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  • Contagion

    by Alison Bashford, Claire Hooker ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    In the age of HIV, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the Ebola Virus and BSE, metaphors and experience of contagion are a central concern of government, biomedicine and popular culture.Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also investigates the use of 'contagion' as a concept in postmodern ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Joe Pawsey and the Founding of Australian Radio Astronomy

    Early Discoveries, from the Sun to the Cosmos

    by W. M. Goss, Claire Hooker, Ronald D. Ekers ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This open access book is a biography of Joseph L. Pawsey. It examines not only his life but the birth and growth of the field of radio astronomy and the state of science itself in twentieth century Australia. The book explains how an isolated continent with limited resources grew to be one of the leaders in the study of radio astronomy and the design of instruments to do so.Pawsey made a name for ... Read more

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  • The Genetic Function and Nature of LIterature

    by R. D. Hood ...
    Literature is found in many primitive and modern cultures, and it does have group survival advantages, and so, according to sociobiological theory, the evidence is strong that literature has a genetic base. ... Read more

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  • Practical Ethics

    by Peter Singer ...
    For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Some of the questions discussed in this book concern our daily lives. Is it ethical to buy luxuries when ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Philosophical Breakfast Club

    Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World

    by Laura J. Snyder ...
    “[A] fascinating book...about the way four geniuses at Cambridge University revolutionized modern science.“ *—NewsweekThe* Philosophical Breakfast Club recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell, and Richard Jones. Recognizing that they shared a love of science (as well as good food and drink) they began to ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Changed Everything

    The Life of James Clerk Maxwell

    by Basil Mahon ...
    "Mahon has written a first-rate book on Maxwell's science and legacy."—New ScientistThis is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshness unbound by convention or previous expectations, he produced some of the most original scientific thinking of the ... Read more

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  • Foucault, Health and Medicine

    Edited by Robin Bunton, Alan Petersen ...
    The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution of Foucault's work to research and thinking in the area of health and medicine, and shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Firmament

    The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us

    by Simon Clark ...
    Compelling . . . Clark's enthusiasm shines through on every page' Sunday Times*'*An engaging and lively history' Financial Times__________A thin, invisible layer of air surrounds the Earth, sustaining all known life on the planet and creating the unique climates and weather patterns that make each part of the world different.In Firmament, atmospheric scientist and science communicator Simon Clark ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Contagious

    Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative

    by Priscilla Wald ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergence of HIV, in scientific publications and the mainstream media? The repetition of particular characters, images, and story lines—of Patients Zero and superspreaders, hot zones and tenacious microbes—produced a formulaic narrative as they circulated ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Matter of Everything

    How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World

    by Suzie Sheehy ...
    **A surprising, fascinating journey through the experiments that not only unlocked the nature of matter and shaped our understanding of the cosmos but also forever changed the way we live within it"A book about the fundamental problems of physics written from a viewpoint I hadn’t come across before: that of the experimenter. A splendid idea, vividly carried out.” –Philip Pullman, best-selling ... Read more

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  • Understanding Abortion

    From Mixed Feelings to Rational Thought

    by Stephen D. Schwarz ...
    Books on abortion (other than collections of readings) typically express and defend a particular position. This book gives both sides, as evenly and objectively as possible; it gets to the heart of each position, the core idea which animates it. It then leaves the reader to make up his or her own mind. It is an introduction to the issue, not only to the basic positions on the issue. Despite being ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Magnetism: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen J. Blundell ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Magnetism is a strange force, mysteriously attracting one object to another apparently through empty space. It has been claimed as a great healer, with magnetic therapies being proposed over the centuries and still popular today. Why are its mysterious important to solve?In this Very Short Introduction, Stephen J. Blundell explains why. For centuries magnetism has been used for various exploits; ... Read more

    $7.99 USD