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A Conservative Environmentalist - The Life and Career of Frank Masland Jr.

Explores the works of Frank E. Masland Jr., a wealthy Pennsylvania carpet-maker who was both a prominent twentieth-century conservationis...

Exploring Natural Product Chemistry - The World in a Single Leaf

This book examines and summarises the developments and changes in approaches to organic and natural product chemistry over the past 40 ye...

Wind Energy: Societal and Human Impacts

Wind Energy: Societal and Human Impacts presents the theoretical basis for the various impacts of wind turbines on humans. These impacts ...

Governing Climate - How Science and Politics Have Shaped Our Environmental Future

"After decades of debate about global warming, the fact of the climate crisis is finally widely accepted. People at all scales-from the h...

Evolution for the People - Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present

The Constitution of Science

How can science be protected, by whom and at what level? Mantzavinos introduces the idea of a 'Constitution of Science' as a vital means ...

The Sociolinguistics of Gender in Public Life

Frames of Minds - A History of Neuropsychiatry on Screen

As a medium that aims to connect people through the communication and interpretation of experiences, cinema is uniquely positioned to sho...

Soft Power for the Journey - The Life of a STEM Trailblazer

This is a story of an African American woman working at the highest levels in STEM. Dr. Sandra K. Johnson earned a Ph.D. in electrical an...

Protestant Modernist Pamphlets - Science and Religion in the Scopes Era

"This work is a hybrid of a scholarly edition and an academic monograph that focuses on the relation between science and religion in earl...

Sustainability

The quest for sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe, transformations within the arts, sciences,...

William Whewell - Victorian Polymath

A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series.

Globalizing Physics - One Hundred Years of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

Focusing on the history of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics following its centenary, this book provides a novel and un...

Cultural Selection

Humans learn in ways that are influenced by others. As a result, cultural items of many types are elaborated over time in ways that build...

The Philosophy of Symmetry

This Element introduces the philosophy of physical symmetry. It stresses both the continuity with historically important themes such as t...

A Mathematical Picture Book

How can one visualize a curve that fills the entire plane or all of space? Can a polyhedron be smoothly turned inside out? What is the pr...

The People's Spaceship - Nasa, the Shuttle Era, and Public Engagement After Apollo

How Everyday Citizens Played an Integral Role in the Development of NASA's Space Shuttle

In Search of Falling Stars - H.H. Nininger's Classic Find a Falling Star, Revisited & Expanded

In the early 20th century, the science of meteorites was at a low ebb. Then, in 1923, Harvey H. Nininger, a trained biologist, witnessed ...

Contributions to Conservation Science - A Collection of Robert Feller's Published Works on Artist's Paints, Paper, and Varnishes

A collection of Robert Feller's published studies on conservation science, edited by Paul M. Whitmore.

Living Record of Scientific History, The: Conversations with C N Yang

Professor Chen-Ning Yang is best known for his achievements in Physics. He has also made significant contributions to the development of ...

Creatures of Reason - John Herschel and the Invention of Science

A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press list of scholarly History of Science titles

The Cosmic Microwave Background - Historical and Philosophical Lessons

"The untold story of how the cosmic microwave background radiation was interpreted following its discovery is a modern case study of theo...

Citrus - A World History

A world history of citrus, from the art of antiquity to the science of the modern era.

STURM - STORM

Wind, Wellen und bewegtes Wasser - die drei Elemente der See gehören zu den mächtigsten Naturgewalten, die allein oder gemeinsam das Antl...

The Clock in the Sun - How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star

Pierre Sokolsky provides a history of knowledge of the Sun through the lens of sunspots and the solar cycle, shedding new light on key di...

Eating and Being - A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves

"Eating and Being is a book about what we eat and who we are, and how the two are intertwined. Why do we eat what we do, and what do we t...

What If We Get It Right? - Visions of Climate Futures

Our climate future is not yet written. What if we act as if we love the future? Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an exi...

The Path to Singularity - How Technology Will Challenge the Future of Humanity

Technology is developing at an increasingly swift pace, and there is likely to be a tipping point when change occurs at a pace so rapid t...

Private Life of the Atom

Origin Story - The Trials of Charles Darwin

By early morning 30 June 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University's brand-new Museum of Natural History. The...

Into the Clear Blue Sky - The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere

'A fascinating look into some of the cutting edge climate solutions' Bill McKibben Can we really restore the earth's atmosphere within ou...

One Step Sideways, Three Steps Forward - One Woman's Path to Becoming a Biologist

The story of the unorthodox and inspiring life and career of a pioneering biologist Scientist Rosemary Grant’s journey in life has involv...

Berlin: City of Animals - The story of Germany's oldest and most famous zoo

On 1 August 1844, the Zoological Garden of Berlin opened its gates for the very first time. Back then, the Zoo lay outside the city, its ...

Stitching Science - Exploring Science from A-Z

Science gets the stitched treatment in this stunning science book from textile artist Lauren Wright Vartanian. During the pandemic, Laure...

When the Ice Is Gone - What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth's Tumultuous History and Perilous Future

In 2018, lumps of frozen soil, collected from the bottom of the world's first deep ice core and lost for decades, reappeared in Denmark. ...

Sea Level - A History

"What do we mean when we talk about sea level? How and why did people begin to measure it? With Wilko Graf von Hardenberg as our guide, w...

Serendipity - The Unexpected in Science

"In science, it frequently happens that researchers look for something and find something else: understanding why leads us to the heart o...

The Long History of the Future - Why Tomorrow's Technology Still Isn't Here

We love to imagine the future. But why is dramatic future technology always just around the corner, and never a reality? For decades we'v...

How to Feed the World - A Factful Guide

'There is no author whose books I look forward to more' BILL GATESIn this ambitious, myth-busting book, leading scientist and internation...

It's a Gas - The Magnificent and Elusive Elements that Expand Our World

'A witty, smart writer who has a great talent' Bill GatesWhy are most gases invisible, odourless and tasteless? Why do some poison us and...

Intrepid - India's Journey To Mars And The Women Who Made It Possible

The inspirational true story of India's race to the stars - and the women who made it possible... Perfect for fans of Hidden Figures.

A Crack in Everything - How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage

What is space? What is time? Where did the universe come from? The answers to mankind's most enduring questions may lie in science's grea...

The 50 Greatest Scientists - The Pioneers Who Have Changed Our World

In this stunning jacketed hardback, Jon Balchin introduces 50 of the world's most influential scientists of all time and explains their r...

The Science Museum A Brief History of Stuff - The Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Objects

Explore the past, present and future of the everyday stuff in your home, from tinned food to tampons. Learn how 30,000 bath toys and the ...

Robert Hooke's Experimental Philosophy

A critical biography of the seventeenth-century scientist's expansive life and work. Robert Hooke was England's first professional scient...

Letters for the Ages Great Scientists - Private Letters from the Greatest Minds in Science

A collection of the most fascinating letters by the world's greatest scientists. ?Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a ...

The Life Scientific Quiz Book

Just About Coping - A Real-Life Drama from the Psychotherapist's Chair

In honest stories from her own life and the experiences of some of her patients as she trains to be a psychotherapist, Dr Natalie Cawley ...

Elements of Marie Curie - How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

A new biography from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitudeand Galileo's Daughter, chronicling the life and work of the most f...

Benjamin Smith Barton - Naturalist and Physician in Jeffersonian America

A Book of Noises - Noes on the Auraculous

Thing Explainer

It's good to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it's much more interesting to know what they do. Richard Feynman once said th...

High Level Synthesis of Datapaths

A modern mikroelektronikai tervezéshez elengedhetetlenek az automatizált tervezőeszközök. A legnagyobb kihívást a jó minőségű, magas szin...

Energy Conscious Heating

In 2007 the EU's leaders decided to combat climate change and increase the EU's energy security while strengthening its competitiveness. ...

Studies in simulation

Selected Papers from the Alma Mater Series 1-8.

A history of western technology

A history of the sciences