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Revolutionaries of the Cosmos: The Astro-Physicists

By Ian Glass (South African Astronomical Observatory)

The Quest for Reality: Bohr and Wittgenstein - two complementary views

By Stig Stenholm (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden)

Science in the Looking Glass: What Do Scientists Really Know?

By E. Brian Davies (Department of Mathematics, King's college, London)

Philosophical issues in psychiatry III: The Nature and Sources of Historical Change

By Kenneth S. Kendler (Rachel Brown Banks Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry; Professor of Human Genetics; Director, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA Professor of Psyc...

Physics and Necessity: Rationalist Pursuits from the Cartesian Past to the Quantum Present

By Olivier Darrigol (Research Director, Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Visual Cultures in Science and Technology: A Comparative History

By Klaus Hentschel (Head of Section for the History of Science & Technology, Head of Section for the History of Science & Technology, History Department, Stuttgart University)

The Age of Innocence: Nuclear Physics between the First and Second World Wars

By Roger H. Stuewer (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota)

Palliative care for older people: A public health perspective

By Lieve Van den Block (, End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium), Gwenda Albers (, Sandra Marti...

Beyond the Dynamical Universe: Unifying Block Universe Physics and Time as Experienced

By Michael Silberstein (, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Elizabethtown College, USA), W.M. Stuckey (, Professor of Physics, Timothy McDevitt (, Professor of Mathematics

Atoms, Mechanics, and Probability: Ludwig Boltzmann's Statistico-Mechanical Writings - An Exegesis

By Olivier Darrigol (Research Director, Research Director, Centre National de la Recherce Scientifique: SPHERE)

Geophysics, Realism, and Industry: How Commercial Interests Shaped Geophysical Conceptions, 1900-1960

By Aitor Anduaga (Ikerbasque Research Professor, Ikerbasque Research Professor, Basque Museum of the History of Medicine and Science, University of the Basque Country, Spain)

A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

By Olivier Darrigol (Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS, Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS, University of Paris 7)

Eclipse and Revelation: Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Arts

By Henrike Lange (Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture, Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture, University of California at Berkeley), Tom McLeish (Professor Emeritus of Natural Philosophy, Professor of...

Visual Cultures in Science and Technology: A Comparative History

By Klaus Hentschel (Head of Section for the History of Science & Technology, Head of Section for the History of Science & Technology, History Department, Stuttgart University)

Toward a New Dimension: Exploring the Nanoscale

By Anne Marcovich (Research Fellow, Research Fellow, GEMASS, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme), Terry Shinn (Directeur de Recherche Emerite, Directeur de Recherche Emerite, CNRS)

A Living Work of Art: The Life and Science of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

By A. J. Kox (Pieter Zeeman Professor of History of Physics, Emeritus, Pieter Zeeman Professor of History of Physics, University of Amsterdam), H. F. Schatz (Free-lance editor and translator, Free-lance editor and translator)

Illustrating the Phaenomena: Celestial cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

By Elly Dekker (Independent scholar)

Galileo Unbound: A Path Across Life, the Universe and Everything

By David D. Nolte (Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Dept of Physics, Purdue University, USA)

Molecular Beam Epitaxy: A Short History

By John Orton (Professor, Professor, University of Notthingham), Tom Foxon (Professor, University of Nottingham)

Zeppelin!: Germany and the Airship, 1900-1939

By Guillaume de Syon (Professor, Albright College)

Genetic Witness: Science, Law, and Controversy in the Making of DNA Profiling

By Jay D. Aronson

Science Without the Boring Bits: A Curious Chronology of Discovery, Invention and Wild Speculation

By Ian Crofton

Block by Block: The Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Thermodynamics

By Robert T. Hanlon (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, School of Chemical Engineering Practice, MIT, Massachusetts, USA)

The Conceptual Framework of Quantum Field Theory

By Anthony Duncan (Professor of Physics, Department of Physics 1nd Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh)

Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom: The Bohr Model of Atomic Structure 1913-1925

By Helge Kragh (Professor of the History of Science at Aarhus University, Denmark)

Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology

By Helge Kragh (Professor of History of Science, Professor of History of Science, University of Aarhus)

A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism: Volume 1

By James Clerk Maxwell (late Professor, late Professor, Trinity College, Cambridge)

J. D. Bernal: The Sage of Science

By Andrew Brown

The Evolution of Music through Culture and Science

By Peter Townsend (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, University of Sussex)

John Stewart Bell and Twentieth Century Physics: Vision and Integrity

By Andrew Whitaker (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Queen's University Belfast)