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In Service to American Pharmacy
The Professional Life of William Procter Jr.
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817358563
Pub Date: November 2015
Format: Paperback
Higby examines the professional life of William Procter, Jr., generally regarded as the “Father of American Pharmacy,” and follows the development of American pharmacy through four decades of Procter’s professional commitment to the field.
Simon Baruch
Rebel in the Ranks of Medicine, 1840-1921
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780817357955
Pub Date: July 2014
Format: Paperback
Recounts the remarkable life of a Prussian/Polish Jew who immigrated to the United States as a teenager in the 1850s and became one of the nation’s best-known physicians by the turn of the century
Henry Darwin Rogers, 1808–1866
American Geologist
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780817358198
Pub Date: December 2014
Format: Paperback
Henry Darwin Rogers was one of the first professional geologists in the United States. He directed two of the earliest state geological surveys--New Jersey and Pennsylvania--in the mid-1830s. His major interest was Pennsylvania, with its Appalachian Mountains, which Rogers saw as great folds of sedimentary rock. He belived that an interpretation of these folds would lead to an understanding of the dynamic processes that had shaped the earth. From Rogers' efforts to explain these Pennsylvania folds came the first uniquely American theory of mountain elevation, a theory that Rogers personally considered his most significant achievement.
Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District
An Industrial Epic
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780817356682
Pub Date: March 2011
Format: Paperback
Sloss Furnaces resonates with the class of competition and the frenetic energy with which southerners joined other Americans in a rush to transform a continent after a fratricidal drive for independence had failed. The sweeping narrative that Lewis has produced amply justifies its subtitle, An Industrial Epic.
Homicidal Insanity, 1800-1985
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817311858
Pub Date: June 2002
Format: Paperback
Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years. Still, to this day no rational method exists to discriminate the dangerous from the harmless in matters of involuntary commitment, nor insanity from crime in the courts.
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9780817351960
Pub Date: July 2005
Format: Paperback
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science is the first book-length study of the man who served a Harvard’s Professor of Geology and Paleontology during the Darwinian era. Shaler...
Henry William Ravenel, 1814-1887
South Carolina Scientist in the Civil War Era
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817353728
Pub Date: October 2006
Format: Paperback
"A thoroughly enjoyable biography of one of the important American naturalists, botanists, and mycologists of the 1800s. . . . Truly an outstanding contribution to the history of American science."
—Brittonia
George William Featherstonhaugh
The First U.S. Government Geologist
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780817353308
Pub Date: February 2006
Format: Paperback
"U.S. historians can read this book with considerable profit for the details it offers; general readers can enjoy it as a straightforward and informative biography."
—Choice
Brethren of the Net
American Entomology, 1840-1880
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817312367
Pub Date: January 2003
Format: Paperback
Draws together information from diverse sources to illuminate an important chapter in the history of American science
Technical Knowledge in American Culture
Science, Technology, and Medicine Since the Early 1800s
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817307936
Pub Date: April 1996
Format: Paperback
Addresses the relationships between what modern-day experts say to each other and to their constituencies
In Service to American Pharmacy
The Professional Life of William Procter Jr.
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817358563
Pub Date: November 2015
Format: Paperback
Higby examines the professional life of William Procter, Jr., generally regarded as the “Father of American Pharmacy,” and follows the development of American pharmacy through four decades of Procter’s professional commitment to the field.
Simon Baruch
Rebel in the Ranks of Medicine, 1840-1921
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780817357955
Pub Date: July 2014
Format: Paperback
Henry Darwin Rogers, 1808–1866
American Geologist
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780817358198
Pub Date: December 2014
Format: Paperback
Henry Darwin Rogers was one of the first professional geologists in the United States. He directed two of the earliest state geological surveys--New Jersey and Pennsylvania--in the mid-1830s. His major interest was Pennsylvania, with its Appalachian Mountains, which Rogers saw as great folds of sedimentary rock. He belived that an interpretation of these folds would lead to an understanding of the dynamic processes that had shaped the earth. From Rogers' efforts to explain these Pennsylvania folds came the first uniquely American theory of mountain elevation, a theory that Rogers personally considered his most significant achievement.
Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District
An Industrial Epic
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780817356682
Pub Date: March 2011
Format: Paperback
Sloss Furnaces resonates with the class of competition and the frenetic energy with which southerners joined other Americans in a rush to transform a continent after a fratricidal drive for independence had failed. The sweeping narrative that Lewis has produced amply justifies its subtitle, An Industrial Epic.
Homicidal Insanity, 1800-1985
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817311858
Pub Date: June 2002
Format: Paperback
Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years. Still, to this day no rational method exists to discriminate the dangerous from the harmless in matters of involuntary commitment, nor insanity from crime in the courts.
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9780817351960
Pub Date: July 2005
Format: Paperback
Henry William Ravenel, 1814-1887
South Carolina Scientist in the Civil War Era
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817353728
Pub Date: October 2006
Format: Paperback
"A thoroughly enjoyable biography of one of the important American naturalists, botanists, and mycologists of the 1800s. . . . Truly an outstanding contribution to the history of American science."
—Brittonia
George William Featherstonhaugh
The First U.S. Government Geologist
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780817353308
Pub Date: February 2006
Format: Paperback
"U.S. historians can read this book with considerable profit for the details it offers; general readers can enjoy it as a straightforward and informative biography."
—Choice
Brethren of the Net
American Entomology, 1840-1880
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817312367
Pub Date: January 2003
Format: Paperback
Technical Knowledge in American Culture
Science, Technology, and Medicine Since the Early 1800s
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817307936
Pub Date: April 1996
Format: Paperback