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Arguably the best general history of science and technology ever published.Tracing the relationship between science and technology from the dawn of civilization to the early …
An insider's history of the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider: why it was built, how it works, and the importance of what it has revealed.Since 2008 …
The first comprehensive history of auto regulation in the United States.Regulation has shaped the evolution of the automobile from the beginning. In Moving Violations, Lee Vinsel …
Four treatises which illustrate one of the most original minds of the Renaissance at the height of his powers.Born near Einsiedeln in 1493, Philip Theophrastus von Hohenheim, who …
An in-depth look at the history of the environment.Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our …
How deadly cholera pandemics transformed modern Iran.Pandemic cholera reached Iran for the first of many times in 1821, assisted by Britain's territorial expansion and growing …
How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science.In 1749, the celebrated French physicist …
Behind the scenes of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the quintessential American lab.Nobel laureate Ernest O. Lawrence and renowned physicist Edward Teller founded the …
Gripping forensic tales explain how and why trains crash.Trains are massive-with some weighing 15,000 tons or more. When these metal monsters collide or go off the rails, their …
Avner Ben-Zaken reconsiders the fundamental question of how early modern scientific thought traveled between Western and Eastern cultures in the age of the so-called Scientific …