<![CDATA[The Book Company: New Products - History]]> https://www.thebookco.com Wed, 13 May 2026 07:53:04 +0000 <![CDATA[The Influencing Machine, expanded edition (James Tilly Matthews and The Air Loom)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/the-influencing-machine-expanded-edition-9781917674157 Wed, 13 May 2026 04:55:00 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/the-influencing-machine-expanded-edition-9781917674157 Price: $21.95

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]]> <![CDATA[Lives of the Scientists: or, How to Predict the End of the World]]> https://www.thebookco.com/lives-of-the-scientists-or-how-to-predict-the-end-of-the-world-9780374605391 Mon, 11 May 2026 13:40:27 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/lives-of-the-scientists-or-how-to-predict-the-end-of-the-world-9780374605391 One of our most brilliant, acclaimed novelists turns to nonfiction with a mind-expanding, slyly humorous personal exploration of the scientific imagination.

In Lives of the Scientists: or, How to Predict the End of the World, Rivka Galchen offers a profound and playful expl..

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]]> One of our most brilliant, acclaimed novelists turns to nonfiction with a mind-expanding, slyly humorous personal exploration of the scientific imagination.

In Lives of the Scientists: or, How to Predict the End of the World, Rivka Galchen offers a profound and playful expl..

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]]> One of our most brilliant, acclaimed novelists turns to nonfiction with a mind-expanding, slyly humorous personal exploration of the scientific imagination.

In Lives of the Scientists: or, How to Predict the End of the World, Rivka Galchen offers a profound and playful expl..]]> <![CDATA[Animal as Machine (The Quest to Understand How Animals Work and Adapt)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/animal-as-machine-9780228010531 Sat, 02 May 2026 12:23:46 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/animal-as-machine-9780228010531 Animal as Machine (The Quest to Understand How Animals Work and Adapt) by Michel Anctil, 9780228010531

Through the ages natural historians have puzzled over how animals work, wavering between a vitalist belief in a soul animating bodily functions and a mechanistic outlook in which animal body parts are seen as pieces of organic machinery.

Animal as Machine explores the life, work, ..

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]]> Animal as Machine (The Quest to Understand How Animals Work and Adapt) by Michel Anctil, 9780228010531

Through the ages natural historians have puzzled over how animals work, wavering between a vitalist belief in a soul animating bodily functions and a mechanistic outlook in which animal body parts are seen as pieces of organic machinery.

Animal as Machine explores the life, work, ..

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]]> Through the ages natural historians have puzzled over how animals work, wavering between a vitalist belief in a soul animating bodily functions and a mechanistic outlook in which animal body parts are seen as pieces of organic machinery.

Animal as Machine explores the life, work, ..]]> <![CDATA[The Clocks Are Telling Lies (Science, Society, and the Construction of Time)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/the-clocks-are-telling-lies-9780228008439 Sat, 02 May 2026 04:54:27 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/the-clocks-are-telling-lies-9780228008439 The Clocks Are Telling Lies (Science, Society, and the Construction of Time) by Scott Alan Johnston, 9780228008439

Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly interconnected world where su..

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Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly interconnected world where su..

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]]> Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly interconnected world where su..]]> <![CDATA[The Flying Mathematicians of World War I]]> https://www.thebookco.com/the-flying-mathematicians-of-world-war-i-9780228003731 Sat, 02 May 2026 04:04:40 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/the-flying-mathematicians-of-world-war-i-9780228003731 The Flying Mathematicians of World War I by Tony Royle, 9780228003731

Keith Lucas was killed instantly when his BE2 biplane collided with that of a colleague over Salisbury Plain on 5 October 1916. As a captain in the Royal Flying Corps, Lucas would have known that his death was a very real risk of the work he was doing in support of Britain's war effort. But Luc..

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Keith Lucas was killed instantly when his BE2 biplane collided with that of a colleague over Salisbury Plain on 5 October 1916. As a captain in the Royal Flying Corps, Lucas would have known that his death was a very real risk of the work he was doing in support of Britain's war effort. But Luc..

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]]> Keith Lucas was killed instantly when his BE2 biplane collided with that of a colleague over Salisbury Plain on 5 October 1916. As a captain in the Royal Flying Corps, Lucas would have known that his death was a very real risk of the work he was doing in support of Britain's war effort. But Luc..]]> <![CDATA[Before Copernicus (The Cultures and Contexts of Scientific Learning in the Fifteenth Century)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/before-copernicus-9780773550100 Sat, 02 May 2026 02:50:08 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/before-copernicus-9780773550100 Before Copernicus (The Cultures and Contexts of Scientific Learning in the Fifteenth Century) by Rivka Feldhay, F. Jamil Ragep, 9780773550100

In 1984, Noel Swerdlow and Otto Neugebauer argued that Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) explained planetary motion by using mathematical devices and astronomical models originally developed by Islamic astronomers in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Was this a parallel development, or did..

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In 1984, Noel Swerdlow and Otto Neugebauer argued that Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) explained planetary motion by using mathematical devices and astronomical models originally developed by Islamic astronomers in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Was this a parallel development, or did..

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]]> In 1984, Noel Swerdlow and Otto Neugebauer argued that Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) explained planetary motion by using mathematical devices and astronomical models originally developed by Islamic astronomers in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Was this a parallel development, or did..]]> <![CDATA[Dawn of the Neuron (The Early Struggles to Trace the Origin of Nervous Systems)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/dawn-of-the-neuron-9780773545717 Sat, 02 May 2026 00:36:26 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/dawn-of-the-neuron-9780773545717 Dawn of the Neuron (The Early Struggles to Trace the Origin of Nervous Systems) by Michel Anctil, 9780773545717

In science, sometimes it is best to keep things simple. Initially discrediting the discovery of neurons in jellyfish, mid-nineteenth-century scientists grouped jellyfish, comb-jellies, hydra, and sea anemones together under one term - "coelenterates" - and deemed these animals too similar to pl..

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]]> Dawn of the Neuron (The Early Struggles to Trace the Origin of Nervous Systems) by Michel Anctil, 9780773545717

In science, sometimes it is best to keep things simple. Initially discrediting the discovery of neurons in jellyfish, mid-nineteenth-century scientists grouped jellyfish, comb-jellies, hydra, and sea anemones together under one term - "coelenterates" - and deemed these animals too similar to pl..

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]]> In science, sometimes it is best to keep things simple. Initially discrediting the discovery of neurons in jellyfish, mid-nineteenth-century scientists grouped jellyfish, comb-jellies, hydra, and sea anemones together under one term - "coelenterates" - and deemed these animals too similar to pl..]]> <![CDATA[Submersion (Reconsidering John C. Lilly)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/submersion-reconsidering-john-c-lilly-9780262054669 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:19:51 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/submersion-reconsidering-john-c-lilly-9780262054669 Submersion (Reconsidering John C. Lilly) by Hannah Zeavin, Jeffrey Mathias, 9780262054669Coming Soon..

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]]> <![CDATA[Mothers Who Can't Love (A Healing Guide for Daughters)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/mothers-who-cant-love-9780062204363 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:20:17 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/mothers-who-cant-love-9780062204363 Mothers Who Can't Love (A Healing Guide for Daughters) by Susan Forward, Donna Frazier Glynn, 9780062204363

With Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters, Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of the smash #1 bestseller Toxic Parents, offers a powerful look at the devastating impact unloving mothers have on their daughters—and provides clear, effective techniques for overcoming that..

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]]> Mothers Who Can't Love (A Healing Guide for Daughters) by Susan Forward, Donna Frazier Glynn, 9780062204363

With Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters, Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of the smash #1 bestseller Toxic Parents, offers a powerful look at the devastating impact unloving mothers have on their daughters—and provides clear, effective techniques for overcoming that..

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]]> With Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters, Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of the smash #1 bestseller Toxic Parents, offers a powerful look at the devastating impact unloving mothers have on their daughters—and provides clear, effective techniques for overcoming that..]]> <![CDATA[Seven Saints of Science (An Introduction to the History of Conflict)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/seven-saints-of-science-9789815352245 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:23:50 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/seven-saints-of-science-9789815352245 Seven Saints of Science (An Introduction to the History of Conflict) by Richard Powell, Doug Powell, 9789815352245

This book traces the history of the development of science and religion as pillars of our society and why there is perceived conflict between them. It covers the development of religion in the non-scientific era before the development of science during the Age of Enlightenment, Industrial Revol..

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This book traces the history of the development of science and religion as pillars of our society and why there is perceived conflict between them. It covers the development of religion in the non-scientific era before the development of science during the Age of Enlightenment, Industrial Revol..

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]]> This book traces the history of the development of science and religion as pillars of our society and why there is perceived conflict between them. It covers the development of religion in the non-scientific era before the development of science during the Age of Enlightenment, Industrial Revol..]]>