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Nuclear Weapons

Bernstein
Nuclear Weapons is a history of nuclear weapons. From their initial theoretical development at the start of the twentieth century to the recent tests in North Korea, the author seeks to, at each point in the narrative, describe the basic science of nuclear weaponry.

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Nature and Power

Radkau
Nature and Power traces the expanding scope of environmental action over the course of history: from initiatives undertaken by individual villages and cities, environmental policy has become a global concern.

Unnatural History

Unnatural History

Robert A. Aronowitz
In the early nineteenth century in the United States, cancer in the breast was a rare disease. Now it seems that breast cancer is everywhere. Written by a medical historian who is also a doctor, Unnatural History tells how and why this happened.

The Healthy Jew

The Healthy Jew

Mitchell B. Hart
This book traces the culturally revealing story of how Moses, the rabbis, and other Jewish thinkers came to be understood as medical authorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology

The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology

David L. Hull and Michael Ruse
This Companion, edited by two of the founders of the field of philosophy of biology, includes newly commissioned essays by senior scholars and up-and-coming younger scholars who collectively examine the main areas of the subject.

Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity

Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity

S. Cuomo
Through five case-studies, this book sets ancient technical knowledge in its political, social and intellectual context.

Bearing the Heavens
Tycho Brahe and the Astronomical Community of the Late Sixteenth Century

Bearing the Heavens Tycho Brahe and the Astronomical Community of the Late Sixteenth Century

Adam Mosley
A ground-breaking study of the astronomical culture of sixteenth-century Europe.

Medical Lives in the Age of Surgical Revolution

Medical Lives in the Age of Surgical Revolution

M. Anne Crowther, Marguerite W. Dupree
An original and unusual history of doctors from the last quarter of the 19th-century and their careers in Britain and the empire, this book describes the experience of a whole generation of doctors at a time of rapid changes in medical knowledge.

A History of Natural Philosophy
From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century

A History of Natural Philosophy From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century

Edward Grant
The book describes how, in the seventeenth century, natural philosophy and the exact mathematical sciences were joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.

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