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| 1. |  | Title: A scientist's voice in American culture: Simon Newcomb and the rhetoric of scientific method Author: Moyer, Albert E 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | United States History Publisher's Description: In late nineteenth-century America, Simon Newcomb was the nation's most celebrated scientist and - irascibly, doggedly, tirelessly - he made the most of it. Officially a mathematical astronomer heading a government agency, Newcomb spent as much of his life out of the observatory as in it, acting as . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Stealing into print: fraud, plagiarism, and misconduct in scientific publishing Author: LaFollette, Marcel C. (Marcel Chotkowski) Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Media Studies | History and Philosophy of Science | Print Media | Public Policy | Science Publisher's Description: False data published by a psychologist influence policies for treating the mentally retarded. A Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist resigns the presidency of Rockefeller University in the wake of a scandal involving a co-author accused of fabricating data. A university investigating committee de . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Background to discovery: Pacific exploration from Dampier to Cook  Author: Howse, Derek Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Travel | Geography Publisher's Description: Background to Discovery recounts the great voyages of discovery, from Dampier to Cook, that excited such fervent political and popular interest in eighteenth-century Europe. Perhaps this book's greatest strength lies in its remarkable synthesis of both the achievements of European maritime explorati . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Thing knowledge: a philosophy of scientific instruments Author: Baird, Davis Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Philosophy | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Western philosophers have traditionally concentrated on theory as the means for expressing knowledge about a variety of phenomena. This absorbing book challenges this fundamental notion by showing how objects themselves, specifically scientific instruments, can express knowledge. As he considers num . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Dolphin societies: discoveries and puzzles Author: Pryor, Karen 1932- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Science | Zoology | Natural History | Marine and Freshwater Sciences Publisher'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 |
| 6. |  | Title: The lure of the edge: scientific passions, religious beliefs, and the pursuit of UFOs Author: Denzler, Brenda 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Science | Sociology Publisher'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 |
| 7. |  | Title: Possessing nature: museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy Author: Findlen, Paula Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | European History | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Out of our minds: reason and madness in the exploration of Central Africa: the Ad. E. Jensen lectures at the Frobenius Institut, University of Frankfurt Author: Fabian, Johannes Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | African History | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Explorers and ethnographers in Africa during the period of colonial expansion are usually assumed to have been guided by rational aims such as the desire for scientific knowledge, fame, or financial gain. This book, the culmination of many years of research on nineteenth-century exploration in Centr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Gold: the California story Author: Hill, Mary 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: California and the West | Californian and Western History | Geology | Natural History Publisher's Description: The discovery of gold in 1848 catapulted California into statehood and triggered environmental, social, political, and economic events whose repercussions are still felt today. Mary Hill combines her scientific training with a flair for storytelling to present the history of gold in California from . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: A company of scientists: botany, patronage, and community at the Seventeenth-century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences Author: Stroup, Alice Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | European History Publisher's Description: Who pays for science, and who profits? Historians of science and of France will discover that those were burning questions no less in the seventeenth century than they are today. Alice Stroup takes a new look at one of the earliest and most influential scientific societies, the Académie Royale des S . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: A bat man in the tropics: chasing El Duende Author: Fleming, Theodore H Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Organismal Biology | Mammalogy | Autobiography | Ecology Publisher's Description: The euphoria of discovery is the only motivation many scientists need for studying nature and its secrets. Yet euphoria is rarely expressed in scientific publications. This book, a personal account of more than thirty years of fieldwork by one of the world's leading bat biologists, wonderfully conve . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Nineteenth-century origins of neuroscientific concepts Author: Clarke, Edwin Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Medicine | Ethics Publisher's Description: This book traces the seminal ideas that emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the fundamental concepts of modern neurophysiology and anatomy were formulated in a period of unprecedented scientific discovery. Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: New world encounters Author: Greenblatt, Stephen 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies | Latin American Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Latin American History Publisher's Description: The discovery of the Indies, wrote Francisco López de Gómara in 1552, was "the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it." Five centuries have not diminished either the overwhelming importance or the strangeness of the early encounter b . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Hermann von Helmholtz and the foundations of nineteenth-century science Author: Cahan, David Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | History | History and Philosophy of Science | Victorian History Publisher's Description: Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) was a polymath of dazzling intellectual range and energy. Renowned for his co-discovery of the second law of thermodynamics and his invention of the ophthalmoscope, Helmholtz also made many other contributions to physiology, physical theory, philosophy of science an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Art of the gold rush Author: Driesbach, Janice Tolhurst Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | California and the West | Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: The California Gold Rush captured the get-rich dreams of people around the world more completely than almost any event in American history. This catalog, published in celebration of the sesquicentennial of the 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, shows the vitality of the arts in the Golden Stat . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: An empire nowhere: England, America, and literature from Utopia to The tempest Author: Knapp, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | United States History | Renaissance Literature | European History Publisher's Description: What caused England's literary renaissance? One answer has been such unprecedented developments as the European discovery of America. Yet England in the sixteenth century was far from an expanding nation. Not only did the Tudors lose England's sole remaining possessions on the Continent and, thanks . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Columbus and the ends of the earth: Europe's prophetic rhetoric as conquering ideology Author: Kadir, Djelal Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | European History | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Columbus is the first blazing star in a constellation of European adventurers whose right to claim and conquer each land mass they encountered was absolutely unquestioned by their countrymen. How a system of religious beliefs made the taking of the New World possible and laudable is the focus of Kad . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Days of gold: the California Gold Rush and the American nation Author: Rohrbough, Malcolm J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | California and the West | Californian and Western History | United States History | American Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: On the morning of January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continent, launching hundreds of ships and hitching a thousand prairie schooners filled with adventurers in search of heretofore unimagined wealth. Those who joined the procession - soon c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Ahead of the curve: David Baltimore's life in science Author: Crotty, Shane 1974- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies | History of Science | Science Publisher'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 |
| 20. |  | Title: Tokyo life, New York dreams: urban Japanese visions of America, 1890-1924 Author: Sawada, Mitziko 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Japan | Asian American Studies Publisher's Description: Tokyo Life, New York Dreams is a bicultural study focusing on Japanese immigrants in New York and the ideas they had about what they would find there. It is one of the first works to consider Japanese immigration to the East Coast, where immigrants were of a different class and social background fro . . . [more] Similar Items |