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Adrenaline	Hoffman, Brian B.	HARDCOVER	04/15/2013	$40.00
The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens: With a New Introduction	Holton, Gerald	PAPERBACK	11/01/1998	$38.50
Affections. Diseases 1. Diseases 2	Hippocrates Potter, Paul	HARDCOVER	01/01/1988	$28.00
Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology	Burtt, Edward H. Davis, William E.	HARDCOVER	06/24/2013	$35.00
Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters	Sicherman, Barbara	E-DITION	09/17/1984	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
American Medicine and Statistical Thinking, 1800–1860	Cassedy, James H.	E-DITION	04/19/1984	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Ancient Medicine. Airs, Waters, Places. Epidemics 1 and 3. The Oath. Precepts. Nutriment	Hippocrates Potter, Paul	HARDCOVER	06/28/2022	$28.00	Not yet available
Ancient Medicine. Airs, Waters, Places. Epidemics 1 and 3. The Oath. Precepts. Nutriment	Hippocrates Jones, W. H. S.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1923	$28.00
Animal Electricity: How We Learned That the Body and Brain Are Electric Machines	Campenot, Robert B.	HARDCOVER	02/15/2016	$45.00
The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species	Darwin, Charles	PAPERBACK	04/15/2011	$35.00
The Antidepressant Era	Healy, David	PAPERBACK	11/15/1999	$36.50
Arthropod Brains: Evolution, Functional Elegance, and Historical Significance	Strausfeld, Nicholas James	HARDCOVER	01/02/2012	$83.00
Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle	Rieppel, Lukas	HARDCOVER	06/24/2019	$29.95
August Weismann: Development, Heredity, and Evolution	Churchill, Frederick B.	HARDCOVER	06/09/2015	$58.00
Benjamin Franklin's Science	Cohen, I. Bernard	PAPERBACK	09/01/1996	$37.50
Bioluminescence: Living Lights, Lights for Living	Wilson, Thérèse Hastings, J. Woodland	HARDCOVER	03/04/2013	$55.00
Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau	Arsić, Branka	HARDCOVER	01/04/2016	$56.00
The Black Box of Biology: A History of the Molecular Revolution	Morange, Michel Cobb, Matthew	HARDCOVER	06/09/2020	$46.00
The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau’s River Years	Thorson, Robert M.	HARDCOVER	04/24/2017	$29.95
The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau’s River Years	Thorson, Robert M.	PAPERBACK	04/30/2019	$21.00
Body Messages: The Quest for the Proteins of Cellular Communication	Fantuzzi, Giamila	HARDCOVER	09/26/2016	$42.00
Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums	Redman, Samuel J.	HARDCOVER	03/14/2016	$40.00
Bones and Ochre: The Curious Afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland	Sommer, Marianne	HARDCOVER	02/28/2008	$60.50
Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations, and Cultural Changes	Conan, Michel Kress, W. John	PAPERBACK	06/30/2007	$40.00
Brainstorming: The Science and Politics of Opiate Research	Snyder, Solomon	E-DITION	09/09/1989	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
A Brief History of the Harvard University Cyclotrons	Wilson, Richard	PAPERBACK	05/30/2004	$25.00
British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter	Fan, Fa-ti	HARDCOVER	02/17/2004	$86.50
Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age	Deringer, William	HARDCOVER	02/19/2018	$49.00
Cancer Stem Cells: Philosophy and Therapies	Laplane, Lucie	HARDCOVER	06/06/2016	$42.00
The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution	Lloyd, Elisabeth A.	PAPERBACK	10/31/2006	$30.50
China and Albert Einstein: The Reception of the Physicist and His Theory in China, 1917–1979	Hu, Danian	HARDCOVER	04/25/2005	$65.50
City Hospitals: The Undercare of the Underprivileged	Dowling, Harry F.	E-DITION	09/30/1982	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Claude Bernard and Animal Chemistry	Holmes, Frederic L.	E-DITION	07/01/1974	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum	Delbourgo, James	PAPERBACK	03/18/2019	$20.00
The Common Sense of Science	Bronowski, J.	PAPERBACK	09/19/1978	$32.50
A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age, New Edition	Eames, Charles Eames, Ray Fleck, Glen	PAPERBACK	09/01/1990	$36.50
The Conquest of the Russian Arctic	Josephson, Paul R.	HARDCOVER	06/09/2014	$65.50
The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society	Beniger, James R.	PAPERBACK	03/15/1989	$50.00
The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought	Kuhn, Thomas S.	PAPERBACK	01/01/1992	$33.00
The Cosmic Inquirers: Modern Telescopes and Their Makers	Tucker, Wallace Tucker, Karen	E-DITION	01/01/1986	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Crafting Science: A Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer	Fujimura, Joan H.	E-DITION	03/15/1997	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, Expanded Edition	Numbers, Ronald L.	PAPERBACK	11/30/2006	$35.50
A Cultural History of Modern Science in China	Elman, Benjamin A.	PAPERBACK	04/20/2009	$30.00
Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies	Landecker, Hannah	PAPERBACK	03/30/2010	$30.00
A Cursing Brain?: The Histories of Tourette Syndrome	Kushner, Howard I.	PAPERBACK	09/01/2000	$30.00
Cycles of Invention and Discovery: Rethinking the Endless Frontier	Narayanamurti, Venkatesh Odumosu, Toluwalogo	HARDCOVER	10/24/2016	$40.00
Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?	Ruse, Michael	PAPERBACK	09/30/2004	$31.00
Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy	Ray, Meredith K.	HARDCOVER	04/06/2015	$53.00
Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450–1800	Grafton, Anthony	PAPERBACK	03/15/1994	$39.00
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness	Scull, Andrew	HARDCOVER	04/19/2022	$35.00	Not yet available

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