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Pages: 216
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This volume examines the ways in which science is influenced by culture. It highlights the misleading images that have distorted people's view of the history of
Hidden Histories of Science
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Robert B. Silvers
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: New York Review of Books

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We often think of science as continuously advancing. In this collection of essays, five world-renowned writers explore obscure and neglected episodes in the his
Hidden Histories of the Dead
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Authors: Elizabeth T. Hurren
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Examines the post-mortem journeys of bodies, body-parts, organs, and brains in modern British medical research. This title is also available as Open Access.
The Madame Curie Complex
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Pages: 329
Authors: Julie Des Jardins
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-01 - Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY

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The historian and author of Lillian Gilbreth examines the “Great Man” myth of science with profiles of women scientists from Marie Curie to Jane Goodall. Wh
Hidden Histories: A Spotter's Guide to the British Landscape
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Mary-Ann Ochota
Categories: Travel
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For the times when you’re driving past a lumpy, bumpy field and you wonder what made the lumps and bumps; for when you’re walking between two lines of grand