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  • Hearsay Is Not Excluded

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    klotband, 2024, Engelska, ISBN 9780300273670

    This chronicle of natural history argues that the modern environmental crisis and rise in science skepticism codeveloped with the historic distancing of scientific knowledge from

  • Monkey to Man

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    klotband, 2024, Engelska, ISBN 9780300270624

    The first book to examine the iconic depiction of evolution, the “march of progress,” and its role in shaping our understanding of how humans evolved   We are all familiar with the

  • Camera Geologica

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    klotband, 2024, Engelska, ISBN 9781478025931

    In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on

  • Art of the Grimoire

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    klotband, 2023, Engelska, ISBN 9780300272017

    A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks   “A beautiful production: a typographic and calligraphic treat as treasurable as a

  • The Seven Measures of the World

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    klotband, 2023, Engelska, ISBN 9780300266276

    The fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical world  “Entertaining popular science and a literate tale of why

  • In the Herbarium

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    klotband, 2023, Engelska, ISBN 9780300247916

    How herbaria illuminate the past and future of plant science   Collections of preserved plant specimens, known as herbaria, have existed for nearly five centuries. These pressed

  • A Lab for All Seasons

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    klotband, 2023, Engelska, ISBN 9780300267228

    The first book to chronicle how innovation in laboratory designs for botanical research energized the emergence of physiological plant ecology as a vibrant subdiscipline

  • The Uranium Club

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    klotband, 2023, Engelska, ISBN 9781641608626

    Tim Koeth peered into the crumpled brown paper lunch bag; inside was a surprisingly heavy black metal cube. He recognized the mysterious object instantly—he had one just like it

  • Invisibility

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    klotband, 2023, Engelska, ISBN 9780300250428

    A lively exploration of how invisibility has gone from science fiction to fact   “The science of invisibility remains largely theoretical and abstract. It is in the literature that

  • Psychonauts

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    klotband, 2023, Engelska, ISBN 9780300257946

    A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind  A New Yorker Best of the Week