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  • Image and Reality

    Kekulé, Kopp, and the Scientific Imagination

    by Alan J. Rocke ...
    Nineteenth-century chemists were faced with a particular problem: how to depict the atoms and molecules that are beyond the direct reach of our bodily senses. In visualizing this microworld, these scientists were the first to move beyond high-level philosophical speculations regarding the unseen. In Image and Reality, Alan Rocke focuses on the community of organic chemists in Germany to provide ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From the Molecular World

    A Nineteenth-Century Science Fantasy

    by Alan J. Rocke ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    Hermann Kopp (1817–1892) is best remembered today as a historian of chemistry, but during his lifetime he was one of the most eminent chemists of his day, and one of the earliest pioneers of physical chemistry. Late in his career he wrote an endearing fantasy about personified molecules. Published in 1882, Aus der Molecular-Welt (From the Molecular World) portrayed the intimate details of what ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • History of Universities: Volume XXXIV/1

    A Global History of Research Education: Disciplines, Institutions, and Nations, 1840-1950

    Edited by Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang, Alan Rocke ...
    Series series History of Universities Series
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. History of Universities XXXIV/1 contains the customary mix of learned articles which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. This ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Lothar Meyer

    Modern Theories and Pathways to Periodicity

    by Gisela Boeck, Alan J. Rocke ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book provides an English translation of the early fundamental contributions of Lothar Meyer (1830-1895) regarding his independent discovery, coincident with that of Dmitrii Mendeleev, of the periodic system of the elements. Although an English translation of the 5th edition of Meyer´s book Modern Theories of Chemistry and their Significance for Chemical Statics was published in 1888, this ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

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  • A Culture of Growth

    The Origins of the Modern Economy

    by Joel Mokyr ...
    From Nobel Prize–winning economist Joel Mokyr, a revealing look at why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

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  • Void

    The Strange Physics of Nothing

    by James Owen Weatherall ...
    Series series Foundational Questions in Science
    The New York Times bestselling author of The Physics of Wall Street " deftly explains all you wanted to know about nothingness—a.k.a. the quantum vacuum" (Priyamvada Natarajan, author of Mapping the Heavens ).James Owen Weatherall's bestselling book, The Physics of Wall Street, was named one of Physics Today's five most intriguing books of 2013. In this work, he takes on... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Identity

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Florian Coulmas ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and identity crises have become almost equally pervasive. Yet 'identity' is extremely versatile, meaning different things to different people and in different scientific disciplines. To many its meaning seems self-evident, since its various uses share common ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Letters on Wave Mechanics

    Correspondence with H. A. Lorentz, Max Planck, and Erwin Schrödinger

    by Albert Einstein ...
    A lively collection of Einstein's groundbreaking scientific correspondence on modern physicsImagine getting four of the greatest minds of modern physics in a room together to explain and debate the theories and innovations of their day. This is the fascinating experience of reading Letters on Wave Mechanics, the correspondence between H. A. Lorentz, Max Planck, Erwin Schrödinger, and Albert ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Occult Features of Anarchism

    With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples

    by Erica Lagalisse ...
    In the nineteenth century anarchists were accused of conspiracy by governments afraid of revolution, but in the current century various 'conspiracy theories' suggest that anarchists are controlled by government itself. The Illuminati were a network of intellectuals who argued for self-government and against private property, yet the public is now often told that they were (and are) the very group ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Whole Truth

    A Cosmologist’s Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality

    by P. James E. Peebles ...
    From the Nobel Prize–winning physicist, a personal meditation on the quest for objective reality in natural scienceA century ago, thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical theories that kept changing, from a mechanical model of the ether to electric and magnetic fields, and from homogeneous matter to electrons and atoms. Today, concepts like dark matter and dark energy ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The History Manifesto

    by Jo Guldi, David Armitage ...
    How should historians speak truth to power – and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history – especially long-term history – so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role of history ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Periodic Table:Its Story and Its Significance

    Its Story and Its Significance

    by Eric R. Scerri ...
    The periodic table is one of the most potent icons in science. It lies at the core of chemistry and embodies the most fundamental principles of the field. The one definitive text on the development of the periodic table by van Spronsen (1969), has been out of print for a considerable time. The present book provides a successor to van Spronsen, but goes further in giving an evaluation of the extent ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD