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Catalin Avramescu (trans. by Alistair Ian Blyth), An Intellectual History of Cannibalism. Princeton University Press, 2009, 350pp. (A book that seems to take everyone by surprise, if they don't find it strangely indigestible)
Natalie Angier, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science. Scribe, 2008, 304pp.
Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman, A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder. Phoenix, 2008, 327pp.
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Judith A. Adams, The American Amusement Park Industry: A History of Technology and Thrills. Boston, Twayne Publ., 1991.
Robert M. Adams, 'Agriculture and Urban Life in Early Southwestern Iran', Science, CXXXVI, 1962, pp. 112-113.
Robert E. Adler, Medical Firsts: From Hippocrates to the Human Genome. John Wiley and Sons, 2004, 232pp.
Otto Ahlstrom, 'Swedish Vikings Used Optical Lenses',
The Optician, London, 19 May, 1950., pp. 459-462.
(Cited in Robert Temple, The Crystal Sun)
A al-Hassan and D. R. Hill, Islamic Technology. Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Frank P. Albright, Archaeological Discoveries in South Arabia. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1958.
David Alexander, Confronting Catastrophe: New Perspectives on Natural Disasters. Oxford University Press, nd? Remaindered, 2003.
William Alexander and Arthur Street, Metals in the Service of Man. Pelican, 1962.
Svetlana Alexievich, Voices From Chernobyl: Chronicle of the Future. nd? Remaindered, 2003. (First-hand accounts of the world's worst nuclear accident)
D. S. Allan and J. B. Delair, When The Earth Nearly Died: Compelling Evidence of a Catastrophic World Change, 9,500BC. Bath, UK, Gateway Books, 1995.
Bridget and Raymond Allchin, The Birth of Indian Civilization: India and Pakistan before 500BC. Pelican Original, 1968.
J. G. Anderson, 'Researches into the Prehistory of the Chinese', Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Bulletin, XIV, 1943.
J. Gunnar Andersson, Children of the Yellow Earth. London, Kegan, Paul, Trench and Trubner, 1934.
Robert Ardrey, The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man. New York, Athenaeum, 1976.
Robert Ardrey, The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations. Collins/Fontana Library, 1967. (Also, African Genesis, The Social Contract).
Alison Armstrong and Charles Casement, The Child and the Machine: How Computers Put Our Children's Education at Risk. Scribe Publications, 2001. 246pp.
Karen Armstrong, A History of God: From Abraham to the Present: The 4000-Year Quest for God.. London, Mandarin, 1994.
D. C. Ashlimann, (Trans.), Human Sacrifice in Legends and Myths. 1998.
David Attenborough, The First Eden: The Mediterranean World and Man. London, Collins-BBC, 1987.
R. J. C. Atkinson, Stonehenge. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1956.
Michael Brooks, 13 Things that Don't Make Sense: The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries Of Our Times. Profile Books, 2010, 240pp.
Cynthia Stokes Brown, Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present. The New Press, 2008, 288pp.
Jonathan Balcombe, Pleasurable Kingdom: animals and the nature of feeling good. Palgrave Mcmillan, 2007, 280pp. (An examination of the emotions of animals. Wonders whether pleasure is adaptive. Do animals have emotions, indeed?)
Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee, The Body Has A Mind Of Its Own. Random House, 2007, 228pp.
P. Bahn and J. Vertut, Images of the Ice Age. Facts on File, 1988.
Paul G. Bahn, (Editor) , Tombs, Graves and Mummies: 50 Discoveries in World Archaeology. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1997.
Paul Bairoch, Cities and Economic Development: From the Dawn of History to the Present. nd?
Michael Balfour, Stonehenge and Its Mysteries. London, Hutchinson, 1979.
Balsiger and Sellier's, In Search of Noah's Ark. ??
Robert Bakker, The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and their Extinction. New York, Zebra Books, 1986.
Franz Bardon, Inititation into Hermetics, A Practice of Magic. Wuppertal, Western Germany, Dieter Ruggeberg, 1976.
Thomas Barlow. The Australian Miracle: An Innovative Nation Revisited. Picador, 2006, 253pp.
Anthony Barker, When was That? Chronology of Australia from 1788. Sydney, John Ferguson, 1988.
W. B. Barker, 'The Nineveh Lens', British Journal of
Physiological Optics, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1930., pp.
4-6.
(Cited in Robert Temple, The Crystal Sun)
C. Barnard, The Nature of Leadership, In Leadership: Classical, Contemporary, and Critical Approaches, K. Grint, Oxford, Oxford University Press: 89-111., 1997.
Andrew Barr, Drink: An Informal Social History. London, Bantam, 1995.
John D. Barrow, The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe. Pantheon, 2001.
Robert Bartlett, First Gold: A History of Australia's First Goldfield, Ophir, NSW. Angus and Robertson, 2000.
Hugh Barty-King, The Worst Poverty: A History of Debt and Debtors. Gloucestershire, England, Alan Sutton, 1991.
H. C. Beck,'Ancient Magnifying Glasses', The
Antiquaries Journal, Vol. 8, 1928., pp. 328-330.
(Cited in Robert Temple, The Crystal Sun)
A. Beltran, Rock Art of the Spanish Levant. Cambridge, CUP. 1982.
B. Bender, "Gatherer-hunter to farmer: a social perspective", World Archaeology, 10, pp. 204-222. nd?
B. Bender, Farming in Prehistory. London, John Baker, 1975.
A. Scott Berg, Lindbergh. Macmillan, 1999?.
John D. Bergen, Military Communications: A Test for Technology. Washington, DC, Centre of Military History, 1986.
Peter Bernstein, Against All Odds. Wiley, 1998-199. (History of mathematics + gambling + finance).
Geoffrey Bibby, Four Thousand Years Ago: A Panorama of Life in the Second Millennium. Penguin, 1961-1962.
Jeremy Black, The English Press in the Eighteenth Century. London, Croom Helm, 1986.
Clark Blaise, Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000. 246pp.
Carl W. Blegan, et al, Troy. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press.
Howard Bloom, The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History. St Leonards, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1995.
Howard Bloom, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century. New York, John Wiley and Sons, 2000.
Tim Bonyhady, The Colonial Earth. Melbourne University Press, 2001. (Argues that Australians have been concerned about the environment since 1788 - book issued when it is widely reported in Australian newspapers that river systems are under almost intolerable stress.)
John Booker, Traveller's Money. London, Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1994.
Max Born, The Born-Einstein Letters. Macmillan, 2005, 235pp.
H. R. Fox Bourne, English Merchants: Memoirs in Illustration of the Progress of British Commerce. London, Chatto and Windus, 1886. [Kraus Reprint Co., New York, 1969 in Two Vols].
Carl Bover, A History of Mathematics. Publisher? nd?
Rose Brady, Kapitalizm: Russia's Struggle to Free its Economy. Yale University Press, 289pp, 2000.
J. R. Bray, 'Glaciation and Solar Activity since the Fifth Century BC and the Solar Cycle', Nature, 16 November, 1968.
Robert Brenner, Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Sir David Brewster, 'On a Rock-Crystal Lens and Decomposed
Glass found at Nineveh', American Journal of Science,
Vol. 2, No. 15, 1853., pp. 122-13.
(Cited in Robert Temple, The Crystal Sun)
John Brockman, (Ed.), The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000.
Antony Brown, Hazard Unlimited: The Story of Lloyd's of London. London, Peter Davies, 1973.
Antony Brown, Three Hundred Years of Lloyd's. London, Lloyd's of London Press, Ltd., (Iain Lindsay-Smith, Lloyd's List), 1988.
Peter Lancaster Brown, Megaliths, Myth and Men. London, Blandford Press, 1976.
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything. Doubleday, 2003.
James Buchan, Frozen Desire: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Money. Picador, 320pp., 1998.
J. V. Bruce, The End of Atlantis: New Lights on an Old Legend. London, Thames and Hudson, 1969.
Heinrich Brugsch-Bey, Egypt Under The Pharaohs. London, Bracken Books, 1996. Orig. in 1902.
R. S. Brumbaugh, Ancient Greek Gadgets and Machines. Greenwood Press, 1966.
R. A. Bryson, 'A Perspective on Climatic Change', Science, 17 May, 1974.
Mark Buchanan, Ubiquity: The Science of History. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001. 230pp.
V. L. Bullough, Sexual Variance in Society and History. University of Chicago Press, 1976.
Joanna Burke, An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare. Publisher ?, 1999. 564pp.
Walter Burket, Rene Girard and Jonathan Z. Smith, Violent Origins: Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation. nd?
A. R. Burn, Minoans, Philistines and Greeks, 1400BC-900BC. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1930.
Brian Burrell, Damn the Torpedoes: Fighting Words, Rallying Cries and The Hidden History of Warfare. McGraw Hill, 219pp., 1999.
Bryan Burrough, Dragonfly: The Terrifying Story of Mir, Earth's First Outpost in Space. Fourth Estate, 2000.
Theodore Burton-Brown, Early Mediterranean Migrations. Manchester University Press, 1959.
Christopher Butler, Number Symbolism. New York, Barnes and Noble, 1970.
Richard Butler, Saddam Defiant: The Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction and The Crisis of Global Security. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000. 271pp.
Marcus Chown, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide to the Universe. Faber and Faber, 2008, 200pp. (Experts in physics are themselves often mystified about quantum mechanics, which Einstein disliked, it's not just you, how reassuring is that?)
I. B. Cohen, The Triumph of Numbers. No details, 2006.
Patricia Churchland, Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality. Princeton University, 2011, 260pp.
George G. Cameron, History of Early Iran. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1936.
Joseph Campbell,The Way of the Animal Powers: A Historical Atlas Of World Mythology. Vol. 1. London, Times Books, 1984.
Ken Carey, The Third Millennium: Living in the Post-Historic World . Harper/SanFrancisco, 1991-1995.
John Carey, (Ed.), The Faber Book of Utopias. Faber, 1999.
R. J. Carlson, The End of Medicine. John Wiley, 1975.
Sir William Dampier Cecil, A History of Science and its relations with Philosophy and Religion. Fourth edition. London, Cambridge University Press, 1966.
K. C. Chang, (Ed.), Food in Chinese Culture. Yale University Press, 1977.
Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute for the History of Natural Sciences), Ancient China's Technology and Science. Peking, Foreign Languages Press, 1983.
John Chipello, Hack Attacks Encyclopedia: A Complete History of Hacks, Cracks, Phreaks and Spies Over Time. 2001. (Complete with CD-ROM)
J. G. D. Clark, Prehistoric Europe: The Economic Basis. New York, Methuen, 1952. Preston Cloud, Oasis in Space: Earth History from the Beginning. New York, Norton, 1988.
Wesley Clark, Winning Modern Wars. Pan Macmillan, 2003/2004, 218pp.
Brian Clegg, Light Years: An Exploration of Mankind's Enduring Fascination with Light. Piaktus, 2001, 310pp.
S. Cole, The Neolithic Revolution. London, British Museum Natural History, 1963.
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J. S. Coles and A. F. Hardinge, The Bronze Age in Europe. London, Methuen, 1979.
Simon Collin, The Virgin Guide to the Internet. London, Virgin Press, 1999.
Brad Collis, Fields of Discovery: Australia's CSIRO. Allen and Unwin, 2002, 520pp.
William R. Corliss, Strange Artifacts: A Sourcebook on Ancient Man. Privately published. Glen Arm, Maryland, USA, The Sourcebook Project. Volume M-2. 1976. (Cited in Robert Temple, The Crystal Sun)
F. M. Cornford, From Religion to Philosophy: A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation. London, Edward Arnold, 1912.
R. Corson, Fashions in Makeup. Peter Owen, 1972.
Cosmology Cosmology Cosmology
Sources The Aristotelian cosmos is described in his
Physics and On the Heavens. See also The Complete
Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, Ed.
Jonathan Barnes, 2 vols. Princeton, Princeton University Press,
1984. On the relationship between Greek cosmology and astronomy,
see B. R. Goldstein and A. C. Bowen, A New View of Early Greek
Astronomy, Isis, 74 (1983): pp. 330-340. And Thomas S.
Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution, Cambridge, Harvard
University Press, 1957. The best translation of the Almagest
is Ptolemy's Almagest, trans. G. J. Toomer, London,
Duckworth, New York, Springer Verlag, 1984. For expositions of
technical detail on the Ptolemaic System, Olaf Pedersen, A
Survey of the Almagest, Odense, Odense University Press,
1974.
Mark Cocker, Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold: Europe's Conquest of Indigenous Peoples. New York, Grove Press, nd.
Tim Pat Coogan, Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora. Hutchinson, 2001, 746pp.
Saxe Commins and Robert N. Linscott, Man and the Universe: The Philosophers of Science. New York, Washington Square Press, 1947.
Stephen Coote, Samuel Pepys: A Life. Hodder, 2001.
386pp
See also; Olaf Pedersen and Mogens Pihl, Early Physics and
Astronomy: A Historical Introduction. London, MacDonald and
Janes, New York: American Elsevier, 1974; 2nd ed. Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1993. On Medieval Cosmology and
Astronomy, Edward Grant, "Cosmology," in Science in the Middle
Ages, Ed. David C. Lindberg, Chicago, University of Chicago
Press, 1984, pp. 265-302; and Olaf Pedersen, "Astronomy,"
ibid, pp. 303-37. For an account of Aristotelian cosmology
and Ptolemaic astronomy in the period leading up to Galileo's
discoveries, see James M. Lattis, Between Copernicus and
Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic
Cosmology Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1994. Of
interest is: Archaeoastronomy & Ethnoastronomy Newsletter XIII.
ESSAYS FROM, ARCHAEOASTRONOMY & ETHNOASTRONOMY NEWS, THE
QUARTERLY BULLETIN OF THE CENTER FOR ARCHAEOASTRONOMY. Number 13
September Equinox 1994. E.g., Essay: Archaeoastronomy and
Philosophy by Greg Whitlock, Austin Community College. On other
topics, see: Trialogues at the Edge of the West by Abraham
and Sheldrake: Ralph Abraham, mathametician and leader in the new
science of chaos, Terrance McKenna, shamanologist and
ethno-pharmacologist, and Rupert Sheldrake, acclaimed biologist as
they "trialogue" questions such as: How can chaos contribute to our
lives? Is armageddon a self-fulfilling prophecy? How can scientists
and mystics share the same planet? Belonging to the Universe
by Fritzof Capra, and D. Steindl-Rast: The trailblazer in new
science (Capra) and a contemporary Thomas Merton (Steindl-Rast)
investigate the parallels between new paradigm thinking in science
and religion, which together offer a remarkably compatible new view
of the universe. Dossey, Recovering the Soul. Dossey
synthesizes the ideas of eminent scientists with the time-honoured
knowledge of visionaries and mystics to present convincing evidence
for a non-logical, holistic view of mind and reality that can
explain transcendental experiences. In short, he provides new proof
of the existence of the soul. R. Neville, Eternity and Time's
Flow. Neville's opening claim is simply indisputable, that
nothing in ancient mythical cosmology, no matter how fantastic,
rivals the sort of sweepingly imaginative cosmological claims
issuing from the pens of today's most prominent theoretical
physicists. R. Wilson, The New Inquisition. In this
thought-provoking work, Wilson designates certain habits of
repression and intimidation that are becoming increasingly
commonplace in the scientific community today. Wilson also
designates rigid beliefs that form the ideological superstructure.
Further queries: Email: global@selfaware.com
Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest, Mars: The Inside Story of the Red Planet. Headline, 2001, 224pp.
Nicholas Crane, Mercator: The Man Who Mapped The Planet. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002, 348pp.
A. Crawford and A. J. Sinclair, 'Nutritional Influences on the Evolution of the Mammalian Brain', CIBA Foundation Symposium, October, 1971.
Michael J. Crowe, Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution. New York, Dover, 1990.
C. Curwen, Plough and Pasture: The Early History of Farming. New York, Henry Schuman, 1953.
Peter Doherty, A Light History of Hot Air. MUP, 2008, 312pp. (On ballooning and so on)
Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe. Pocket Books, 2008, 675pp.
F. Dahlberg, Woman the Gatherer. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1981.
Glyn Daniel, The First Civilizations: The Archaeology of their Origins. London, Thames and Hudson, 1968.
Jack Dann, The Memory Cathedral. 1996-1997 (?). (On the ideas and genius of Leonardo da Vinci).
D. Darlington, The Evolution of Man and Society. (From a point of view on genetics) nd? Late 1960s
M. Daumas, A History of Technology and Invention. John Murray, 1969.
Nigel Davies, Human Sacrifice: In History and Today. New York, William Morrow, 1981.
Paul Davies, How to Build a Time Machine. Allen Lane, 2001, 133pp.
Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mount Improbable. Viking books at $35. 1995? (On evolution)
Richard Deacon, John Dee: Scientist, Geographer, Astrologer and Secret Agent to Elizabeth 1. London, Frederick Muller, 1968.
Noel Deerr, The History of Sugar. Two Vols. London, Chapman and Hall, 1949-1950.
L. Sprague de Camp, The Ancient Engineers: Technology and Invention from the Earliest Times to the Renaissance. New York, Barnes and Noble, 1993.
Edward S. Deevey, Jr., 'The Human Population', Scientific American, CCIII, September, 1960., pp. 195-204. (Human population multiplies about sixteen times between 8000BC and 4000BC, due to the agricultural revolution.
Derek Denton, The Hunger for Salt: An Anthropological Physiological and Medical Analysis. Springer-Verlag, 1983. (A shake-up in salt intake theories, �few parallels in medical research�)
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years. Village, 1998.
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Jonathan Cape, 1997.
Jose van Dijik, The Transparent Body: A Cultural Analysis of Medical Imaging. University of Washington Press, 2005, 13pp.
David Diringer, The Alphabet: A Key to the History of Mankind. New York, Philosophical Library, 1948.
Norman F. Dixon, On The Psychology of Military Incompetence. nd?
Theodosius Dobzhansky, Mankind Evolving. 1962.
A. G. Drachmann, The Mechanical Technology of Greek and Roman Antiquity. Copenhagen, Munksgaard, 1963.
Sidney D. Drell, In The Shadow Of The Bomb: Physics and Arms Control. nd? Remaindered, 2003.
Philip Drew, Utzon and the Sydney Opera House: As It Happened, 1918-2000. Inspire Press, 2000.
Saul Dubow, Illicit Union: Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa. Cambridge, WUP African Studies Series, Witwatersrand University Press, 1995. (For sale in South Africa only - not for export)
David Ewing Duncan, The Calendar. Fourth Estate, 1999. 360pp. [Histories of calendars]
Storm Dunlop, A Dictionary of Weather. Oxford University Press. nd? Remaindered, 2003. (More than 1800 entries, definitive)
Judith Dupre, Bridges: A History of the World's Most Famous and Important Spans. Konnemann, 1999.
Niles Eldredge, Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life. W. W. Norton, 2007, 256pp.
Ivar Ekeland, The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny. University of Chicago Press, 2007, 207pp.
Elwyn Hartley Edwards, Horses: Their Role in the History of Man. London, Grafton Books, 1987.
Margaret Ehrenberg, Women In Prehistory. London, British Museum Publications, 1992.
Anthony Elliott, (Ed.), Freud 2000. Melbourne University Press. 308pp., 1998.
Robert M. Engberg, The Hyksos Reconsidered. University of Chicago Press, 1939.
Ivan Engnell, Studies in Divine Kingship in the Ancient Near East. Uppsala, Almqvist and Wiksell Boktyckeri, A. B., 1943.
Jason Epstein, Publishing: Past Present and Future. WW Norton, 2001, 188pp. (On the impact of the Internet on book publishing, world-wide).
Colin Evans, A Question of Evidence: The Casebook of Great Forensic Controversies, from Napoleon to O.J. John Wiley, 2003, 250pp.
Michael Evans and Alan Ryan, (Eds.), The Human Face of Warfare: Killing, Fear and Chaos in Battle. Allen and Unwin, 2000. 265pp.
Policing the Future: From London, after a major Home Office study is made now tend to predict that by 2020 or so, the middle class and those better off will be far more security conscious, in general (living, eg., in walled estates), security cameras will be everywhere, the underclass will remain disgruntled that it cannot afford new technology, the stealing of human identities will be rife, and drug-manufacture will be so sophisticated that drugs of various sorts will be made in small amounts near where they are sold. Questions of proof-of-identity will loom large in daily life, so biometric smart cards will be mandatory to use. There will of course be more computer and Internet crime, and with older people, who may feel they lack a constructive role in society, there may be increased levels of “wrinkly crime”. Prediction made in 4 April 2000 – in The Australian IT
Nicholas Fearn, Zeno and the Tortoise: How to Think like a Philosopher. Atlantic Books/Canongate, 2001.
Patricia Fara, An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment. Icon Books, 2002, 177pp. (History of use of electrical power).
Benjamin Farrington, Greek Science II: Its Meaning for Us. Pelican, 1949.
Eugene S. Ferguson, Bibliography of the History of Technology. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1968.
Elizabeth Finkel, Stem Cells: Controversy At The Frontiers of Science. ABC Books, 2005, 282pp.
Jean-Louis Flandrin, Massimo Montanari and Albert Sonnenfeld, (Eds), Food: A Culinary History. Columbia University Press, 1999.
R. J. Forbes, Metallurgy in Antiquity. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1950.
R. G. Forbes, Studies in Ancient Technology. Edn 2. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 9 Vols., 1964-1972.
Heinrich Carl Freiherr (Baron), Menu von Minutoli, Concerning
the Manufacture and Utilization of Coloured Glasses amongst the
Ancients. Berlin, 1836. Reprinted at Altenburg in 1838.
(Cited in Robert Temple, The Crystal Sun)
Meyer Friedman and Gerald W. Friedland, Medicine's 10 Greatest Discoveries. Yale University Press, 1998-1999(?).
Colin B. Fryer, 'Glass and Lenses in Ancient Times',
The Optician, Vol. 195, No. 5139, London, 11 March 1988.,
pp. 21-33.
(Cited in Robert Temple, The Crystal Sun)
Tivka Simone Frymer-Kensky, In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture, and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth. New York, Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992.
David Frum, How We Got Here: The 70s, The Decade That Brought You Modern Life - For Better or Worse. Basic Books, 2000.
Steve Fuller, Kuhn vs Popper. Icon, 2003. (The 1965 debate between two giants of philosophy, and a view on science's role in the world)
Elinor W. Gadon, The Once and Future Goddess: A Symbol of Our Time. New York, Harper and Row, 1989.
Simon Garfield, Mauve. Faber, 2000. (Yes, the history of the invention of a colour, which indirectly led to advances in medicine, food, perfumery and explosives)
Walter Gasson, 'The Oldest Lens in the World: A Critical Study of the Layard Lens', The Opthalmic Optician, 9 December, 1972., pp. 1267-1272. (Cited in Robert Temple, The Crystal Sun)
Aniruddh Singh Gaur, Harappan Maritime Legacies of Gujarat. New Delhi, Asian Pub., 2000. (Deals with maritime aspects of Indus civilization 300BC to 1500BC in Gujarat Province.) See also:
Ignace J. Gelb, A Study of Writing. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1952.
R. J. Gillings, Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1972.
Rupert Gleadow, The Origin of the Zodiac. London, Jonathan Cape, 1968.
James Gleik, What Just Happened: A Chronicle From The Information Frontier. Abacus, 2002.
James Gleick, Isaac Newton. Harper Collins, 2003. (New view of the Newtonian Universe, with Newton seen by a reviewer as "an inspired madman"... a man with some odd personality traits, his obsession with alchemy and the colour crimson, nastiness to critics, secrecy, advocacy of capital punishment for currency fraud. One reviewer says, this is "without doubt the finest life of science's most perplexing figure")
Paul Glister, Centauri Dreams, Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration. Copernicus Books, 2005, 302pp.
E. J. Gold, The Human Biological Machine as a Transformational Apparatus. The Labyrinth Trilogy. Book 1. Nevada City, IDHHB Inc., 1984, 1985. (New age type title)
Thomas Goldstein, Dawn of Modern Science: From the Ancient Greeks to the Renaissance. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1980.
Howard Goodall, Big Bangs: The Story of Five Discoveries that Changed Musical History. Vintage, 2001. 238pp.
D. H. Gordon, 'The Early Use of Metals in India and Pakistan', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, LXXX, 1950., pp. 55-78.
Walter Gratzer, Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes. Oxford University Press, 2002, 301pp.
Alan Gurney, Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation. WW Norton, 2004, 320pp.
Allen Guttman, From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports. nd?
Ronald Greeley and Raymond Batson, The Compact NASA Atlas of the Solar System. No details, 2006.
Michael Hodges, AK47: The Story of the People's Gun. Hodder and Stoughton, 2007, 228pp.
Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, The Nature of Space and Time. Princeton University Press, 2010, 145pp.
Trevor Homer, Book of Origins. No details, 2006. (On the origins of many everyday things such as clothing, medicine, languages, tracking explorers, inventors and scientists etc)
Graham Harman, Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics. repressm 2010, 258pp. (On ideas about multi-realism, given that certain things can be quite real without being the least understood from a human perspective)
Richard Hamblyn, The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies. 2001-2002.
Donald Harden, The Phoenicians. New York, Pelican Books, 1980.
Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution. Earthscan, 2000, 395pp.
Stephen Hawking (Ed.), On The Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy. Running Press, 2003, 1266 pp.
H. R. Hays, From Ape to Angel: An Informal History of Social Anthropology. London, Methuen, 1958.
David M. Head, The Ebbs and Flows of Fortune: The Life of Thomas Howard, Third Duke of Norfolk. London, University of Georgia Press, 1995.
Hal Helman, Great Feuds in Science: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever. Wiley and Sons, 1999.
Hal Hellman, Great Feuds in Medicine: Ten of the Livliest Disputes Ever. John Wiley and Sons, 2001. 237pp.
Ernst Herzfeld, Archaeological History of Iran. Oxford University Press,
Thor Heyerdahl, American Indians in the Pacific. Stockholm, Bokforlaget Forma, 1952.
Alan W. Hirshfield, Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos. Owl Books, 2002, 314pp.
H. Hodges, Technology in the Ancient World. Penguin, 1970.
Hannah Holmes, The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little ThingsM. Wiley, 2001, 240pp.
Murray Hope, The Way Of Cartouche: An Oracle of Ancient Egyptian Magic. London, Angus and Robertson, 1985.
Vincent Foster Hopper, Mediaeval Number Symbolism. New York, Columbia University Press, 1938.
F. Clark Howell, 'The Place of Neanderthal Man in Human Evolution', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, IX, 1951, pp. 409-412.
William W. Howells, The Distribution of Man, in Scientific American, CCIII, September, 1960., pp. 113-127.
K. J. Hsu, 'When the Mediterranean Dried Up, Scientific American, December, 1972. (Also, Nature, 23 March, 1973).
Emmanuelle Hubert, 'Gazetteer of mysterious sites around the world', pp. 297-318 in Reader's Digest, The World's Last Mysteries. Sydney, Reader's Digest Association Far East Ltd., 1976-1978.
Derek Hudson and Kenneth Luckhurst, The Royal Society of Arts. 1954.
D. Hunter, Diseases of Industry. Pelican, nd.
H. N. Huntingdon, Prehistoric Man and Beast. England?, Smith, Elder and Co., 1896.
Robert Ingpen and Philip Wilkinson, Encyclopedia of Ideas that changed the world: the greatest discoveries and inventions of human history. Dragon's World. ISBN 1 85028 225 0. $40. 1993 or 1994.
Glynn Isaac, 'The Diet of Early Man', World Archaeology, February, 1971.
Paul Israel, Edison: A Life of Invention. John Wiley and Sons, 2000.
Patrick Jackson, The Chronologer's Quest: The Search for the Age of the Earth. No details, 2006.
Matt Ridley, Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code. No details, 2006.
Daniel Johnson, White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was fought on the chessboard. Atlantic Books, 2008, 368pp.
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Brian May, Patrick Moore and Chris Linton, Bang! The Complete History of the Universe. No details, 2006.
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Lewis Melville, The South Sea Bubble. New York, Burt Franklins, 1921.
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Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity. 1972.
Ashley Montagu, Man and Aggression. nd. 1970s?
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Milton K. Munitz, (Ed.), Theories of the Universe: From Babylonian Myth to Modern Science. London, Free Press/Macmillan, 1957.
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Reviel Netz and William Noel, The Archimedes Codex. Hatchett Livre, 2007, 305pp. (How the works of Archimedes managed to survive the centuries)
John Naughton, A Brief History Of The Future. Phoenix, 2001, 332pp.
J. Needham, Science and Civilization in China. Cambridge University Press, Six Vols. 1954ff.
A. Neuburger, The Technical Arts and Sciences of the Ancients. Methuen, 1930.
O. Neugebauer, The Exact Science in Antiquity. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1952. (On methods of measuring time and the seasons)
Dr Jonica Newby, The Animal Attractions: Humans and Their Companions. ABC Books, 1999.
James R. Newman, (Ed) The World of Mathematics: A Small Library of the Literature of Mathematics from A'h-Mose the Scribe to Albert Einstein. US, Tempus, 1956.
On Isaac Newton, mathematician: From an article in The (Queensland) Sunday Mail, 4 October, 1992: Sir Isaac Newton was obsessed with alchemy and biblical prophecies, says Prof Piyo Rattansi of University College, London. Privately, Newton believed that apart from the laws of gravity he propounded re the orbits of the planets, that they would soon crash into the sun unless God intervened on the side of Protestantism. Newton left behind over 350,000 words of notes, essays and translations of alchemical works and as many again on Biblical myths. Believed God had sent a comet to cause the Flood. He was obsessed with calling down spirits from Heaven, the apocalyptic prophecies of the Book of Revelations, and how these related to the mathematics of the Temple of Solomon. Newton was one of the "last of the magicians", is the way to explain how a scientist could think thus.
Pamela Nightingale, A Medieval Mercantile Community: The Grocer's Company and the Politics and Trade of London, 1000-1485. London, Yale University Press, 1995.
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Pamela Norris, The Story of Eve. Papermac, 2000. (How male-commanded language and symbolic content and culture contained feelings arising from the reproductive and sexual powers of females).
Sherwin B. Nuland, Leonardo Da Vinci. Weidenfeld and Nicolson/Dent, 2001. 168pp.
Mick O'Hare, (Ed.), How To Make a Tornado: The Strange and Wonderful Things that Happen when Scientists Break Free. Allen and Unwin, 2010, 219pp (Another of the enthusiastically quirky books on science that form a modern trend)
Kenneth P. Oakely, Man The Tool-Maker. British Museum/Natural History, 1947.
Kenneth P. Oakley, Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man. 1964.
K. P. Oakley, Man The Toolmaker. London, 1950.
Patrick O'Brien, Joseph Banks. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, nd-recent.
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W. M. O'Neil, Time and the Calendars. Sydney, Sydney University Press, 1975.
A. L. Oppenheim, 'A Bird's-eye View of Mesopotamian Economic History', pp. 27-37 in Karl Polyani, et al, Trade and Market in the Early Empires. Glencoe, Illinois, Free Press, 1957.
Stephen Oppenheimer, Eden in the East: The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998.
Penny Van Oosterzee, Where Worlds Collide: The Wallace Line. Reed Books, 1997. 234pp.
Massimo Pigliucci, Nonsense on Stilts: How To Tell Science from Bunk. University of Chicago Press, 2010, 332pp.
Stever Pinker, The Stuff of Thought: language as a window into human nature. Penguin, 2007, 500pp.
Henry M. Pachter, Paracelsus: Magic into Science. New York, Collier, 1951. Also, 1961.
Richard Panek, Seeing and Believing: The Story of the Telescope, or How We Found Our Place in the Universe. Fourth Estate, 2000.
James Parakilas, (Ed.), Three Hundred Years of the Piano. Yale University Press, 2000.
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Harald Penrose, An Ancient Air: A Biography of John Stringfield of Chard, the Victorian Aeronautical Pioneer. nd? Remaindered, 2003. (On the first man to demonstrate that engine-powered winged flight was a real possibility)
Roger Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds And The Laws Of Physics. New York. Vintage Books. 1990. First published 1989..
Joao Magueijo Perseus, Faster Than The Speed of Light. Perseus, 2003, 279pp. (Argues that the speed of light can vary. Physicist Prof. Paul Davies has expressed reservations here)
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Karl Polyani, et al, Trade and Market in the Early Empires. Glencoe, Illinois, Free Press, 1957.
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More to come
Howard Reid and Michael Croucher, The Way of the Warrior. The Paradox of the Martial Arts. London, Leopard, 1983.
E. G. Richards, Mapping Time: The Calendar and its history. Oxford University Press, 2000.
John F. Richards, (Ed.), The Imperial Monetary System of Mughal India. New Delhi, OUP, 2000.
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Alphonse Riesenfeld, The Megalithic Culture of Melanesia. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1950.
Fiammetta Rocco, The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria, Medicine and the Cure that Changed the World. HarperCollins, 2004, 348pp.
Everett M. Rogers, A History of Communication Study: A Biographical Approach. nd? Remaindered, 2003. (History of communication studies is also a history of social sciences - sociology, political science and psychology)
Ronan, The Cambridge Illustrated History of the World's Science. Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Brian Rotman, Ad Infinitum: Taking God out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back In. Stanford University Press, ??? (Philosophy and Maths)
David Shenk, The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, or how 32 carved pieces on a board illuminated our understanding of war, science and the human brain. Anchor Books, 2008, 327pp. (On game of chess)
Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Picador, 2007, 368pp. (How the human brain responds to music and musicianship)
Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are. Arrow books, 1993. (Sagan also has: Intelligent Life in the Universe with I. S. Shklovski; The Cosmic Connection, The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain, Cosmos Contact.
Ernest Samhaber, Merchants Make History: How Trade has Influenced the Course of History Throughout the World. London, Harrap, 1963.
Nancy K. Sander, The Sea People: Warriors Of The Ancient Mediterranean, 1250-1150. London, Thames and Hudson, 1978.
G. Sarton, A History of Science. The Norton Library, Two Vols., 1970. Carl O. Sauer, Agricultural Origins and Dispersals. New York, American Geographical Society, 1952.
Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid The Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War. Granta Books, 2000.
Niels M. Saxtorph, Warriors and Weapons of Early Times. London, Blandford Press, 1972.
Harrison J. Schmitt, Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space. Springer/ Copernicus, 2006, 336pp.
Richard Evans Schultes and Siri von Reis, (Eds.), Ethnobotany: Evolution of a Discipline. Portland, Oregon, Dioscorides Press, 1995.
Jim Schnabel, Forever Young: Science and the Search for Immortality. Bloomsbury, 229pp., 1999.
Joseph Schwartz, Cassandra's Daughter: A History of Psychoanalysis in Europe and America. Allen Lane, 1999.
Barbara Seaman, The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women. Schwartz, 2003, 331pp. (On the invention of the contraceptive pill)
Stephen Segaller, Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet. New York, TV Books, 1998.
Charles Seife, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea. Penguin, 2001.
Tim Severin, The Jason Voyage. Century-Hutchinson, Circa 1981.
Myra Shackley, Wild Men: Yeti, Sasquatch and the Neanderthal Enigma. London, Thames and Hudson, Circa 1981.
Andrew Sharp, Ancient Voyagers in the Pacific. Wellington, NZ, Polynesian Society, 1956.
Nicholas Shrady, Tilt: The Skewed Tale of the Tower of Pisa. Simon and Schuster, 2004, 161pp.
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C. Singer et al, A History of Technology. Vol. 2. London, Oxford University Press, 1956.
Charles Singer, (Ed.), A History of Technology. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1955. (Vol. II as edited by Singer is issued in 1956)
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Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography. Fourth Estate, 402pp., 1999.
Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes: Volume 3: Fighting for Brtain - 1937-1946. Macmillan, 2001, 580pp.
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Michael Smith, The Emperor's Codes: Bletchley Park and the Breaking of Japan's Secret Ciphers. Bantam Press, 2001, 322pp. (The question arises, was the dropping of atomic bombs necessary to ensure a Japanese surrender?)
Jeffrey M. Smith, Seeds of Deception. Scribe, 2004, 292pp. (On genetically- modified food cropping)
Smithsonian Institute, Man and Beast. 1969.
Dava Sobel, Longitude. New York, Walker and Co., 1997.
T. Save-Soderbergh, 'The Hyksos Rule in Egypt', Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, XXXVII, 1951.
Andrew Smith, Moondust: In Search Of The Men Who Fell To Earth. Bloomsbury, 2005, 320pp.
Rebecca L. Spang, The Invention of the Restaurant. Harvard University Press, 2000. (The restaurant of France was invented in Paris by Alexandre Balthasar Laurent Grimod de la Reyniere, in the 1760s. de la Reyniere was a good writer, but not a chef. One wonders however about the role of London coffee houses as early as the 1720s?)
Lewis Spence, The Encyclopedia of the Occult. London, Bracken Books, 1988. (On Kabbala, Hermes Trisgestimus etc.)
Michael Stafford, From Forager to Farmer in Flint: A Lithic Analysis of the Prehistoric Transition to Agriculture in Southern Scandinavia. Aarhus University Press, 1999.
Tom Standage, The Victorian Internet. Phoenix, 1999. 216pp. [History of the electric telegraph]
Steven M. Stanley, The New Evolutionary Timetable. Basic Books. Circa 1981.
Ian Stewart, The Magical Maze: Seeing The World Through Mathematical Eyes. Phoenix, 284pp., 1999.
Stover: 1985: An idea that Stonehenge is not and was never intended to be any sort of astronomical device, expressed by Professor of Anthropology at Illinois Institute of Technology, Dr Leon Stover, author of an essay on this topic in: Harry Harrison and Leon Stover, (Novel), Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died: The Mighty Saga of Atlantis and Ancient Britain. Panther/Granada, 1985. See also Leon Stover, Stonehenge and the Origins of Western Culture.
Paul Strathern, Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements. Penguin, 2001, 309pp.
John Sulston and Georgina Ferry, The Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics and Human Genome. Bantam, 2002, 310pp.
David Toomey, The New Time Travellers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics. W. W. Norton, 2007, 391pp.
Robert Tavemor, Smoot's Ear: The Measure of Humanity. Yale University Press, 2008, 249pp. (On the various measuring systems which have been used by humanity over aeons, go figure)
Herve This, Building a Meal: From Molecuar Gastronomy to Culinary Constructivism. Columbia University Press, 2009, 185pp. (On food technology, quirkily scientific/technical but quite entertaining, a critic finds)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Allen Lane, 2007, 366pp. (From a statistician with a sense of humour; the world is random, tap into it and enjoy)
R. Tannahill, Food in History. Penguin, 1988. Also, Sex in History. Cardinal, 1989.
Harry L. Taylor, 'The Origin and Development of Lenses in
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(Cited in Robert Temple, The Crystal Sun)
G. R. Taylor, Biological Time-Bomb. London, Thames and Hudson, 1968.
Griffith Taylor, Environment and Race: A Study of the Evolution, Migration, Settlement and Status of The Races of Man. London, Oxford University Press, 1927.
Sol Tax, (Ed.), Evolution After Darwin. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1960. (Contains paper by L. S. B. Leakey, 'The Origin of the Genus Homo'.
Gordon R. Willey, Historical Patterns and Evolution in Native
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Also in Sol Tax is Edgar Anderson, The Evolution of
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S. B. Leakey, 'The Origin of the Genus Homo, pp. 17-31 in Sol Tax (Ed.).
R. Temple, Conversations with Eternity. Rider, 1984. Also, China, Land of Discovery and Invention. Patrick Stephens, 1986.
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A. Thom, 'The Solar Observations of Megalithic Man', Journal of the British Astronomical Association, Vol. 64, 1954., pp. 396-404.
Mark Thomson, Rare Trades. HarperCollins, 2002. (A history of the specialist trades and tools rapidly disappearing from Australian life)
Damian Thompson, The End of Time: Faith and Fear in the Shadow of the Millennium. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1998.
M. Thompson, 'Weather Variability, Climatic Change, and Grain Production', Science, 9 May 1975.
Linus Torvalds and David Diamond, Just For Fun: The Story Of An Accidental Revolutionary. Remaindered late 2003. (On the Linux revolution in computing)
James S. Trefil, The Moment of Creation: Big Bang Physics: From before the First Millisecond to the Present Universe. New York, Scribner, 1983.
Rick Tumlinson, (Ed.), Return to the Moon. Apogee Books, 208pp, 2006.
Colin Turnbull, The Mountain People. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1972.
More to come
Stephen Val Dulken, Inventing the 20th Century: 100 Inventions that Shaped the World: From the airplane to the zipper. New York, New York University Press, 2000.
T. B. Veblen, The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other Essays. New York, Heubsch, 1919.
Helen Verran, Science and an African Logic. University of Chicago Press, 2001-2002, 282 pp.
Patricia Wallace, The Psychology of the Internet. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
M. Mitchell Waldrop, Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos. Penguin Science, 1994.
James Wallace and Jim Erickson, Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the
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See also: Alan Turing, founder of computer science:
http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/~ahodges/Turing.html
Internet and Computer Technology: http://www.keysites.com/
History of the Internet and WWW:
http://www.internetvalley.com/intval.html
The History of Computing: http://ai.cs.edu/~history/
PC Webopaedia: [Encyclopedia of Computing Terms]:
http://www.pcwebopedia.com/
Hotwired: [Finding new words for new technologies]:
http://www.hotwired.com/frontdoor/
Webnewz: [On Asian computing developments]:
http://www.newscom-asia.com/
Barbara G. Walker, The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets. San Francisco, Harper Collins Publishers, 1983.
Peter Warburton, Debt and Delusion: Central Bank Follies that Threaten Economic Disaster. Penguin, 2000.
S. L. Washburn, (Ed., symposium), The Social Life of Early Man. 1962. (With Alberto Blanc on Pleistocene rituals. Oakley on history of fire-making. Vallois on Pleistocene life-expectancy.)
S. L. Washburn and Phyllis Dolhinow, (Eds.), Perspectives on Evolution. Various dates
S. L. Washburn and F. Clark Howell, 'Human Evolution and Culture' in Sol Tax, (Ed.), Evolution After Darwin. University of Chicago Press, 1060
Alfred Watkins, The Old Straight Track. London, Garnstone Press, 1974.
G. Webster, Boudica: The British Revolt Against Rome. London, Batsford, 1978.
Gavin Weightman, Signor Marconi's Magic Box: How an Amateur Inventor Defied Scientists and Began the Radio Revolution. HarperCollins, 2003, 312pp.
Steven Weinberg, Facing Up: Science and its Cultural Adversaries. Harvard University Press, 2001.
Herman Wendt, From Ape to Adam. 1972.
Herbert Wendt, (Trans. by Richard and Clara Winston), Before The Deluge: The Story of Palaeontology. London, Victor Gollancz, 1968.
Margaret Wertheim, The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet. . Transworld, 1999. (Cyberspace as a replacement for the Christian "space" of heaven)
Wynn W. Westcott, Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues. Santa Fe, Sun Books, 1983.
K. D. White, Greek and Roman Technology. Thames and Hudson, 1984.
Michael White, The Fruits of War: How Military Conflict Accelerates Technology. Simon and Schuster, 2005, 374pp.
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