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21. | | Title: AIDS: the burdens of history Author: Fee, Elizabeth Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Medicine | SciencePublisher's Description: The AIDS epidemic has posed more urgent historical questions than any other disease of modern times. How have societies responded to epidemics in the past? Why did the disease emerge when and where it did? How has it spread among members of particular groups? And how will the past affect the future . . . [more]Similar Items | 22. | | Title: Observatory seismology: an anniversary symposium on the occasion of the centennial of the University of California at Berkeley seismographic stations Author: Litehiser, J. J. (Joe J.) Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Science | GeologyPublisher's Description: The first effective seismographs were built between 1879 and 1890. In 1885, E. S. Holden, an astronomer and then president of the University of California, instigated the purchase of the best available instruments of the time "to keep a register of all earthquake shocks in order to be able to contro . . . [more]Similar Items | 23. | | Title: A mind always in motion: the autobiography of Emilio Segrè Author: Segrè, Emilio Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Physics | AutobiographyPublisher's Description: The renowned physicist Emilio Segrè (1905-1989) left his memoirs to be published posthumously because, he said, "I tell the truth the way it was and not the way many of my colleagues wish it had been." This compelling autobiography offers a personal account of his fascinating life as well as candid . . . [more]Similar Items | 24. | | Title: Dolphin societies: discoveries and puzzlesAuthor: Pryor, Karen 1932- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Science | Zoology | Natural History | Marine and Freshwater SciencesPublisher's Description: Wild dolphins are an elusive subject for behavioral studies: How can you "do a Jane Goodall" on animals usually visible only as a glimpse of rolling dorsal fins heading for the horizon? In this unusual book, two of the best-known scientists in the marine-mammal field have assembled an astonishing va . . . [more]Similar Items | 25. | | Title: The splendid feast of reasonAuthor: Singer, Seymour Jonathan 1924- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Science | History of Science | PhilosophyPublisher's Description: Jonathan Singer's witty, erudite book is a celebration of rationality and an urgent call to make use of intelligence and reason to better cope with human problems. Emphasizing the importance of rationality's greatest achievement, modern science, Singer - one of the foremost biologists of our era - a . . . [more]Similar Items | 26. | | Title: Beyond second opinions: making choices about fertility treatment Author: Turiel, Judith Steinberg 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Sociology | Gender Studies | MedicinePublisher's Description: Beyond Second Opinions is both an exposé of the risks, errors, and distortions surrounding fertility medicine and an authoritative guide for people seeking treatment. Accessible, comprehensive, and extremely well-informed, this book takes the reader beyond hype to the hard data on diagnoses and trea . . . [more]Similar Items | 27. | | | 28. | | Title: American bison: a natural historyAuthor: Lott, Dale F Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Organismal Biology | Mammalogy | Animals | Animal Behavior | Science | Natural HistoryPublisher's Description: American Bison combines the latest scientific information and one man's personal experience in an homage to one of the most magnificent animals to have roamed America's vast, vanished grasslands. Dale F. Lott, a distinguished behavioral ecologist who was born on the National Bison Range and has stud . . . [more]Similar Items | 29. | | Title: The key to Newton's dynamics: the Kepler problem and the Principia: containing an English translation of sections 1, 2, and 3 of book one from the first (1687) edition of Newton's Mathematical principles of natural philosophy Author: Brackenridge, J. Bruce 1927- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Science | Physics | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: While much has been written on the ramifications of Newton's dynamics, until now the details of Newton's solution were available only to the physics expert. The Key to Newton's Dynamics clearly explains the surprisingly simple analytical structure that underlies the determination of the force necess . . . [more]Similar Items | 30. | | Title: American medicine: the quest for competenceAuthor: Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Medicine | Science | Medical Anthropology | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: What does it mean to be a good doctor in America today? How do such challenges as new biotechnologies, the threat of malpractice suits, and proposed health-care reform affect physicians' ability to provide quality care?These and many other crucial questions are examined in this book, the first to fu . . . [more]Similar Items | 31. | | Title: The quiet revolution: Hermann Kolbe and the science of organic chemistry Author: Rocke, Alan J 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Physical Sciences | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Organic chemist Hermann Kolbe (1818-1884) is the subject of this vigorously contextualized biography, which combines the approaches of cognitive and social history of science. Kolbe was one of the most outstanding chemists during the remarkable period in which German science, like the wider manifest . . . [more]Similar Items | 32. | | Title: Darwin in Russian thought Author: Vucinich, Alexander 1914- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: Darwin in Russian Thought represents the first comprehensive and systematic study of Charles Darwin's influence on Russian thought from the early 1860s to the October Revolution. While concentrating on the role of Darwin's theory in the development of Russian science and philosophy, Vucinich also ex . . . [more]Similar Items | 33. | | Title: The mind's pastAuthor: Gazzaniga, Michael S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Psychology | Cognitive Science | NeurosciencePublisher's Description: Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative? In this ground-breaking work, Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the world's foremost cognitive neuroscientists, shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing feat of constructing our past - a process clearly fra . . . [more]Similar Items | 34. | | | 35. | | Title: Lawrence and his laboratory: a history of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Author: Heilbron, J. L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: The Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, was the birthplace of particle accelerators, radioisotopes, and modern big science. This first volume of its history is a saga of physics and finance in the Great Depression, when a new kind of science was born.Here we learn how Ernest Lawrence used . . . [more]Similar Items | 36. | | Title: From chemical philosophy to theoretical chemistry: dynamics of matter and dynamics of disciplines, 1800-1950Author: Nye, Mary Jo Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Physical Sciences | PhysicsPublisher's Description: How did chemistry and physics acquire their separate identities, and are they on their way to losing them again? Mary Jo Nye has written a graceful account of the historical demarcation of chemistry from physics and subsequent reconvergences of the two, from Lavoisier and Dalton in the late eighteen . . . [more]Similar Items | 37. | | Title: The lure of the edge: scientific passions, religious beliefs, and the pursuit of UFOsAuthor: Denzler, Brenda 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Science | SociologyPublisher's Description: UFO phenomena entered American consciousness at the beginning of the Cold War, when reports from astonished witnesses of encounters with unknown aerial objects captured the attention of the United States military and the imagination of the press and the public. But when UFOs appeared not to be hosti . . . [more]Similar Items | 38. | | Title: Ahead of the curve: David Baltimore's life in scienceAuthor: Crotty, Shane 1974- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies | History of Science | SciencePublisher's Description: Shane Crotty's biography of David Baltimore details the life and work of one of the most brilliant, powerful, and controversial scientists of our time. Although only in his early sixties, Baltimore has made major discoveries in molecular biology, established the prestigious Whitehead Institute at MI . . . [more]Similar Items | 39. | | Title: Ecology of the Southern California Bight: a synthesis and interpretationAuthor: Dailey, Murray D Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | Environmental Studies | Ecology | BiologyPublisher's Description: Here is a benchmark study of one significant stretch of the Pacific Ocean, the Southern California Bight. Extending from Point Conception to the Mexican border and out to the 200-mile limit, these waters have never before been investigated in such detail, from so many points of view, by such an emin . . . [more]Similar Items | 40. | | Title: Spacefaring: the human dimensionAuthor: Harrison, Albert A Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Science | Technology and Society | PsychologyPublisher's Description: The stars have always called us, but only for the past forty years or so have we been able to respond by traveling in space. This book explores the human side of spaceflight: why people are willing to brave danger and hardship to go into space; how human culture has shaped past and present missions; . . . [more]Similar Items |
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