History of Science eTextbooks

Master Mind

The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare

Saving Darwin

How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution

Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel

Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages

The Beekeeper's Lament

How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America

Denial

A Memoir of Terror

Family of Shadows

A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream

Judging Thomas

The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas

Dishwasher

One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States

It's How You Play the Game

The Powerful Sports Moments That Taught Lasting Values to America's Finest

I Am My Father's Daughter

Living a Life Without Secrets

Ridin' High, Livin' Free

Hell-Raising Motorcycle Stories

Flotsametrics and the Floating World

How One Man's Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science

The Last Gangster

From Cop to Wiseguy to FBI Informant: Big Ron Previte and the Fall of the American Mob

War Room

The Legacy of Bill Belichick and the Art of Building the Perfect Team

Need, Speed, and Greed

How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World's Most Wicked Problems

The Arrogant Years

One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn

A Random Act

An Inspiring True Story of Fighting to Survive and Choosing to Forgive

Evolutionaries

Unlocking the Spiritual and Cultural Potential of Science's Greatest Idea

Alone Together

My Life with J. Paul Getty

Dark Forces

The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi

Back Then

Two Literary Lives in 1950s New York

Happy Hour Is for Amateurs

Work Sucks. Life Doesn't Have To.

Living Techno-Natures

Biohybrid Objects, Life, and Technology

Photography and Science in Victorian Culture

Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents

Anthropology and AI

Anthropology of Now

Foreign Astral Sciences in China

From the Six Dynasties to the Northern Song

Gems and the New Science

Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution

Agrifood Regimes in Greece

Sociotechnical Dynamics and Sustainable Transitions

The Industrial Revolution in World History

The Engine of Scientific Discovery

How New Methods and Tools Spark Major Breakthroughs

New Deep Territories

A Story of France's Exploration of the Seafloor

Constellations and Conjectures

History (R0)

Down to Earth

Foundations Past and Present: The Invisible Art of the Builder

Tantrasaṅgraha of Nīlakaṇṭha Somayājī

Revised and Expanded Edition

Intoxicated Ways of Knowing

The Untold Story of Intoxicants and the Biological Subject in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Macroscopic Metaphysics

Middle-Sized Objects and Longish Processes

Science and Religion in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis

The Quest for the Best Mental Model of the Universe

The Mandate of Heaven

Astronomy in Ancient China

Automata, Cyborgs, and Mutants

Eccentric Bodies from Humanism to Transhumanism

An Engaging Approach to the Science and Engineering of Materials

The SPHERE

Thomas Kuhn's Philosophical Perspective

Communities, Languages, and Practices

Making Movement Modern

Science, Politics, and the Body in Motion

History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Philosophy and Religion (R0)

Medieval Folk Astronomy and Agriculture in Arabia and the Yemen

Variorum Collected Studies

Studies in Premodern Sciences in Memory of Noel M. Swerdlow

Antiquity to the Renaissance

Of Things Visible and Invisible

From the Atom to Quarks - A Historical Journey Through the Conceptual Images of Matter

The Unconscious

A Cultural History from Hippocrates to Philip K. Dick and Beyond

Understanding How Science Explains the World

Understanding Life

Knowledge Flows in a Global Age

A Transnational Approach

Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America

Crossing the Boundaries of Life

Gunter Blobel and the Origins of Molecular Cell Biology

The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness

Decoding the Hand

A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic

Beyond the Genius

Nobel Stories of Passion and Controversy in Science

A Social History of Mental Health Care in Greece, c. 1900—1920

Hospitals, Patients, and Society

Theory of Nature and Mode of Production

The Genesis of Modern Science in Materialist Perspective

The Poznań School of Archaeology

The Origin, Growth and Significance

The Barnard Album

A Colorful Look at Dark Nebulae

Archaeology

Historiography and Theory

Celestial Sleuthing

More Mysteries in Art, History, and Literature

The Soviet Space Program and International Collaboration during Perestroika, 1985-1991

History (R0)

Ernest Nagel on Science and Philosophy

Volume I: Biographical Materials and Correspondence with C. G. Hempel

How Glass Changed the World

Revised and Expanded

A Historical Dictionary of Mathematical Terms

Volume II: J-Z

A Historical Dictionary of Mathematical Terms

Volume I: A-I

Electric Power in Victorian Britain

Volume I: Electric Power Imagined

Electric Power in Victorian Britain

Volume II: Electric Power in Practice

Building Inclusive Scientific Communities and Leadership

Case Studies from Professional Societies

Wired Together

The Montreal Neurological Institute and the Origins of Neuroscience

Branching Darwinisms

The Rise and Fall of the Eclipse Metaphor in the Historiography of Evolutionary Biology

Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction

Europe and Its Colonial Networks, 1780-1850

Francis Bacon's Natural Philosophy and the Laws of Nature

Global Perspectives on the History of Natural Philosophy

The Influence of Railways on Economic Change

Routledge Studies in Modern British History

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science After Kant

Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

The Wilderness of the Infinite

Robert Grosseteste, William of Auvergne, and Mathematical Infinity in the Thirteenth Century

Einstein

A Life in Science and Music

A Universe of Earths

Our Planet and Other Worlds, from Copernicus to NASA

A Universe of Earths

Our Planet and Other Worlds, from Copernicus to NASA

A Dirty History of Photography

Chemistry, Fog, and Empire

Quantum Legacies

Dispatches from an Uncertain World

Experimental Design and Data Analysis for Biologists

Picturing Animals and Plants in Early Modern China and Japan

Innovation, Experiments, and Anxieties

Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World

The Life and Scholarly Achievements of Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) in Colonial Dutch Brazil. Volume 2: Transcription and English Translation of His Astronomical Observations

Kurt Baschwitz

A Pioneer of Communication Studies and Social Psychology

Anton Pannekoek

Ways of Viewing Science and Society

Rethinking the Republic of Letters

Memory and Identity in Early Modern Learned Communities

How Modern Science Came into the World

Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough

Cultivating and Communicating Natural and Technical Knowledge around 1800

Devotees of Science

Fatal Invention

How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

Unsettling Science and Religion

Contributions and Questions from Queer Studies

A Companion to the History of American Science

Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History

A Companion to the History of Science

Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History

Transforming Science in South Africa

Development, Collaboration and Productivity

Voices of the Soviet Space Program

Cosmonauts, Soldiers, and Engineers Who Took the USSR into Space

Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries

Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology

From Thales to Heraclides Ponticus

Highlighting the History of Astronomy in the Asia-Pacific Region

Proceedings of the ICOA-6 Conference

The Pollination Biology of North American Orchids: Volume 2

North of Florida and Mexico

Freud on Interpretation

The Ancient Magical Egyptian and Jewish Traditions

Isaac Newton's Temple of Solomon and his Reconstruction of Sacred Architecture