Environmental & Earth Sciences
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Solid State Insurrection: How the Science of Substance Made American Physics Matter [Paperback]
Joseph D. Martin (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9780822966036
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Solid state physics, the study of the physical properties of solid matter, was the most populous subfield of Cold War American physics. Despite prolific contributions to consumer and medical technology, such as the transistor and magnetic resonanc... .... Learn More -
Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge [Hardback]
Carla Bittel (Editor); Elaine Leong (Editor); Christine von Oertzen (Editor)
£42.50ISBN: 9780822945598
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Working with Paper builds on a growing interest in the materials of science by exploring the gendered uses and meanings of paper tools and technologies, considering how notions of gender impacted paper practices and in turn how paper may have stru... .... Learn More -
New Order of Medicine, A: The Rise of Physicians in Reformation Nuremberg [Hardback]
Hannah Murphy (Author)
£39.00ISBN: 9780822945604
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
The sixteenth century saw an unprecedented growth in the number of educated physicians practicing in German cities. Concentrating on Nuremberg, A New Order of Medicine follows the intertwined careers of municipal physicians as they encountered the... .... Learn More -
Experimenting at the Boundaries of Life: Organic Vitality in Germany around 1800 [Hardback]
Joan Steigerwald (Author)
£42.50ISBN: 9780822945536
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Attempts to distinguish a science of life at the turn of the nineteenth century faced a number of challenges. A central difficulty was clearly demarcating the living from the nonliving experimentally and conceptually. The more closely the boundari... .... Learn More -
Inevitably Toxic: Historical Perspectives on Contamination, Exposure, and Expertise [Paperback]
Brinda Sarathy (Editor); Vivian Hamilton (Editor); Janet Farrell Brodie (Editor)
£22.00ISBN: 9780822966128
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: History of the Urban Environment
Not a day goes by that humans aren’t exposed to toxins in our environment - be it at home, in the car, or workplace. But what about those toxic places and items that aren’t marked? Why are we warned about some toxic spaces’ substances and not othe... .... Learn More -
Entangled Itineraries: Materials, Practices, and Knowledges across Eurasia [Hardback]
Pamela H. Smith (Editor)
£42.50ISBN: 9780822965770
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Trade flowed across Eurasia, around the Indian Ocean, and over the Mediterranean for millennia, but in the early modern period, larger parts of the globe became connected through these established trade routes. Knowledge, embodied in various peopl... .... Learn More -
Destined for the Stars: Faith, the Future, and America's Final Frontier [Hardback]
Catherine L. Newell (Author)
£35.50ISBN: 9780822945567
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Where did humanity get the idea that outer space is a frontier waiting to be explored? Destined for the Stars unravels the popularization of the science of space exploration in America between 1944 and 1955, arguing that the success of the US spac... .... Learn More -
Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World [Hardback]
Matthew James Crawford (Editor); Joseph M. Gabriel (Editor)
£39.00ISBN: 9780822945628
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
In the early modern Atlantic World, pharmacopoeias—official lists of medicaments and medicinal preparations published by municipal, national, or imperial governments—organized the world of healing goods, giving rise to new and valuable medical com... .... Learn More -
Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 6, The: The Correspondence, November 1856-February 1859 [Hardback]
Michael D. Barton (Editor); Janet Browne (Editor); Ken Corbett (Editor); Norman McMillan (Editor)
£102.00ISBN: 9780822945338
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: The Correspondence of John Tyndall
This sixth volume of Tyndall's correspondence contains 302 letters covering a period of twenty-eight months (1856-1859). It begins shortly after Tyndall returned from his first glacier research in the Alps and follows him as he experimented an... .... Learn More -
American Dinosaur Abroad: A Cultural History of Carnegie's Plaster Diplodocus [Hardback]
Ilja Nieuwland (Author)
£31.00ISBN: 9780822945574
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
In early July 1899, an excavation team of paleontologists sponsored by Andrew Carnegie discovered the fossil remains in Wyoming of what was then the longest and largest dinosaur on record. Named after its benefactor, the Diplodocus carnegii—or Dip... .... Learn More
