(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226845166)
Upends current thinking about how early modern people started to conceptualize human beings in terms of populations. Bloody Numbers is a provocative account of the violent world of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century South Atlantic slave-tradin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226845142)
Upends current thinking about how early modern people started to conceptualize human beings in terms of populations. Bloody Numbers is a provocative account of the violent world of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century South Atlantic slave-tradin...Loe edasi...
This book discusses the medical knowledge system in the pre-Qin period and its specific development during the Han Dynasty, drawing on related accounts in non-medical literature as background evidence and analyzing in detail the texts of the current...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031983146)
The book is about the fascinating intersection of philately and astronomy. In all countries of the world, stamps and other philatelic documents are continuously issued to celebrate scientists, places, astronomical instruments for observing the sky...Loe edasi...
This book describes the 110 years of the Astrophysical Observatory in Potsdam (AOP) as the cradle of European astrophysics up to its disappearance in the 1980s. The first part consists of reviews on the work of the leading astronomers before the Aca...Loe edasi...
Neal Brown dedicated over four decades to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute and inspired countless individuals with his passion for discovery and education. Born in 1938, Neals journey led him from early work with NASA to bec...Loe edasi...
This book provides the first variorum translation into English of Isaac Newtons De motu corporum in gyrum, from the 1685 manuscript at Cambridge University Library (UCL Add. 3990). It offers a unique perspective on the developm...Loe edasi...
This second of a two-volume book prolongs the inquiry of volume 1 by considering other examples apt to better illustrate the ideal of epistemic economy in mathematical recasting. The new examples are drawn from second-order definitions of real num...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198950172)
Our existence as living beings - thinking, feeling, acting - is an extraordinary thing. This book provides a scientifically based account of how this happens through interactions between particles and molecules....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9780241711217)
Andrea Wulf belongs to the small, splendid canon of writers unafraid to render fact with feeling Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian and author of Figuring An inspiring biography of the remarkable naturalist, explorer and revoluti...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: American Philosophical Society, ISBN-13: 9781606180471)
A richly illustrated account of the life and work of Jane Colden, America’s first woman botanistJane Colden (1724–1760) was America’s first woman botanist, yet her contributions to the field of early American botany remain little-kn...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691232256)
The definitive biography of Charles Darwin—now in one abridged and fully updated volumeBased on the two-volume National Book Critics Circle Award–winning biography hailed as “the definitive Darwin biography” (Newsday) • “a...Loe edasi...
This book in a single contribution for the first time examines the historical development of the concepts of vortex, vorticity, knot, chirality, and helicity between 1517 and 1969. It considers their origins in early pictorial and conceptual studies...Loe edasi...
Regal tells the story of the engagement of philosophers, naturalists and scientists in what we now call cryptozoology, a much longer history than most appreciate....Loe edasi...
Regal tells the story of the engagement of philosophers, naturalists and scientists in what we now call cryptozoology, a much longer history than most appreciate.Most believe cryptozoology—the study of mysterious, unrecognized creatures—eme...Loe edasi...
This book provides a concise, non-mathematical summary of key astronomical discoveries, organized chronologically from the founding of the International Astronomical Union in 1919 to the present day. It...Loe edasi...
A significantly expanded translation of the authors Pachap vnancha: El calendario metropolitano del Estado Inca, this book is the culmination of several decades of research on Andean calendar-astronomical systems and their role in the ceremonial, e...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009575898)
This volume gathers the contributions of founders, experts and practitioners of supergravity celebrating the 50th anniversary of its birth. It discusses the evolution of the field and its modern applications to quantum gravity, mathematics, particle...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009712910)
In this innovative history of small arms, Maartje Abbenhuis demonstrates how the invention of ready-to-use rifle cartridges in the industrial era made death accessible to all, with revolutionary results. She explains how their lethality influenced p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009646789)
Exploring Romantic writers free and imaginative confrontation with eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century scientific research, Sophie Musitelli reveals how the physiology of the senses allowed them to envision new modalities of sensation, in an a...Loe edasi...
This book proposes ecology of wisdom as a new field of study and interdisciplinary research, with Institutional Wisdom-in-Design at its core. It examines how Institutional Wisdom-in-Design can be identified, developed, and applied to transform globa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789819826377)
In this book, the author, who was closely involved in his own career with the development of modern electronics, presents the history of computational technology from ancient times to this day. He explains to the general reader the essential feature...Loe edasi...
In 1492, Columbus stumbled across the Americas while looking for an eastern route to Asia. Thirty years later, Magellan succeeded where Columbus had failed. The three-year voyage was gruelling, as the lives of Magellan and two-thirds of the crew were...Loe edasi...
At first glance, the Novosibirsk Scientific Center, or Akademgorodok, appears as an outlier in academic excellence. This science city is renowned for a preeminent university, dozens of research institutes, and a thriving technopark. At ho...Loe edasi...
