Not since Gombrich's Story of Art has a popular guide to painting been so accessible and influential. This stunning guide …
From antiquity to the present day, color has been embedded with cultural meaning. Associated with blood, fire, fertility, and life …
This review of literature on perspective constructions from the Renaissance through the 18th century covers 175 authors, emphasizing Peiro della …
This book utilizes historical evidence to describe the development of the Toyota Production System (TPS). The development of TPS typifies …
Financial risk has become a focus of financial and nonfinancial firms, individuals, and policy makers. But the study of risk …
So far there have been few attempts at a systematic study of the history of popular dictionaries. A dictionary like …
Almaty: Arys, 2014. — 216 pp. — ISBN 978-601-291-254.The integration of Kazakhstan territory into the international community and formation of …
Understanding how 'contagion' and 'infection' have become powerful metaphors requires a historical reconstruction of this semantic field in the late …
Volume 5 of The Cambridge History of the English Language looks at the dialects of England since 1776, the historical …
In this comprehensive introduction, Henriette Walter provides the reader with a panoramic view of the development of the French language …
In Masks of the Universe, Edward Harrison brings together fundamental scientific, philosophical and religious issues in cosmology and raises thought …
In the 20th century theorists of mind were almost exclusively concerned with various versions of the materialist thesis, but prior …
More than three centuries after its creation, calculus remains a dazzling intellectual achievement and the gateway into higher mathematics. This …
Unraveling the secrets of numbers, from the discovery of zero to infinity. In clear language, The Book of Numbers cuts …
In In Pursuit of the Unknown, celebrated mathematician Ian Stewart uses a handful of mathematical equations to explore the vitally …
Expertly written and lavishly illustrated, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy offers a unique account of astronomical theory and practice …
From the Ishango Bone of central Africa and the Inca quipu of South America to the dawn of modern mathematics, …
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics brings together cutting-edge writing by more than twenty leading authorities on the …
This richly annotated facsimile edition of "The Foundation of General Relativity" introduces a new generation of readers to Albert Einstein's …
First published in 1922 and based on lectures delivered in May 1921, Albert Einstein’s The Meaning of Relativity offered an …
This book is a systematic history of one of the oldest problems in the philosophy of space and time: How …
Pierre Duhem (1861–1916) held the chair of theoretical physics at Bordeaux from 1894 to his death. He established a reputation …
Energy is at the heart of physics (and of huge importance to society) and yet no book exists specifically to …
From the Foreword by Marshall Fisher, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania: As generation of academics and practitioners follows generation, …
5 x 8, 4 b/w photos Selections from four legends in maritime and air strategy: Mahan, Corbett, Douhet and Mitchell …
The magnificent, unrivaled history of codes and ciphers -- how they
It’s known as the science of secrecy. Cryptography: the encoding and decoding of private information. And it is history’s most …
The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators―from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and …
Other Logics: Alternatives to Formal Logic in the History of Thought and Contemporary Philosophy challenges the widespread idea of formal …