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  • Testing Einstein

    One Hundred Years of Experimental Relativity

    Edited by Brian C. Odom, Daniel Kennefick ...
    Series series Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
    A collection that confronts the reality of experimental gravity, which is different from the conventional—and overly simplistic—understanding.Investigating just over a century of experimental relativity, the individual essays in this volume place the process of experimental relativity within its historical contexts as an interdisciplinary endeavor. Testing Einstein embraces not only the individual ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps

    Empires of Time

    by Peter Galison ...
    "More than a history of science; it is a tour de force in the genre." —New York Times Book ReviewA dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps is "part history, part science, part adventure, part biography, part meditation on the meaning of modernity....In Galison's telling of science, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Growing Explanations

    Historical Perspectives on Recent Science

    by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub, Peter Galison, Amy Dahan Dalmedico ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their components—nuclei into protons and neutrons, proteins into amino acids, and so on—but over the past forty years there has been a marked turn toward explaining phenomena by building them up rather than breaking them down. This collection reflects on the history and significance of this ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Picturing Science, Producing Art

    Edited by Peter Galison, Caroline A. Jones ...
    Between the disciplines of art history and the history of science lies a growing field of inquiry into what science and art share as both image-making and knowledge-producing activities. The contributors of Picturing Science, Producing Art occupy this intermediate zone to analyze both scientific and aesthetic representations, utilizing disciplinary perspectives that range from art history to ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Scientific Authorship

    Credit and Intellectual Property in Science

    Edited by Mario Biagioli, Peter Galison ...
    Since the seventeenth century our ideas of scientific authorship have expanded and changed dramatically. In this ambitious volume of new work, Mario Biagioli and Peter Galison have brought together historians of science, literary historians, and historians of the book. Together they track the changing nature and identity of the author in science, both historically and conceptually, from the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The View from Above

    The Science of Social Space

    by Jeanne Haffner ...
    The role of aerial photography in the evolution of the concept of social space”and its impact on French urban planning in the mid-twentieth century.In mid-twentieth century France, the term “social space” (l'espace social)—the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricably linked—emerged in a variety of social science disciplines. Taken up by the French New Left, it also came to inform ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Quantum Mechanics

    Science and Society

    Edited by Peter Galison, Michael Gordin, David Kaiser ...
    Modern science has changed every aspect of life in ways that cannot be compared to developments of previous eras. This four-volume set presents key developments within modern physical science and the effects of these discoveries on modern global life. The first two volumes explore the history of the concept of relativity, the cultural roots of science, the concept of time and gravity before, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Roots of Special Relativity

    Science and Society

    Edited by Peter Galison, Michael Gordin, David Kaiser ...
    Modern science has changed every aspect of life in ways that cannot be compared to developments of previous eras. This four-volume set presents key developments within modern physical science and the effects of these discoveries on modern global life. The first two volumes explore the history of the concept of relativity, the cultural roots of science, the concept of time and gravity before, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything

    by Robert M. Hazen ...
    **A Science News Favorite Book of 2019An earth scientist reveals the dynamic biography of the most resonant—and most necessary—chemical element on Earth.**Carbon. It’s in the fibers in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat, and the air that you breathe. It’s worth billions of dollars as a luxury and half a trillion as a necessity, but there are still mysteries about the ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • Thermodynamic Weirdness

    From Fahrenheit to Clausius

    by Don S. Lemons ...
    Thermodynamics has never been easier to understand than in this non-mathematical account revealing the simplicity, principles, and key players of this fascinating branch of physics.Students of physics, chemistry, and engineering are taught classical thermodynamics through its methods—a “problems first” approach that neglects the subject’s concepts and intellectual structure. In Thermodynamic ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Through Two Doors at Once

    The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality

    by Anil Ananthaswamy ...
    One of Smithsonian's Favorite Books of 2018One of Forbes's 2018 Best Books About Astronomy, Physics and MathematicsOne of Kirkus's Best Books of 2018The intellectual adventure story of the "double-slit" experiment, showing how a sunbeam split into two paths first challenged our understanding of light and then the nature of reality itself--and continues to almost 200 years later.</str... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Describer's Dictionary

    A Treasury of Terms & Literary Quotations

    by David Grambs, Ellen S. Levine ...
    The unmatched guide—and perfect gift—for stymied scribes and working wordsmiths everywhere, now expanded and updated.A singular and indispensable reference tool, The Describer's Dictionary—now expanded and updated—has served for over twenty years as the go-to resource for writers who are determined to capture the world in just the right words.The dictionary uses a unique reverse definition-to-term ... Read more

    $15.69 USD