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The prism and the pendulum : the ten most beautiful experiments in science. by Crease, Robert P.(CARDINAL)748794;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-240) and index.A philosopher and historian creates a thought-provoking odyssey through two millennia of scientific accomplishment, capturing ten key experiments that changed the world forever.
Subjects: Science; Science;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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History and American society: essays of David M. Potter. / by Potter, David Morris.(CARDINAL)125411;
Includes bibliographical references.Explicit data and implicit assumptions in historical study.--The tasks of research in American history.--History and the social sciences.--Historians and the problem of large-scale community formation.--The historians use of nationalism and vice versa.--Abundance and the Turner thesis.--C. Vann Woodward and the uses of history.--Conflict, consensus, and comity: a review of Richard Hofstadter's The progressive historians.--Roy F. Nichols and the rehabilitation of American political history.--Is America a civilization?--The quest for the national character.--American individualism in the twentieth century.--American women and the American character.--The roots of American alienation.--Rejection of the prevailing American society.--Social cohesion and the crisis of law.
Subjects: National characteristics, American.;
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A discovery of witches [large print] / by Harkness, Deborah,1965-(CARDINAL)353616;
Witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her.
Subjects: Large print books.; Fantasy fiction.; Romance fiction.; Vampires; Witches; Alchemy; Science and magic;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 12
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Timeline [sound recording] by Crichton, Michael,1942-;
Read by Stephen Lang.On the threshold of the twenty-first century, is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any momemt of the past can be actualized and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century feudal France. Imagine the risks of such a journey.
Subjects: Adventure fiction; Audiobooks.; Science fiction.; Fourth dimension; Historians; Teleportation; Quantum theory; Time travel;
© p1999., Random House Audiobooks,
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Timeline [sound recording] / by Crichton, Michael,1942-2008,author.(CARDINAL)125108;
Read by Stephen Lang.On the threshold of the twenty-first century, is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualized and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century feudal France. Imagine the risks of such a journey.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Time travel; Audiobooks.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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A magical world : superstition and science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment / by Wilson, D. K.(Derek K.),author.(CARDINAL)429699;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-297) and index.Spanning some of the most vibrant and fascinating eras in European history, Cambridge historian Derek Wilson reveals a society filled with an ardent desire for knowledge and astounding discoveries and the fantastic discoveries that flowered from it. There was the discovery of the movement of blood around the body; the movement of the earth around the sun; the velocity of falling objects (and why those objects fell).
Subjects: Religion and science; Science; Superstition; Renaissance.; Enlightenment.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 11
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Quakers and the Atlantic culture. by Tolles, Frederick Barnes,1915-1975.(CARDINAL)149549;
Includes bibliography.The Atlantic community of the early friends -- The transatlantic Quaker community in the seventeenth century; its structure and functioning -- Quakerism and politics -- Quakerism, capitalism, and science -- The Quaker ethic and the spirit of capitalism -- Quakerism and the "new philosophy" -- The Quaker esthetic -- Quietism versus enthusiasm: the Philadelphia Quakers and the great awakening -- The culture of early Pennsylvania.Essays on the history of the Society of Friends in American colonial days of the 17th centuries, by a Quaker historian teaching at Swarthmore College.
Subjects: Society of Friends; Society of Friends;
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Timeline [large print] : a novel / by Crichton, Michael,1942-2008,author.(CARDINAL)125108;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 752-756).Using a quantum time machine, a group of young historians are sent back to the year 1357 to rescue their project leader
Subjects: Large print books.; Science fiction.; Time-travel fiction.; Historians; Quantum theory; Twenty-first century;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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An argumentation of historians / by Taylor, Jodi,author.(CARDINAL)613909;
The ninth book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone's cup of tea. Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don't call it "time travel"--These historians "investigate major historical events in contemporary time." And they aren't your harmless eccentrics either; a more accurate description, as they ricochet around history, might be unintentional disaster-magnets. From Tudor England to the burning city of Persepolis, from a medieval St. Mary's under siege to Victorian Rushford and a very nasty case of gaol fever, Max is struggling to keep her private life intact. There's an ambitious programme hindered by giant teapots, plus Mrs. Midgely's objection to dead hamsters in her airing cupboard, and Mr. Markham's stubborn refusal to reveal his exact marital status. And as if that's not enough--the unfortunately not leprosy-laden Malcolm Halcombe is back. Admittedly, none of this is the most secure platform from which to launch an initiative to bring down the renegade Clive Ronan, but hey--what's the worst that could happen?
Subjects: Science fiction.; Time-travel fiction.; Historians;
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AIDS at 30 : a history / by Harden, Victoria Angela.(CARDINAL)747446;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-306) and index.Machine generated contents note: 1.What Is This New Disease? -- 2.Searching for the Cause of AIDS -- 3.Clinical Research, Epidemic of Fear, and AIDS in the Worldwide Blood Supply -- 4.AIDS as a Cultural Phenomenon -- 5.AIDS Therapy -- 6.Communicating AIDS -- 7.The Global Epidemic -- 8.The Third Decade."Award-winning medical historian Victoria A. Harden approaches the AIDS virus from philosophical and intellectual perspectives in the history of medical science, discussing the process of scientific discovery, scientific evidence, and how laboratories found the cause of AIDS and developed therapeutic interventions. Furthermore, her book defines AIDS as the first infectious disease to be recognized simultaneously worldwide as a single phenomenon."--Jacket.
Subjects: AIDS (Disease);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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