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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

  • Bensley's Practical Anatomy of the Rabbit

    An Elementary Laboratory Text-Book in Mammalian Anatomy (Eighth Edition, Revised and Edited)

    Edited by Edward Craigie ...
    Series series Heritage
    The anatomical study of an animal is chiefly a matter of applying a certain practical method of exposition, the student's attention being concentrated on those facts which can be made out by direct observation. This method is educative in the technical sense because it involves accurate discernment of detail, and because, as a means of obtaining first-hand information, it is the foundation of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Science and the Creative Spirit

    Essays on Humanistic Aspects of Science

    Edited by Harcourt Brown ...
    Series series Heritage
    In the world of today, men on both sides of the science-humanities barrier feel an urgent need for mutual understanding. This symposium sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, stressed that it is only in a spirit of disinterested yet sincere evaluation that science and humanism can escape disastrous consequences in the future. Karl W. Deutsch (M.I.T.) deals with the general area of ... Read more

    $22.99 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

  • Electrophysiology of Extraocular Muscle

    Series series Heritage
    In this review of the electrophysiology of extraocular muscle, Dr. Breinin gives particular attention to the scientific literature on ocular electromyography. This literature is quite recent but the bibliography is growing at a rapid rate. Fundamental advances in the knowledge of extraocular muscle function in health and disease have accrued in the investigations being conducted in many ... Read more

    $22.99 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

  • Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge: Volume 4

    Proceedings of the International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, London, 1965

    Edited by Imre Lakatos, Alan Musgrave ...
    Two books have been particularly influential in contemporary philosophy of science: Karl R. Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery, and Thomas S. Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Both agree upon the importance of revolutions in science, but differ about the role of criticism in science's revolutionary growth. This volume arose out of a symposium on Kuhn's work, with Popper in the chair, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Methodological Heritage of Newton

    Edited by Robert Butts, John Davis ...
    Series series Heritage
    In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in Newton and his influence. His thought, like that of Aristotle and every other great thinker, underwent development which contemporary scholars are seeking to understand more clearly than did their predecessors, awed as they were by the overwhelming Newtonian achievement.As the titles indicate, the range of essays included in this volume is ... Read more

    $23.99 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

  • The Life Puzzle

    On Crystals and Organisms and on the Possibility of a Crystal as an Ancestor

    Series series Heritage
    What is the origin of life? Molecular biology shows us one kind, but in thinking about it we must consider those generalised aspects of living organisation that are common to all conceivable forms of life. The author believes that only a combination of general biological theory and particular chemical knowledge can solve the problems of the origin and re-creation of life. This book does not fall ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Atmospheric Environment

    A Study of Comfort and Performance

    Series series Heritage
    In this study energy-exchange processes and climatic influences are examined in relation to thermal comfort and work efficiency as exemplified in a schoolroom situation. The investigation tests fundamental hypotheses on meterotropisms and optimal thermal environments and demonstrates how daily variations within atmospheric environments are considerably more important than had been previously ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Secrets of Metals

    Translated by Charlotte Lebensart ...
    With the help of metals, humankind has established and ever-progressing position in the world and, in the process, has transformed human civilization and the face of the Earth itself. Furthermore, the harmony and effectiveness of many human bodily processes depend on the marvelous effects of metals. With each passing decade, researchers bring us knowledge of new facets of the cosmos of metals in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Proofs and Refutations

    The Logic of Mathematical Discovery

    Proofs and Refutations is essential reading for all those interested in the methodology, the philosophy and the history of mathematics. Much of the book takes the form of a discussion between a teacher and his students. They propose various solutions to some mathematical problems and investigate the strengths and weaknesses of these solutions. Their discussion (which mirrors certain real ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Lives of a Cell

    Notes of a Biology Watcher

    by Lewis Thomas ...
    Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships, this provocative book explores in personal, poetic essays to topics such as computers, germs, language, music, death, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Question of Physics

    Conversations in Physics and Biology

    Series series Heritage
    This book contains interviews with physicists, biologists, and chemists who have been involved in some of the most exciting discoveries in modern scientific thought. The conversations—with Bohm, Pattee, Penrose, Rosen, Rosenfeld, Somorjai, Weizsäcker, Wheeler, and Nobel prizewinners Heisenberg, Dirac, and Prigogine—explore issues which have shaped modern physics and those which hint at what may ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • From Natural History to the History of Nature

    Readings from Buffon and His Critics

    This collection of readings, published for the first time in any language, presents a selection of critical responses to the original publication of the Natural History by George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1697–1788). Comments by Albrecht von Haller, Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Héault de Séchelles, and anonymous reviews from leading periodicals of the period are included. Substantial selections ... Read more

    $28.99 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

  • The Urban Climate

    The Urban Climate aims to summarize analytical studies directed toward physical understanding of the rural-urban differences in the atmospheric boundary layer. Attempts to quantify conditions have met with some success. There is certainly a clear understanding of the physical relations that create the climatic differences of urbanized areas. Although some of the earlier classical studies are cited ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

    Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

    With his revolutionary work The Origin of Species Charles Darwin overthrew contemporary beliefs about Divine Providence and the beginnings of life on earth. Written for the general public of the 1850s, it is a rigorously documented but highly readable account of the scientific theory that now lies at the root of our present attitude to the universe. Challenging notions such as the fixity of ... Read more

    $11.99 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

  • Representing and Intervening

    Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science

    by Ian Hacking ...
    This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific objectivity and the reality of scientific entities. The views of Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos, Putnam, van Fraassen, and others, are all considered. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD