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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
  • 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…
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  • 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…
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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.
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  • 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

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