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  • Forces of Nature

    The Women who Changed Science

    by Anna Reser, Leila McNeill ...
    From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women’s discoveries in science.In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics, studied ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Lady Science Volume III: 2016-2017

    by Anna Reser, Leila A. McNeill ...
    Lady Science is an online magazine focusing on women and gender in the history and popular culture of science, technology, and medicine. Each year, our writers and editors publish 22 critical essays on these topics, which we collect into an edited volume available as a free ebook. This second volume of Lady Science, containing essays from 2016-2017, is part of our mission to make important and ... Read more

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  • Lady Science Volume II: 2015-2016

    by Anna Reser, Leila A. McNeill ...
    Lady Science is an online magazine focusing on women and gender in the history and popular culture of science, technology, and medicine. Each year, our writers and editors publish 22 critical essays on these topics, which we collect into an edited volume available as a free ebook. This second volume of Lady Science, containing essays from 2015-2016, is part of our mission to make important and ... Read more

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  • Lady Science Volume I: 2014-2015

    by Anna Reser, Leila A. McNeill ...
    Edited by Anna Reser and Leila A. McNeillLady Science is a multifaceted collaborative writing project focused on women in science, technology, and medicine. Our purpose is to highlight women's lives and contributions to scientific fields, to critique representations of women in history and popular culture, and to provide an accessible, inclusive, and collaborative platform for writing about women ... Read more

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  • Journey of the Universe

    by Brian Thomas Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker ...
    The basis for the Emmy-winning film. "A wonderful, highly readable account of the history of the universe from the Big Bang through the present moment."—Thomas Lovejoy, University Professor in Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason UniversityThrough the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we now have a detailed account of how galaxies and stars, planets and ... Read more

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  • Science

    A Four Thousand Year History

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    Science: A Four Thousand Year History rewrites science's past. Instead of focussing on difficult experiments and abstract theories, Patricia Fara shows how science has always belonged to the practical world of war, politics, and business. Rather than glorifying scientists as idealized heroes, she tells true stories about real people - men (and some women) who needed to earn their living, who made ... Read more

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  • The Price of Altruism

    George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness

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  • Beyond Measure

    The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

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  • Anthropocene or Capitalocene?

    Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism

    Edited by Jason W. Moore ...
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    The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of planetary life, the acidification of the oceans—all point toward an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity’s relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make sense of this extraordinary transition?Anthropocene or Capitalocene? offers answers to these ... Read more

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  • Everyday Utopia

    What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life

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    A “fascinating” (The Wall Street Journal), “spirited and inspiring” (Jacobin) tour through the ages in search of the thinkers and communities that have dared to reimagine how we might better live our daily lives.In the 6th century BCE, the Greek philosopher Pythagoras—a man remembered today more for his theorem about right-angled triangles than for his progressive politics—founded a commune in a ... Read more

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  • A People's History of Science

    Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks

    by Clifford D Conner ...
    We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein unlocked the mysteries of time and space with a simple equation. This history is made up of long periods of ignorance and confusion, punctuated once an age by a ... Read more

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