Environmental & Earth Sciences
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Global Transformations in the Life Sciences, 1945–1980 [Hardback]
Patrick Manning (Editor); Mat Savelli (Editor)
£35.50ISBN: 9780822945277
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
The second half of the twentieth century brought extraordinary transformations in knowledge and practice of the life sciences. In an era of decolonization, mass social welfare policies, and the formation of new international institutions such as U... .... Learn More -
Making Stars Physical: The Astronomy of Sir John Herschel [Hardback]
Stephen Case (Author)
£30.50ISBN: 9780822945307
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Making Stars Physical offers the first extensive look at the astronomical career of John Herschel, son of William Herschel and one of the leading scientific figures in Britain throughout much of the nineteenth century. Herschel’s astronomical care... .... Learn More -
Above the Gene, Beyond Biology: Toward a Philosophy of Epigenetics [Hardback]
Jan Baedke (Author)
£35.50ISBN: 9780822945215
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Epigenetics is currently one of the fastest-growing fields in the sciences. Epigenetic information not only controls DNA expression but links genetic factors with the environmental experiences that influence the traits and characteristics of an in... .... Learn More -
Historicizing Humans: Deep Time, Evolution, and Race in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences [Hardback]
Efram Sera-Shriar (Editor)
£35.50ISBN: 9780822945291
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
With an Afterword by Theodore Koditschek
A number of important developments and discoveries across the British Empire's imperial landscape during the nineteenth century invited new questions about human ancestry. The rise of secularism an... .... Learn More -
Nature From Within: Gustav Theodor Fechner And His Psychophysical Worldview [Paperback]
Michael Heidelberger (Author)
£30.50ISBN: 9780822965473
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-1887) was a German physicist, psychologist, and philosopher, best known to historians of science as the founder of psychophysics, the experimental study of the relation between mental and physical processes. Michael He... .... Learn More -
Kew Observatory and the Evolution of Victorian Science, 1840–1910 [Hardback]
Lee T. Macdonald (Author)
£35.50ISBN: 9780822945260
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Kew Observatory was originally built in 1769 for King George III, a keen amateur astronomer, so that he could observe the transit of Venus. By the mid-nineteenth century, it was a world-leading center for four major sciences: geomagnetism, meteoro... .... Learn More -
Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920: Ocular Horizons [Paperback]
Martin Willis (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9780822965466
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
This book explores the role of vision and the culture of observation in Victorian and modernist ways of seeing. Willis charts the characterization of vision through four organizing principles—small, large, past and future—to survey Victorian conce... .... Learn More -
Love, Order, and Progress: The Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Auguste Comte [Hardback]
Michel Bourdeau (Editor); Mary Pickering (Editor); Warren Schmaus (Editor)
£39.00ISBN: 9780822945222
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Auguste Comte's doctrine of positivism was both a philosophy of science and a political philosophy designed to organize a new, secular, stable society based on positive or scientific, ideas, rather than the theological dogmas and metaphysical spec... .... Learn More -
James Watt, Chemist: Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age [Paperback]
David Philip Miller (Author)
£29.00ISBN: 9780822965305
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
In the Victorian era, James Watt became an iconic engineer, but in his own time he was also an influential chemist. Miller examines Watt’s illustrious engineering career in light of his parallel interest in chemistry, arguing that Watt’s conceptio... .... Learn More -
Shale Dilemma, The: A Global Perspective on Fracking and Shale Development [Hardback]
Shanti Gamper-Rabindran (Editor)
£35.50ISBN: 9780822945130
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
The US shale boom and efforts by other countries to exploit their shale resources could reshape energy and environmental landscapes across the world. But how might those landscapes change? Will countries with significant physical reserves try to e... .... Learn More
