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- History Resources * [http://www.maphistory.info/ History of Cartography] is an annotated gateway to comprehensive information on an… …y_culture/industrialisation/ Society and Culture: Industrialization]"; BBC history pages discussing the effect of Victorian-Age engineering on Brisith societ…824 B (109 words) - 20:47, 15 June 2006
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- Manguel: A History of Reading Alberto Manguel, ''A History of Reading''. New York : Viking, 1996. 372 pages, with notes and index. …hat play back and forth across various aspects of that theme, building its history in layers, like transparent glazes on a Renaissance oil painting. He consi…10 KB (1641 words) - 00:50, 15 April 2009
- Hecht: Doubt, a History Jennifer Michael Hecht, ''Doubt, A History : The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesu… …"doubt": what it is, how it manifests, its history as an idea, doubters in history, the influence of doubt on religion, doubt in culture, doubt as an idea—…6 KB (1003 words) - 00:21, 15 April 2009
- Tudge: The Time Before History Colin Tudge, ''The Time Before History : 5 Million Years of Human Impact.'' New York : Scribner, 1996. 366 pages,… …can be said about human history before there was history, at least written history.4 KB (697 words) - 01:36, 15 April 2009
- Lavers: The Natural History of Unicorns Chris Lavers, ''The Natural History of Unicorns''. New York : Harper Perennial, 2009. 272 pages; illustrated; … …ltural analysis of vampires. At a little more than 200 pages, this natural history is not in the same league as Barber's book, but is a basic introductio…841 B (117 words) - 01:08, 4 February 2011
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- Crease: The Great Equations …Rather they are essays that consider the place of these great equations in history: the intellectual milieu that saw them come into existence, their scientif… Simon Schama's book ''History of Britain'', at 1,500 pages, is a solid history of that country, and has been made the basis for a multipart documentary f…8 KB (1368 words) - 03:39, 11 September 2009
- Status Briefing August 2005 …pability within the GAO. The amendment was defeated in August 2004. Recent history is showing that it may not be wise for the Congress to rely on the White H… If history shows anything, it's that a bet against science is a bet you cannot win. F…14 KB (2023 words) - 03:09, 2 April 2009
- Presidential Science Advisors …u/gen/WW2Timeline/vannevar3.html "Vannevar Bush"], University of San Diego History Department, c. 2000.6 KB (822 words) - 02:34, 10 September 2009
- Outline ** History of Science * [[History Resources]]3 KB (351 words) - 20:10, 5 September 2009
- Beard: The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey …e book the author describes his discoveries and how they shed light on the history of primates and especially, the history of anthropoids, which are monkeys and apes. Interwoven throughout he descr…2 KB (354 words) - 23:50, 14 April 2009
- Shubin: Your Inner Fish Neil Shubin, ''Your Inner Fish : A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body''. New York : Pantheon Books, 2008. 20 pages : illustrat… A little of the history of DNA and gene sequencing gets a little confusing so that is why readabil…1 KB (222 words) - 01:29, 15 April 2009
- Statements on Teaching Evolution …h his main work and it remains one of the very great works of intellectual history. … theory of evolution will become an even more powerful explanation for the history of life on Earth.32 KB (4678 words) - 18:04, 28 December 2006
- Evolution and the Vatican …"{{ref|jp01}}. The title acknowledges the contribution of Leo XIII and the history of this metaphysical statement. It contains John Paul II's most direct rem… Seen against the long arc of history for an institution that has survived for nearly two millenia, the period s…25 KB (3967 words) - 03:09, 2 April 2009
- Submission Guidelines * Pieces that enrich our understanding of the history of science in society.2 KB (239 words) - 22:56, 31 March 2009
- Recommended Books * Jan Bondeson, ''Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear'' (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001). == History ==3 KB (389 words) - 03:16, 2 April 2009
- Citizens' Alliances for Science These excerpts from the organization's history also describes its goals: …e, religion, evolution, and creationism. Also of note is the page of local history titled [http://www.scienceormyth.org/discoveryinstitute.html "Defeating th…27 KB (4076 words) - 03:14, 2 April 2009
- Darby, Montana School Board …n the board. Two of those candidates are conservative ministers who have a history of trying to force a narrowly focused religious and social agenda on our k…28 KB (4314 words) - 22:18, 1 November 2005
- Surveying the American West Excerpted from John Rennie Short, ''The World through Maps: A History of Cartography'' (Buffalo [New York]: Firefly Books, 2003), pp. 158--160.5 KB (712 words) - 02:08, 2 September 2009
- Short: The World Through Maps John Rennie Short, ''The World Through Maps : A History of Cartography''. Buffalo [NY] : Firefly Books, 2003. 224 pages; illustrat… …utiful presentation of historical maps, broadly construed, Short tells the history of cartography in short, easily digestible essays, each accompanied by sev…1 KB (154 words) - 01:29, 15 April 2009
- Sobel: The Illustrated Longitude Dava Sobel has chosen to tell the history of solving the Longitude Problem as the heroic struggle of a lone inventor…2 KB (344 words) - 01:31, 15 April 2009
- History Resources * [http://www.maphistory.info/ History of Cartography] is an annotated gateway to comprehensive information on an… …y_culture/industrialisation/ Society and Culture: Industrialization]"; BBC history pages discussing the effect of Victorian-Age engineering on Brisith societ…824 B (109 words) - 20:47, 15 June 2006
- John Harrison and the Longitude Problem …/Longitude2.html English attack on the Longitude Problem]", ''The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University o…3 KB (409 words) - 23:46, 8 June 2006
- Robinson: Lost Languages …t scripts is a compelling intellectual and imaginative challenge; it makes history; it changes our perceptions of our place in the world; it casts new light …2 KB (309 words) - 01:22, 15 April 2009
- Jardine: Ingenious Pursuits I wanted to like this book more. Jardine is a specialist in Renaissance History and puts all the right details in place to make a fascinating study of how…5 KB (799 words) - 00:34, 15 April 2009
- Ferguson: Tycho and Kepler two remarkable figures in the history of science but also deftly explains the importance of the discoveries, inv… …s possible to write interesting, engaging prose about scientific ideas and history and not do violence to the basic scientific concepts.3 KB (462 words) - 00:12, 15 April 2009
- Blaise: Time Lord …Fleming, once the most celebrated Canadian engineer but now receeding into history, is widely called "the father of standard time" because he was the catalys…2 KB (365 words) - 23:51, 14 April 2009
- Legislating the Value of Pi … irrationality, has inspired a number of mystics and charlatans throughout history, particularly through vain efforts to "square the circle". Proof in 1882 t… …graphic.com/news/2003/03/0331_030401_aprilfool.html "April Fools' Special: History's Hoaxes"], ''National Geographic'', 1 April 2003, discussed several famou…8 KB (1303 words) - 03:20, 26 August 2006
- Ehrman: Misquoting Jesus Our author traces the history of the text of the New Testament and describes how scholars use the princi…1 KB (193 words) - 00:09, 15 April 2009
- Bondeson: Buried Alive Jan Bondeson, ''Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear''. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2001. 320 pag…3 KB (574 words) - 23:53, 14 April 2009
- Kurlansky: Salt …lence in Food Writing; however, his previous books seem to have been about history and geography.1 KB (184 words) - 00:38, 15 April 2009
- Burke: Connections …is excitement and enthusiasm about sharing all the connections he finds in history, as though the covers of his book can barely contain all the interesting s… …lves) to the modern ending point. Each one of these mental rambles through history adds depth to the modern invention the way that musical variations on a th…5 KB (834 words) - 23:56, 14 April 2009
- Ball: The Ingredients …redients'' offers a great deal of insight about the chemical elements, the history of their discovery, their value to society, and even what it means to be a…5 KB (779 words) - 23:48, 14 April 2009
- Gould: The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox … series of books that collected the monthly columns he wrote for ''Natural History'' magazine for 25 years, including ''Ever Since Darwin'', ''Bully for Bron…6 KB (978 words) - 00:16, 15 April 2009
- Diamond: Collapse …s viewpoint is largely environmental, no doubt because of his professional history, but he makes clear the notion that environmental problems can be big, thr… …le for them to do so. I instead prefer to recognize that, throughout human history, in all politically complex human societies in which people encounter othe…4 KB (642 words) - 00:08, 15 April 2009
- Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea …concede the objectivity and precision of good science, any more than it is history worship to concede that Napoleon did once rule in France and the Holocaust…7 KB (1109 words) - 00:07, 15 April 2009
- Ball: Bright Earth … colors and found it more than ample. Various cultures at various times in history have not distinguished colors that modern eyes do. Through medieval times … …lor of the robe worn by the Virgin Mary in painted representations through history is largely a record of which pigments were rarest and most expensive in an…11 KB (1801 words) - 23:47, 14 April 2009
- Ridley: The Red Queen …a pop star ushering a model into his Mercedes. From fish to Mercedes, the history is unbroken: via skins and beads, plows and cattle, swords and castles. We… Cynical? Not half as cynical as most accounts of human history. [pp. 243—244]9 KB (1456 words) - 01:19, 15 April 2009
- Manguel: A History of Reading Alberto Manguel, ''A History of Reading''. New York : Viking, 1996. 372 pages, with notes and index. …hat play back and forth across various aspects of that theme, building its history in layers, like transparent glazes on a Renaissance oil painting. He consi…10 KB (1641 words) - 00:50, 15 April 2009
- The Invention of Eyeglasses Alberto Manguel, in ''A History of Reading'', wrote{{ref|am01}} about the earliest known references to the… #{{note|am01}}Alberto Manguel, ''[[Manguel: A History of Reading|A History of Reading]]'', New York : Viking, 1996.3 KB (550 words) - 03:26, 18 November 2009
- Monmonier: Air Apparent …weather map around 1816 raises perhaps the most intriguing question in the history of environmental cartography: What took them so long? The "so long" here i… This history of weather mapping and forecasting includes a look at how weather maps wer…7 KB (990 words) - 00:55, 15 April 2009
- Sullivan: Rats Robert Sullivan, ''Rats : Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants.'' New York : Bloomsbury… …ssay, and he delves cogently into all manner of rat-related topics, from a history of infestations and the discovery of rats' associate with plague, to the m…7 KB (1160 words) - 01:34, 15 April 2009
- Allen: Vaccine Rightfully, the first act belonged to the fascinating history of the smallpox vaccine, one that stretched over nearly 300 years from Jen… Allen's book reveals that the history of vaccination is an ethical minefield, filled with dilemmas. Undeniably v…11 KB (1768 words) - 23:38, 14 April 2009
- Finlay: Jewels Victoria Finlay, ''Jewels : A Secret History.'' New York : Ballentine Books, 2006. 472 pages, with color plates, notes,… Rambling through the history, romance, and folklore of gems, this book is a collection of what we might…9 KB (1493 words) - 00:12, 15 April 2009
- Burke: Circles James Burke, ''Circles : 50 Round Trips through History, Technology, Science, Culture.'' New York : Simon & Schuster, 2000. 286 pa… …fficulty of containing Burke's breathlessly high-speed approach to telling history in a small space. Each essay of a few thousand words, when read back-to-ba…7 KB (1142 words) - 23:55, 14 April 2009
- Lienhard: How Invention Begins …ceful presentation of a provocative and profound analysis of technological history. … thesis is that big inventions, inventions that change the course of human history, are not the work of the lone genius, the "canonical inventor" (Lienhard's…4 KB (675 words) - 00:46, 15 April 2009
- Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan, ''The Omnivore's Dilemma : A Natural History of Four Meals''.1 KB (226 words) - 01:14, 15 April 2009
- Abbott: What A Way To Go …ok his subject seriously. The result is a fascinating compendium rich with history and anecdote. …ing" or "electric chair") are several pages and cover hundreds of years of history. As a rule, Mr. Abbott sticks to methods he can document as having been us…4 KB (645 words) - 23:36, 14 April 2009
- Pinker: The Stuff Of Thought …e porridge cold''. But some grammatically zealous listener in the mists of history misanalyzed it as the plural for ''peas'', from which it was a short step …7 KB (1178 words) - 01:02, 15 April 2009
- McCredie: Balance McCredie explores how the body regulates balance, the history of medical knowledge about balance, and new therapies in treating people w…3 KB (429 words) - 00:53, 15 April 2009
- Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma (2) Michael Pollan, ''The Omnivore's Dilemma : A Natural History of Four Meals''. …okstore/giftshop there at ACY, I chose ''The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals'' by Michael Pollan. The four meals: McDonald's (eaten in th…6 KB (997 words) - 01:15, 15 April 2009
- Kinsey: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male …ere are some cultures in which a history of sexuality would be primarily a history of non-marital sexual activities. …f its influence precisely because it has merged so fully into our cultural history. Recall that it was only published in 1948, by a company known for publish…10 KB (1638 words) - 00:37, 15 April 2009
- Science-Book Challenge 2008 …ing culture. The books might be popularizations of science, they might be history, they might be biography, they might be anthologies; they can be recent ti… … Peter Christie, ''The Curse of Akkad: Climate Upheavals that Rocked Human History'']]<br>[[Wiseman: Quirkology | Richard Wiseman, ''Quirkology : How We Disc…14 KB (2044 words) - 04:52, 9 January 2009
- Raymo: Walking Zero … not a detailed history of ideas, but a poetic, personal rumination on the history of the big ideas that located humankind's place in the modern universe. It… …orably intertwined with foibles of human nature and contingencies of human history." The theories of Ptolemy or Kepler can only be understood within the cont…6 KB (996 words) - 01:16, 15 April 2009
- Carroll: Endless Forms Most Beautiful … regurgitate mountains of testable facts, we should emphasize study of the history of the discovery of evolution, its major characters and ideas, and the bas…7 KB (1172 words) - 23:59, 14 April 2009
- Jeffreys: Aspirin …th clarity. It also did a good job of convincing me of the unique place in history aspirin has, and how it might be ''the'' wonder drug. … this. What you're holding is one of the most amazing creations in medical history, a drug so astonishingly versatile that it can relieve your headache, ease…5 KB (859 words) - 00:34, 15 April 2009
