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  • Within the Four Seas

    The Dialogue of East and West

    by Joseph Needham ...
    First published in 1969. Contains some of Joseph Needham's most significant essays, lectures and broadcasts on the history of Chinese science, technology and culture. Also included are some more personal thoughts stimulated by his own travels and experiences in China, including a number of poems. The book discusses the valuable social and intellectual influences which have flowed to Europe from ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Grand Titration

    Science and Society in East and West

    by Joseph Needham ...
    First published in 1969. The historical civilization of China is, with the Indian and European-Semitic, one of the three greatest in the world, yet only relatively recently has any enquiry been begun into its achievements in science and technology. Between the first and fifteenth centuries the Chinese were generally far in advance of Europe and it was not until the scientific revolution of the ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Celestial Lancets

    A History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxa

    by Gwei-Djen Lu, Joseph Needham ...
    Series series Needham Research Institute Series
    Using modern knowledge to shed light on ancient techniques, this text examines two of the earliest therapeutic techniques of Chinese medicine: acupuncture and moxibustion. Acupuncture is the implantation of very thin needles into subcutaneous connective tissue and muscle at a great number of different points on the body's surface; moxibustion is the burning of Artemisia tinder (moxa) either ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

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    Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization

    by Arthur Herman ...
    The definitive sequel to New York Times bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World is a magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid the foundations of Western culture—and how their rivalry shaped the essential features of our culture down to the present day.Plato came from a wealthy, connected Athenian family and lived a comfortable ... Read more

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  • A History of the World in 12 Maps

    by Jerry Brotton ...
    A New York Times Bestseller“Maps allow the armchair traveler to roam the world, the diplomat to argue his points, the ruler to administer his country, the warrior to plan his campaigns and the propagandist to boost his cause… rich and beautiful.” – Wall Street JournalThroughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Seekers

    The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World

    by Daniel J. Boorstin ...
    Series Book 3 - Knowledge Series
    Throughout history, from the time of Socrates to our own modern age, the human race has sought the answers to fundamental questions of life: Who are we? Why are we here?In his previous national bestsellers, The Discoverers and The Creators , Daniel J. Boorstin first told brilliantly how e discovered the reality of our world, and then he celebrated man's achievements in the arts. He now turns to ... Read more

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  • The Lazy Intellectual

    Maximum Knowledge, Minimum Effort

    by Richard J Wallace ...
    It's a small attention span world out there, and not everyone's interested in paging through lengthy tomes to deepen their intellect. They want their information. And they want it now.This book fills that void next to the recliner as the go-to reference whenever work conversations or bar trivia have you feeling stupid. The top ten academic subjects are broken into digestible pieces such as:Fast ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Lawrence M. Principe ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the 'Scientific Revolution.' New ideas and discoveries not only redefined what human beings believed, knew, and could do, but also forced them to redefine themselves with respect to the strange new worlds revealed by ships and scalpels, telescopes and microscopes, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Understanding History

    And Other Essays

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Essays on topics from nuclear physics to the role of faith in society from the Nobel Prize–winning philosopher.Originally written in 1943 and published in 1957 by Philosophical Library, Inc, these vigorous essays from one of the most distinguished minds of our time reveal several facets of the English philosopher's thought. The title piece exposes the deadliness of the academic approach to the ... Read more

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  • How We Got Here

    From Bows and Arrows to the Space Age

    by C. R. Hallpike ...
    Only 10,000 years ago, our ancestors were small groups of hunter-gatherers, with bows and arrows and stone tools. Today, we live in vast nations with all the power of modern science and industry, and the ability to send men to the Moon and to destroy all life on the planet. In the history of the world, 10,000 years is the blink of an eye, yet it has seen the total transformation of human existence ... Read more

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  • A People's History of Science

    Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks

    by Clifford D Conner ...
    We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein unlocked the mysteries of time and space with a simple equation. This history is made up of long periods of ignorance and confusion, punctuated once an age by a ... Read more

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  • The Sociology of Philosophies

    by Randall COLLINS ...
    Randall Collins traces the movement of philosophical thought in ancient Greece, China, Japan, India, the medieval Islamic and Jewish world, medieval Christendom, and modern Europe. What emerges from this history is a social theory of intellectual change, one that avoids both the reduction of ideas to the influences of society at large and the purely contingent local construction of meanings. ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD