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1. Founding Figures and Commentators in Arabic Mathematics: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 1

   By Roshdi Rashed

   This volume provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and science from the mediaeval Arab world. It also includes extensive commentary from one of world’s foremost authorities on the subject....

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58217-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Ibn al-Haytham & Mathematics: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 2

   By Roshdi Rashed

   This volume provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and science from the mediaeval Arab world. It also includes extensive commentary from one of world’s foremost authorities....

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58218-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Globalization and the World Oil Industry: A History

   By Paul Chastko

   Globalization and the World Oil Industry explains the dramatic transformation to the world petroleum industry in the 20th century from its modest beginnings as a source of illumination to its status today as the driving force behind the world economy. The book places the development of the industry...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-80648-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Historical Disasters in Context: Science, Religion, and Politics

   Edited by Andrea JANKU, Gerrit Schenk, Franz Mauelshagen

   Growing concerns about climate change and the increasing occurrence of ever more devastating natural disasters in some parts of the world and their consequences for human life, not only in the immediately affected regions, but for all of us, have increased our desire to learn more about disaster...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-88509-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. The Collected Letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek - Volume 16

   Edited by Lodewijk C Palm

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-58640-5 | Hardback (CRC Press)

6. The Collected Letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek - Volume 17

   Edited by Lodewijk C Palm

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-58642-9 | Hardback (CRC Press)

7. The Scientific, Clinical and Commercial Development of the Stem Cell: From Radiobiology to Regenerative Medicine

   By Alison Kraft

   This book offers timely and novel insights on the development of what may be the most important medical technology of the twenty-first century. It is the first academic book to document the emergence of the stem cell as an icon of modern medicine and science, which also offers a critical analysis...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-44993-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Causation and Modern Philosophy

   Edited by Keith Allen, Tom Stoneham

   This volume brings together a collection of new essays by leading scholars on the subject of causation in the early modern period, from Descartes to Lady Mary Shepherd. Aimed at researchers, graduate students and advanced undergraduates, the volume advances the understanding of early modern...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-88355-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. The Social Impact of Modern Biology

   By Fuller Watson

   Originally published in 1971. Discoveries in modern biology can radically change human life as we know it. As our understanding of living processes, such as inheritance, grows, so do the possibilities of applying these results for good and evil, such as the treatment of disease, the control of...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-61179-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History

    By Katherine D. Watson

    The first book of its kind, Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History draws on the most recent developments in the historiography, to provide an overview of the history of forensic medicine in the West from the medieval period to the present day. Taking an international, comparative...

    October 2010 | 978-0-415-44772-0 | Paperback (Routledge)