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  • Half-Hours with Great Scientists

    The Story of Physics

    Series series Heritage
    The present age is sometimes called the Scientific Age. This does not imply that every member of the community is an expert scientist—far from it. It does mean, however, that the labours of the scientists have given the age certain features which influence the life of every citizen to some degree. Accordingly it is desirable that as many as possible should have some understanding of the scientists ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Une enquête de trente-cinq ans sur la génération : 1900-1934

    Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Causalités et accidents de la découverte scientifique

    Illustration de quelques étapes caractéristiques de l'évolution des sciences

    by René Taton ...
    Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Three Centuries and the Island

    Series series Heritage
    This study is one of the first in the field of historical geography to be published in Canada. Written after exhaustive research, it uses a particular approach to the study of historical agricultural geography which concentrates on the use of basic distributional evidence for the description and interpretation of the changing character of any region through any period of time. By the analysis of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Recherche et chercheurs scientifiques

    Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • On the Origin of Species

    A Facsimile of the First Edition

    It is now generally recognized that the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859 not only decisively altered the basic concepts of biological theory but had a profound and lasting influence on social, philosophic, and religious thought. This work is rightly regarded as one of the most important books ever printed.The first edition had a freshness and uncompromising directness that were ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Origins of CSIRO

    Science and the Commonwealth Government 1901-1926

    March 16th, 1966, marked the jubilee of Commonwealth sponsored scientific research in Australia. In 1916 the Commonwealth Government set up an Advisory Council of Science and Industry. This was the culmination of an interest in scientific research which went back to the very beginning of federation and had been expressed by active attempts to bring science to the aid of agriculture. This book is ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Systems and Computer Science

    Proceedings of a Conference held at the University of Western Ontario September 10-11, 1965

    Edited by John Hart, Satoru Takasu ...
    Series series Heritage
    This book presents the papers delivered at the Conference on Systems and Computer Science held at the University of Western Ontario in September 1965. The primary purposes of the Conference were the promotion of research and the development of the teaching of computer science in Canadian universities. The papers focus attention on some of the concepts of Computer Science as a new field of study ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Man and His World/Terres des hommes

    The Noranda Lectures, Expo 67/Les Conferences Noranda/L'Expo 67

    Series series Heritage
    The fruits of a unique cultural exchange are brought together in this unusual book. Twenty-eight of the most eminent men and women of our generation – philosophers, historians, and scientists from nineteen countries – here discuss what they consider the most vital issues of our day. Paul-Henri Spaak, Barbara Ward, Gunnar Mydral, Linus Pauling, and many others participated in the Noranda lecture ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Georges Cuvier

    Promoteur de l'idée évolutionniste et créateur de la biologie moderne

    by Paul Ardouin ...
    Le Professeur Ardouin est né à Saint-Gaudens, le 15 janvier 1897. Sa mère était ariégoise, et son père charentais. Il a gardé — de cette double origine montagnarde et maritime — un goût pour toutes les œuvres de la nature. Tout d’abord médecin de campagne pendant 7 ans, le Docteur Ardouin a pris son essor à l’âge de 33 ans, et a préparé l’agrégation d’oto-rhino-laryngologie, après un séjour de ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • La conception de l'univers depuis 25 siècles

    by Jean Charon ...
    Comment l’Univers a-t-il commencé ? Aura-t-il une fin ? Comment est-il construit ? Est-il fini ou infini Depuis des milliers d’années, les hommes se sont posé ces questions auxquelles nous ne pouvons pas encore donner de réponses sûres. Pourtant, nos connaissances s’accroissent constamment, et nous en savons beaucoup plus sur l’Univers qu’il ne semblait possible, il y a seulement une génération. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • La vie d'Olivier de Serres

    Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • La recherche scientifique

    Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Les théories de la causalité

    Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Taxonomy of Fungi Imperfecti

    Proceedings of the First International Specialists' Workshop Conference on Criteria and Terminology in the Classification of Fungi Imperfecti, Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada

    Edited by Bryce Kendrick ...
    Series series Heritage
    Mycologists have been searching for a better system of classification of Fungi Imperfecti than that based on mature morphology. This volume documents an intensive phase of that search. It is largely an account of the proceedings of the First International Specialists' Workshop Conference on Criteria and Terminology in the Classification of Fungi Imperfecti held at the Environmental Sciences Centre ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Treize questions pour l'homme moderne

    En cette fin de siècle, c’est l’homme entier et son mode de vie qui sont remis en question. Chacun de nous est contraint de se poser les questions essentielles, l’aidant à se situer par rapport aux grands mouvements évolutifs de la pensée dans lesquels, bon gré mal gré, il se trouve plongé. A la pointe extrême de la connaissance actuelle, ce n’est pas seulement la science qui progresse et se ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Toute la lumière

    Phénomène scientifique, philosophique, littéraire, artistique, la lumière est aussi devenue sujet d’actualité dans la mesure où son usage entraîne une dépense d’énergie. Afin de mieux faire “toute la lumière” sur ce problème qui concerne désormais tout un chacun, Guillaume Hanoteau en raconte l’histoire, des premiers mythes à nos jours, sans négliger l’aspect utilitaire et économique qu’elle revêt ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Révolutions de la science et permanence du réel

    « Les maîtres mots du discours de l’épistémologie future devraient être ouverture et pluralisme. » Ce livre de Paul Scheurer constitue un itinéraire qui nous guide à travers ce pays encore insuffisamment exploré des philosophes : l’aventure de la science contemporaine. Parcours méthodologique libre et joyeux, il nous emmène à la conquête d’une histoire et d’une philosophie des sciences qui, à la ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Welsh Guards

    Series series Famous Regiments
    Although the youngest of the Regiments in the Household Division, the Welsh Guards have established a reputation on both the battlefield, and on the parade ground, that is fully equal to the proud standards for which Guardsmen have long been famous. The Welsh Guards were formed in 1915, and they saw much hard fighting in both World Wars. Of the first thirty years of their existence, almost a third ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • L'alchimie de la découverte

    Rien dans la jeunesse d’Henri Laborit, ni dans les premières années de sa carrière de chirurgien de la Marine ne laisse prévoir que ses découvertes transformeront profondément la médecine contemporaine. C’est pourtant ce qui arrive lorsque, en 1950, il se passionne pour une molécule dont personne, alors, n’imagine l’importance : la chlorpromazine. Elle sera le principe du premier “tranquillisant” ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Health Sciences in Early Islam – Volume 1

    Collected Papers By Sami K. Hamarneh

    HEALTH SCIENCES IN EARLY ISLAM is a pioneering study of Islamic medicine that opens up new chapters of knowledge in the history of the healing sciences. This two volume work covers the development of Islamic medicine between the 6th and 12th centuries A.D. Transcending mere medical historiography, this publication offers a unique and authoritative account of the philosophy, history, methodology ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada

    The 1982 Joanne Goodman Lectures

    by Carl Berger ...
    Series series Joanne Goodman Lectures
    Professor Berger aims in this book to ‘explore the rise, expression, and relative decline of the idea of natural history’ in Canada, during the age of Victoria. Science, particularly natural science, was then accessible to the general public in a way scarcely imaginable today. Natural history societies were set up in a number of cities and provided a focus for the descriptive and collecting ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Health Sciences in Early Islam – Volume 2

    Collected Papers By Sami K. Hamarneh

    HEALTH SCIENCES IN EARLY ISLAM is a pioneering study of Islamic medicine that opens up new chapters of knowledge in the history of the healing sciences. This two volume work covers the development of Islamic medicine between the 6th and 12th centuries A.D. Transcending mere medical historiography, this publication offers a unique and authoritative account of the philosophy, history, methodology ... Read more

    $9.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science and the Enlightenment

    Series series Cambridge Studies in the History of Science
    Science and the Enlightenment is a general history of eighteenth-century science covering both the physical and life sciences. It places the scientific developments of the century in the cultural context of the Enlightenment and reveals the extent to which scientific ideas permeated the thought of the age. The book takes advantage of topical scholarship, which is rapidly changing our understanding ... Read more

    $22.99 USD