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The Scientific Revolution
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 15.00"There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it." With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific worldview. "Shapin's account is informed, nuanced, and articulated with clarity. . . . This is not to attack or devalue... more...
Annual Review of Nursing Research, 13 (1995)
Springer Publishing Company 1995; US$ 90.00Now in its second decade of publication, this landmark series draws together and critically reviews all the existing research in specific areas of nursing practice, nursing care delivery, nursing education, and the professional aspects of nursing. more...
Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008
World Bank Publications 2008; US$ 19.99This book contains statistical snapshots for 195 countries and 13 regional and income groups. The 200+ tables, each focused on one country, region, or income group, explore immigration, emigration and skilled emigration, and inward and outward remittance flows. Summary reports on the top 10 countries in each category are also included. more...
Your Flying Car Awaits
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99Talking dolphins . . . Underwater cities . . . Two-hundred-year life spans . . . Welcome to the present! People have always imagined what life would be like in the future. Most of the time they've been wrong. Often they were really, really wrong. Your Flying Car Awaits looks at the most outrageous predictions from twentieth-century scientists,... more...
Vauban under Siege
BRILL 2006; US$ 181.00A comparison of the theory of Vaubanian siegecraft with its reality. This volume places Vauban's siege accomplishments into their broader context, highlighting his continuation of the quest for ever-greater efficiency pursued by a century of military engineers. more...
The Salt of the Earth
BRILL 2007; US$ 147.00Consisting of a series of case studies, this book discusses the concept and uses of salt in early modern science, which have played a crucial role in the evolution of matter theory from Aristotelian concepts of the elements to Newtonian chymistry. more...
The Soviet Union
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 9.99Almost twenty years after the Soviet Unions' end, what are we to make of its existence? Was it a heroic experiment, an unmitigated disaster, or a viable if flawed response to the modern world?Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union, this Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into the society and... more...
A Companion to American Technology
Wiley 2008; US$ 228.95A Companion to American Technology is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that analyze the hard-to-define phenomenon of “technology” in America. 22 original essays by expert scholars cover the most important features of American technology, including developments in automobiles, television, and computing Analyzes the ways... more...
Child of the Enlightenment
BRILL 2008; US$ 158.00A diary kept by a boy in the 1790s provides the basis for a panoramic view of the Age of Enlightenment and democratic revolution in Europe, highlighting the emergence of new ideas on education, nature, time, space, religion and politics. more...
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 18.99The fall of the Berlin Wall sent shock waves around the world, initiating a stunningly rapid power-shift that would bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union, give rise to new democracies in Eastern Europe, and end the Cold War superpower conflict that had governed international relations for nearly a half century. It was, quite literally, a world-changing... more...









