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2008
Richardson SS, Koenig B, Lee SS-J, editors. Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age. Brunswick: Rutgers University Press; 2008. p. 368.
Richardson SS, Koenig B, Lee SS-J, editors. Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age. Brunswick: Rutgers University Press; 2008. p. 368.
With the completion of the sequencing of the human genome in 2001, the debate over the existence of a biological basis for race has been revived. In Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age, interdisciplinary scholars join forces to examine the new social...
Harrington A. The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine. New York: W. W. Norton & Company; 2008. p. 336.
Harrington A. The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine. New York: W. W. Norton & Company; 2008. p. 336.
People suffering from serious illnesses improve their survival chances by adopting a positive attitude and refusing to believe in the worst. Stress is the great killer of modern life. Ancient Eastern mind-body techniques can bring us balance and healing...
Galison P, Holton G, Schweber SS, editors. Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern. Princeton: Princeton University Press; 2008. p. 384.
Galison P, Holton G, Schweber SS, editors. Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern. Princeton: Princeton University Press; 2008. p. 384.
More than fifty years after his death, Albert Einstein’s vital engagement with the world continues to inspire others, spurring conversations, projects, and research, in the sciences as well as the humanities. Einstein for the 21st Century shows us why he...
2007
Creager ANH, Lunbeck E, Wise MN, editors. Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives. Durham, NC: Duke University Press; 2007. p. 296.
Creager ANH, Lunbeck E, Wise MN, editors. Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives. Durham, NC: Duke University Press; 2007. p. 296.
Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable body of knowledge about biological organisms and human...
2005
Holton G. Victory and Vexation in Science: Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and Others. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; 2005. p. 244.
Holton G. Victory and Vexation in Science: Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and Others. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; 2005. p. 244.
Never has the power of scientific research to solve existing problems and uncover new ones been more evident than it is today. Yet there exists widespread ignorance about the larger contexts within which scientific research is carried out. For example...
Lemov R. World as Laboratory: Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men. New York: Hill & Wang; 2005. p. 304.
Lemov R. World as Laboratory: Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men. New York: Hill & Wang; 2005. p. 304.
Deeply researched, World as Laboratory tells a secret history that's not really a secret. The fruits of human engineering are all around us: advertising, polls, focus groups, the ubiquitous habit of "spin" practiced by marketers and politicians. What...
2004
Jones DS. Rationalizing Epidemics:Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; 2004. p. 308.
Jones DS. Rationalizing Epidemics:Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; 2004. p. 308.
Ever since their arrival in North America, European colonists and their descendants have struggled to explain the epidemics that decimated native populations. Century after century, they tried to understand the causes of epidemics, the vulnerability of...
2003
Lunbeck E, Simon B. Family Romance, Family Secrets: Case Notes from an American Psychoanalysis, 1912. New Haven: Yale University Press; 2003. p. 352.
Lunbeck E, Simon B. Family Romance, Family Secrets: Case Notes from an American Psychoanalysis, 1912. New Haven: Yale University Press; 2003. p. 352.
This fascinating book, which presents an early psychoanalyst’s session-by-session notes on a case of hysteria caused by severe sexual trauma and incest, offers a vivid portrait of psychoanalytic practice in the second decade of the twentieth century...
Galison P. Einstein’s Clock’s, Poincaré’s Maps. New York: W. W. Norton & Company; 2003. p. 392.
Galison P. Einstein’s Clock’s, Poincaré’s Maps. New York: W. W. Norton & Company; 2003. p. 392.
A dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps is "part history, part science, part adventure, part biography, part meditation on the meaning of...
2001
Galison P, Graubard SR, Mendelsohn E, editors. Science in Culture. London, UK: Routledge; 2001. p. 256.
Galison P, Graubard SR, Mendelsohn E, editors. Science in Culture. London, UK: Routledge; 2001. p. 256.
Twenty-five years ago, Gerald Holton's Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought introduced a wide audience to his ideas. Holton argued that from ancient times to the modern period, an astonishing feature of innovative scientific work was its ability to hold...
Creager ANH, Lunbeck E, Schiebinger L, editors. Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 2001. p. 272.
Creager ANH, Lunbeck E, Schiebinger L, editors. Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 2001. p. 272.
What useful changes has feminism brought to science? Feminists have enjoyed success in their efforts to open many fields to women as participants. But the effects of feminism have not been restricted to altering employment and professional opportunities...
2000
Holton G. Einstein, History, and Other Passions: The Rebellion Against Science at the End of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; 2000.
Holton G. Einstein, History, and Other Passions: The Rebellion Against Science at the End of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; 2000.
Through his rich exploration of Einstein’s thought, Gerald Holton shows how the best science depends on great intuitive leaps of imagination, and how science is indeed the creative expression of the traditions of Western civilization.