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The Perils and Promises of Prediction in the Natural Sciences

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science - Band 349

This book provides a novel approach to a key topic in the history and philosophy of science, the role and status of prediction in the natural sciences. In contrast to most of the literature on the topic, …

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Carl Schmitt,
State Composition and Collapse of the Second Reich

Newly published for the first time in English translation, Carl Schmitt's 1934 tract, State Composition and Collapse of the Second Reich: The Victory of the Bourgeois Citizen over the Soldier , is an impo…

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Dava Sobel
The Elements of Marie Curie

**Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude,chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science - and the untold story of the young women who trained in her lab…

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Charles Ferguson
Presidential Seclusion

Behind the gates of Camp David---where presidents find solitude, forge diplomacy, and shape history in absolute secrecy.The Presidential Retreat Camp David is shrouded in mystery, and rightfully so. The h…

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Ziad Abu-Rish
The State of Lebanon

Lebanon gained its formal political independence in 1943. During the dozen years that followed, women and men across class, sectarian, geographic, and ideological divides built, challenged, and reformed t…

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Selena Wisnom
The Library of Ancient Wisdom

A tour of an ancient library transports us to Mesopotamia, introducing us to its people, their ideas, and their humanity.The library of Ashurbanipal, Assyria's last great king, held an astonishing collect…

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David Conrad-Pérez
Fire in the Heart of the City

A compelling and original narrative history of New York's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, exposing how New York's elite transformed the tragedy into the foundation of modern American charity.Fire in the…

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Cristina Chiappini, Francesca Matteucci
A Natural History of the Milky Way

Charting astronomers efforts to unravel the complexities of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, this volume shows how they have used data on its chemical composition including its biogenic elements to reveal t…

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Toby Wilkinson
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "Magisterial . . . [A] rich portrait of ancient Egypt's complex evolution over the course of three millenniums."-Los Angeles TimesNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE Y…

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Michael Arnheim
Five Thousand Years of Monarchy

Offers a sweeping, entertaining journey through the real power structures of world historyFive Thousand Years of Monarchy challenges everything you thought you knew about political history. With wit, clar…

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Jim Baggott
Discordance

The troubled history of the Hubble constant told in an authoritative, comprehensible, and entertaining mannerIn 1927 Georges Lemaître argued that our universe is expanding, a conclusion rendered more star…

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Charles W Eagles
A Victory for Democracy

In a landmark First Amendment case that Martin Luther King Jr. called "a victory for democracy," NAACP v. Alabama(1958) established the right to form groups to share and promote ideas without go…

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James R Wible, Kevin D Hoover
Peirceâs Science of Economics and Economics of Science

Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) is most famous today as a philosopher, the founder of the philosophical school of Pragmatism, and as a logician. In his own day, he was better known as a bench scientist, ast…

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David Wagner
Moths of the World

A marvelously illustrated guide to the world's mothsWith more than 160,000 named species, moths are a familiar sight to most of us, flickering around lights, pollinating wildflowers about meadows and gard…

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Jason K Stearns
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters

A "meticulously researched and comprehensive" (Financial Times) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's CongoAt the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of western Eu…

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Rebekah Higgitt, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, Noah Moxham
Metropolitan Science

Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science offers a new perspective on the development of a scientific culture between the years 1…

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Enda O'Doherty
The Dark Side of France

The Dark Side of France provides us with a revelatory examination of rightward French politics across three centuries. Beginning with the aftermath of the humiliating Franco-Prussian War, the internationa…

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Benjamin Lewin
The Frontiers of Science

Science dominates modern intellectual life, yet few fully appreciate the path by which science evolved into such a driving cultural force. The Frontiers of Science traces the centuries-long development of…

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Deeann M Reeder
The Lives of Bats

"Bats are the second-largest order of mammals and inhabit almost every corner of the globe, but these secretive creatures are often maligned and misunderstood. With more than 1,400 species worldwide,…

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The Story of Gold

A glittering history of the world told through gold, with a blingtastically gold cover!Spanning billions of years from the Big Bang to the present day, this richly illustrated book tells the true stories …

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