Recovering Bishop Berkeley
Through a close analysis of key texts and the larger historical contexts within which they were...
EAN: 9780230102804
Short History of the Drug Receptor Concept
The concept of specific receptors for drugs, hormones and transmitters lies at the very heart of...
EAN: 9780230554153
Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain
Through an examination that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary...
EAN: 9781137321565
Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Novel Ecologies draws on energy concepts to...
EAN: 9783030686031
Effect of Science on the Second World War
The latest advances in science were fully exploited in the Second World War. They included radar,...
EAN: 9781403906434
Modernism and Nihilism
Focusing on a wide range of philosophers and writers, from Nietzsche to Derrida and Flaubert to...
EAN: 9780230231047
Voluntary Action and Illegal Drugs
A unique exploration of the changing ideas about the place of voluntarism and health care within...
EAN: 9780230521407
Modernism and Eugenics
Modernism and Eugenics comprehensively explores modern Europe's fixation with eugenic programmes...
EAN: 9780230230835
Hearts Exposed
This book examines the relationship between medicine and the media in 1960's Britain, when the...
EAN: 9781403987303
Building a Modern Japan
In the late Nineteenth-century, the Japanese embarked on a program of westernization in the hope...
EAN: 9781403968326
Science and the Building of a New Japan
This book highlights the importance of individuals in the shaping of postwar Japan by providing...
EAN: 9781403968319
Society, Culture and the Auditory Imagination in Modern France
This book examines the striking way in which medical and scientific work on hearing in 18th and...
EAN: 9781349498130
Measure
Follows the fascinating story of musical timekeeping, beginning in an age before the existence of...
EAN: 9781783276615
Surgery, Science and Industry
This book charts the history of the worldwide introduction of an operative treatment method for...
EAN: 9780333993057
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 12, Ceramic Technology
How were Chinese pots made, glazed and fired? Why did China discover porcelain more than one...
EAN: 9780521838337
Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World
EAN: 9780520364257
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering
EAN: 9780521058032
Worlds of Natural History
From Aztec accounts of hibernating hummingbirds to contemporary television spectaculars, human...
EAN: 9781316510315
Principle of Least Action
An accessible introduction to the principle of least action, its history and its fundamental role...
EAN: 9780521869027
Collapse of the Wave Function
An overview of the collapse theories of quantum mechanics. Written by distinguished physicists...
EAN: 9781108428989
Cambridge History of Science: Volume 2, Medieval Science
This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history...
EAN: 9780521594486
