History of science Books

Book SynopsisWhat comes first, form or function? Trumpeted as the future of biological science, evolutionary developmental biology (or 'evo-devo') answers this question by showing how evolution controls the development of organisms. This book looks at the history and key issues of evo-devo. It focuses on the ways animal organisms evolve through competition.Trade Review"Minelli provides his distinctive perspective of the field of evolutionary developmental biology. Whether or not readers agree with himon specific points, he raisesmany interesting questions that might well be fuel for long discussions on a summer evening. Overall, this book is stimulating reading and will provide much food for thought."--Christian Peter Klingenberg, Trends in Ecology and Evolution "I enjoyed reading Forms of Becoming. It added depth to my knowledge of the historical background of comparative morphological studies, and it regrounded my appreciation of the diversity of evolutionary modifications in development across animals. I recommend this book as entry-level reading for non-'evo-devo' folks as well as the many developmental and evolutionary biologists whose research involves phenotype. I also recommend this thought-provoking book to graduate students... In summary, Minelli promotes an integrative view that is timely and immensely valuable."--Paula Mabee, BioScience "This book is a fascinating reading. It will appeal to anyone that has an interest in animal form and development, and also in genetics."--Evelyne Bremond-Hoslet, MammaliaTable of ContentsPreface ix Part One: Forms and Numbers Chapter 1: Unity in Diversity 3 Two Skeletons 3 Clashes at the Museum 5 Squid and Vertebrate 7 Topsy-turvy 9 Chapter 2: Archetypes 11 The Primeval Plant 11 A Skeleton for Everyone 14 An Exemplary Crayfi sh 16 Chapter 3: Easy Numbers, Forbidden Numbers 18 The Scolopendra's Legs 18 The Nonexistent Variant 22 The Leech's Segments 23 Unexpected Arithmetic 24 The Giraffe's Neck 28 Indirect Effects 29 On the Fingers of One Hand 32 Number and Position 35 Chapter 4: Privileged Genes 38 Unity of Body Plan 38 The Universal Appendage 42 The Zootype 45 Position and Structure 48 "Master Control Genes" 50 Networks 53 Part Two: Constructing Form Chapter 5: Evolution and Development 59 Genes and Determinism 59 Possible Butterfl ies, Real Butterflies 63 Evo-devo 65 Chapter 6: The Logic of Development 68 From Mechanics to Molecules 68 The Lawfulness of "Monsters" 70 A Worm Enters the Scene 72 A Mosaic, or Perhaps Not 75 One Model, Several Models 76 The Adult's Questionable Uniqueness 77 Boxed Generations 78 According to Program 80 Cuticle, Cuticles 81 Cilia and Mitosis 86 Taking Development Seriously 89 Ontogeny and Phylogeny 90 Chapter 7: Paradigm Shifts 94 Science and Language 94 Gene, Genes 95 Busillis 97 Tissues 99 More on Segments 101 Origin, Form, and Function 103 Parallel Worksites 105 What Do We Start From? 107 Which Adult? 109 Siamese Twins and Corals 111 Spare Parts 113 Chapter 8: Comparisons 117 Horns and Antlers 117 Homology 119 One Gene, Several Effects 121 Ars Combinatoria 123 The Limits of Hierarchies 125 Organs, Only When All Is Done 127 Structures, Processes, and Developmental Stages 129 Chapter 9: The Body's Syntax 132 From Tip to Toe 132 The Dual Animal 134 The Sea Urchin 136 The Tapeworm 137 Part Three: Origins Chapter 10: Competition or Cooperation? 145 Apologues and Metaphors 145 The Species: From Inside and from Outside 146 Butterfl ies and Sea Urchins 148 Parasitoids 150 Throw-Away Larvae 150 Competition between Equals, or Not Quite 154 Germ and Soma 158 Authorized Competition among Equals 161 A Virtual Mouth 163 Embryonic Leafl ets 165 Who Is Winning? 167 One Egg, Several Embryos 169 Two Twins, or Rather One 170 Identical Twins, or Maybe Not 171 The Pupa's Balance Sheet 175 Competition and Cooperation: Two Sides of the Same Coin 177 Everything Small 178 Development in Stages 180 Chapter 11: Making and Remaking 183 Many and All Equal, or Few and Different 183 A Product of Factors 186 Calculations without Error 189 Broken Chains 194 Co-option 196 Buds and Appendages 197 Chapter 12: Innovations without Plans 201 Regularity without a Program 201 Inexpensive Symmetry 201 Breaks in Symmetry 204 The Origin of Evolutionary Novelties 205 Modules 208 A Glance at the Clock 209 Epilogue 211 Recommended Readings 215 Index 221

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Book SynopsisDescartes' works are often treated as a unified, unchanging whole. This book argues that the philosopher's views, particularly in natural philosophy, actually change radically between his early and later works - and that any interpretation of Descartes must take account of these changes.Trade Review"Machamer and McGuire painstakingly trace the development of Descartes' views on the means and extent of human knowledge as it relates to science and metaphysics. Beginning with a conception of knowledge as based on abstraction from sensory experience and as capable of delivering truths about the simple natures of things in his early work, Descartes, they argue, radically changes his mind about the powers and scope of the mind, arriving finally at a conception that relies heavily upon innate ideas and a limitation of humans' cognitive reach to a world that is suitably framed to their natures as mind-body unities."--Choice "Machamer and McGuire are thus to be congratulated for taking on the difficult task of providing a reading of Descartes's entire corpus, spanning over two decades and five completed works, that treats it as a dynamic progression, rather than a static system. In so doing, they pay careful attention to the historical chronology, the Scholastic background, Descartes's replies to his philosophical interlocutors, and the scholarship on issues central to Descartes's mature positions. The result is a rich and controversial story that always engages the reader even if it does not always convince."--Helen Hattab, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "I believe that [Peter Machamer & J. E. McGuire] are to be commended for enabling us to take seriously the view that Descartes's opinions may have shifted in significant ways and for illustrating a different way to tell the story of the arc of Descartes's career."--Michael Della Rocca, MetascienceTable of ContentsPreface ix CHAPTER ONE: From Method to Epistemology and from Metaphysics to the Epistemic Stance 1 Descartes's Early Work: The Rules 5 The World 14 The Discourse on Method 24 CHAPTER TWO: God and Efficient Causation 36 A Historical Preamble 37 God's Efficient Causation and the Introduction of Causa Secundum Esse 45 God, Time, and Continual Creation: The Emergence of Re-creationism 59 Causal Axioms and Common Notions 73 CHAPTER THREE: Seeing the Implications of His Causal Views: The Response to His Critics 82 God as Causa Sui: The High Tide of Descartes's Causalism 83 Eminent Containment, Transcendence, Divine Powers, and God's Causal Harmony 91 Epistemic Teleology 102 CHAPTER FOUR: Body-Body Causation and the Cartesian World of Matter 111 The Current Debate on Body-Body Causation 111 The Early Descartes 116 Cartesian Conservationism 119 Three Questions of Metaphysics: Principles Parts I and II 127 Mature Motion 134 The Place of Our Position in the Current Debate 157 CHAPTER FIVE: Mind, Intuition, Innateness, and Ideas 164 Intuition and Enumeration 165 Ideas and Descartes's New Theory of Mind 169 Innate Ideas 176 Innateness and Sensory Ideas 183 Innate Ideas: Present but Swamped 186 Innateness and Intellectual Memory 188 Common Notions, Eternal Truths, and Immutable Natures 193 CHAPTER SIX: Mind-Body Causality and the Mind-Body Union: The Case of Sensation 198 Sensation 199 The Physical Side of Perception 202 The Mental Side of Perception 209 How the Soul Moves the Body, or Mind-to-Body Causation 221 The Nature of the Distinction between Mind and Body 224 The Mind-Body (Soul-Body) Union 232 Epistemic Teleology and Dualism 239 References 243 Index 251

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Book SynopsisIn 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion. Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his attention to the molecular world. This title tells the story of how these scientists designed popularized technologies such as space colonies and nanotechnologies.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2014 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize, History of Science Society Winner of the 2012 Eugene E. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature, American Astronautical Society "In his fascinating new book, McCray profiles the larger-than-life characters and ideas that changed science and technology in the second half of the 20th century and beyond. The author describes the titular visioneers as 'hybrids'--creative combinations of futurist, scientist, and charismatic promoter. At the center of this story are physicist Gerard O'Neill and biotech pioneer K. Eric Drexler... McCray, a professor of history at UC Santa Barbara, discusses how O'Neill's vision of space as a tabula rasa for the human race spurred the formation of grassroots groups like the L5 Society and captured the imaginations of many young scientists and engineers like Drexler, as well as influential figures like Stewart Brand and Timothy Leary. Considered together, they 'took speculative ideas out of the hands of sci-fi writers' and had an enormous impact on generations of people, science, and political policy."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "McCray focuses on Gerard K. O'Neill, the Princeton physicist and designer of space colonies, and on his protege, K. Eric Drexler, the 'speculative engineer' trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge who helped to put nanotechnology on political agendas in the early 1990s. Along the way, McCray introduces a large and colourful cast of others who, over four decades, promoted technological progress as the way to overcome every limit... McCray's book is especially convincing in following the various movements that arose in reaction to the Club of Rome's 1972 book (The Limits of Growth)... McCray's argument that visioneers play an important part in the 'technological ecosystem' is also compelling."--Cyrus Mody, Nature "The overarching narrative of The Visioneers--that of humankind's struggle against limits real and imagined--is compelling, and no less so because of how effectively it reflects the questions of technology surrounding today's big fears like peak oil and global warming... [The Visioneers] is an extremely edifying and well-researched history. Recommended for technology buffs, doomsayers, and anyone with an interest in the intersection of science, technology, and society."--ForeWord "[A] thoughtful, meticulous history."--Simon Ings, New Scientist "I recommend McCray's The Visioneers to all readers interested recent history of science in the making and, more generally, in the place of science in society. The marketing of science is entering a new era and many of the visioneers described by McCray may be seen as the first of a wave of new kind of figures in the history of science, both technoscientists and visionary promoters."--Roger F Malina, Leonardo Journal "McCray's narrative is often fascinating. He connects interest in space colonies with a pervasive fear in the 1970s that unchecked population growth would precipitate an apocalyptic environmental crisis on Planet Earth."--Glenn C. Altschuler, Tulsa World "Remember the late 20th century? When machines on the moon were spitting 10-pound spoonfuls of soil into orbit every few seconds, as raw material for space colonies and zero-gravity factories? When solar panels in orbit were beaming down the planet's power supply? When we were manufacturing everything we wanted, molecule by molecule, via machines smaller than the smallest objects we previously knew? In The Visioneers, the UC-Santa Barbara historian W. Patrick McCray revisits the birth and growth of those futures--or rather, those concepts of the future, which haven't (yet) come true... [W]ell-detailed."--Brian Doherty, Reason "[M]cCray focuses on the public relations efforts of [Gerard O'Neil and Eric Drexler] and how their agenda helped shape the national agenda for science and technology research and reveals how these visionaries worked tirelessly to make their dreams a reality. Recommended for readers with an interest in the history of science, especially in the space exploration or nanotechnology fields."--Library Journal "McCray skilfully weaves a narrative between O'Neill and Drexler in what is a superb and important book."--Keith Cooper, Astronomy Now "[H]istorians of contemporary science, technology and popular culture--in addition to a wide non-academic audience--will find much to savour in this rich and well-written book."--Peder Roberts, British Journal for the History of Science "In this engaging, highly detailed and meticulously researched account of late twentieth century technological dreaming and development, McCray ... does an impressive job of assembling a wealth of information and analysis of a particular period of futures-making in America's recent past... For those interested in the extensive early efforts to identify, consolidate and promote the nanotechnology field (or for that matter, space settlement), this book will provide a treasure trove of information and insight."--Georgia Miller, Nanoethics "The book is a worthy contribution to a growing historiography of the sprawling intellectual and cultural spaces that have existed around the edges of mainstream science and technology."--William Thomas, Technology & Culture "Brilliantly researched."--Brian Jirout, Oral History ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Visioneering Technological Futures 1 Chapter 1 Utopia or Oblivion for Spaceship Earth? 20 Chapter 2 The Inspiration of Limits 40 Chapter 3 Building Castles in the Sky 73 Chapter 4 Omnificent 113 Chapter 5 Could Small Be Beautiful? 146 Chapter 6 California Dreaming 183 Chapter 7 Confirmation, Benediction, and Inquisition 222 Chapter 8 Visioneering's Value 258 A Note on Sources 277 Notes 281 Index 325

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Book SynopsisExplores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated not in early travel texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race. This title weaves together multiple narratives to tell the complex history of a problematic term.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2013 Academia Sinica Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences "Illuminating."--Choice "Michael Keevak has given us a wonderful, even riveting, deep-historical account of how people in Asia (particularly East Asia) came to be seen as yellow... [T]he book is a welcome and important addition to the growing literature on 'race' imaginaries, such as whiteness, blackness, and more. Readers will learn a whole lot, as I did, from Keevak's historical account ... of the evolution of Western racism."--Magnus Fiskesjo, Journal of World History "Becoming Yellow is not always an easy read, but Michael Keevak skillfully presents and examines a number of important yet highly contentious issues and terminologies on racial thinking. His book is thus full of sensible quotation marks and--understandably--the author's own qualifications regarding racial designations such as the use of 'surprising'. For those interested in the western history of racial thinking, this is a convincing introduction to the origin, construction and development of a remarkably persistent European stereotype of East Asia."--Tjalling Halbertsma, Asian Studies Review "Becoming Yellow is a fascinating read, partly due to its intriguing subject matter, partly due to the author's treatment of it... Readers, ... will profit much from Keevak's analysis of literary, scientific, and medical discourses. In particular, they will learn invaluable lessons about the mechanics of racial thinking and about how little seemingly scientific 'truths' are based on biological or empirical facts."--Ralf Hertel, Anglistik "The virtue of this work is its thorough examination of the nuances and usages of specific color terms over time."--Alexandra Cook, British Journal for the History of ScienceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: No Longer White: The Nineteenth-Century Invention of Yellowness 1 Chapter 1: Before They Were Yellow: East Asians in Early Travel and Missionary Reports 23 Chapter 2: Taxonomies of Yellow: Linnaeus, Blumenbach, and the Making of a "Mongolian" Race in the Eighteenth Century 43 Chapter 3: Nineteenth-Century Anthropology and the Measurement of "Mongolian" Skin Color 70 Chapter 4: East Asian Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The Mongolian Eye, the Mongolian Spot, and"Mongolism"101 Chapter 5: Yellow Peril: The Threat of a "Mongolian" Far East, 1895-1920 124 Notes 145 Works Cited 175 Index 211

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Book SynopsisA modern edition and an English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century "Geographika of Eratosthenes". It describes the geography of the entire inhabited world as it was then known, Eratosthenes of Kyrene (ca 285-205 BC) invented the discipline of geography as we understand it.Trade Review"[T]his is the sort of tribute that has been long overdue to one of the ancient Greek world's most original, penetrating and ecumenically humane geniuses."--Paul Cartledge, Anglo-Hellenic Review "Roller has succeeded admirably in producing a work that will make Eratosthenes accessible to a wide variety of readers. He has made vast improvements over the previous editions of the fragments in facilitating the reading of both text and commentary... This book will be equally interesting to specialist researchers."--Courtney Roby, Hague Journal of Diplomacy "One does not have to be a trained classicist to appreciate Roller's scholarship. Indeed, the subjects he tackles are increasingly ones that resonate with the educated public as much as with specialists. Roller's new book follows this trend and will surely win new fans for its subject."--Sarah Pothecary, Strabo.ca "In addition to a careful and justified assignation of fragments to the three books of Eratosthenes' Geographika, Roller in his commentary is very alert to the extent to which Strabo misrepresents or misunderstands the purpose of Eratosthenes... The commentary is accessible and well conceived."--Hugh Lindsay, European LegacyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Introduction ix Abbreviations xiii ERATOSTHENES AND THE HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHY The Background 1 The Life of Eratosthenes 7 The Geographika of Eratosthenes 15 The Reception and Later History of the Geographika 30 ERATOSTHENES, GEOGRAPHIKA Book 1 41 Book 2 58 Book 3 69 SUMMARIES AND COMMENTARIES Commentary to Book 1 111 Commentary to Book 2 141 Commentary to Book 3 161 Gazetteer 223 Maps 249 APPENDICES Appendix 1: On the Measurement of the Earth 263 Appendix 2: Testimonia for the Life of Eratosthenes 268 Appendix 3: Lengths of Measurement 271 Bibliography 275 Index of Passages Cited 281 General Index 289

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Book SynopsisCapricious, vibrant, and volatile, Vesuvius has been and remains one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes. In its rage, it has destroyed whole cities and buried thousands alive. In its calm, its ashes have fertilized the soil, providing for the people who have lived in its shadows. This book tells the story of this natural phenomenon.Trade Review"In his latest book on volcanoes (after La Catastrophe, Vulcan's Fury, and Savage Earth), Scarth (formerly at Univ. of Dundee) confronts the legendary Vesuvius. A veritable eruption of words is required to do the story justice, and Scarth is up to the task... Recommended to both general and academic readers."--Walter L. Cressle, Library Journal "Now and again a book appears that offers a different perspective on volcanic eruptions. Alwyn Scarth's Vesuvius: A Biography is one such book, and it takes the reader on a fascinating journey through Vesuvius' history seen through the eyes of the people who witnessed the eruptions and who were often directly affected by them... A gripping book."--Lucia Gurioli, Times Higher Education "Scarth has successfully combined a chronicle of a famous volcano's eruptions with a discussion of the history of the eruptions in human terms--daily living, recreation, commerce, art, religion, and the destiny of civilizations... Vesuvius is unmatched for its integration of the scientific, historical, and cultural aspects of a world-famous volcano that must be reckoned with."--Choice "True to its name, Vesuvius: A Biography covers the history of one of Italy's most famous volcanoes, from its birth to its infamous eruption in A.D. 79 that buried Pompeii to what the future holds--with dozens of eruptions in between. Vesuvius will captivate volcano experts with its discussion of how the volcano has affected Italy's history and culture, and will educate novices about the basics of volcanology."--Earth Magazine "Vesuvius is filled with science, in such sidebars as 'the role of pyroclastic flows in 1631.' But Scarth cleverly keeps his narrative flowing with juicy gobbets of gossip."--Peter Birnie, Vancouver Sun "[H]ighly readable and fascinating... [A] well-illustrated book of history and science, and not the least of its virtues is a splendid J. M. W. Turner painting on its dust jacket."--Charles Stephen, Lincoln Journal Star "Pacific Circle members should delight in the way that this internationally renowned center has embraced both traditional and nuanced styles of the writings of a life story... [A] truly fine, authoritative, readable, and enjoyable work."--Philip K. Wilson, Bulletin of the Pacific Circle

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Book SynopsisTraces Albert Einstein's involvement with Zionism from his initial contacts with the movement at the end of World War I to his emigration from Germany in 1933 in the wake of Hitler's rise to power. This book offers a nuanced picture yet of Einstein's complex and sometimes stormy relationship with Jewish nationalism.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012 "It is a welcome study as the man fascinates--whether as a scientist or as an activist."--R. Balashankar, Organiser "Few individuals can be as qualified to write about the outlook on the world of Albert Einstein--the man rather than the scientist--as Rosenkranz. Senior editor of the Einstein Papers Project at Caltech and former curator of the Albert Einstein Archives at Hebrew University, the author single-mindedly treats an understudied aspect of the great man's loyalties regarding his Jewish identity and the Zionist movement."--Choice "Rosenkranz had exceptional access to archival materials enabling him to disentangle the complexity of Einstein's exposure to the development of Zionist thought as he interacted with many of its movement's leaders... This is an essential component to an overall intellectual biography of Einstein's personal development and unique attachment to Zionism and an essential addition to an academic collection and worthy for selected synagogue libraries."--Sanford R. Silverburg, Association of Jewish Libraries ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: "A Vivid Sense of Strangeness" 9 Einstein's Path to the Zionist Movement Chapter 2: A Different Kind of Nationalism 46 Einstein's Induction and Mobilization into the Zionist Movement Chapter 3: The "Prize-Winning Ox" in "Dollaria" 86 Einstein's Fundraising Trip to the United States in 1921 Chapter 4: S ecular Pilgrim or Zionist Tourist? 139 Einstein's Tour of Palestine in 1923 Chapter 5: The "Botched University" 181 Einstein's Involvement in the Hebrew University, 1924-1929 Chapter 6: "A Genuine Symbiosis" 209 Einstein on the 1929 Clashes in Palestine Chapter 7: The "Bug-Infested House" 230 Einstein's Involvement in the Hebrew University, 1930-1933 Conclusion 252 Epilogue 270 Notes 275 Bibliography 313 Index 337

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Book SynopsisTells the story of how the celestial objects that make up the solar system arose from common beginnings billions of years ago, and how scientists and philosophers have sought to unravel this mystery down through the centuries, piecing together the clues that enabled them to deduce the solar system's layout, its age, and the likely way it formed.Trade Review"[T]here is much solid information to be gleaned from careful reading."--Publishers Weekly "[A] stellar read."--Nature "In this grand chronicle of the science behind the origins of our 4.6-billion-year-old Solar System, John Chambers and Jacqueline Mitton peruse everything from the giant collision thought to have formed our Moon to the nature of meteorites."--Rosalind Metcalfe, Nature "This is not your average tour of our solar system. Using clear, relatively jargon-free language, Chambers and Mitton provide a comprehensive examination of our current understanding of its formation, which should readily appeal to the general reader who enjoys scientific detail without getting into equations."--Library Journal "I recently built an app about the solar system, and my research would have been made a lot easier if I had possessed a copy of this excellent book. It provides a truly comprehensive overview of our solar system's origins and is written in plain, jargon-free language."--Marcus Chown, New Scientist "Chambers and Mitton stay focused on the science in From Dust to Life: unlike other books that create narratives around the scientists, they discuss the science and the history of its development, rather than the individuals who made it possible. That's a worthwhile trade: while there have been, and are today, interesting people studying the formation of the solar system, the science is even more fascinating as we find out just how complex the process is to turn a cloud of gas and dust into a star and planets."--Jeff Foust, Space Review "[I]ncredibly thorough and detailed, yet very accessible to non-scientists too... [A] compelling overview of the evolution of the Solar System."--Katia Moskvitch, BBC Sky at Night "Read From Dust to Life to gain a fascinating perspective on the current state of the science behind solar system formation."--David Dickinson, Astro Guys blog "This wild ride across the cosmos and through time covers a lot of territory but isn't merely a laundry list of observations. Instead, readers will find one lucid explanation piggybacked onto another... The authors, a planetary scientist and a space science writer, make celestial mechanics comprehensible even to readers with more curiosity than scientific background. Yet there are still insights for those who regularly pore over the astronomy stories in Science News. Best of all, the authors help readers glimpse the why of it all."--Science News "This book ... is accessible to a scientifically literate general reader... The author team is eminently qualified ... one is a well-known planetary scientist and the other an experienced science writer. The result of their efforts is a highly readable book."--Star Formation Newsletter "Chambers and Mitton present a well-researched, detailed, big-picture overview of the solar system that shows how all of people's observations of its contents contribute to a coherent model for its origin. The authors place the modern theory and latest observations in historical context by beginning each chapter with an overview of the development of these scientific ideas from their beginning."--Choice "This book is up-to date, thorough, and authoritative. It revels in the latest discussions and controversies... It is a joy to read and is accessible to any student with a scientific background... Read this book. Join the cosmogonists and help change the cosmogony/cosmology ratio."--David W. Hughes, Observatory "For the interested amateur with a degree of familiarity with the topics under discussion, From Dust to Life furnishes a comprehensive overview of current models for the formation of the solar system... Genuinely exciting."--Cait MacPhee, Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Preface xv ONE Cosmic Archaeology 1 A fascination with the past 1 A solar system to explain 3 Real worlds 9 Winding back the clock 12 Putting the pieces together 16 TWO Discovering the Solar System 19 Measuring the solar system 19 From wandering gods to geometrical constructions 22 The Sun takes center stage 25 Laws and order 27 Gravity rules 29 The missing planet 31 Asteroids enter the scene 34 Rocks in space 36 Uranus behaving badly 37 Completing the inventory 40 THREE An Evolving Solar System 43 A changing world 43 A nebulous idea begins to take shape 44 The nebular hypothesis in trouble 48 A chance encounter? 50 Nebular theory resurrected 54 FOUR The Question of Timing 56 Reading the cosmic clock 57 Early estimates: ingenious--but wrong 57 Geology versus physics 58 Radioactivity changes everything 61 Hubble and the age of the universe 63 How radioactive timers work 64 Meteorites hold the key 68 Dating the Sun 71 The age of the universe revisited 73 FIVE Meteorites 75 A dramatic entrance 75 Where do meteorites come from? 76 Irons and stones 80 Identifying the parents 83 Lunar and Martian meteorites 86 A rare and precious resource 87 What meteorites can tell us 88 SIX Cosmic Chemistry 92 Element 43: first a puzzle then a clue 92 An abundance of elements 94 The first elements 96 Cooking in the stellar furnace 98 Building heavier elements 104 Supernovae 105 SEVEN A Star Is Born 108 A child of the Milky Way 108 Where stars are born 110 First steps to a solar system 113 The solar system's birth environment 119 Essential ingredients 121 EIGHT Nursery for Planets 123 An excess of infrared 123 Two kinds of disks 125 Inside the solar nebula 129 Getting the dust to stick 131 The influence of gas 134 How to build planetesimals 135 The demise of the disk 137 NINE Worlds of Rock and Metal 140 Sisters but not twins 140 The era of planetesimals 141 Planetary embryos take over 144 The final four 147 Earth 148 Mercury 153 Venus 158 Mars 161 TEN the Making of the Moon 168 The Moon today 169 What the Moon is made of 170 The Moon's orbit 172 The fission theory 174 The capture hypothesis 175 The coaccretion hypothesis 176 The giant impact hypothesis 177 Encounter with Theia 179 Earth, Moon, and tidal forces 181 Late heavy bombardment 183 ELEVEN Earth, Cradle of Life 186 The Hadean era 186 The tree of life 191 The building blocks of life 193 The rise of oxygen 196 A favorable climate 199 Snowball Earth 202 Future habitability 204 TWELVE Worlds of Gas and Ice 205 Giants of the solar system 205 Building giants by core accretion 211 The disk instability model 214 Spin and tilt 215 Masters of many moons 217 Formation of regular satellites 219 The origin of irregular satellites 220 Rings 221 THIRTEEN What Happened to the Asteroid Belt? 225 The asteroid belt today 225 Ground down by collisions? 226 Emptied by gravity? 229 Asteroid families 231 The missing mantle problem 233 Asteroids revealed as worlds 236 FOURTEEN The Outermost Solar System 242 Where do comets come from? 242 Centaurs 246 Looking beyond Neptune 247 The Kuiper belt 248 Sedna 251 The nature of trans-Neptunian objects 252 Where have all the Plutos gone? 256 The Nice model 259 FIFTEEN Epilogue: Paradigms, Problems, and Predictions 263 The paradigm: solar system evolution in a nutshell 264 Unsolved puzzles 267 Searching the solar system for answers 268 Other planetary systems 271 Future evolution of the solar system 273 Glossary 277 Sources and Further Reading 291 Index 293

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Book SynopsisIn "Moby-Dick", Ishmael declares, 'Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me'. This book recovers the story of Maurice versus Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the biblically sanctioned-view that the whale was a fish.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2007 Isabelle Hermalyn Book Award, New York Urban History Winner of the 2007 New York City Book Award "Trying Leviathan isn't just another fish story...[H]is story is riveting, one of those wonderful obscure microcosmic matters."--Sam Roberts, New York Times "It's science itself that was put on trial in 1818 in a dispute over a $75 inspection fee, as related in this fascinating account...Burnett's look at the trial and its fallout adds a historical dimension to debates caused by science's role in the legal sphere, especially when it introduces new concepts."--Publishers Weekly "In 1818, in a New York City courtroom, the case of Maurice v. Judd posed an apparently straightforward question: Was whale oil fish oil, and therefore subject to state inspection and taxation? As expert witnesses testified, however, the trial quickly became a passionate public debate on the order of nature and the supremacy of man. In the fascinating Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature, D. Graham Burnett describes the trial, its undercurrents, and its repercussions with sublime wit and consummate skill."--Anna Mundow, The Boston Globe "At once bewitching and bookish, with a Dickensian cast of characters (including a sea captain named Preserved Fish), Trying Leviathan bristles with insights about the relationships between popular belief, democracy, science and the law that resonate with contemporary controversies over Darwinism and intelligent design."--Glenn C. Altschuler, New York Observer "When the Catholic Church put Galileo on trial for his heretic views, man's position in the Universe was at stake. When schoolteacher John Scopes entered a Tennessee courtroom in 1925 for violating the state's anti-evolution statute, the issue was man's relationship to the animal kingdom. It's hard to imagine that a case brought by a Manhattan fish-oil inspector against a purveyor of whale oil could end up in similar territory. As D. Graham Burnett's enthralling book demonstrates, it did just that...Burnett curates the abundant quotations with skill and strengthens his thesis with some marvellous contemporary illustrations. His clear writing and delightful detours help build a sense of suspense at the outcome of the trial. All of which makes this serious book an unexpected page-turner."--Henry Nicholls, Nature "...[Burnett's] perspective on the intellectual and social climate of early-nineteenth-century America makes fascinating reading. The issues raised in Maurice v. Judd have surfaced again and again, right up to present-day battles over the teaching of intelligent design in public schools."--Natural History "In Trying Leviathan, D. Graham Burnett links the case of Maurice v. Judd to a number of important cultural and social issues, but he consciously avoids depicting the story as a battle between learned men of science and the ignorant masses. Instead, he uses the trial as an epistemological exercise: how could Americans know at the time that whales were not fish? Who had the authority to make such a classification? How does scientific knowledge become conventional wisdom? Burnett's examination of these questions makes for one of the most intellectually rigorous fish stories ever told."--American Scientist "As D. Graham Burnett notes in his curious new history, Trying Leviathan, ...[t]he vast majority of American not only assumed that a whale was a fish, but were surprised to learn that the question could be debated. ...Burnett describes the trial with the keen eye of an informed courtroom observer."--Alexander Nazaryan, The Village Voice "In taking Maurice v. Judd and fleshing out the details of the economics, natural history and politics of the day, Burnett offers a fascinating look into the early culture of science. We in the enlightened 21st century may laugh at the scientific ignorance of our forebears. But consider the debate about science in our times when many doubt the overwhelming scientific evidence for evolution, climate change and the age of the Earth."--David B. Williams, Seattle Times "Is the whale a fish? This seemingly arcane question was at stake in the 1819 New York court case Maurice v. Judd. If the whale was not a fish, its oil would not be subject to the same taxation. But as D. Graham Burnett entertainingly and ably demonstrates, this case was about far more than tax. It turned on questions of taxonomy and classification, giving the scholar insight into the ways the new science of comparative anatomy worked in the public and legal imagination...Burnett's micro-history of the trial offers a careful archaeological study, probing both vested business interests and the relationship between the law and the academy."--Jerome de Groot, Financial Times "What makes this case so important, the author argues, is that it serves as a vehicle for investigating whales as 'problems of knowledge,' offers a window on the often contentious world of taxonomy, and reveals how the 19th-century public viewed natural history."--Science News "Burnett has a lot of fun with the trial and notes that it's not only scientists who speak a foreign language."--Roger Gathman, Austin American Statesman "In Trying Leviathan, D. Graham Burnett provides an account that enlivens further this already energetic historiography. The empirical meat of the book involves a detailed and well-organized reconstruction of the trial of James Maurice (inspector of 'fish oils') versus Samuel Judd (chandler), which was brought before the New York Court of Common Pleas in October 1818."--Diarmid Finnegan, H-Net Reviews "Burnett's book is a spectacular success ... and he should be proud of it as such. For those with an antiquarian's taste there are many delicacies to be found in Trying Leviathan."--Daniel Stewart, International Journal of Maritime History "Trying Leviathan is a truly splendid book. The book is well-written and entirely intelligible to a lay audience."--Roderick Munday, Justice of the Peace "The book is well organized and fully documented. Burnett's many notes suggest significant research. It will be attractive to historians of many different topics, or sub-fields, which the author explores with much creativity... An extensive bibliography and a generously organized index complete this book. It is a very important contribution to the relationship between science and society in the early years of American nation-building and nationalism."--Ubiriatan D'Ambrosio, The Pacific Circle "Throughout this brief book, Burnett does a wonderful job re-creating the trial and the trial atmosphere... Trying Leviathan is explicated so clearly that no reader will come away empty-handed... This is a book with broad appeal."--George O'Har, Technology and Culture "Burnett has given us a splendid example of how to wring the historical juice from a legal case... Burnett enjoys himself in writing this book, and his editors have generously indulged his style (and his footnotes). Readers should settle back and roll with the flourishes, rather than yearn for the sparse, utilitarian narrative of a whaler's log."--Katharine Anderson, Left History "Burnett offers readers a fascinating episode in the history of early American science, along the way raising questions about both the authority of professional naturalists and the historiography of modern (and especially American) science."--Kristin Johnson, British Journal for the History of Science "[Trying Leviathan] has valuable lessons for us. It is also a terrific read."--Arthur M. Shapiro, Reports of the National Center for Science EducationTable of ContentsList of Figures xi Chapter One: Introduction 1 The Peace Offering That Stank 1 Maurice v. Judd and the History of Science 5 From Dock to Docket 14 Chapter Two: Common Sense 19 Manhattan and Its Whales 19 Chapter Three: The Philosophical Whale 44 Samuel Latham Mitchill and Natural History in New York City 44 "No More a Fish than a Man" 61 Taxonomy at the Bar 72 Chapter Four: Naturalists in the Crow's Nest 95 What the Whalemen Knew 95 Chapter Five: Men of Affairs 145 The Whale in the Swamp ?145 Chapter Six: The Jury Steps Out 166 The Knickerbockers Slay a Yankee Whale 166 Who Decides Who Decides? 167 Picking Up the Pisces 178 Chapter Seven: Conclusion 190 New Science, New York, New Nation 190 Epilogue:Whales and Fish, Philosophers and Historians, Science and Society 210 Acknowledgments 223 Bibliography 225 Index 247

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Book SynopsisThe Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most stunning images of the cosmos humanity has ever seen. This book tells the story of this telescope and the visionaries responsible for its extraordinary accomplishments. It takes readers behind the scenes of one of the most ambitious scientific instruments ever sent into space.Trade ReviewOne of Booklist's Editors' Choice for Best Adult Titles for 2008 Finalist for the 2008 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, American Astronautical Society "The Universe in a Mirror ... [is] a breezy behind-the-scenes account by Robert Zimmerman, a freelance writer and space historian... Mr. Zimmerman has brought the story up to the present, and it's a great story."--Dennis Overbye, New York Times "Zimmerman vividly describes the building of the telescope, the turf wars among bureaucrats, scientists and congressional staffers, and the trials and tribulations of the Hubble itself once it was launched... [A] page-turner full of human drama."--Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Wall Street Journal "The Hubble project's struggle not to be strangled by bureaucracy was conveyed last year in a stirring history, and cautionary tale, by Robert Zimmerman--The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It. Worth a read."--Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal "A blow-by-blow account of how the Large Space Telescope, as it was originally called, got built--and a cracking good read it makes... Zimmerman has written an engrossing account of a great story."--Michael Disney, American Scientist "A fascinating inside look at how the great observatory came to be."--David Shiga, New Scientist "Must reading for armchair astrophysicists."--Bryce Christensen, Booklist (starred review) "The Universe in a Mirror is an epic biography of the Hubble telescope. But perhaps more poignant is the book's subtle reminder of all that will be lost in just a few years when Hubble falls from its orbit around Earth--and disintegrates."--Ashley Yeager, Science News "A just-in-time book that provides the reader key details regarding the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)--and why servicing the eye-on-the-universe is so important... Zimmerman has written an excellent book that details the rocky and twisted road that led to the creation of the HST--not only a technological marvel--but an on-orbit instrument that had to overcome a gravity well of politics and bureaucracy."--Space Coalition.com "Space historian Robert Zimmerman's crisp and balanced account of Hubble (based on many oral interviews as well as documents) reminds us not only of Hubble's battle with adversity, but also of the many scientists and engineers who shepherded the project through good times and bad."--Laurence A. Marschall, Natural History Magazine "Zimmerman, a science writer and historian of space exploration, brings back to life those long-forgotten scientists and engineers who engaged in a decades-long campaign to bring Hubble to the launch pad."--Tod R. Lauer, Physics World "Although there are a number of recent books that discuss some of the history and science behind the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), there are no other current works that cover the history behind the HST so extensively. In The Universe in a Mirror, science writer and historian Zimmerman drew from some of the same sources that Smith (The Space Telescope) used, but he dug deeper by using manuscripts, publications, and interviews that other writers did not access... Zimmerman did an excellent job conveying the personalities and the struggles of the people involved. The text of the book flows well, and it is a pretty easy read. Anyone with a basic interest in science would enjoy."--J.R. Kraus, Choice "Mirror is entrancing. It successfully communicates that astronomy isn't just a career but something that people do because they're driven by love, passion, and curiosity... If you love the Hubble, this book is a must-read."--Pamela L. Gay, Sky & Telescope "The Universe in a Mirror ... offers a history of the epoch-making telescope, as well as fascinating descriptions of its most enthralling discoveries."--Bill Gladstone, Canadian Jewish News "It is essentially a popular history, and as that, a very successful work. It is highly readable and enthusiastic without being rhapsodic, and is written from a point of view that reveals a longstanding intimacy with all things Hubble Space Telescope."--Nasser Zakariya, Endeavor "Robert Zimmerman not only offers more details about the Hubble soap operas that many of know but also provides information about the telescope's conception, design, construction, and launch that most of us don't know."--Civil EngineeringTable of ContentsIllustrations ix Preface xiii Chapter 1: Foggy Vision 1 Chapter 2: Slow Start 20 Chapter 3: Getting Money 47 Chapter 4: Building It 77 Chapter 5: Saving It 118 Chapter 6: "New Phenomena Not Yet Imagined" 157 Chapter 7: Abandonment 182 Chapter 8: The Lure of the Unknown 209 Afterword to the Paperback Edition 235 Notes 243 Bibliography 261 Index 279

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Book SynopsisReveals why our faith in scientific certainty is a dangerous illusion, and how only by embracing science's inherent ambiguities and paradoxes can we truly appreciate its beauty and harness its potential. This book challenges our most sacredly held beliefs about science, technology, and progress.Trade Review"Science has been under siege during the last quarter century, first by critics who charge that science itself is a cultural construct and that scientists import their own belief systems into their research. Retired math professor Byers (How Mathematicians Think) argues that much of the problem lies in what he calls the 'science of certainty.' ... Instead, Byers says, scientists need to recognize 'uncertainty, incompleteness, and ambiguity, the ungraspable, the blind spot, or the limits to reason.'"--Publishers Weekly "Is the idea that anything can be determined with absolute certainty an illusion? ... Byers incorporates many brilliant thinkers and seminal scientific breakthroughs into his discussion, offering the cogent, invigorating argument that only by embracing uncertainty can we truly progress."--Kirkus Reviews "Science deals in certainties, right? Wrong, says Montreal-based mathematician William Byers... He contends that this view is wide of the mark and dangerous, influenced by the human need for everything to be 'certain'."--Alison Flood, Wired "I've sometimes remarked that I think our educational system would benefit if we threw Shakespeare in the trash bin, but required all high-schoolers to read Godel and Cantor (well, their interpreters) ... or perhaps now, just substitute Byers! ... [The Blind Spot] should be read and contemplated by every scientist ... and even applied to their own endeavors."--Math-Frolic! "A passionate, informed manifesto that takes aim at our culture's reigning myth of scientific certainty. Byers would like to debunk that myth, and put in its place a science of wonder that freely acknowledges its 'blind spot'--a metaphor for all that remains inherently and irreducibly unknowable, ambiguous, and mysterious... The Blind Spot is an important book for our time, part of a necessary and pressing debate about how to think, and live, within limits both certain and otherwise."--Alex Good, Quill & Quire "[The Blind Spot] is an enjoyable read and makes several interesting points."--Choice "Byers' breadth of learning is impressive, appealing to chaos theory, quantum mechanics, philosophy and beyond in making his case."--Paul Taylor, Mathematics Today "Byers skillfully evokes questions about science and causes readers to reflect on the implications of the blind spots in mathematics and sciences by drawing on notable works across multiple academic fields. I highly recommend this book for anyone in higher education with an appreciation for the philosophy of mathematics and the sciences."--Ruthmae Sears, Mathematics TeacherTable of ContentsPreface: The Revelation of Uncertainty vii Chapter 1: The Blind Spot 1 Chapter 2: The Blind Spot Revealed 17 Chapter 3: Certainty or Wonder? 38 Chapter 4: A World in Crisis! 59 Chapter 5: Ambiguity 69 Chapter 6: Self-Reference: The Human Element in Science 91 Chapter 7: The Mystery of Number 106 Chapter 8: Science as the Ambiguous Search for Unity 124 Chapter 9: The Still Point 156 Chapter 10: Conclusion: Living in a World of Uncertainty 179 Acknowledgments 187 Notes 189 References 197 Index 203

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Book SynopsisBecause of rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing and the projections are grim. This title exposes the predicaments embedded in current efforts to slow down or halt Alzheimer's disease through early detection of presymptomatic biological changes in healthy individuals.Trade ReviewShortlisted for the 2014 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, Quebec Writers' Federation "[T]houghtful ... convincing... Margaret Lock is an extremely sharp critic of the Alzheimer's scene."--W. F. Bynum, Times Literary Supplement "[A] diligent survey of research, literature, conferences, and interviews... Lock proves that the science of the disease is just as compelling as poignant accounts from caregivers and those suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Lock highlights just how much we don't know, from problems with Alzheimer's pathology, testing, and diagnosis to the search for a drug treatment... While science plugs away at solving the Alzheimer's conundrum, Lock's call for improved care and social support takes on a new urgency."--Publishers Weekly "[Lock] delivers key concepts in epidemiology, neuroscience and genetics in a way that is both scholarly and free of unnecessary technical details. Lock's bird's-eye view and mix of diverging sources of information is refreshing... For its wide scope and balanced critical evaluation, The Alzheimer Conundrum is an inspiring read for everyone working in the field."--Eus Van Someren, Nature "Comprehensive, cogent, and densely detailed, The Alzheimer Conundrum provides a useful antidote to media hype about 'silver bullets' that are 'just around the corner' and makes an important contribution to our understanding of an achingly tragic disease that touches virtually all of us."--Glenn Altschuler, Psychology Today "The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging is a welcome addition to a body of work that has so productively explored the historical contingencies, cultural specificities, and philosophical dilemmas that surround and shape bodies and people's understandings and inhabitances of them."--Aaron Seaman, Somatosphere "The Alzheimer Conundrum is a gem for young scientists and medical students, and it will challenge them to step back from traditional models, standardised diagnostic procedures and disease specificity to adopt a broader philosophical approach: when is a disease not a disease? ... Lock's rigorous unpacking of research studies and refusal to accept statements and conclusions from research papers at face value result in a thorough and honest appraisal of the current state of the field. It will be a great help in understanding the confusion and conflicting evidence surrounding this highly important topic."--Rose Anne Kenny, Times Higher Education "Lock's empirical account is a very welcome addition to the literature on biomedical uncertainty."--Des Fitzgerald, LSE Review of Books "[W]hether medical researchers or the general reader, this is a meaningful reading."--Liu, Economic Observer (China) "The Alzheimer Conundrum is an engaging read that, while quite granular in its detail, is never dry... Lock clearly summarizes, synthesizes, and critiques the results from research in molecular biology, genetics, neuroimaging, and epidemiology."--Jason Karlawish, Health Affairs "The Alzheimer Conundrum is an eloquently reasoned, provocative work."--Choice "The strength of this book is the in-depth detailing of the limitations of the existing science of Alzheimer's... This book is particularly relevant for researchers in the field of dementia: for those coming from a bio-medical perspective it may help them to be more reflexive about the choices they make in their studies, and for social scientists it may help to further understandings of and potential links with more medically focused research."--Jane Tooke, Journal of Ageing & Society "Lock's book is balanced, brilliant, and inspirational... The sheer travel, research, and organization that went into its creation are beyond impressive. Its lasting contribution is to leave the thoughtful reader in the AD field pondering the notion of a conundrum--after all, riddles abound in many aspects of our lives, always pointing to uncertainty."--Daniel R. George and Peter J. Whitehouse, Culture, Medicine, & Psychiatry "The Alzheimer Conundrum is a provocative account of why Alzheimer's disease (AD) is such a puzzling mix of scientific hypotheses, research agendas, pharmaceutical interests, funding objectives, and theories of aging... A timely critique of the disease model and its cultural consequences. The book's appeal is that it takes readers beyond scientific fields to consider social, historical, and cross-cultural dimensions of AD that broaden conceptual debates about mind and body, nature and nurture, and normal and pathological."--Stephen Katz, Bulletin of the History of MedicineTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Orientations 1 Chapter 1 Making and Remaking Alzheimer Disease 26 Chapter 2 Striving to Standardize Alzheimer Disease 51 Chapter 3 Paths to Alzheimer Prevention 76 Chapter 4 Embodied Risk Made Visible 100 Chapter 5 Alzheimer Genes: Biomarkers of Prediction and Prevention 132 Chapter 6 Genome-Wide Association Studies: Back to the Future 156 Chapter 7 Living with Embodied Omens 174 Chapter 8 Chance Untamed and the Return of Fate 207 Chapter 9 Transcending Entrenched Tensions 229 Afterword: Portraits from the Mind 243 Notes 247 Bibliography 277 Index 301

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Book SynopsisFor six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies. They have relied on their superior technology to do so, yet these technologies have not always guaranteed success. This title examines Western imperialism's complex relationship with technology.Trade Review"Headrick destroys the simplistic notion that technological advances alone can explain the historic limits of Western global hegemony."--Choice "For professional historians--and especially for those dealing with the events of the early modern and modern world and with the progress of technical advances most of the latest book by Daniel R. Headrick might seem like a comforting walk through a very familiar landscape. The road's main twists come as no surprise, but it is good to see them yet again, surveyed with a macroscopic perspective that captures all important features and, here and there, highlights interesting details."--Vaclav Smil, American Historical Review "Daniel R. Headrick is right to think that insufficient attention has been paid to how technological change and environment shape imperialism, and his work is an excellent attempt to remedy that deficiency."--Peter Cain, The Historian "This is an interesting, clearly-written, and well-researched book. In an era of academic specialization, it is also attractive for its willingness to tackle one of the largest and oldest questions of world history. While technology is the theme, the author carefully frames and qualifies his argument so as to avoid the pitfalls of reductionism. While this book should find a place in courses on economic history, the history of technology, and the economics of imperialism, its accessibility should also make it attractive to the reading public."--Robert E. Prasch, Journal of Economic Issues "Headrick provides a magisterial and highly readable survey... The work is perhaps most eye-opening in describing conflict in regions often left out of more sweeping accounts--colonial expansion in sub-Saharan west Africa or Algeria, or conflict in southern Latin America... [T]his book will enable [historians] to understand the place of technology in broader narratives of change all the more effectively."--Paul Warde, Cultural and Social History "[T]his is a major contribution from an important academic built on decades of experience. I am a better scholar for having read it, and chances are that you will be too."--James Daschuk, Environmental History JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction Imperialism and Technology 1 On Imperialism 1 On Technology 3 The Goal and Organization of This Book 6 Notes 9 Chapter 1: The Discovery of the Oceans, to 1779 11 Five Seafaring Traditions 11 The Portuguese and the Ocean 20 Navigation 27 The Spanish Voyages 32 Completing the Map of the Oceans 41 Conclusion 50 Notes 51 Chapter 2: Eastern Ocean Empires, 1497-1700 59 The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean 59 The Ottoman Challenge 68 The Limits of Portuguese Power 74 The Dutch and the English in the Indian Ocean 79 China, Japan, and the Europeans 84 Conclusion 87 Notes 89 Chapter 3: Horses, Diseases, and the Conquest of the Americas, 1492-1849 95 The First Encounter: The Caribbean 96 The Conquest of Mexico 101 Peru and Chile 112 Argentina and North America 118 Disease and Demography 123 Conclusion 131 Notes 132 Chapter 4: The Limits of the Old Imperialism: Africa and Asia to 1859 139 Sub-Saharan Africa to 1830 139 India to 1746 147 The Military Revolution 151 Plassey and After 154 Reaching the Limit: Afghanistan and the Punjab 158 Reaching the Limit: Algeria, 1830-1850 163 Russia and the Caucasus 167 Conclusion 169 Notes 170 Chapter 5: Steamboat Imperialism, 1807-1898 177 Steamboats in North America 179 Steamers in South Asia 186 Routes to India 188 The Euphrates Route 191 The Red Sea Route 194 Britain and China 197 The Nemesis 200 Steamboats on the Niger 206 Steamboats and the Scramble for Africa 212 Conclusion 216 Notes 217 Chapter 6: Health, Medicine, and the New Imperialism, 1830-1914 226 Medicine and Africa in the Early Nineteenth Century 226 The Discovery of Quinine Prophylaxis 229 Public Health at Mid-Century 234 From Empirical to Scientific Medicine 237 Science and Tropical Diseases 239 Health and Empire at the Turn of the Century 243 Conclusion 249 Notes 251 Chapter 7: Weapons and Colonial Wars, 1830-1914 257 The Gun Revolution 257 Guns in Africa 265 The Scramble for Africa 269 North America 276 Argentina and Chile 284 Ethiopia 289 Conclusion 291 Notes 292 Chapter 8: The Age of Air Control, 1911-1936 302 The Beginnings of Aviation 303 Early Colonial Air Campaigns 306 Great Britain in Iraq 311 Air Control in Action 314 Spain in the Rif 321 Italy in Africa 324 Conclusion 327 Notes 329 Chapter 9: The Decline of Air Control, 1946-2007 334 France in Indochina 335 France in Algeria 337 The United States in Vietnam 340 The Soviet Union in Afghanistan 349 U.S. Military Aviation after Vietnam 353 The Gulf War 357 The Iraq War 359 Conclusion 363 Notes 364 Conclusion Technology and Imperialism Redux 370 Notes 373 For Further Reading 375 Index 381

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Book SynopsisExplores the post-World War II transformation of economics by constructing a history of the proof of its central dogma - that a competitive market economy may possess a set of equilibrium prices.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2016 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics Society "[An] engaging and illuminating history of the mid-twentieth-century proofs of competitive general equilibrium and the three authors associated with them."--S. Abu Turab Rizvi, Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics "The book has a marvelous and incredibly detailed reconstruction of the paths pursued by the three protagonists with mathematical details suppressed."--Olav Bjerkholt, EH.Net "A fascinating history about modern economics and some of its key historical actors ... also a treatise on historiography."--Marcel J. Boumans, History of Economic Ideas "Finding Equilibrium is a testament to the importance of writing the history of recent economics. The fact that it is a gripping read ... only adds to the impressiveness of Duppe and Weintraub's accomplishment. May it have many imitators."--Steven G. Medema, Journal of the History of Economic ThoughtTable of ContentsPreface ix Chronology xxiii Part I People 1 Chapter 1 Arrow's Ambitions 3 Chapter 2 McKenzie's Frustrations 24 Chapter 3 Debreu's Silence 47 Part II Context 65 Chapter 4 Sites 67 Chapter 5 Community 98 Part III Credit 129 Chapter 6 Three Proofs 131 Chapter 7 Aftermath 172 Chapter 8 The Proofs Become History 204 Conclusion 231 Coda 245 Acknowledgments 249 References 251 Index of Names 267 Index of Subjects 273

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Book SynopsisIn April 1922, we find Einstein lecturing in Paris, engaged in reestablishing ties among scientists in former enemy nations. This title recounts in poetic prose the hectic schedule on land, the contemplative rest at sea, and his musings on science, philosophy, and art during his first encounter with the Far East, Palestine, and Spain.Trade Review"Einstein continues to fascinate minds. His letters to various people speak his mind directly to the reader. Even for a non-science student, it makes an interesting read."-- Sarthak Shankar, Organiser "The joy of the Collected Papers, which has now reached the 13th volume and the year 1922, is that it reveals these lesser known facets of this extraordinary man, allowing us to go beyond the famous mask."--Peter Forbes, Guardian "As usual, this volume is of excellent quality with respect to the printing, the contents, and the illustrations."--Zentralblatt MATH "A rich array of assorted documentary evidence, most of which appears here for the first time."--David E. Rowe, MetascienceTable of ContentsList of Texts xiii List of Illustrations xxxi INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL Introduction to Volume 13 xxxiii Editorial Method of the Series lxxix Acknowledgments lxxxvii Note on the Translation lxxxix List of Abbreviations xc Location Symbols xci Descriptive Symbols xciv TEXTS 1 Alphabetical List of Correspondence 753 Chronology 771 Calendar of Abstracts 783 Appendixes 833 Literature Cited 893 Index 921 Index of Citations 973

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Book SynopsisIncludes documents that appears in the language in which it was written, and presents the English translations of select portions of non-English materials.Trade Review"Overall, this is a fascinating book (as is the entire series of The Collected Papers) revealing lesser-known aspects and moments of Einstein's multifarious activities as a mathematician, physicist, engineer, philosopher, musician, and social and political activist. In fact, anyone interested in the life and work of this unique personality should acquire not only the present volume but the entire series."--Theophanes Grammenos, Mathematical Reviews ClippingsTable of ContentsLIST OF TEXTS Vol. 3, 10a. "On Boltzmann's Principle and Some of Its Direct Consequences," 2 November 1910 "Uber das Boltzmannsche Prinzip und einige unmittelbar aus demselben fliessende Folgerungen" Vol. 5, 315a. From Heinrich Zangger, after 28 November 1911 Not selected for translation Vol. 5, 505a. To Paul Langevin, 19 January 1914 Not selected for translation Vol. 8, 86a. From Heinrich Zangger, after 28 May 1915 Not selected for translation Vol. 8, 95a. From Heinrich Zangger, 9 July 1915 Not selected for translation Vol. 8, 95b. From Heinrich Zangger, 12 July 1915 Not selected for translation Vol. 8, 113a. From Elsa Einstein, 31 August 1915 Vol. 8, 113b. From Elsa Einstein, 1 September 1915 Vol. 8, 113c. From Elsa Einstein, 4 September 1915 Vol. 8, 113d. From Elsa Einstein, 5 September 1915 Vol. 8, 113e. From Pauline Einstein, 7 September 1915 Vol. 8, 113f. From Elsa Einstein, 7 September 1915 Vol. 8, 113g. From Elsa Einstein, 7 September 1915 Vol. 8, 116a. From Elsa Einstein, 12 September 1915 Vol. 8, 177a. From Paul Ehrenfest, 1 January 1916 Not selected for translation Vol. 8, 493a. To Heinrich Zangger, after 26 March 1918 Vol. 8, 510a. From Heinrich Zangger, after 16 April 1918 Not selected for translation Vol. 9, 35a. To Luise Karr-Krusi, 6 May 1919 Not selected for translation Vol. 9, 140a. To Albert Karr-Krusi, 17 October 1919 Not selected for translation Vol. 7, 33a. Statement on the Hebrew University, 18 February 1920 Vol. 7, 39a. Page proofs for "Propagation of Sound in Partly Dissociated Gases," before 29 April 1920 "Schallausbreitung in teilweise dissoziierten Gasen" Not selected for translation Vol. 10, 80a. From Mileva Einstein-Maric;, before 23 July 1920 Not selected for translation Vol. 7, 45a. "Opinion on Jakob Grommer's Textbook Project," before 11 October 1920 "Gutachten von Professor A. Einstein uber das mathematischphysikalische Unterrichtswerk von Dr. J. Grommer" Vol. 7, 50a. On the Present Situation in Theoretical Physics, 14 January 1921 Vol. 7, 52a. Opinion on Eggeling and Richter's Invention, 3 February 1921 Not selected for translation Vol. 7, 56a. "International Relations in Science," 2 April-10 August 1921 "Internationale Beziehungen in der Wissenschaft" Vol. 7, 56b. Professor Einstein on the Proposed Hebrew University of Jerusalem, before 3 April 1921 Not selected for translation Vol. 7, 60a. Calculations on a Cooler, July 1921-March 1922 Vol. 7, 65a. Expert Opinion on Proposal by Heinrich Lowy, 12 October 1921 "Gutachten" 1. To Charlotte Weigert, early 1922 2."Preface" to Bertrand Russell, Political Ideals, 1922 "Vorwort, " Bertrand Russell. Politische Ideale. Berlin: Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft fur Politik und Geschichte m. b. H., 1922 3. "The International Character of Science," before or on 1 January 1922 "Die Internationale der Wissenschaft" 4. From Max Born and James Franck, 1 January 1922 5. From Hermann Weyl, 3 January 1922 6. To Max Born, 6 January 1922 7. From Hedwig Born, 7 January 1922 8. From Paul Ehrenfest, 8 January 1922 9. To Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 9 January 1922 10. To Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, 9 January 1922 11. From Richard B. Haldane, 9 January 1922 12. "Proof of the Non-Existence of an Everywhere Regular, Centrally Symmetric Field According to the Field Theory of Kaluza," 10 January 1922 "Beweis der Nichtexistenz eines uberall regularen zentrisch symmetrischen Feldes nach der Feld-Theorie von Th. Kaluza" Scripta Universitatis atque Bibliothecae Hierosolymitanarum. Mathematica et Physica 1 (1923) 13. To Paul Ehrenfest, 11 January 1922 14. From Arnold Sommerfeld, 11 January 1922 15. From Felix Ehrenhaft, 12 January 1922 16. To Maurice Solovine, 14 January 1922 17. From Eberhard Zschimmer, 14 January 1922 18. Expert Opinion on Rudolf Goldschmidt's Patent, after 14 January 1922 "Gutachten zum Amerikanischen Patent Nr 1386329 Goldschmidt" 19. From Richard Courant, 15 January 1922 20. From Michael Polanyi, 15 January 1922 21. From Sanehiko Yamamoto, 15 January 1922 22. From Sanehiko Yamamoto, 15 January 1922 23. "To Allgemeine Elektrizitats-Gesellschaft Berlin. Remarks to an Expert Opinion Prepared for Mr. Sannig," 16 January 1922 "An die allgemeine Elektrizitats-Gesellschaft Berlin. Bemerkung zu einem Herren Sannig gelieferten Gutachten" 24. From Paul Ehrenfest, 17 January 1922 25. To Max Born and James Franck, 18 January 1922 26. To David Hilbert, 18 January 1922 27. To Arnold Sommerfeld, on or after 18 January 1922 28. "Response to the Expert Opinion of Hans Wolff in the Legal Dispute between Anschutz & Co and Kreiselbau,"18 January 1922 "Ruckausserung zu dem Wolffschen Gutachten in Sachen Anschutz contra Kreiselbau" 29. "On an Optical Experiment Whose Result Is Incompatible with the Undulatory Theory," ca. 19 January 1922 "Uber ein optisches Experiment, dessen Ergebnis mit der Undulationstheorie unvereinbar ist" 30. From Paul Ehrenfest, 19 January 1922 31. To Paul Ehrenfest, between 19 and 22 January 1922 32. From Chaim Weizmann, 21 January 1922 33. From Charlotte Weigert, 22 January 1922 Not selected for translation 34. From Heinrich Zangger, after 23 January 1922 Not selected for translation 35. From Koshin Murofuse, around 26 January 1922 Not selected for translation 36. To Emile Berliner, 26 January 1922 37. To Paul Ehrenfest, 26 January 1922 38. To Paul Hausmeister, 26 January 1922 39. From Paul Ehrenfest, 26 January 1922 40. From Jun Ishiwara, 26 January 1922 41. To Arnold Sommerfeld, 28 January 1922 42. From Gregory Breit, 31 January 1922 Not selected for translation 43. "On the Theory of Light Propagation in Dispersive Media," 2 February 1922 "Zur Theorie der Lichtfortpflanzung in dispergierenden Medien" Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin). Physikalischmathematische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte (1922) 44. From Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 3 February 1922 45. From Paul Ehrenfest, 4 February 1922 46. From Joan Voute, 11 February 1922 Not selected for translation 47. To Paul Ehrenfest, 12 February 1922 48. To Hans Albert and Eduard Einstein, 12 February 1922 49. From Hans Albert Einstein, between 12 February and 4 March 1922 50. From Eduard Einstein, between 12 February and 4 March 1922 51. To Madeleine Rolland, 15 February 1922 52. From Emil Warburg, 15 February 1922 53. "Proposal for the Nomination of a Corresponding Member in Physics" [Niels Bohr], before 16 February 1922 "Antrag auf Ernennung eines korrespondierenden Mitglied des aus dem Gebiete der Physik" 54. From Paul Ehrenfest, 16 February 1922 55. From Wolfgang Hallgarten, 16 February 1922 56. From Paul Langevin, 18 February 1922 57. To Paul Ehrenfest, 20 February 1922 58. To Oswald Veblen, 20 February 1922 59. To Franz Selety, 22 February 1922 60. To Juliusz Wolfsohn, 22 February 1922 61. From Theodor von Karman, 22 February 1922 62. Review of Wolfgang Pauli, The Theory of Relativity, 24 February 1922 Die Naturwissenschaften 10 (1922) 63. To Paul Langevin, 27 February 1922 64. From Thomas Barclay, 3 March 1922 Not selected for translation 65. From Erich Marx, 3 March 1922 66. To Erich Marx, after 3 March 1922 67. To Hans Albert and Eduard Einstein, 4 March 1922 68. From Edith Einstein, 5 March 1922 69. To Paul Langevin, 6 March 1922 70. From Paul Langevin, 8 March 1922 71. To Paul Langevin, between 8 and 13 March 1922 72. To Bernardo Dessau, 9 March 1922 73. From Richard B. Haldane, 9 March 1922 74. To the French League of Human Rights, 10 March 1922 75. From Lipmann Halpern, 10 March 1922 76. "Theoretical Comments on the Superconductivity of Metals," 11 March 1922 "Theoretische Bemerkungen zur Supraleitung der Metalle" Het Natuurkundig Laboratorium der Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden in de jaren 1904-1922. Gedenkboek aangeboden aan H. Kamerlingh Onnes, directeur van het Laboratorium bij gelegenheid van zijn veertigjarig professoraat op 11 November 1922. Leyden: Ijdo, 1922 77. From Paul Ehrenfest, 11 March 1922 78. From Heinrich Zangger, after 11 March 1922 79. To Paul Ehrenfest, between 11 and 13 March 1922 80. From Michele Besso, 12 March 1922 81. To the Prussian Academy of Sciences, 13 March 1922 82. From Paul Ehrenfest, 13 March 1922 83. From Paul Winteler, 13 March 1922 Not selected for translation 84. To Thomas Barclay, 14 March 1922 85. To Maurice Solovine, 14 March 1922 86. From Michael Polanyi, 14 March 1922 87. To Paul Ehrenfest, 15 March 1922 88. From Maurice Croiset, 15 March 1922 89. To Max Hirschfeld, 17 March 1922 Not selected for translation 90. To Paul Winteler and Maja Winteler-Einstein, 17 March 1922 91. To Arnold Berliner, on or after 17 March 1922 Not selected for translation 92. To Maurice Croiset, 18 March 1922 93. To Gustav and Regina Maier-Friedlander, 18 March 1922 Not selected for translation 94. From Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 18 March 1922 95. To Michele Besso, 20 March 1922 96. To Robert A. Millikan, Paul Epstein, and Richard C. Tolman, 20 March 1922 97. From Thomas Barclay, 20 March 1922 98. From Leo Jolowicz, 20 March 1922 99. From Paul Langevin, 20 March 1922 100. From Mileva Einstein-Maric;, around 21 March 1922 101. From Zhu Jia-hua, 21 March 1922 102. From Paul Winteler, 21 March 1922 Not selected for translation 103. To Maurice Solovine, 22 March 1922 104. To Joan Voute, 22 March 1922 105. From Paul Langevin, 22 March 1922 106. From Paul Winteler, 22 March 1922 Not selected for translation 107. To Paul Ehrenfest, 23 March 1922 108. To Paul Langevin, 23 March 1922 109. From Erwin Finlay Freundlich, 24 March 1922 110. To Thomas Barclay, 25 March 1922 111. To Zhu Jia-hua, 25 March 1922 112. To Leo Jolowicz, 25 March 1922 113. To Arthur Nussbaum, 26 March 1922 114. From Paul Ehrenfest, 26 March 1922 115. From Hantaro Nagaoka, 26 March 1922 116. To Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 27 March 1922 117. To Viktor Engelhardt, 27 March 1922 118. To Jun Ishiwara, 27 March 1922 119. To Hans Reichenbach, 27 March 1922 120. To Charles Nordmann, before 28 March 1922 Not selected for translation 121. From Wilhelm Mayer-Kaufbeuren, 28 March 1922 Not selected for translation 122. To Elsa Einstein, 29 March 1922 123. To Elsa Einstein, 31 March 1922 124. From Peter Debye, 31 March 1922 125. From Beatrice Jahn-Rusconi Besso, 31 March 1922 Not selected for translation 126. To Paul Langevin, 1 April 1922 127. From Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 2 April 1922 128. From Emile Berliner, 2 April 1922 129. From Ludwig Hopf and Theodor von Karman, 3 April 1922 130. From Paul Block, 4 April 1922 131. "The Theory of Relativity." Discussion Remarks at a Meeting of the Societe francaise de Philosophie, 6 April 1922 "La Theorie de la Relativite" Societe francaise de Philosophie. Bulletin 22 (1922) 132. From Oswald Veblen, 6 April 1922 133. From Paul Winteler, 6 April 1922 Not selected for translation 134. To Elsa Einstein, 8 April 1922 135. From Chenzu Wei, 8 April 1922 136. From Gustave Le Bon, 9 April 1922 Not selected for translation 137. From Georg Maschke, 9 April 1922 138. From Paul Oppenheim, 9 April 1922 139. To Lucien Chavan, 10 April 1922 140. From Paul Langevin, 10 April 1922 141. To Ilse Einstein, 11 April 1922 142. From Hans Albert Einstein, 12 April 1922 143. From Peter Debye, 14 April 1922 144. From Paul G. Tomlinson, 14 April 1922 145. To Georg Maschke, 15 April 1922 146. To Paul Oppenheim, 15 April 1922 147. From Jacques Hadamard, 16 April 1922 148. To Heinrich J. Goldschmidt, 17 April 1922 149. From Paul Ehrenfest, 17 April 1922 150. To Peter Debye, 18 April 1922 151. To Charles-Eugene Guye, 18 April 1922 152. To Romain Rolland, 19 April 1922 153. To Paul Block, 20 April 1922 154. To Maurice Solovine, 20 April 1922 155. From Peter Debye, 20 April 1922 156. From Maja Winteler-Einstein, 20 April 1922 Not selected for translation 157. To Paul Ehrenfest, 21 April 1922 158. From Romain Rolland, 21 April 1922 159. From Paul Colin, 22 April 1922 Not selected for translation 160. From Paul Ehrenfest, 22 April 1922 161. To Maja Winteler-Einstein, 23 April 1922 162. From Sebastian Kornprobst, 23 April 1922 163. To Paul Ehrenfest, 24 April 1922 164. To Sebastian Kornprobst, 24 April 1922 165. To Otto Soehring, 24 April 1922 166. From Paul Block, 24 April 1922 167. From Paul Langevin, 25 April 1922 168. From Maurice Solovine, 27 April 1922 169. To Emile Borel, 28 April 1922 170. To Hans Delbruck, 28 April 1922 171. To Jacques Hadamard, 28 April 1922 172. To Moritz Schlick, 28 April 1922 173. To Mario Viscardini, 28 April 1922 174. To Elsa Einstein, 29 April 1922 175. From Max Born, 30 April 1922 176. From Paul Painleve, 30 April 1922 Not selected for translation 177. To Chenzu Wei, 3 May 1922 178. To Elsa Einstein, 4 May 1922 179. To Hans Albert Einstein, 5 May 1922 180. From Edgar Zilsel, 5 May 1922 Not selected for translation 181. Two Aphorisms, 8 May 1922 182. To Paul Painleve, 8 May 1922 183. From Henri Barbusse, 8 May 1922 184. Paul Ehrenfest to Niels Bohr, 8 May 1922 Not selected for translation 185. From David Hilbert, 9 May 1922 186. To Elsa Einstein, 10 May 1922 187. From Edward H. Synge, 10 May 1922 188. To Paul Langevin, 12 May 1922 189. From Emile Borel, 13 May 1922 Not selected for translation 190. To Max Born, on or after 14 May 1922 191. From Paul Ehrenfest, 16 May 1922 192. From Eric Drummond, 17 May 1922 193. To Paul Ehrenfest, 18 May 1922 194. Recommendation for Paul Hertz, 18 May 1922 195. To Gustave Le Bon, 19 May 1922 196. To Felix Rosenbluth, 19 May 1922 197. To Oskar Heimann, 20 May 1922 198. To Hantaro Nagaoka, 20 May 1922 199. From Robert A. Millikan, 22 May 1922 200. To Paul Ehrenfest, 23 May 1922 201. To Robert A. Millikan, 25 May 1922 202. To Robert A. Millikan, 25 May 1922 203. To Erwin Finlay Freundlich, 26 May 1922 Not selected for translation 204. From Max Planck, 26 May 1922 205. From Marie Curie-Sklodowska, 27 May 1922 206. From Uzumi Doi, 27 May 1922 See documentary edition for the English letter 207. To Marie Curie-Sklodowska, 30 May 1922 208. To Eric Drummond, 30 May 1922 209. From Hermann Weyl, 31 May 1922 210. From Maja Winteler-Einstein, 31 May 1922 Not selected for translation 211. To Friedrich Heilbron, 1 June 1922 212. To Humboldt-Film-Gesellschaft, 1 June 1922 213. On the "Einstein Film," 2 June 1922 Berliner Tageblatt, 2 June 1922 214. From Leopold Koppel, 2 June 1922 215. From Chaim Weizmann, 2 June 1922 216. To Friedrich Vieweg, 3 June 1922 217. From Aurel Stodola, 5 June 1922 Not selected for translation 218. To Hellmut von Gerlach, 6 June 1922 219. To Hermann Weyl, 6 June 1922 220. Response to Ernest Bovet's Question to Paul Langevin, 7 June 1922 Wissen und Leben 15 (1922) 221. From Hans Delbruck, 7 June 1922 222. From Henry S. Hatfield, 7 June 1922 Not selected for translation 223. From Gustave Le Bon, 7 June 1922 Not selected for translation 224. From Heinrich Zangger, between 8 and 18 June 1922 Not selected for translation 225. From Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 9 June 1922 226. "Second Supplementary Expert Opinion in the Matter of the Gesellschaft fur nautische Instrumente vs. Anschutz & Co.," between 9 June and 10 July 1922 "Zweites Nachtrags-Gutachten in Sachen Gesellschaft fur nautische Instrumente gegen Anschutz & Co." 227. From George Jaffe, 10 June 1922 Not selected for translation 228. Address to the German-French Peace Meeting, 11 June 1922 Die Brucke uber den Abgrund. Fur die Verstandigung zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich. Bericht uber den Besuch der "Franzosischen Liga fur Menschenrechte" in Berlin und im Ruhrgebiet. Otto Lehmann-Russbuldt, ed. Berlin: Bund Neues Vaterland, 1922 Not selected for translation 229. From Aarau Cantonal School Class of 1897, 11 June 1922 Not selected for translation 230. From Wilhelm Westphal, 12 June 1922 231. "Emil Warburg as Researcher," 13 June 19228 "Emil Warburg als Forscher," Die Naturwissenschaften 10 (1922) 232. To Aurel Stodola, 13 June 1922 233. To Thorstein G. Wereide, 13 June 1922 234. Introductory Remarks to Hans Thirring, L'idee de la theorie de la relativite, ca. 14 June 1922 Hans Thirring. L'Idee de la theorie de la relativite. Maurice Solovine, trans. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1923 235. From Emile Borel, 14 June 1922 Not selected for translation 236. From Max Born, 16 June 1922 237. To Max Born, on or after 16 June 1922 238. From Paul Ehrenfest, 17 June 1922 239. To Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 18 June 1922 240. To Gustave Le Bon, 18 June 1922 241. To Heinrich Zangger, 18 June 1922 242. From Eduard Einstein, 18 June 1922 243. From Hans Albert Einstein, 21 June 1922 244. From Max(?) Kreutzer, 23 June 1922 Not selected for translation 245. To Mathilde Rathenau, after 24 June 1922 246. From Hans Albert Einstein, after 24 June 1922 247. From Eduard Einstein, after 24 June 1922 248. From Mileva Einstein-Maric;, after 24 June 1922 249. From Mathilde Rathenau, after 24 June 1922 250. From Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 25 June 1922 251. From Paul Epstein, 26 June 1922 252. From Gustave Le Bon, 27 June 1922 Not selected for translation 253. From Friedrich Sternthal, 28 June 1922 Not selected for translation 254. From Emile Borel, 29 June 1922 Not selected for translation 255. To Gustave Le Bon, 30 June 1922 256. From Chaim Weizmann, 30 June 1922 257. To Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 1 July 1922 258. To Walther Nernst, 1 July 1922 259. From Otto Gradenwitz, 1 July 1922 260. From Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 2 July 1922 261. To Richard B. Haldane, 3 July 1922 262. To Marie Curie-Sklodowska, 4 July 1922 263. To Eric Drummond, 4 July 1922 264. To Henry S. Hatfield, 4 July 1922 265. From Sigmund Einstein, 4 July 1922 266. To Max Planck, 6 July 1922 267. From Raymond de Rienzi, 6 July 1922 Not selected for translation 268. From Marie Curie-Sklodowska, 7 July 1922 269. From Gustave Le Bon, 7 July 1922 Not selected for translation 270. From George Jaffe, 8 July 1922 271. From Max von Laue, 8 July 1922 272. From Max Planck, 8 July 1922 273. From Gilbert Murray, 10 July 1922 See documentary edition for the English letter 274. To Henri Barbusse, 11 July 1922 275. To Marie Curie-Sklodowska, 11 July 1922 276. To Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 12 July 1922 277. To Debendra Nath Bannerjea, 12 July 1922 278. To Max von Laue, 12 July 1922 279. To Max Planck, 12 July 1922 280. To the Prussian Academy of Sciences, 12 July 1922 Not selected for translation 281. To Pierre Comert, between 12 and 19 July 1922 282. From Bernardo Attolico, 12 July 1922 Not selected for translation 283. From Sanehiko Yamamoto, between 12 July and 8 August 1922 Not selected for translation 284. To Otto Gradenwitz, 13 July 1922 285. To Gustave Le Bon, 13 July 1922 286. To Gilbert Murray, 13 July 1922 287. From Richard B. Haldane, 14 July 1922 288. From Gerhard Kowalewski, 14 July 1922 Not selected for translation 289. To George Jaffe, 15 July 1922 290. From Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 15 July 1922 291. From Heinrich Zangger, between 15 and 25 July 1922 Not selected for translation 292. To Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 16 July 1922 293. To Maurice Solovine, 16 July 1922 294. To Chaim Weizmann, 17 July 1922 295. From George Jaffe, 17 July 1922 296. From Gilbert Murray, 17 July 1922 297. From Richard Eisenmann, 18 July 1922 298. From Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 19 July 1922 299. From Gustave Le Bon, 19 July 1922 Not selected for translation 300. From Peter Pringsheim, 19 July 1922 301. From Hermann Struck, 19 July 1922 Not selected for translation 302. To George Jaffe, 22 July 1922 303. To Erich Marx-Weinbaum, 22 July 1922 304. To Wolfgang Ostwald, 22 July 1922 305. From Chenzu Wei, 22 July 1922 306. To Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 25 July 1922 307. To Sigmund Einstein, 25 July 1922 308. To Gerhard Kowalewski, 25 July 1922 309. To Gilbert Murray, 25 July 1922 310. From George Jaffe, 26 July 1922 311. To Richard Eisenmann, 27 July 1922 312. To Hendrik K. de Haas, 27 July 1922 313. From Chaim Weizmann, 27 July 1922 314. To Eric Drummond, 29 July 1922 315. "Quantum Theoretical Comments on the Experiment of Stern and Gerlach," before 30 July 1922 "Quantentheoretische Bemerkungen zum Experiment von Stern und Gerlach" Zeitschrift der Physik 11 (1922) 316. From Paul Ehrenfest, 30 July 1922 317. "In Memoriam Walther Rathenau," August 1922 Neue Rundschau 33 (1922) 318. "On the Present Crisis of Theoretical Physics," August 1922 "Uber die gegenwartige Krise der theoretischen Physik," Kaizo 4, no. 12 (December 1922) 319. From Hantaro Nagaoka, 2 August 1922 320. From Max Born, 6 August 1922 321. From Heinrich Zangger, between 6 and 28 August 1922 Not selected for translation 322. From Michele Besso, 8 August 1922 323. From Henry N. Brailsford, 10 August 1922 324. From Moritz Schlick, 13 August 1922 325. To Jacques Loeb, 14 August 1922 326. From Helene Stocker, 14 August 1922 Not selected for translation 327. From David Hilbert, 15 August 1922 328. From Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 20 August 1922 329. To Paul Ehrenfest, on or after 21 August 1922 330. From Maja Winteler-Einstein, 25 August 1922 331. To Maximilian Pfister, 28 August 1922 332. From Paul Dienes, 28 August 1922 Not selected for translation 333. From Paul Ehrenfest, 29 August 1922 334. To Richard B. Haldane, 30 August 1922 335. To Paul Painleve, 30 August 1922 336. From Richard B. Haldane, after 30 August 1922 Not selected for translation 337. To Carl Speyer, 31 August 1922 338. To Paul Dienes, or or after 31 August 1922 339. "On Anisotropic Pressure Forces in Gases with Heat Flow," September 1922 "Uber anisotrope Druck-Krafte in warme-durchstromten Gasen" 340. "Comment on A. Friedmann's Paper: 'On the Curvature of Space,'" September 1922 "Bemerkungen zu der Arbeit von A. Friedmann "Uber die Krummung des Raumes" Zeitschrift fur Physik 11 (1922) 341. To Chaim Weizmann, after 2 September 1922 342. From Fritz Haber, 3 September 1922 343. From Henry N. Brailsford, 4 September 1922 344. From Jacques Loeb, 4 September 1922 345. From Albert Karr-Krusi, 6 September 1922 Not selected for translation 346. From Helene Stocker, 7 September 1922 347. "The Peril to German Civilisation," 11 September 1922 The New Leader 1 (1922) 348. To Henry N. Brailsford, 11 September 1922 Not selected for translation 349. To Richard B. Haldane, 11 September 1922 350. From Franz Selety, 11 September 1922 351. To Max Wertheimer, 12 September 1922 352. To Alfred L. Berthoud, 14 September 1922 353. To Thorvald Madsen, 14 September 1922 354. From Chugi (Tadayoshi) Akita, 15 September 1922 355. From Raymond de Rienzi, 15 September 1922 Not selected for translation 356. To Chugi (Tadayoshi) Akita, on or after 15 September 1922 357. To Tullio Levi-Civita, on or after 15 September 1922 358. To Arnold Sommerfeld, 16 September 1922 359. From Svante Arrhenius, on or before 17 September 1922 360. From Max Wertheimer, 17 September 1922 361. To Swiss Embassy, Berlin, 18 September 1922 362. To Max Wertheimer, 18 September 1922 363. From Max von Laue, 18 September 1922 364. From Max Wertheimer, 19 September 1922 Not selected for translation 365. To Svante Arrhenius, 20 September 1922 366. To Hans Reichenbach, 20 September 1922 367. To Carl Beck, 22 September 1922 368. To Jacques Loeb, 22 September 1922 369. From Michele Besso, 24 September 1922 370. "Comment on Franz Selety's Paper: 'Contributions to the Cosmological System,'" [12-25] September 1922 "Bemerkung zu der Franz Seletyschen Arbeit "Beitrage zum kosmologischen System" " Annalen der Physik 69 (1922) 371. To Franz Selety, 25 September 1922 372. To Edgar Zilsel, 25 September 1922 373. To Michele Besso, 26 September 1922 374. To Eberhard Zschimmer, 27 September 1922 375. To Romain Rolland, on or before 30 September 1922 376. To Pierre Comert, 1 October 1922 377. To Michele Besso, 4 October 1922 378. Poem to Albert and Luise Karr-Krusi, on or before 6 October 1922 Not selected for translation 379. Travel Diary Japan, Palestine, Spain, 6 October 1922-12 March 1923 380. From Chaim Weizmann, 6 October 1922 381. To Hans Albert and Eduard Einstein, 7 October 1922 382. To Marcel Grossmann, 7 October 1922 383. From Richard B. Haldane, 23 October 1922 384. From Christopher Aurivillius, 10 November 1922 385. From Christopher Aurivillius, 10 November 1922 386. From Niels Bohr, 11 November 1922 387. "Comment on E. Trefftz's Paper: 'The Static Gravitational Field of Two Mass Points in Einstein's Theory,'" 23 November 1922 "Bemerkung zu der Abhandlung von E. Trefftz:"Das statische Gravitationsfeld zweier Massenpunkte in der Einsteinschen Theorie" Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin). Physikalischmathematische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte (1922) 388. "Einstein's Opinion on the Investigation of Responsibilities for the War," 25 November 1922 "Sur la recherche des responsabilites de la guerre" Les cahiers des droits de l'homme 22 (1922) 389. From Hantaro Nagaoka et al., 1 December 1922 Not selected for translation 390. From Alexander Friedmann, 6 December 1922 391. "Musings on My Impressions in Japan," on or after 7 December 1922 "Plauderei uber meine Eindrucke in Japan" Kaizo 5 (1923) 392. From Yuanpei Cai, 8 December 1922 393. To Bansui Tsuchii (Doi), 9 December 1922 394. Preface for the Japanese edition of Georg Nicolai's Biologie des Krieges, [10 December 1922] Not selected for translation 395. To Heinrich Zangger, 11 December 1922 396. From Henrik Sederholm and Knut A. Posse, 11 December 1922 397. To Sanehiko Yamamoto, 12 December 1922 398. "Answer to Questions on Religion," 14 December 1922 Kaizo 5 (1922) Editorial Note: Einstein's Lecture at the University of Kyoto Not selected for inclusion 399. How I Created the Theory of Relativity, (Jun Ishiwara's Notes of Einstein's Lecture at Kyoto University) 14 December 1922 Kaizo 5, no. 2 (1923) See documentary edition for English translation 400. To Hans Albert and Eduard Einstein, 17 December 1922 401. To Michele Besso and Anna Besso-Winteler, 19 December 1922 Not selected for translation 402. To Wilhelm Solf, 20 December 1922 403. To Yuanpei Cai, 22 December 1922 404. To Max and Hedwig Born, 23 December 1922 405. To Jun Ishiwara, between 23 and 29 December 1922 406. "Preface" to Japanese Collection of Papers, 27 December 1922 "Vorwort" Einstein Zenshu [The Collected Works of Einstein]. Jun Ishiwara, et al., trans. Tokyo: Kaizo-Sha, 1922-1924. 407. To Yoshi Yamamoto, 27 December 1922 Not selected for translation 408. From Wilhelm Solf, 27 December 1922 Not selected for translation 409. "Farewell to Japan," 28 December 1922 Fukuoka Nichinichi Shinbun Not selected for translation 410. To Ayao Kuwaki, 29 December 1922 411. To Bansui Tsuchii (Doi), 30 December 1922 412. To Eiichi Tsuchii (Doi), 30 December 1922 413. To Sanehiko Yamamoto, 30 December 1922 414. To Yoshi Yamamoto, 30 December 1922 415. To Charlotte Weigert, between 31 December 1922 and 2 January 1923 Not selected for translation 416. From Rafaele Contu, 8 January 1923 417. "On the General Theory of Relativity," ca. 9 January 1923 "Zur allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie" 418. Calculations on Back Pages of Travel Diary, ca. 9-22 January 1923 Not selected for translation 419. Fragment and Calculation on the General Theory of Relativity ca. January 1923 Not selected for translation 420. To Svante Arrhenius, 10 January 1923 421. To Niels Bohr, 10 January 1923 422. From Jun Ishiwara, 12 January 1923 423. From Sergei F. von Oldenburg, 18 January 1923 Not selected for translation 424. To Edgar, Else, and Edgar Michel Meyer, 20 January 1923 425. "On the General Theory of Relativity," 22 January 1923 "Zur allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie" Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin). Physikalischmathematische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte (1923) 426. To Nippon Puroretaria Domei, 22 January 1923 427. From Chaim Weizmann, 4 February 1923 428. From Federigo Enriques, 8 February 1923 Not selected for translation 429. To Chaim Weizmann, 11 February 1923 430. To Arthur S. Eddington, 14 February 1923 Not selected for translation 431. From Heinrich Luders, 15 February 1923 Not selected for translation 432. From Nicholas M. Butler, 26 February 1923 433. To Jun Ishiwara, after 26 February or after 21 March 1923 Not selected for translation 434. From Arthur Biram, 1 March 1923 Not selected for translation 435. From Gano Dunn, 1 March 1923 See documentary edition for the original English 436. To Wilhelm Westphal, 2 March 1923 437. From Mauricio David, 2 March 1923 Not selected for translation 438. To the Spanish Academy of Sciences, 4 March 1923 Discursos pronunciados en la sesion solemne que se digno presidir S. M. el Rey el dia 4 de marzo de 1923 celebrada para hacer entrega del diploma de academico corresponsal al profesor Albert Einstein. Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales. Madrid: Talleres Poligraficos, 1923 439. From Michael I. Pupin, 4 March 1923 Not selected for translation 440. From Carl Brinkmann, 9 March 1923 Not selected for translation 441. To Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 10 March 1923 442. From Maja Winteler-Einstein, 11 March 1923 443. From Zionistische Vereinigung fur Deutschland (Betty Frankenstein), 14 March 1923 444. From Vossische Zeitung, 15 March 1923 Not selected for translation 445. From Svante Arrhenius, 17 March 1923 446. To Albert Karr-Krusi, 20 March 1923 Not selected for translation 447. To Pierre Comert, 21 March 1923 448. From Paul Winteler, 22 March 1923 Not selected for translation 449. To Svante Arrhenius, 23 March 1923 450. To Carl Brinkmann, 23 March 1923 451. To Zionistische Vereinigung fur Deutschland, 23 March 1923 452. From Michele Besso, 23 March 1923 453. To [Ilse Einstein], before 24 March 1923 454. To Heinrich Luders, 24 March 1923 455. To Sergei F. von Oldenburg, 24 March 1923 456. From Paul Ehrenfest, 27 March 1923 457. From Richard Stern, 28 March 1923 Not selected for translation 458.From Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 31 March 1923 APPENDIXES Not selected for translation A. An Interview with Einstein B. Einstein Discusses His Theory C. Lecture on Light Emission D. Speech at Reception in Singapore E. Lecture at Keio University F. Speech at Jewish Reception in Shanghai G. Notes in Palestine H. Lectures at the University of Madrid I. Honorary Doctorate Speech at the Uni

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Book SynopsisIn the decades following World War II, American scientists were celebrated for their contributions to social and technological progress. They were also widely criticized for their increasingly close ties to military and governmental power--not only by outside activists but from among the ranks of scientists themselves. Disrupting Science tells theTrade ReviewWinner of the 2011 Robert K. Merton Book Award, Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention for the 2009 Charles Tilly Best Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association "In Disrupting Science, Kelly Moore attempts to explain how scientists' attitudes about the proper role of science and scientists in public life changed so dramatically within two generations...Moore's well-researched account introduces the pacifists, petition writers, newsletter publishers, and protestors--who doggedly drew attention to the ways that militarism was infiltrating the practice of science in the United States."--Audra J. Wolfe, Science "Disrupting Science is an important scholarly addition to the literature in the sociology of science and history of science. The book's examination of archival sources shows a complex relationship between scientists and the military from 1945 to 1975."--G.D. Oberle, Choice "The book prompts intriguing questions about the professional role, the boundaries by which it is constituted, and the potential consequences of overstepping those boundaries."--Joseph C. Hermanowicz, American Journal of Sociology "As the U.S. government's budget for national and homeland security approaches three-quarters of a trillion dollars in fiscal year 2009, and the roles of science and technology continue to expand in our daily lives, our collective need for nuanced studies of the relations between the military and science is ever more pressing. Moore's thoughtful study points the way."--William J. Astore, H-Net Reviews "Disrupting Science is first rate work... Moore's account serves as an exemplary case study in what she and Scott Frickel have billed in their 2006 book as 'the new political sociology of science.' I expect her new book to be read widely across the discipline."--Steven Epstein, Mobilization "Moore's book is very well-written, scholarly, and impeccably organized, making it a useful reference tool. It is relevant to those interested in political sociology, the 'fact-value' debate in the philosophy of science, questions of science and ideology, and science studies."--Ronjon Paul Datta, Canadian Journal of Sociology "Useful for academics studying the history of science and social movements, this book offers an interesting, unique, and insightful look at the role of scientists in challenging the boundaries of their own expertise and positions of influence. From scientists as elite experts to science 'for the people,' this work offers a captivating glimpse as social movement activists among scientists during this time in history."--Chelsea Schelly, Social Science JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii List of Abbreviations ix CHAPTER 1: Introduction 1 CHAPTER 2: The Expansion and Critiques of Science-Military Ties, 1945-1970 22 CHAPTER 3: Scientists as Moral Individuals: Quakerism and the Society for Social Responsibility in Science 54 CHAPTER 4: Information and Political Neutrality: Liberal Science Activism and the St. Louis Committee for Nuclear Information 96 CHAPTER 5: Confronting Liberalism: The Anti-Vietnam War Movement and the ABM Debate, 1965-1969 130 CHAPTER 6: Doing "Science for the People": Enactments of a New Left Politics of Science 158 CHAPTER 7: Conclusions: Disrupting the Social and Moral Order of Science 190 Notes 215 Bibliography 269 Index 293 -

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Book SynopsisThis richly annotated facsimile edition of "The Foundation of General Relativity" introduces a new generation of readers to Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation. Written in 1915, this remarkable document is a watershed in the history of physics and an enduring testament to the elegance and precision of Einstein's thought. Presented here is a beaTrade Review"Any devotee of Einstein will relish the chance to parse this annotated facsimile of the physicist's original manuscript on general relativity... [Gutfreund and Renn's] cogent descriptions and the accompanying illustrations and documents open a fascinating window onto Einstein's otherwise inaccessible opus."--Scientific American "[Gutfreund and Renn] remind us of the charm a manuscript affords: rare glimpses into the working process of a great mind."--New Scientist "The Road to Relativity by Hanoch Gutfreund and Jurgen Renn reproduces the 45 handwritten--and hand-corrected--pages of Einstein's general theory, accompanied by extensive annotations on the science, its historical context and the implications for the future. The volume also includes a glossary of scientists and philosophers relevant to Einstein's work and some entertainingly lively illustrations--such as one of Einstein pouring coffee on a moving train to demonstrate that motion is relative--by Laurent Taudin."--Nancy Szokan, Washington Post "Gutfreund and Renn dissect every page of the manuscript, explaining the meaning of each passage and describing Einstein's thought processes leading up to it... The Road to Relativity is accessible and engaging."--Tom Siegfried, Science News "[A] wonderful book that combines a facsimile of Einstein's original manuscript, an English translation and a rich annotation."--Bill Condie, Cosmos MagazineTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*A Brief Note on the Publication of this Work, pg. xi*Foreword, pg. xiii*Preface, pg. xvii*The Charm of a Manuscript, pg. 1*Einstein's Intellectual Odyssey to General Relativity, pg. 7*The Annotated Manuscript, pg. 37*Notes on the Annotation Pages, pg. 141*Postscript: The Drama Continues ..., pg. 149*A Chronology of the Genesis of General Relativity and its Formative Years, pg. 159*Physicists, Mathematicians, and Philosophers Relevant to Einstein's Thinking, pg. 165*Further Reading, pg. 179*English Translation of "The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity", pg. 183*English Translation of "Hamilton's Principle and the General Theory of Relativity", pg. 227*Index, pg. 233

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Book SynopsisThe more than one thousand letters and several dozen writings included in this volume cover the years immediately before the final formulation of new quantum mechanics. The discovery of the Compton effect in 1923 vindicates Einstein's light quantum hypothesis. Niels Bohr still criticizes Einstein's conception of light quanta and advances an alternaTable of ContentsList of Texts xiii List of Illustrations xxxiii INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL Introduction to Volume 14 xxxv Editorial Method of the Series lxxxv Acknowledgments xciii Note on the Translation xcv List of Abbreviations xcvi Location Symbols xcvii Descriptive Symbols c TEXTS 1 Alphabetical List of Correspondence 783 Chronology 805 Calendar of Abstracts 821 Appendixes 905 Literature Cited 1007 Index 1031 Index of Citations 1097

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Pfizer Award, History of Science Society""Winner of the Cheiron Book Prize, Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral & Social Sciences""One of Science News' Favorite Science Books of 2018""I suspect this bold, dauntingly well-documented book will prove difficult to dismiss."---David Dobbs, Nature"By following the technologies of paperwork and data collection, Porter has unearthed a radically new history of human genetics, one that evokes not the double helix but the humble filing cabinet."---Emily M. Kern, Science"Fascinating but scary. Genetics in the Madhouse . . . uses date collection in psychiatric hospitals to show the stages when research straddles subjectivity and science."---Liz Else and Simon Ings, New Scientist"Porter takes a fascinating look at early attempts to tame unruly minds with big data and statistics."---Bruce Bower, Science News"Deeply researched and deftly argued."---Gregory Radick, Times Literary Supplement"[An] absorbing account of the role played by mental illness studies in gaining an early understanding of human heredity."---Robin McKie, The Observer"Genetics in the Madhouse provides a fascinating examination of investigations of human heredity, conducted long before DNA could be studied in laboratories."---Glenn Altschuler, Philadelphia Inquirer"Genetics in the Madhouse has the power to inspire, to captivate and to stimulate further research."---Nicholas P. Hatton, Medical History"Porter commands an impressive array of languages, and where his own knowledge falters, he has employed assistance to allow him to survey other sources that would otherwise have remained out of reach."---Andrew Scull, Brain Journal of Neurology"Porter has read voluminously in the secondary literature historians of psychiatry have produced. But more importantly, having done so, he has engaged in a positively prodigious amount of work in the archives. One can only admire the persistence and the diligence with which he has combed through an extraordinary array of materials . . . Genetics in the Madhouse is gracefully written, and Porter only occasionally gets bogged down in the minutiae of the archival materials he has spent so much time exploring."---Andrew Scull, Brain"Porter shows that the population view of mental illness persisted throughout the history of the asylum and flowed logically into the era of eugenics. And he also illustrates that the history of madness helps expand the history of genetics beyond a narrow view of genes. . . . His history makes it impossible to continue the disconnect between the data of the past and the assertions of the present."---Laura D. Hirshbein, The Common Reader

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 2017 PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine & Technology, Association of American Publishers One of Physics World's Top Ten Books of the Year, 2016 One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016 #6 on The Telegraph's Top 50 Books of the Year 2016 One of Smithsonian Magazine's Best Science Books of 2016 Shortlisted for Physics World's Book of the Year 2016 "Jorgensen walks readers through the history of humanity's interaction with radiation... [Strange Glow] is a solid, accessible work, but perhaps its most beneficial aspect is that Jorgensen equips readers with enough knowledge to make their own risk assessments, whether it is of a potential medical diagnostic test or a particular consumer decision."--Publishers Weekly "Unbiased, comprehensible information on radiation risk is hard to come by...Strange Glowfills this gap."--Science "Narrative science at its best ... a propulsive story, each piece building on the next in a series of progressive revelations... A seismic piece of scientific inquiry, top shelf in narrative style and illumination."--Kirkus, starred review "The only antidote to irrational fear is knowledge, andStrange Glowimparts this in spades."--Independent "Strange Glow isn't about lessening what is largely a sensible fear, but about removing some of the mystery and misunderstanding... This is a long overdue and successful attempt to rationalise an emotional subject by telling its story in very human terms."--Engineering & Technology News "Strange Glow ... integrates detailed science and carefully illuminated medical statistics with the personal lives of scientists... The book's goal--'to present the facts about radiation as objectively and even-handedly as possible, leaving you to decide which aspects to fear'--is achieved with authority and style."--Andrew Robinson, Lancet "This book can be enjoyed as a sort of scientific QI--a string of interesting facts you can't wait to share with anyone who can be persuaded to listen... Jorgensen proves that there's no excuse for convoluted writing, however difficult the subject. His conversational style makes even the most complex equations seem attractive."--William Cook, The Spectator "[Strange Glow] is ... the story of human interaction with radiation--beginning with the one type that we can see (light) and continuing through radio waves, atomic blasts, cellphones, radon, microwave ovens, luggage scanners, the Fukushima accident, and on and on... Jorgensen avoids graphs and numbers, instead relying largely on entertaining--if alarming--anecdotes."--Nancy Szokan, Washington Post "What I certainly did not expect was to get caught up in the stories of the scientists [in Strange Glow]... Jorgensen has written a compelling book about the history of radiation... [His] gift is that he make us care about the scientists."--Jacqueline Cutler, Newark Star-Ledger "Strange Glow is a cracking good read, filled with fascinating stories about the people behind the science."--Literary Review "Timothy Jorgensen is a scientist with a knack for narrative storytelling."--Ryan Stellabotte, Fordham News "Strange Glow is clear, engaging and refreshingly willing to treat the reader as a thinking adult."--Japan Times "Strange Glow is a fantastic, well-written book about the benefits and risks of radiation. Jorgenson uses common prose so that a wide range of readers can follow the discussions...The book includes extensive, useful, and lucid discussions on medical x-rays and radon gas. Readers also learn the facts regarding the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdowns and the problems they cause. [A] well-researched book."--Choice "Informative, fast paced and entertaining... I guarantee you will be engaged and surprised."--Chemistry World "Jorgensen's lucid writing and strong story-telling skills are demonstrated thoroughly in this book, making it a pleasure to read... In its simplicity and conciseness, it greatly contributes to removing some of the mystery and misunderstanding that surrounds radiation... I feel it will become a very useful resource to the general public as well as to radiation experts."--Jun Deng, Physics World "A narrative history, which integrates detailed science and statistics with the personal lives of the pioneers. [Jorgensen's] goal--'to present the facts about radiation as objectively and even-handedly as possible, leaving you to decide which aspects to fear'--is achieved with authority and style."--Andrew Robinson, The Telegraph "Jorgenson lays out the progression of mankind's understanding of radiation science over the past century, including the figures, breakthroughs and disasters that moved the field forward (for better or worse). An informative read that chronicles the history and science of humankind's 'ambivalent' relationship with this strange force."--Rachel Gross, Smithsonian "[Jorgensen] ... has chosen another original but interesting and straightforward way of storytelling, devoid of scientific jargon, to achieve the aim of reaching the widest possible audience of readers, regardless to their technical background... Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation ... Will certainly be useful due to the striking and exciting style of its presentation."--R.M. Alexakhin, Radiation Protection DosimetryTable of ContentsPREFACE ix 1. Nuclear Jaguars 1 PART ONE: RADIATION 101: THE BASICS 2. Now You See It: Radiation Revealed 7 3. Seek and You Shall Find: Radioactivity Everywhere 38 4. Splitting Hairs: Atomic Particles and Nuclear Fission 51 PART TWO: THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF RADIATION 5. Painted into a Corner: Radiation and Occupational Illness 81 6. The Hippocratic Paradox: Radiation Cures Cancer 116 7. Location, Location, Location: Radiation Sickness 141 8. Snow Warning: Radioactive Fallout 164 9. After the Dust Settles: Measuring the Cancer Risk of Radiation 187 10. Breeding Season: Genetic Effects 206 11. Crystal Clear: The Target for Radiation Damage 234 PART THREE: WEIGHING THE RISKS AND BENEFITS OF RADIATION 12. Silent Spring: Radon in Homes 275 13. A Tale of Two Cities: Diagnostic Radiography 293 14. Sorry, Wrong Number: Cell Phones 310 15. Hot Tuna: Radioactivity in Food 326 16. Blue Moon: Nuclear Power Plant Accidents 346 17. The Things They Carried: Geopolitical Radiation Threats 374 Epilogue: N-Rays 397 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 407 NOTES AND CITATIONS 411 BIBLIOGRAPHY 453 INDEX 465

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Book SynopsisDue to rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing, and the projections are grim. Despite billions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. The Alzheimer Conundrum exposes the predicaments embeddedTrade ReviewShortlisted for the 2014 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, Quebec Writers' Federation "[T]houghtful ... convincing... Margaret Lock is an extremely sharp critic of the Alzheimer's scene."--W. F. Bynum, Times Literary Supplement "[A] diligent survey of research, literature, conferences, and interviews... Lock proves that the science of the disease is just as compelling as poignant accounts from caregivers and those suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Lock highlights just how much we don't know, from problems with Alzheimer's pathology, testing, and diagnosis to the search for a drug treatment... While science plugs away at solving the Alzheimer's conundrum, Lock's call for improved care and social support takes on a new urgency."--Publishers Weekly "[Lock] delivers key concepts in epidemiology, neuroscience and genetics in a way that is both scholarly and free of unnecessary technical details. Lock's bird's-eye view and mix of diverging sources of information is refreshing... For its wide scope and balanced critical evaluation, The Alzheimer Conundrum is an inspiring read for everyone working in the field."--Eus Van Someren, Nature "Comprehensive, cogent, and densely detailed, The Alzheimer Conundrum provides a useful antidote to media hype about 'silver bullets' that are 'just around the corner' and makes an important contribution to our understanding of an achingly tragic disease that touches virtually all of us."--Glenn Altschuler, Psychology Today "The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging is a welcome addition to a body of work that has so productively explored the historical contingencies, cultural specificities, and philosophical dilemmas that surround and shape bodies and people's understandings and inhabitances of them."--Aaron Seaman, Somatosphere "The Alzheimer Conundrum is a gem for young scientists and medical students, and it will challenge them to step back from traditional models, standardised diagnostic procedures and disease specificity to adopt a broader philosophical approach: when is a disease not a disease? ... Lock's rigorous unpacking of research studies and refusal to accept statements and conclusions from research papers at face value result in a thorough and honest appraisal of the current state of the field. It will be a great help in understanding the confusion and conflicting evidence surrounding this highly important topic."--Rose Anne Kenny, Times Higher Education "Lock's empirical account is a very welcome addition to the literature on biomedical uncertainty."--Des Fitzgerald, LSE Review of Books "[W]hether medical researchers or the general reader, this is a meaningful reading."--Liu, Economic Observer (China) "The Alzheimer Conundrum is an engaging read that, while quite granular in its detail, is never dry... Lock clearly summarizes, synthesizes, and critiques the results from research in molecular biology, genetics, neuroimaging, and epidemiology."--Jason Karlawish, Health Affairs "The Alzheimer Conundrum is an eloquently reasoned, provocative work."--Choice "The strength of this book is the in-depth detailing of the limitations of the existing science of Alzheimer's... This book is particularly relevant for researchers in the field of dementia: for those coming from a bio-medical perspective it may help them to be more reflexive about the choices they make in their studies, and for social scientists it may help to further understandings of and potential links with more medically focused research."--Jane Tooke, Journal of Ageing & Society "Lock's book is balanced, brilliant, and inspirational... The sheer travel, research, and organization that went into its creation are beyond impressive. Its lasting contribution is to leave the thoughtful reader in the AD field pondering the notion of a conundrum--after all, riddles abound in many aspects of our lives, always pointing to uncertainty."--Daniel R. George and Peter J. Whitehouse, Culture, Medicine, & Psychiatry "The Alzheimer Conundrum is a provocative account of why Alzheimer's disease (AD) is such a puzzling mix of scientific hypotheses, research agendas, pharmaceutical interests, funding objectives, and theories of aging... A timely critique of the disease model and its cultural consequences. The book's appeal is that it takes readers beyond scientific fields to consider social, historical, and cross-cultural dimensions of AD that broaden conceptual debates about mind and body, nature and nurture, and normal and pathological."--Stephen Katz, Bulletin of the History of MedicineTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Orientations 1 Chapter 1 Making and Remaking Alzheimer Disease 26 Chapter 2 Striving to Standardize Alzheimer Disease 51 Chapter 3 Paths to Alzheimer Prevention 76 Chapter 4 Embodied Risk Made Visible 100 Chapter 5 Alzheimer Genes: Biomarkers of Prediction and Prevention 132 Chapter 6 Genome-Wide Association Studies: Back to the Future 156 Chapter 7 Living with Embodied Omens 174 Chapter 8 Chance Untamed and the Return of Fate 207 Chapter 9 Transcending Entrenched Tensions 229 Afterword: Portraits from the Mind 243 Notes 247 Bibliography 277 Index 301

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 2013 Eugene E. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature, American Astronautical Society "Dreams of Other Worlds synthesizes that knowledge as it has been derived from unmanned spacecraft in the half-century since NASA was founded in 1958... One of the strengths of Dreams of Other Worlds is its discussion of how the data generated by any given mission continues to produce results long after the mission ends... An account of a magnificent panorama of knowledge."--Konstantin Kakaes, Wall Street Journal "Refreshing... [W]ell-analysed and presented in a scholarly yet engaging way... [F]rom the interior of the Sun to the outer reaches of our Solar System--Impey and Henry are able guides. They explain the scientific imperative of these missions in a way that is accessible and interesting to specialists and generalists."--John Zarnecki, Nature "Although less sexy than manned space travel, satellites, probes and landers have produced a scientific bonanza with more to come. Impey and Henry team up for an enthusiastic account of a dozen programs... The authors' largely uncritical, gee-whiz approach is entirely appropriate since these programs were not only technological marvels, but produced dazzling, quantum-leap discoveries."--Kirkus Reviews "[W]ell-balanced... This richly illustrated work of remarkable scholarship spans the depths of the solar system, the Milky Way, and beyond, revealing how the great leaps forward in astronomy have brought into focus a landscape few could have imagined. The authors present a combination of hard science and edifying narrative that is both informative and entertaining. Recommended for NASA 'nerds' and anyone with even a passing interest in astronomy."--Library Journal "Packed with absorbing insights and written in an accessible voice, this volume translates scientific discoveries into simple, visual terms... Diverse references--ranging from the caves at Lascaux and Pythagoras to Einstein, Carl Sagan, quantum mechanics, and, yes, even Virginia Woolf--enliven and enrich this engaging and beautifully crafted book."--Kristen Rabe, ForeWord Reviews "The book helps provide a bigger picture of the significance of studying the universe with these robotic explorers, be they spacecraft that remain in Earth orbit or, like Voyager 1, head out into the cosmos."--Jeff Foust, Space Review "[A] riveting read... The book is well told, and interweaves its story with wonderful little nuggets."--Katia Moskvitch, BBC Sky at Night "Dreams of Other Worlds is a substantial chronology of the exploration of the solar system objects that humans have wondered about ever since Galileo first pointed his telescope at Jupiter and peered through it. The undertaking spotlights all the struggles and setbacks that ultimately led to a complete mapping of the solar system."--D. Wayne Dworsky, San Francisco Book Review "Noted astronomer Impey has teamed up with English professor Henry to write an interesting book about NASA's unmanned space explorations... People with an interest in space exploration will want to read this fascinating work."--Choice "The achievement of this book is to present robotic spaceflight in intimate relation to the cultural world we all inhabit... Dreams of Other Worlds succeeds in connecting the cultural work of science to everyday dreams and stories."--De Witt Douglas Kilgore, Quest "A fantastic journey throughout the world of space exploration over the last 40 years. Even though at a first glance the well over 400 pages seem overwhelming, within just a few hours you will find yourself desperate for more... A smooth, skillfully written account of the beginning of the extraterrestrial history of humankind, a history that started just a few decades ago."--Read about ScienceTable of Contents1 Introduction 1 2 Viking: Discovering the Red Planet 13 3 MER: The Little Rovers That Could 40 4 Voyager: Grand Tour of the Solar System 74 5 Cassini: Bright Rings and Icy Worlds 111 6 Stardust: Catching a Comet by the Tail 137 7 SOHO: Living with a Restless Star 161 8 Hipparcos: Mapping the Milky Way 186 9 Spitzer: Unveiling the Cool Cosmos 211 10 Chandra: Exploring the Violent Cosmos 242 11 HST: The Universe in Sharp Focus 270 12 WMAP: Mapping the Infant Universe 302 13 Conclusion: New Horizons, New Worlds 327 Notes 343 Selected Bibliography 405 Index 417

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"’At last gleams of light have come. . . . I think I have found out (here’s presumption!) the simple way by which species become exquisitely adapted to various ends.’ Thus, Charles Darwin to botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker in an 1844 letter--just one gem from Janet Browne’s selected excerpts. Darwin vividly emerges as a crack shot with a tin ear for music, a loving father, a would-be anthropologist struggling to understand indigenous peoples and the consummate scientist, working ‘from a sort of instinct to try to make out truth’."---Barbara Kiser, Nature"Fans of Janet Browne's epic two-volume biography of Charles Darwin will not want to miss her new book, The Quotable Darwin, which features a broad selection of Darwin's personal and professional observations on life, liberty, and of course science."---John Farrell, Forbes.com"The selection of quotes from Darwin’s books and his letters are grouped into chapters with headings that are expected, such as Species or Survival of the Fittest, and less expected, such as one of my favourites, Barnacles." * The Australian *"This book works because [Darwin’s] own words paint an unexpectedly complete and truthful picture of the man (brilliance, wit, sickness), his times--and limitations."---Liz Else, New Scientist"[Browne's] book delves into the mind of Darwin, revealing his insights, humor, and understanding of the world as he knew it. Darwin’s words never get old, and Browne’s treatment of his wisdom does not disappoint. Her book is a must for any dedicated student of Charles Darwin, and the novice reader alike."---Howard O. Clark, Jr., Sonoran Herpetologist"The Quotable Darwin is fascinating, funny, and humanizing. It brings an icon to life."---Glenn Dallas, San Fransisco Book Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this impressively detailed yet readable scholarly work, Jeffrey Crelinsten examines the history of early attempts by astronomers to put Einstein's theory to the test... As well as casting new light on a neglected aspect of relativity studies, Einstein's Jury provides a fascinating analysis of science in action: the scrupulous weighing of evidence to assay--as far as is humanly possible--the truth of the matter."--Peter D. Smith, Times Literary Supplement "By focusing on astronomers rather than the theoretical physicists more often associated with Einstein, Jeffrey Crelinsten offers new insights... He uses the introduction of the theory of relativity to present a case study of how innovative scientific ideas enter both the scientific community and the consciousness of the general public."--Publishers Weekly "Jeffrey Crelinsten's fascinating Einstein's Jury: The Race to Test Relativity tracks the ways in which one particular community, astronomers, handled Einstein's relativity theories, roughly between 1910 and 1925... Crelinsten has done a great service and deserves our thanks for tracking so beautifully the American astronomical response to relativity between the wars."--Peter Galison, Science "Crisply written and impressively researched... [T]wo elements make Einstein's Jury stand out: First, it looks at astronomers, rather than physicists or mathematicians, providing a focus that comparatively offer a genuinely novel perspective on the question of relativity's reception... It belongs to that rare breed of works that will be of genuine interest and enjoyment to the casual reader while at the same time being required reading for the specialist."--Suman Seth, American Scientist "Einstein's Jury tells a fascinating and largely unknown story of how Einstein's revolutionary ideas on the nature of space and time were received, understood, misunderstood, tested and finally confirmed by astronomers of the day, giving birth to relativistic cosmology."--Alan S.McRae, Mathematical Reviews "Einstein's Jury is a story of true scientific effort and petty human weaknesses and eventualities. It is hard to put down this tale of how American astronomers, equipped with the best instruments in the world, struggled for or against the observational evidence for three experimental consequences of Einstein's theory of general relativity."--Jozsef Illy, Isis "Einstein's Jury is an extremely well researched and readable account of how Einstein's innovative theories were received in the early decades of the twentieth century. The book follows the birth of modern astrophysics from the first trickles off Einstein's pen in 1905 to the emergence of relativistic cosmology in the mid-1930s... Crelinsten's account of Relativity's twenty-year struggle for acceptance by the scientific community is told with all the tension of a well-paced thriller. I have no doubt that professional historians and popular science readers alike will thoroughly enjoy Einstein's Jury."--Gerard McMahon, Astronomy and Space "Crelinsten charts an important but understudied episode in the history of modern physics: the empirical tests of general relativity... Crelinsten is a believer in details. He diligently documents exchanges of ideas, conducts of experiments, and steps of arguments. He utilizes two kinds of sources. Regarding Einstein and other European physicists, Crelinsten relies on published documents and the secondary literatures. To delineate American astronomers' activities, he uses a lot of unpublished archival substances."--Chen-Pang Yeang, University of Toronto Quarterly "Crelinsten is to be congratulated on having made a substantial contribution to our understanding of the reception of general relativity by American astronomers, and the central role they played in placing the theory's astronomical predictions beyond doubt."--Andrew Warwick, British Journal for the History of Science "Crelinsten ... is a good writer, who, without repeating himself, periodically sums up his discussion and sets things up for the next section so that we always know what to look forward to and are reminded of what we have just learned... I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in how revolutionary scientific ideas find acceptance within the scientific community."--Naomi Pasachoff, MetascienceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xi List of Tables xv Preface xvii Introduction xxi Notation Convention for Angular Measure xxv Abbreviations xxvii PART ONE: 1905-1911 Early Encounters with Relativity 1 CHAPTER ONE: Einstein and the World Community of Physicists and Astronomers 3 Einstein Enters the World Stage 3 The Astronomy Community 7 The Astrophysics Revolution 9 European Brains and American Money 20 California Astronomy: The Nation's Leader 25 CHAPTER TWO: Astronomers and Special Relativity: The First Publications 28 Henry Crozier Plummer and the Problem of Aberration 28 Edmund Taylor Whittaker: Relativity and the Ether 31 Relativity and Subjectivism 36 Using Relativity to Calculate Planetary Orbits 38 American Astronomers' Introduction to Relativity 40 PART TWO: 1911-1919 Astronomers Encounter Einstein 45 CHAPTER THREE: The Early Involvement, 1911-1914 47 Einstein's Two Predictions 47 Solar Eclipses, "Vulcan," and the Principle of Relativity 50 Einstein Finds an Astronomer 55 Puzzles in the Sun's Spectrum 65 The Russian Eclipse of 1914 76 CHAPTER FOUR: The War Period, 1914-1918 85 Troubles with Freundlich 85 Einstein's Breakthrough 87 The "Freundlich Affair" 90 News of Einstein's Breakthrough Spreads 94 Mixed Reactions to a Complicated Theory 98 Constructing the Universe 103 Challenges from Solar Observations 108 Lick Astronomers Go Eclipse Hunting 114 Einstein Liberates Freundlich 119 CHAPTER FIVE: 1919: A Year of Dramatic Announcement 125 Evershed's Earth Effect versus Relativity 125 Delays and Technical Challenges at Lick 126 Enter the British 129 The Lick Verdict: "Einstein Is Wrong" 131 The British Declare, "Einstein Is Right" 140 CHAPTER SIX: Men of Science Agog 146 Reactions to the British Eclipse Results 146 Pressure from the Press 153 The Role of Arthur Eddington 157 Einstein the National Treasure 160 Hale Realizes His Vision 165 PART THREE: 1920-1925 Astronomers Put Einstein to the Test 169 CHAPTER SEVEN: Tackling the Solar Redshift Problem 171 Evershed and St. John Declare the Case Unresolved 171 "Einstein's Third Victory" 173 Unraveling Complexities--Evershed versus St. John 175 Evershed Votes for Einstein 179 CHAPTER EIGHT: More Eclipse Testing 183 Personnel Changes at Lick 183 Conflicting Announcements on the Goldendale Results 185 Preparations for the Australian Eclipse 194 The 1922 Eclipse: All Eyes on Lick 200 CHAPTER NINE: Emergence of the Critics 213 Reactions to the Lick Results 213 T.J.J. See versus the Lick Observatory 216 An Antirelativity Coalition in the East 225 The Ether Attempts a Comeback 231 CHAPTER TEN: The Debate Intensifies 236 Another Chance to Test Einstein 236 Mount Wilson and Lick Vote for Einstein 241 The Antirelativity Campaign Gains Momentum 243 Confrontation 252 A New Line of Evidence to Test Einstein 257 PART FOUR: 1925-1930 Final Acceptance 263 CHAPTER ELEVEN: Relativity Triumphs 265 The 1925 Eclipse: Dissension in the Antirelativity Coalition 265 The Relativity Debate circa 1925 269 Announcements for and against the Ether 273 Announcement of the Sirius B Results 277 John A. Miller and the Eclipse Tests 282 Dayton C. Miller and the Ether Drift 287 The 1928 Climax: Three More Pronouncements 290 Reluctant Acceptance 296 CHAPTER TWELVE: Silencing the Critics 300 Charles Lane Poor versus the Lick Observatory 300 Antirelativists Rally in the East 307 The Final Showdown 310 EPILOGUE: The Emergence of Relativistic Cosmology 315 FINAL REFLECTIONS 321 How Scientists Accept Theories 321 Astronomers' Reception of Relativity 323 Relativity and Us 324 Notes 327 Bibliography 365 Index 385

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1994; published 2016 with a new preface by the author.Trade ReviewWinner of the 1995 Pfizer Most Outstanding Book Award, History of Science Society "Smith has written an incisive and intelligent study which, together with affording a wealth of fascinating archival material, provides an original and well researched overview of the rise of early capitalism and modern science. Most importantly, she has given us an insight into one of the roles of alchemy in the workings of the Holy Roman Empire in the seventeenth century."--Lyndy Abraham, Parergon "A fine study of the relation between alchemy and commerce in the German-speaking lands of the later seventeenth century... "--Simon Schaffer, London Review of Books "Spirited and fascinating... This blending of the modern with the traditional, this seamless knitting of commerce with princely extravagance, alchemy with science, commerce, and industry, stands as the major achievement of Smith's portrait of intellectual life in the late-seventeenth-century Hapsburg territories."--Margaret C. Jacob, American Historical Review "Encyclopedic and erudite, all handled with great skill, eloquence, and clarity."--William E. Painter, Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsList of illustrations vii Preface to the New Paperback Edition xi Prologue Evocation 3 1 Provenances 14 2 Oeconomia rerum et verborum: Constructing a Political Space in the Holy Roman Empire 56 3 The commerce of Words: An Exchange of Credit at the Court of the Elector in Munich 93 West Indian Interlude 141 4 The Production of Things: A Transmutation at the Habsburg Court 173 Interlude in the Laboratory 228 5 Between words and Things: The Commerce of Scholars and the Promise of Ars 247 Epilogue Projection 272 Bibliography 279 Index 303

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] fascinating book about how researchers came to understand Arctic warming and its causes. . . . As he documents this process, Serreze doesn’t shy away from the failures of the Arctic research community, including his own. Particularly interesting are the mea culpas from Serreze and fellow scientists who chased scientific red herrings or, deafened by the din of natural climate variability, misread the data. The Arctic, Serreze writes, ‘tells no lies.’ But its truth can be hard to discern."---Ashley Shelby, New York Times Book Review"[Serreze] has also written a farewell to ice. In Brave New Arctic, he relates that when he first started out in polar research, in the early eighties, he was taken with the idea of global cooling. ‘Deep down I was hoping for an ice age,’ he confesses. . . . Years passed, the ice continued to melt, and Serreze came to favor fire. ‘The weight of evidence turned me,’ he observes. ‘And then I turned hard.’ He gives the perennial sea ice until 2030 or so. ‘That the Arctic Ocean will become free of sea ice in late summer and early autumn is a given,’ he writes."---Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker"[Brave New Arctic] delves into the recent history of Arctic research, following a trail of scientific breadcrumbs from the late 1970s to the present day to show how our understanding of the region’s response to climate and climate change has evolved over time. . . . Serreze succeeds on one important front: humanizing Arctic science. He tells anecdotes about his research and the people he’s worked with. He portrays scientists whose work he discusses as regular people." * Science *"Without the strong research on the Arctic led by people like Serreze, we would be flying blind into what could be a very dangerous future."---Tim Flannery, New York Review of Books"[Serreze] shares the story of how he entered the field of climate science by accident; why, at first, he thought the climate might be getting colder rather than warmer, based on measurements from complicated Arctic weather systems; how, year after year, he became further convinced about the reality of global warming due to slowly accumulating data; and why he began to participate avidly in a scientific consensus combating climate-change deniers, most of whom have been politically motivated. Ultimately, what Serreze produces is a kind of detective story; the major crime is the human causation of global warming. . . . An alarming, evidence-based book by a scientist who is not by nature an alarmist." * Kirkus *"[Brave New Arctic] sounds a clarion call about the global consequences of a melting north. . . . At times the book has the feeling of a suspenseful detective novel, with dedicate scientist protagonists trying to beat the clock against impending environmental disaster, all the while battling self-interested political and corporate actors who lust after ‘resources’ that can more easily be extracted from an ice-free zone and who threaten important research work with lawsuits and funding cuts. At other times, there is a melancholy tone as the author elegizes with past observations of a frozen landscape that will never be the same again." * Foreword Reviews *"Serreze provides an arresting account of the history of climate science, written by someone who saw it all unfold before his own eyes. If you thought you had heard it all, think again, and read this book." * The Inquisitive Biologist *"What Serreze offers is a scientific detective story that shows how researchers found their way to the inevitable conclusion that the Arctic humanity has known for many centuries is gone forever, and that a new Arctic is taking its place. . . . We are living in the Anthropocene, and as Serreze shows with this brief bet detailed book, today’s Arctic is proof."---David James, Anchorage Daily News"Serreze does a great job of explaining the science, from complex to the most basic concepts."---Kate Gardner, Physics World"What made reading Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North a particularly fascinating experience was the perspective of recent discovery as seen through the eyes of a science insider."---Adrian Luckman, Holocene"Serreze’s book is a real alarm call regarding the global consequences of a melting north."---Graham Denyer, Weather"Any naturalist interested in climate change should be especially interested in this book, which details climate change in the region being most impacted."---William D. Halliday, The Canadian Field-Naturalist

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The authors paint a detailed but dynamic recounting of how general relativity became what it is today." * Nature Astronomy *"Gutfreund and Renn . . . combine years of Einstein scholarship with readability and insight." * Science *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Works by Galileo’s seventeenth-century contemporaries, translated by Stefano Gattei, reveal at first hand the making of his myth in a tumultuous era."---Barbara Kiser, Nature"This book is a major scholarly achievement and represents the first collection and translation into English of the earliest biographical accounts of Galileo’s life . . . The book gives readers many fascinating key insights into Galileo’s life, work and character." * Paradigm Explorer *"This volume is a splendid contribution to Galileo’s afterlife."---Eileen Reeves, Journal for the History of Astronomy"Gattei’s philological and translation work is impeccable and the volume is completed by a rich apparatus as well as numerous historical illustrations. A gem in the editorial market on Galileo."---Matteo Valleriani, Metascience

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Book Synopsis"Oatley provides [a] ... history of modern psychology told through the stories of its most important breakthroughs and the men and women who made them, [discussing] conscious and unconscious knowledge, brain physiology, emotion, mental development, language, memory, mental illness, creativity, human cooperation, and much more"--Back cover.Trade Review"[Oatley’s] narrative showcases the breadth and importance of the discipline with lively writing that enhances the flow of ideas."---B. C. Beins, Choice"A comprehensive survey of psychological knowledge grounded in empirical research and presented in a highly readable and engaging manner by a writer endowed with both psychological expertise and literary skill. . . . I can think of no better example of ‘bringing psychology of the people’ than this book. I recommend it to all — to high school students and members of the public curious about mind and behavior, to psychology undergraduates seeking a comprehensive summary and overview of the vast spectrum of psychological knowledge, and even to psychologists like me, for it is good to be reminded about what our discipline has accomplished. Oatley’s blending of these accomplishments with history, literature, philosophy, and the personal backgrounds of some of the movers and shakers in the discipline makes this an excellent read for all."---James Alcock, American Journal of Psychology

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book makes an entertaining, engaging and informative effort to tackle a notoriously difficult topic: Albert Einstein's influence on society and culture... [The book] give[s] a rather balanced and authoritative portrayal of the man and his cultural context, while drawing attention to several entertaining sidelights of his life and career."--Daniel Kennefick, American Scientist "This lovely compendium of essays on Einstein's cultural impact is as stunning in its breadth as Einstein was in his science. Among the book's contributors are such luminaries as Lisa Randall and E.L. Doctorow. Browsing through this book is like eavesdropping on the reminiscences of great artists, novelists, historians, and scientists as they discuss their favorite old teachers. How remarkable, then, that they are all discussing the same man."--Seed Magazine "Books on Einstein are scarcely in short supply but much of this collection feels fresh, probably because, astonishingly, Einstein's work is still, at the forefront of physics. But it's also because his life touched so many worlds outside science, including nuclear weapons, Nazi Germany, Zionism and the Arab-Israeli conflict, civil rights and the arts."--Andrew Robinson, Financial Times "A remarkable volume... At turns illuminating and disorientating, this is a book that I can recommend to all those interested in that eternal enigma, Albert Einstein."--Brian Foster, Physics World "There are many books written about Einstein, but this is one of the most important that this reviewer has ever read. This work clearly articulates the complex nature of this man, his thought, and this overwhelming influence on the cultural identity of much of the world, even though it has been over 50 years since his death."--G. D. Oberle III, Choice "The book is correctly advertised as speaking 'to everyone with an interest' in Einstein's work; it makes a wonderful gift. It also marks the way toward a gradual transformation of Albert Einstein as he lived into the Mythos Einstein."--Hubert Goenner, Journal for the History of AstronomyTable of ContentsIntroduction ix PART 1: Solitude and World Chapter 1: Who Was Einstein? Why Is He Still So Alive? by Gerald Holton 3 Chapter 2: A Short History of Einstein's Paradise beyond the Personal by Lorraine Daston 15 Chapter 3: Einstein's Jewish Identity by Hanoch Gutfreund 27 Chapter 4: Einstein and God by Yehuda Elkana 35 Chapter 5: Einstein's Unintended Legacy: The Critique of Common-Sense Realism and Post-Modern Politics by Yaron Ezrahi 48 Chapter 6: Subversive Einstein by Susan Neiman 59 Chapter 7: Einstein and Nuclear Weapons by Silvan S. Schweber 72 PART 2: Art and World Chapter 8: Einstein and 20th-Century Art: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Linda Dalrymple Henderson 101 Chapter 9: Rendering Time by Caroline A. Jones 130 Chapter 10: Into the Bleed: Einstein and 21st-Century Art by Matthew Ritchie 150 Chapter 11: Einstein and Music by Leon Botstein 161 Chapter 12: Seeing the Unseen by E. L. Doctorow 176 PART 3: Science and World Chapter 13: The Assassin of Relativity by Peter L. Galison 185 Chapter 14: Space, Time, and Geometry: Einstein and Logical Empiricism by Michael L. Friedman 205 Chapter 15: Einstein as a Student by Dudley Herschbach 217 Chapter 16: Learning from Einstein: Innovation in Science by Jurgen Renn 239 Chapter 17: Einstein and 'h: Advances in Quantum Mechanics by Jurg Frohlich 257 Chapter 18: Einstein's Unknown Contribution to Quantum Theory by A. Douglas Stone 270 Chapter 19: Einstein and the Quest for a Unified Theory by David Gross 287 Chapter 20: Energy in Einstein's Universe by Lisa Randall 299 Notes 311 Contributors 341 Index 349

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 2017 PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine & Technology, Association of American Publishers One of Physics World's Top Ten Books of the Year, 2016 One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016 #6 on The Telegraph's Top 50 Books of the Year 2016 One of Smithsonian Magazine's Best Science Books of 2016 Shortlisted for Physics World's Book of the Year 2016 "Jorgensen walks readers through the history of humanity's interaction with radiation... [Strange Glow] is a solid, accessible work, but perhaps its most beneficial aspect is that Jorgensen equips readers with enough knowledge to make their own risk assessments, whether it is of a potential medical diagnostic test or a particular consumer decision."--Publishers Weekly "Unbiased, comprehensible information on radiation risk is hard to come by...Strange Glowfills this gap."--Science "Narrative science at its best ... a propulsive story, each piece building on the next in a series of progressive revelations... A seismic piece of scientific inquiry, top shelf in narrative style and illumination."--Kirkus, starred review "The only antidote to irrational fear is knowledge, andStrange Glowimparts this in spades."--Independent "Strange Glow isn't about lessening what is largely a sensible fear, but about removing some of the mystery and misunderstanding... This is a long overdue and successful attempt to rationalise an emotional subject by telling its story in very human terms."--Engineering & Technology News "Strange Glow ... integrates detailed science and carefully illuminated medical statistics with the personal lives of scientists... The book's goal--'to present the facts about radiation as objectively and even-handedly as possible, leaving you to decide which aspects to fear'--is achieved with authority and style."--Andrew Robinson, Lancet "This book can be enjoyed as a sort of scientific QI--a string of interesting facts you can't wait to share with anyone who can be persuaded to listen... Jorgensen proves that there's no excuse for convoluted writing, however difficult the subject. His conversational style makes even the most complex equations seem attractive."--William Cook, The Spectator "[Strange Glow] is ... the story of human interaction with radiation--beginning with the one type that we can see (light) and continuing through radio waves, atomic blasts, cellphones, radon, microwave ovens, luggage scanners, the Fukushima accident, and on and on... Jorgensen avoids graphs and numbers, instead relying largely on entertaining--if alarming--anecdotes."--Nancy Szokan, Washington Post "What I certainly did not expect was to get caught up in the stories of the scientists [in Strange Glow]... Jorgensen has written a compelling book about the history of radiation... [His] gift is that he make us care about the scientists."--Jacqueline Cutler, Newark Star-Ledger "Strange Glow is a cracking good read, filled with fascinating stories about the people behind the science."--Literary Review "Timothy Jorgensen is a scientist with a knack for narrative storytelling."--Ryan Stellabotte, Fordham News "Strange Glow is clear, engaging and refreshingly willing to treat the reader as a thinking adult."--Japan Times "Strange Glow is a fantastic, well-written book about the benefits and risks of radiation. Jorgenson uses common prose so that a wide range of readers can follow the discussions...The book includes extensive, useful, and lucid discussions on medical x-rays and radon gas. Readers also learn the facts regarding the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdowns and the problems they cause. [A] well-researched book."--Choice "Informative, fast paced and entertaining... I guarantee you will be engaged and surprised."--Chemistry World "Jorgensen's lucid writing and strong story-telling skills are demonstrated thoroughly in this book, making it a pleasure to read... In its simplicity and conciseness, it greatly contributes to removing some of the mystery and misunderstanding that surrounds radiation... I feel it will become a very useful resource to the general public as well as to radiation experts."--Jun Deng, Physics World "A narrative history, which integrates detailed science and statistics with the personal lives of the pioneers. [Jorgensen's] goal--'to present the facts about radiation as objectively and even-handedly as possible, leaving you to decide which aspects to fear'--is achieved with authority and style."--Andrew Robinson, The Telegraph "Jorgenson lays out the progression of mankind's understanding of radiation science over the past century, including the figures, breakthroughs and disasters that moved the field forward (for better or worse). An informative read that chronicles the history and science of humankind's 'ambivalent' relationship with this strange force."--Rachel Gross, Smithsonian "[Jorgensen] ... has chosen another original but interesting and straightforward way of storytelling, devoid of scientific jargon, to achieve the aim of reaching the widest possible audience of readers, regardless to their technical background... Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation ... Will certainly be useful due to the striking and exciting style of its presentation."--R.M. Alexakhin, Radiation Protection DosimetryTable of ContentsPREFACE ix 1. Nuclear Jaguars 1 PART ONE: RADIATION 101: THE BASICS 2. Now You See It: Radiation Revealed 7 3. Seek and You Shall Find: Radioactivity Everywhere 38 4. Splitting Hairs: Atomic Particles and Nuclear Fission 51 PART TWO: THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF RADIATION 5. Painted into a Corner: Radiation and Occupational Illness 81 6. The Hippocratic Paradox: Radiation Cures Cancer 116 7. Location, Location, Location: Radiation Sickness 141 8. Snow Warning: Radioactive Fallout 164 9. After the Dust Settles: Measuring the Cancer Risk of Radiation 187 10. Breeding Season: Genetic Effects 206 11. Crystal Clear: The Target for Radiation Damage 234 PART THREE: WEIGHING THE RISKS AND BENEFITS OF RADIATION 12. Silent Spring: Radon in Homes 275 13. A Tale of Two Cities: Diagnostic Radiography 293 14. Sorry, Wrong Number: Cell Phones 310 15. Hot Tuna: Radioactivity in Food 326 16. Blue Moon: Nuclear Power Plant Accidents 346 17. The Things They Carried: Geopolitical Radiation Threats 374 Epilogue: N-Rays 397 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 407 NOTES AND CITATIONS 411 BIBLIOGRAPHY 453 INDEX 465

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Chemistry & Physics, Association of American Publishers "Physics has been at an awkward impasse for the past century. Two theories--quantum mechanics and general relativity--are widely believed to be true... But they contradict each other in basic ways--they cannot both be entirely true. InFashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe... Roger Penrose, an elder statesman of physics, considers the problem. As intellectually offbeat as he is eminent... he ventures here some novel ways in which the two theories might be reconciled."--Wall Street Journal "Penrose gets to the heart of modern physics' problem with subjectivity in this insightful and provocative pop-sci title... [A] rewarding discussion of scientific stumbles in the search for truth."--Publishers Weekly "It is always inspiring to read Penrose's uncompromisingly independent perspec-tive on physics."--Richard Dawid, Nature "An extremely original, rich, and thoughtful survey of today's most fashionable attempts to decipher the cosmos on its smallest and largest scales."--Science "I can't recommend [Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe] too highly to anyone with a serious interest in fundamental questions about physics."--Peter Woit, Not Even Wrong blog "In standing outside the fray and criticising the central dogmas of fundamental physics, Penrose is playing the role of Einstein, who forced quantum theorists to defend and hone their ideas, and Sir Fred Hoyle, who persistently challenged Big Bang theorists to sharpen their ideas. This is an extremely important role, and long may Penrose fulfill it."--Times Higher Education "[A] beautifully produced, beautifully laid-out and diagrammed book... There is possibly no better or more original expositor than Penrose to draw from. If modern physics theory is of interest to you, you certainly won't want to ignore this book."--Math Frolic "The book is replete with phenomenal visual representations of the physics under discussion, a reminder of Penrose's ability to see and describe physics in a unique way... Ultimately, what is most valuable about the book is the excellent example he offers in how to ask questions."--Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Physics World "Something is rotten in the state of physics... The eminent mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose identifies several possible sources of the rot... He is not one to be intimidated by an overwhelming majority, no matter how illustrious and vocal it is. He sets out his objections politely and with exemplary patience towards the keepers of physics orthodoxy... Time will tell whether any of his judgments are correct. In the meantime, his critics would do well to remember George Bernard Shaw's warning: 'The minority is sometimes right; the majority is always wrong.'"--Graham Farmelo, Guardian "A valuable insight into what one of the most prominent theoretical physicists of recent times makes of reality's relationship to ideas in quantum theory, standard cosmology, and theories that pretend to replace them."--Richard Webb, New Scientist "The strength of this book is how the reader can appreciate science as a human undertaking."--Choice "The most important thing is not exactly what he writes about string theory, cosmology and quantum mechanics in his latest book ... but that a book so wide and deep in its erudition could be written at all. If his successors cannot do the same, science will be all the poorer."--Philip Ball, ProspectTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Preface xi Are fashion, faith, or fantasy relevant to fundamental science? xi 1 Fashion 1 1.1 Mathematical elegance as a driving force 1 1.2 Some fashionable physics of the past 10 1.3 Particle-physics background to string theory 17 1.4 The superposition principle in QFT 20 1.5 The power of Feynman diagrams 25 1.6 The original key ideas of string theory 32 1.7 Time in Einstein's general relativity 42 1.8 Weyl's gauge theory of electromagnetism 52 1.9 Functional freedom in Kaluza-Klein and string models 59 1.10 Quantum obstructions to functional freedom? 69 1.11 Classical instability of higher-dimensional string theory 77 1.12 The fashionable status of string theory 82 1.13 M-theory 90 1.14 Supersymmetry 95 1.15 AdS/CFT 104 1.16 Brane-worlds and the landscape 117 2 Faith 121 2.1 The quantum revelation 121 2.2 Max Planck's E = hnu 126 2.3 The wave-particle paradox 133 2.4 Quantum and classical levels: C, U, and R 138 2.5 Wave function of a point-like particle 145 2.6 Wave function of a photon 153 2.7 Quantum linearity 158 2.8 Quantum measurement 164 2.9 The geometry of quantum spin 174 2.10 Quantum entanglement and EPR effects 182 2.11 Quantum functional freedom 188 2.12 Quantum reality 198 2.13 Objective quantum state reduction: a limit to the quantum faith? 204 3 Fantasy 216 3.1 The Big Bang and FLRW cosmologies 216 3.2 Black holes and local irregularities 230 3.3 The second law of thermodynamics 241 3.4 The Big Bang paradox 250 3.5 Horizons, comoving volumes, and conformal diagrams 258 3.6 The phenomenal precision in the Big Bang 270 3.7 Cosmological entropy? 275 3.8 Vacuum energy 285 3.9 Inflationary cosmology 294 3.10 The anthropic principle 310 3.11 Some more fantastical cosmologies 323 4 A New Physics for the Universe? 334 4.1 Twistor theory: an alternative to strings? 334 4.2 Whither quantum foundations? 353 4.3 Conformal crazy cosmology? 371 4.4 A personal coda 391 Appendix A Mathematical Appendix 397 A.1 Iterated exponents 397 A.2 Functional freedom of fields 401 A.3 Vector spaces 407 A.4 Vector bases, coordinates, and duals 413 A.5 Mathematics of manifolds 417 A.6 Manifolds in physics 425 A.7 Bundles 431 A.8 Functional freedom via bundles 439 A.9 Complex numbers 445 A.10 Complex geometry 448 A.11 Harmonic analysis 458 References 469 Index 491

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In an orderly sense, the writer introduces the context and then proceeds to state exactly what was the major draw back in the context during the relevant period of time. . . The progression, as well as the way in which he uses simple techniques to demolish towers of problems in the same sense as it was done back in the day is certainly worth appreciation." * Mathemafrica *"Any lover of mathematics will appreciate the time spent among these pages."---A. Misseldine, Choice"A great companion for students studying analysis, and calculus instructors will find it an enriching experience." * Mathematics Magazine *"I thoroughly enjoyed reading this accessible, insightful and well-written book."---Nick Lord, Mathematical Gazette

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"DeSilva's volume provides a welcome opportunity to reflect on the history of evolutionary theory as a legacy complicated by Darwin's prescience as well as prejudice."---Erika Lorraine Milam, Science"Together with ten colleagues, DeSilva courageously takes up this perennially red-hot founding text of his discipline."---Jessica Riskin, New York Review of Books"A fascinating, comprehensive, and accessible collection of essays. . . . A Most Interesting Problem gives credit to Darwin where credit is due, but is unabashed in its systematic rejection of outdated science."---Lydia Pyne, JSTOR Daily"In this ‘tribute to how science operates,’ 10 contributors revisit Descent on the 150th anniversary of its publication in a ‘quest for understanding the origin, biological variation, behavior, and evolution of humans.’ . . . Each of the contributors adds something valuable to the conversation." * Kirkus Reviews *"This important new collection of commentaries on what is perhaps the most challenging of Darwin's books in our own time, takes up the evidence for human evolution, our place in the family tree, the origins of civilization, of human races, and of sex differences in ways that are both meaningful as well as accessible to those both inside and outside of the scholarly world who are interested in reading and wrestling with this important and core work of Charles Darwin for themselves."---Johannes E. Riutta, The Well-Read Naturalist"[A] unique presentation of the many scientific ideas and hypotheses of Darwin’s “Descent of Man”. [A Most Interesting Problem] is a very interesting book about how sometimes scientific beliefs that have existed for decades can easily be debunked using modern technology."---Molly Gabler-Smith, Integrative and Comparative Biology"This is an especially important and timely project because Darwin’s volume is chock-full of creative, thought-provoking arguments and speculations about human evolution that span an extremely wide range of subjects, and after 150 years, many of these are overdue for a fresh reconsideration."---Jason Winning, Quarterly Review of Biology"This summary of Darwin's contributions to understanding human evolution should interest not only biologists and anthropologists but all concerned about the fate of the human species."---J. S. Schwartz, CHOICE"A Most Interesting Problem is a fantastic run-down of today’s understanding of human evolution and a great showcase of the scientific process."---Tibi Puiu, ZME Science"Fascinating reading about the development of science, and the cultural blindspots than can misdirect even the most brilliant scientists."---Ian Angus, Climate & Capitalism

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year""Period by the biological anthropologist Kate Clancy, hope[s] to draw our attention to menstruation and the often overlooked organ central to it. . . . Clancy hope[s] to encourage us to better appreciate this remarkable muscle. . . . Rather than greeting our periods with disgust, perhaps we should trade our revulsion for awe."---Yasmine AlSayyad, The New Yorker"Give this book to everyone."---Aimee Cunningham, Science News"A bracing look at periods and how society lets down those who have them. . . . Clancy excels at outlining how sexism influences the production and process of science, as well as public understandings of research findings. The result is an urgent call to reconsider how periods are researched and discussed." * Publishers Weekly *""Revelatory. . . . Clancy’s book will hopefully encourage more scientists to conduct more rigorous research on periods."---Rose George, The Atlantic"In energetic and funny prose, Clancy castigates Western societies, especially scientists and physicians, for menstrual stigmas both ancient and modern. . . . [Period] conveys a consistently positive view of menstrual blood, the menstrual cycle, and the bodies of people who menstruate. Looking for agency, optimism, power, and healing in menstruating bodies, Clancy demonstrates that, indeed, these qualities are there for those whose eyes are open to them. . . . A main theme throughout the book is that there is a diversity of menstrual experiences, and that is a good way for bodies (and people) to be. In the end, Clancy simply wants periods to be understood and respected for the remarkable biological process they are."---Lara Freidenfelds, Science"[Period] is an important and provocative look at an incredibly common yet stigmatized bodily process and at the fatal flaws underlying both our science and our society. It might make readers uncomfortable. But as Clancy proclaims, that means she’s doing her job."---Emily Cataneo, Undark"Period . . . is an energising read that models and opens critical conversations about ethically and politically reflective practices in the life sciences. . . .Clancy engages the reader in a dialogue that ignites curiosity and invites further inquiry, offering dollop after rich dollop of fascinating science. . . . Period is not only an exquisite work of science writing, it is a life-altering read."---Sarah S. Richardson, The Lancet"Religion is uniquely capable of taking painful, isolating experiences and using them as catalysts for forming community. Yet, so far, resources on the theology of menstruation are scant. As far as I know, there is no handbook for the pastoral care of people experiencing menstruation. And although Clancy demonstrates that menstrual blood is the source of life, I have yet to hear a sermon relating the life-giving blood of Christ to periods. Perhaps Period is the invitation pastors and theologians need to reimagine what it means to sing our old hymns about the 'wonder-working power in the blood.'"---David Black, Christian Century"Worth reading...for the demolition of the idea of a ‘normal’ 28-day cycle! [Clanch is] also great at considering the social implications of science."---Meghan Bartels, Scientific American"Kate Clancy, an anthropologist by training and a serious researcher into the science underlying menstruation, takes her readers on an adventurous romp through every physiological, political, and social aspect of this monthly bloodletting and tissue-shedding that virtually all women (and other people with uteruses) experience hundreds of times during their reproductive years – myth-busting as she goes. . . .The book is a must-read for anyone who menstruates, has menstruated, or will do so, and all those close to them – and, one hopes, a map for the future."---Caroline de Costa, Australian Book Review"Clancy’s perspective is expertly blended with insights from evolutionary biology, clinical investigations, public health, and social science to broaden our understanding of menstruation. Period is a relevant and timely contribution to biological anthropology and popular science that has the potential to influence research, health policy, and cultural perspectives of women’s reproductive health and menstruation." * Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *"a well-written, interdisciplinary exposition of menstruation.... Highly recommended" * Choice *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] very informative and very readable book."---Adhemar Bultheel, MAA Reviews"Recommended."---J.W. Dauben, Choice"The thing about this book is that it delivers. . . .Throughout, Graph Theory in America celebrates the work of scholars, capturing the spirit of their main contribution to the subject, sometimes during challenging historical times."---Aida Abiad Monge, Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A scholarly tour de force. . . . For those seeking specialization in the anthropology of crises, disasters, and emergencies, this book is required reading."---Roberto E. Barrios, American Anthropologist"A monumental achievement."---Kathleen Tierney, American Journal of Sociology"The Government of Emergency is a thrilling intellectual history . . . [and] an important contribution to a growing line of scholarship that critically approaches the concept of ‘disaster’ itself."---Ryan Hagen, The British Journal of Sociology

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies""An entirely novel approach to a known topic. . . . Read this book with interest and pleasure to begin to appreciate the development of a complex nation over two thousand years of conquering, and being conquered by, people of diverse faiths and national structures."---Tony Dayan, British Society for the History of Medicine"He Bian ingeniously uses conventional historical sources to uncover the hidden story of nonelite knowing of material remedies."---Xiaomeng Liu, Exchange

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, College Art Association""Shortlisted for the Alice Award, Furthermore Grants in Publishing""Winner, Secretary’s Research Prize, Smithsonian Congress of Scholars""[A] rich and beautifully produced catalogue."---Philip Kennicott, Washington Post"This handsome, beautifully illustrated, engagingly and perceptively written volume was published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition by the same name. . . . Chapter notes demonstrate Harvey's mastery of the primary materials and the sources that chronicle these developments and the secondary literature built on those sources . . . Essential." * Choice *"[An] immersive volume . . . [Alexander von Humboldt and the United States includes] lavishly reproduced portraits of Humboldt contemporaries such as Thomas Jefferson, period maps, animal studies and sculptures related to Humboldt’s life and times."---Danny Heitman, Wall Street Journal"[A] dense, engrossing project . . . [Alexander von Humboldt and the United States includes]eight scholarly essays beautifully illustrated with paintings, artifacts, and maps. . . . An archetype of the 'public intellectual' bearing enormous, transformative importance, thoroughly considered in word and image." * Library Journal *"[A] grandly executed, profusely illustrated volume."---Edward Rothstein, Wall Street Journal"[A] magnificent book. . . . a book that begs to be read and reread."---Laura Dassow Walls, Early American Literature

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Pfizer Award, History of Science Society""Winner of the Cheiron Book Prize, Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral & Social Sciences""One of Science News' Favorite Science Books of 2018"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""An inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing female astronomers from 1960 to today."---Simon Ings, New Scientist"The particulars of each woman’s experience are unique, which is part of what makes their stories compelling. . . . As I read through the book, no single essay stood out to me. Instead, I was affected (sometimes deeply) by each woman’s story in a different way, and I often felt compelled to take note of some phrase or piece of sage advice."---Nicolle Zellner, American Scientist"Trimble and Weintraub bring together essays by women who reached for the stars in this uplifting anthology. . . . Filled with moving testimonies and awe-inspiring discoveries, this is a wonderful tribute to the joys of science and the tough road many women had on the way to forging their careers." * Publishers Weekly *"The essays in The Sky Is for Everyone illustrate the progress women have made in the field, although that push to equality is not complete."---Jeff Foust, Space Review"This anthology of 37 short autobiographies covers more than six decades of astronomy and shows the varied paths of female astronomers and the roadblocks that can slow or sideline their success."---Ashley Yeager, Science News"These stories will absolutely inspire our next generation of female scientists. . . . [The Sky Is for Everyone] is an absolute must-read for any young lady who is thinking of starting a career in astronomy. The same applies to anybody who is interested in the history of women in astronomy."---​​​​​​​Mary McIntyre, Journal of the British Astronomical Association"[These autobiographical essays] provide a rich portrait of the experiences, ranging from triumphs to heartbreaks, that constitute the lives of women in contemporary astronomy. . . .They demonstrate that a rewarding career in astronomy is possible for anyone who gives it a try and succeeds at overcoming the many hurdles that confront us all regardless of gender."---David H. DeVorkin, Quest"A communal love letter to astronomy and the broader sciences. . . . The Sky Is for Everyone is a valuable read for astronomers and those interested in the status of women in science, but also for department heads and policymakers who should take note of how institutional barriers can be broken down and accommodations made to improve the astronomy community."---Joanna Behrman, Physics Today"[The] essays are universally well written."---H.D. Wong, Choice

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