The Rise of the Commercial Space Industry

Brian C. Odom

This collection explores the evolution of the commercial space industry from the beginning of the space age through the early twenty-first century. Today, the space industry is taking on an increased leadership and innovation role in both space access and exploration....

Turning to Stone

Marcia Bjornerud

Romanticism, Liberal Imperialism, and Technology in Early British India

Daniel E. White

Considering metropolitan and colonial cultural production as a “unitary field of analysis,” this book shows how tensions in the 1830s between utilitarian and Romantic perspectives on steam power marked meaningful divisions within the pervasive liberal imperialism of the...

Grete Henry-Hermann: Politik, Ethik und Erziehung

Kay Herrmann , Barbara Neißer

Grete Henry-Hermann war neben ihrer pädagogischen und philosophischen Tätigkeit auch politisch engagiert. Dieser Band enthält politische, ethische und bildungspolitische SchriftenGrete Henry-Hermanns aus den Jahren 1945-1984, in denen sich ihre Arbeit vor allem auch auf...

The Atomic Human

Neil D. Lawrence

‘An utterly absorbing account of humans, computers, and how much they differ’ Dame Diane Coyle, author of Cogs and MonstersWhat does Artificial Intelligence mean for our identity? Our fascination with AI stems from the perceived uniqueness of human intelligence. We...

The Science Museum A Brief History of Stuff

N.C.

Explore the past, present and future of the everyday stuff in your home, from tinned food to tampons. Learn how 30,000 bath toys and the work of amateur beachcombers have helped scientists study ocean currents.Explore how the search for a death ray led to the creation...

From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume II

Jens Høyrup

This book is the second of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science) and covers the Latin Middle Ages, the Renaissance period, and the 17th century. Combining general descriptions with extensive excerpts from...

From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume I

Jens Høyrup

This book is the first of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science). The area covered in this volume is ancient Mesopotamia, classical Antiquity and the Islamic Middle Ages. Combining general descriptions with...

From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume III

Jens Høyrup

This book is the third of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science). The area covered in this volume is Western Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. Combining general descriptions with extensive excerpts...

The Science Museum Biology 100 Ideas in 100 Words

Eva Amsen

Biology: 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, satisfying your scientific curiosity and helping you to understand the biggest concepts in biology in concise, 100-word summaries. One of the titles in a cutting-edge new series created in...

The Spacelab Story

Ben Evans

Between 1983 and 1998, Spacelab provided NASA with a vital short-term laboratory in space. Across more than a dozen missions, Spacelab’s pressurized research modules and science pallets supported hundreds of experiments from the life to microgravity sciences, from Earth...

Creolised Science

Dorit Brixius

This rich, deeply researched study offers the first comprehensive exploration of cross-cultural plant knowledge in eighteenth-century Mauritius. Using the concept of creolisation – the process by which elements of different cultures are brought together to create...

Last Word's Uncommon Women

Celia Hayley

Last Word is the popular BBC Radio 4 series broadcast weekly, featuring the lives of several famous people who have recently died. More than standard obituaries, the lives are summarised with narration and include interviews with some of those who knew them. The...

Genetics and the Novel

Paul Hamann-Rose

Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction argues that literary fiction has reimagined life in the age of genetics. The new genetic paradigm has proposed to rewrite core assumptions about such fundamental aspects of life as the nature of kinship and...

The Science Museum Maths 100 Ideas in 100 Words

Sam Hartburn , Ben Sparks , Katie Steckles

Maths 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, satisfying your mathematical curiosity and helping you to understand the biggest concepts in maths in concise, 100-word summaries. One of the first titles in a cutting-edge new series created in...

The Science Museum Physics 100 Ideas in 100 Words

David Sang

Physics: 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, satisfying your scientific curiosity and helping you to understand the biggest concepts in physics in concise, 100-word summaries. One of the first titles in a cutting-edge new series created...

Use and Misuse of the United States Census

Margo Anderson , William Seltzer

The U.S. government conducts a population census every 10 years, adds up the counts by geographic location, and uses the resulting numbers in formulas to allocate seats in the House of Representative and Electoral College, and to make public funding and...

History and Speculative Fiction

John L. Hennessey

This open access book demonstrates that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative fiction perform similar work in “making the strange familiar” and “making the familiar strange” by taking their readers on journeys through space and time....

Indian Metallurgy

Amol A. Gokhale , R. Divakar , S. V. S. Narayana Murty , S. Srikanth

The book marks the Platinum Jubilee of the Indian Institute of Metals, closely matching independent India's age. It is envisaged as a compilation of technical articles tracing the birth and growth trajectory of metallurgical science, engineering and technology in the...

Space

Tim Peake

From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake, an inspirational human history of space travel, from the Apollo missions to our future forays to Mars. The Right Stuff for a new generation.THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANY SPACE TRAVEL...