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Mark H. Lytle (Author)
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2007-02-12
Oxford Univ Pr
Rachel Carson''s <em>Silent Spring</em> antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation--including the farm block and the agricultural chemical in
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Gale E. Christianson (Author)
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2005-11-01
Oxford Univ Pr
Quarrelsome and quirky, a disheveled recluse who ate little, slept less, and yet had an iron constitution, Isaac Newton rose from a virtually illiterate family
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Nicholas Wright Gillham (Author)
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2001-11-01
Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
Few scientists have made lasting contributions to as many fields as Francis Galton. He was an important African explorer, travel writer, and geographer. He was
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Carlo Cercignani (Author)
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2006-03-09
Oxford Univ Pr
Ludwig Boltzmann arguably played the key role in establishing that submicroscopic structures underlie the ordinary world. He had a tremendous impact on late 19t
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Andrew Brown (Author)
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2006-01-12
Oxford Univ Pr
J.D. Bernal, known as "Sage," was an extraordinary man and multifaceted character. A scientist of dazzling intellectual ability and a leading figure in the deve
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Abraham Pais (Author)
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2007-06-25
Oxford Univ Pr
The late Abraham Pais, author of the award winning biography of Albert Einstein, </em>Subtle is the Lord</em>, here offers an illuminating portrait of another o
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Abraham Pais (Author)
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2006-04-01
Oxford Univ Pr
The late Abraham Pais wrote the definitive biography of Albert Einstein, "Subtle is the Lord" which won an American Book Award. As a distinguished physicist and
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Andrew Brown (Author)
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2007-05-10
Oxford Univ Pr
J.D. Bernal, known as "Sage," was an extraordinary man and multifaceted character. A scientist of dazzling intellectual ability and a leading figure in the deve
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Colin Archibald Russell (Author)
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2001-01-04
Oxford Univ Pr
Michael Faraday (1791-1867), the son of a blacksmith, described his education as "little more than the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic at a common
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Istvan Hargittai (Author)
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2006-07-27
Oxford Univ Pr
If science has the equivalent of a Bloomsbury group, it is the five men born at the turn of the twentieth century in Budapest: Theodore von Karman, Leo Szilard
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Carl Djerassi (Author)
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2004-01-29
Oxford Univ Pr
On October 15, 1951, in a small laboratory in Mexico City, one of the key episodes in 20th century social history occurred: the first synthesis of a steroid ora
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Philip J. Pauly (Author)
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2011-12-01
Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
The biologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) helped to shape the practice of modern biological research through his radical emphasis on reductionist experimentation.
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Jane Gregory (Author)
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2005-08-11
Oxford Univ Pr
Fred Hoyle was a Yorkshire truant who became the voice of British astronomy. For fifty years, he spoke out for astronomy in the newspapers, on government commit
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Daniel Philip Todes (Author)
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2011-12-01
Oxford Univ Pr
Hailed as the "Prince of World Physiology," Ivan Pavlov continues to influence scientists today. His pioneering research on digestion, the brain, and behavior s
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Richard S. Westfall (Author)
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2007-06-18
Oxford Univ Pr
Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-siz
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Jonathan Betts (Author)
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2006-09-14
Oxford Univ Pr
This is the story of Rupert T. Gould (1890-1948), the polymath and horologist. A remarkable man, Lt Cmdr Gould made important contributions in an extraordinary
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Carlo Cercignani (Author)
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2011-12-01
Oxford Univ Pr
Ludwig Boltzmann arguably played the key role in establishing that submicroscopic structures underlie the ordinary world. He had a tremendous impact on late 19t
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Frederic Lawrence Holmes (Author)
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2011-02-17
Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
This comprehensive volume completes Frederic Holmes' notable and detailed biography of Hans Krebs, from the investigator's early development through the major p
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Ian Glass (Author)
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2006-01-19
Oxford Univ Pr
Galileo, Newton, Herschel, Huggins, Hale, Eddington, Shapley and Hubble: these astronomers applied ideas drawn from physics to astronomy and made dramatic chan
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