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The first full length biography of Dirac, one of the most brilliant physicists of the twentieth c...

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For over three millennia, most people could understand the universe only in terms of myth, religi...

The planet Venus is the closest neighbour to the Earth and in several respects similar to our glo...

To all four of us, Carsten was the best possible friend and colleague. To Finn, he was a fellow s...

This book introduces the methodological and philosophical problems with which modern history of s...

The authors describe how chemists emerged as professionals in fifteen different countries.

Entropic Creation is the first English-language book to consider the cultural and religious respo...

Consisting of separate cases organized by chapter and divided into independent sections, this is ...