Science : Antiquity and its Legacy. by Lang, Philippa

Subjects: “…Science History.…”
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Groovy science : knowledge, innovation, and American counterculture /

Table of Contents: “…Gordin -- Timothy Leary's transhumanist smile / W. Patrick McCray -- Science of the sexy beast: biological masculinities and the Playboy lifestyle / Erika Lorraine Milam -- Legacies -- Alloyed: countercultural bricoleurs and the design science revival / Andrew Kirk -- How the industrial scientist got his groove: entrepreneurial journalism and the fashioning of technoscientific innovators / Matthew Wisnioski -- When chèvre was weird: hippie taste, technoscience, and the revival of American artisanal food making / Heather Paxson -- Afterword: the counterculture's looking glass / David Farber and Beth Bailey.…”
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Science-mart : privatizing American science / by Mirowski, Philip, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Viridiana Jones and the Temple of Mammon : or, adventures in neoliberal science studies -- [pt.] I. Why we should not depend upon the existing content of an "Economics of Science." …”
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Science of agronomy /

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The art of science : from perspective drawing to quantum randomness /

Table of Contents: “…From Perspective Drawing to the Eighth Dimension -- Seeing Reality in Perspective: The 'Art of Optics' and the 'Science of Painting' -- The Role of Perspective in the Transformation of European Culture -- Visual DifferentialGeometry and Beltrami's Hyperbolic Plane.…”
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Revolution in science / by Cohen, I. Bernard, 1914-2003

Subjects: “…Science History.…”
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Revolutionizing the sciences : European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700 / by Dear, Peter, 1958-

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Science in wonderland : the scientific fairy tales of Victorian Britain / by Keene, Melanie

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Science in Wonder Land: The scientific fairy tales of Victorian Britain; Copyright; Epigraph; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Plates; Introduction: Nothing but Facts?…”
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The voice of science : British scientists on the lecture circuit in Gilded Age America / by Finnegan, Diarmid A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Science lectures in an age of oratory -- Science, speech and character : John Tyndall's lectures on light -- Reason's rhetor : the scientific oratory of Thomas Henry Huxley -- Richard Proctor and the tempo of science -- Alfred Russel Wallace, anticelebrity -- Evolution's evangelist : the American addresses of Henry Drummond -- Conclusion: Science, historically speaking.…”
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Sorcery or science? : contesting knowledge and practice in West African Sufi texts / by Marcus-Sells, Ariela, 1985-

Table of Contents: “…The visible world -- The realms of the unseen -- The sciences of the unseen -- Bridging the worlds in prayer.…”
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The science of conjecture : evidence and probability before Pascal / by Franklin, James, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Preface to the 2015 edition -- Preface -- The ancient law of proof -- The medieval law of evidence : suspicion, half-proof, and inquisition -- Renaissance law -- The doubting conscience and moral certainty -- Rhetoric, logic, theory -- Hard science -- Soft science and history -- Philosophy : action and induction -- Religion : laws of God, laws of nature -- Aleatory contracts : insurance, annuities, and bets -- Dice -- Conclusion -- Epilogue : the survival of unquantified probability -- Appendix. …”
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Leaving science : occupational exit from scientific careers / by Preston, Anne Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Science : the period and the people -- The magnitude and character of exit -- Leaving science for income and opportunity -- Family responsibilities and their effects on a scientific career -- Mentoring -- Leaving science because of discontent with science itself -- Does the rapidly changing knowledge within science affect exit? …”
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Jews and Science. by Gilman, Sander L.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Jews and Science The Jewish Role in American Life An Annual Review of the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- FOREWORD -- EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION -- DEFINING SCIENCE -- DEFINING JEWS -- Science, Imperialism, and Heteromasculinity in the Wissenschaft des Judentums -- Philosophers of Catastrophe: Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Proponents and Opponents of Objectivity in Science -- Medical History: A Blank Spot in Jewish Studies?…”
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Science in the archives : pasts, presents, futures /

Table of Contents: “…The immortal archive: nineteenth-century science imagines the future /…”
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Staging science : scientific performance on street, stage and screen /

Table of Contents: “…Making the Most Beautiful Experiment: Reconstructing Gassiot's Cascade; Iwan Rhys Morus -- 2. Science in the City: Scientific Display and Urban Performance in Victorian Travel Guides to London; Martin Willis -- 3. …”
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Science Of Bombing : Operational Research In Raf Bomber Command. by Wakelam, Randall T.

Table of Contents: “…Commanders, Headquarters, and Decision Making -- 1 Strategic Bombing: When Theory and Practice Do Not Match -- 2 Operational Research: Finding a Solution through Science -- 3 Boffins at Bomber Command: September 1941 -- 4 Sorting Out Process and Producing Results: September 1941-February 1942 -- 5 Arthur Harris and a New Beginning: February-December 1942 -- 6 Concentration and Other Curatives: February-December 1942 -- 7 Putting Concepts to the Test: January-February 1943 -- 8 New Concepts, Old Targets -- The Ruhr: March-June 1943 -- 9 Hamburg and New Science: July-October 1943 -- 10 Science versus Attrition -- Berlin: November 1943-March 1944 -- 11 Debates Both Political and Technical: April 1944-May 1945 -- 12 Round-the-Clock Bombing: April 1944-May 1945 -- 13 Conclusions -- Apprendix 1 Britain and Northwest Europe: Selected Bomber Command Targets -- Appendix 2 Clossary of Operational Terminology -- Appendix 3 Air Ministry and Bomber Command Headquarters Organization Charts -- Appendix 4 Air Ministry and Bomber Command Appoinuuents -- Appendix 5 Air Staff Directive to Bomber Command, 13 July 1940 -- Appendix 6 Principal Bomber Command Aircraft -- Appendix 7 Bomber Command ORS Senior Personnel -- Appendix 8 Bombing Techniques.…”
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The Science of War : Canadian Scientists and Allied Military Technology during the Second World War.

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Neutrons for science : the history of the Institut Laue-Langevin, an exceptionally successful international collaboration / by Jacrot, Bernard

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Science in Canada : Selections from the Speeches of E.W.R. Steacie. by Babbitt, J. D.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; INTRODUCTION; SCIENCE AND THE UNIVERSITY; Science and Education; Science and the University; The Task of the University Today: Science; Some Problems of a Granting Body; Engineering and Technological Education; The Life Sciences in Canadian Universities; Where is Physics Going?…”
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The nay science : a history of German Indology / by Adluri, Vishwa

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- The Nay Science -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- The Nay Science -- Introduction -- A History of German Indology -- The History of German Indology as a History of Method -- The Origins of the Historical-Critical Method in the Neo-Protestantism of the Eighteenth Century -- Defining the Scope of Inquiry -- Plan of Study -- Chapter 1 . …”
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