The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon (c.1214-92) is one of the most influential scientific and philosophical texts of its age a......more
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This comprehensive, handbook-style survey of diffusion in condensed matter gives detailed insight into diffusion as the ......more
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A thematic introduction to the modern theory of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics is presented from the viewpoint o......more
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How to develop robots that will be more like humans and less like computers, more social than machine-like, and more pla......more
Over the last two decades mass spectrometry has become one of the central techniques in analytical chemistry to indentif......more
This book is about the basics of nanomagnetism, i.e., properties of magnetic systems specific to small sizes and/or low ......more
This book emphasizes how new generation materials discovered recently (like graphene and topological insulators) can be ......more
This book provides an introduction to the geometrical and topological methods that have become essential tools for soft ......more
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This book offers timely and novel insights on the development of what may be the most important medical technology of th......more
Block copolymers (macromolecules of two or more chemically distinct blocks) exhibit rich phase behavior, which has made ......more
Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities provides a critical resource for understanding and debating the interdisc......more
By Hand investigates the persistent absence of female hands from the story of the human hand. Mediating between mind and......more
This book will describe from fundamental, first principles modern methods of optical spectroscopy. In particular, detail......more
Seaweeds - or marine algae - are one of the most diverse and dazzling organism groups on the planet. They have existed f......more
An illuminating collection of essays by an award-winning scientist whom the London Times calls "one of the world’s most ......more
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This open access handbook aims to provide a definitive assessment of the historiography and the future of major themes a......more
The world around us is continually being shaped by science, and by society s relationship to it. In recent years sociolo......more
The world around us is continually being shaped by science, and by society s relationship to it. In recent years sociolo......more
Research Magnet Technology presents an overview of the technologies necessary to provide high magnetic fields as a resea......more
Chirality plays a major role in biological processes and the enantiomers of a bioactive molecule often possess different......more
A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series...more
A new volume in the University of Pittsburgh Press Histories and Ecologies of Health series...more
What, if judgment returned to the craft of magic? How would that relieve the burdens of critique and realign its priorit......more
What, if judgment returned to the craft of magic? How would that relieve the burdens of critique and realign its priorit......more
This book encompasses topics from the fundamentals of disease related protein misfolding and mass spectrometry, to curre......more
The past few centuries have seen an enormous increase in living standards in many parts of the world and these economies......more
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Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth’s energies......more
Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth’s energies......more
A new volume in the University of Pittsburgh Press Intersections Series...more
Listening, Belonging, and Memory puts connected listening at the center of current debates around whose voices might be ......more
A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Intersections Series...more
The title of the project reflects an overarching methodology of trans-disciplinarity, which consists in injecting the co......more
The title of the project reflects an overarching methodology of trans-disciplinarity, which consists in injecting the co......more
Care is fundamental to human survival, yet it is often overlooked, undermined, undervalued, and thought of as ’women’s w......more
This book describes the principles and reactions for most techniques of protein extraction, purification, and characteri......more
A profound and profoundly important book that, using the most up-to-date revolutionary discoveries in neuroscience, show......more
This book describes the risks of working with dangerous pathogens and toxins in the current era of international terrori......more
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This book is intended as a tool for undergraduate students, building upon the first edition of Problems of Instrumental ......more
This book is intended as a tool for undergraduate students, building upon the first edition of Problems of Instrumental ......more
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This book introduces readers to the history and discovery of viruses and bacteria, provides an accessible overview of ho......more
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This book focuses on a selection of analytical methods enabling the investigation of solution complexation equilibria, p......more
Mojca Kuplen connects 18th-century German aesthetics to contemporary theories of self-knowledge in order to highlight th......more
A new theory of mind that includes nonhuman and artificial intelligences. The much-lauded superiority of human intellige......more
A new theory of mind that includes nonhuman and artificial intelligences. The much-lauded superiority of human intellige......more
The book develops a theory of manner modification with both manner adjectives and manner adverbs in its scope. It propos......more
From 1963 to 2011 Pacific Linguistics, located at the Australian National University, published over six hundred books c......more
Animal People introduces readers to the professionalized world of animal protection from the perspective of those who co......more
Animal People introduces readers to the professionalized world of animal protection from the perspective of those who co......more
The story of Naples’ overlooked scientific contributions and its pivotal role in early modern European scientific cultur......more
The story of Naples’ overlooked scientific contributions and its pivotal role in early modern European scientific cultur......more
This book offers a conceptual interrogation of how capital navigates its cybernetic environment. Taking an immanent pers......more
This book offers a conceptual interrogation of how capital navigates its cybernetic environment. Taking an immanent pers......more
In the early twentieth century, varied audiences took biology out of the hands of specialists and transformed it into ma......more
In the early twentieth century, varied audiences took biology out of the hands of specialists and transformed it into ma......more
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Written for scientists and students in the areas of computational chemistry, computational biology, materials science, a......more
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A critical biography of the seventeenth-century scientist’s expansive life and work. Robert Hooke was England’s first pr......more
How Stephen Jay Gould’s career illustrates that criticizing science is important for American democracy. The question of......more
A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary science The 120 years between Henry ......more
This comprehensive two-volume graduate textbook presents the theoretical basis of optics and spectroscopy together with ......more
Human existence is fundamentally defined by time. Throughout history and across cultures, societies have negotiated time......more
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The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909: Darwinism’s Generations uses the impact of Charles Darwin’s ......more
The story of recorded sound - the technological developments, the humans that made them happen and their impact on socie......more
Analyzes the reasons why biologists have referred to and continue to refer to plasticity. Since the early twentieth cent......more
Analyzes the reasons why biologists have referred to and continue to refer to plasticity. Since the early twentieth cent......more
An intimate account of Albert Einstein’s visit to Oxford in the 1930’s, casting new light on why he continues to be the ......more
René Descartes: The Complete Correspondence in English Translation is the first complete English translation of the exta......more
In a bid to wean himself off Facebook and Twitter, media scholar and cultural theorist Dominic Pettman decided to revive......more
In a bid to wean himself off Facebook and Twitter, media scholar and cultural theorist Dominic Pettman decided to revive......more
By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively acces......more
A reinterpretation of James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis through the lens of Darwinian natural selection and multispecies ......more