication seeks to engage individuals and groups with evidence-based information about the nature, outcomes, and social consequences of science and technology. This text provides an overview of this...

The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers

by Alan Lightman

In this captivating and lucid book, novelist and science writer Alan Lightman chronicles twenty-four great discoveries of twentieth-century science--everything from the theory of relativity to mapping the structure...