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Chocolate as Medicine

A Quest Over the Centuries

Author: Philip K. Wilson & W. Jeffrey Hurst

The Mesoamerican population who lived near the indigenous cultivation sites of the "Chocolate Tree" (Theobromo cacao) had a multitude of documented applications of chocolate as medicine, ranging from alleviating fatigue ...
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Gestalt Psychology in German Culture, 1890-1967

Holism and the Quest for Objectivity

Author: Mitchell G. Ash

This is a full-length historical study of Gestalt psychology - an attempt to advance holistic thought within natural science. Holistic thought is often portrayed as a woolly-minded revolt against reason and modern scienc ...
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Henri Poincare

Henri Poincare

A Scientific Biography

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Author: Jeremy Gray & Edward G. Gray

Henri Poincare (1854-1912) was not just one of the most inventive, versatile, and productive mathematicians of all time - he was also a leading physicist who almost won a Nobel Prize for physics and a prominent philosoph ...
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The Case for Baha'u'llah

The Case for Baha'u'llah

A Journalist Examines the Baha'i Faith's Central Claim

Author: Gary L. Matthews

Who was Baha'u'llah? In the 19th century, this unschooled Persian prisoner predicted the "lamentations of Berlin", the downfall of Germany in two great wars. He warned against nuclear weapons, described the global villag ...
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Early Railway Chemistry and Its Legacy

Early Railway Chemistry and Its Legacy

Author: Colin A. Russell & John Hudson

One of the most important parts of British heavy industry today is our railway system. Its constant appearances in news bulletins, its enormous appeal to fans or "enthusiasts", its permanent role in the lives of most of ...
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The Fruit Hunters

A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession

Author: Adam Leith Gollner

A vivid and unforgettable expedition through the world of exotic fruit, The Fruit Hunters is the engrossing story of some of Earth's most desired foods told by an intrepid journalist and keen observer of nature--both hum ...
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God -- Has to Be!

Author: John , F. Paugstat

Tragically and unnecessarily, evolution has plundered the faith of many Christians. This book shows that (inter-specie) evolution is without scientific support. That understanding is a powerful, faith booster: By evoluti ...
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The Skull Collectors

The Skull Collectors

Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead

Author: Ann Fabian

When Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but perhaps fitting, had ...
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The Theory That Would Not Die

The Theory That Would Not Die

How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy

Author: Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

Drawing on primary source material and interviews with statisticians and other scientists, "The Theory That Would Not Die" is the riveting account of how a seemingly simple theorem ignited one of the greatest scientific ...
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Physics

Physics

Author: Aristotle

For many centuries, Aristotle's Physics was the essential starting point for anyone who wished to study the natural sciences This book begins with an analysis of change, which introduces us to Aristotle's central concept ...
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The Lie: Evolution (25th Anniversary Edition

The Lie: Evolution (25th Anniversary Edition

Revised and Expanded

Author: Ken Ham

In 1987 Ken Ham wrote what would become a prophetic warning to the Church about the destructive effects of compromise with evolutionary ideas, and how this compromise undermines Scriptural authority and erodes Christian ...
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Robert Recorde

Robert Recorde

Author: Jack Williams

The 16th-Century intellectual Robert Recorde is chiefly remembered for introducing the equals sign into algebra, yet the greater significance and broader scope of his work is often overlooked. This book presents an autho ...
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James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell

A Commemoration Volume 1831-1931

Author: J. J. Thomson, Max Planck & Albert Einstein

Originally published in 1931, this volume was created to mark the centenary of James Clerk Maxwell's birth. Comprised of ten essays dealing with various aspects of Maxwell's life and achievements, the text includes contr ...
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The Rarest Blue

The Remarkable Story of an Ancient Color Lost to History and Rediscovered

Author: Baruch Sterman

For centuries, blue and purple dyed fabrics ranked among the ancient world's most desirable objects, commanding many times their weight in gold. Few people knew their secrets, carefully guarding the valuable knowledge, a ...
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Who and Where is God

Why We Are the Way We Are

Author: Ursula M Anderson

This expose invites a rethinking of our origins, the role Memory has played in the evolution of human consciousness, and how religious and cultural beliefs have ignited intolerance and violence.
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How Christian Fundamentalism Leads Us Astray

Author: Russell Martin

The biblical writers did not understand this world, and often misrepresented it by distorting history. Fundamentalism will ultimately fail because it is based on a misinterpretation of the biblical evidence.
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Searching for the Soror Mystica

The Lives and Science of Women Alchemists

Author: Robin L. Gordon

Early scientists, or natural philosophers as they were known, did not seek knowledge in the disconnected way modern academics tend to do. They were interested in how the universe worked, which meant studying everything f ...
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Science and Faith

Understanding Meaning, Method, and Truth

Author: William H. Chalker

In this introduction to religion and science, William Chalker outlines the nature of knowledge involved in claims about science and about religion and deliniates a compatible relationship between these two fields of unde ...
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Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy

Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy

Images from a Scientific Revolution

Author: Domenico Laurenza

Known as the "century of anatomy", the 16th century in Italy saw an explosion of studies and treatises on the discipline. Medical science advanced at an unprecedented rate, and physicians published on anatomy as never be ...
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Traipsing into Evolution

Intelligent Design and the Kitzmiller V. Dover Decision

Author: David K. DeWolf, John G. West & Casey Luskin

Traipsing into Evolution: Intelligent Design and the Kitzmiller v. Dover Decision is a legal critique of of the factual and legal flaws in Judge John E. Jones III's Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School Board (2005), a ...
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