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HBS Working Knowledge
January 9, 2014
Sean Silverthorne |
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting The new book Fortune Tellers investigates the history of economic forecasting and its roots in the turbulent nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Read an interview with author Walter A. Friedman and an excerpt.   |
Chemistry World
December 12, 2013
Andrew Turley |
Serving the Reich: the struggle for the soul of physics under Hitler Did we need another book about this. Absolutely -- now more than ever. And this one by Philip Ball, I think, is a good one. |
Information Today
December 10, 2013 |
Archive Sheds Light on Chinese, American, and Pacific Relationships Adam Matthew introduced China, America and the Pacific, a multilibrary archive that aggregates English-language primary sources on the trading and cultural relationships among those regions from 1700 to 1900. |
Chemistry World
December 6, 2013
Jessica Gwynne |
Fifty minerals that changed the course of history Each of the 50 selections in this book by Eric Chaline describes the history of the material and its impact on civilization, as well as including a variety of interesting anecdotes. |
Chemistry World
December 4, 2013
Simon Cotton |
Science year by year Science Year by Year, edited by Robert Winston, is a wide-ranging survey of the history of scientific discoveries going back to the development of stone tools some 2.5 million years ago. |
Chemistry World
November 28, 2013
Daniel Johnson |
A tale of seven elements If you'd like to know about the stories and scientists of chemistry's greatest search, and see some acerbic correspondence along the way, then this book by Eric Scerri is for you. |
Energize
December 2013
Susan J. Ellis |
Don't Let the History Made by Volunteers Fall through the Cracks of Time It always saddens me how rarely the historic role of volunteers is acknowledged outside of occasional special lectures. |
Information Today
November 26, 2013 |
EBSCO Introduces eBook History Collection EBSCO Information Services released eBook History Collection as its newest ebook subscription package integrated with EBSCOhost. |
Chemistry World
November 21, 2013
Mark Peplow |
A century of isotopes Glasgow will celebrate 'isotope day' on 4 December, 100 years after Frederick Soddy coined the word 'isotope' in Nature. |
Chemistry World
November 4, 2013
Andrea Sella |
Lichtenberg's figures Georg Lichtenberg (1742 -- 1799) was a German physicist and satirist. He invented the basis of electrostatic printing and discovered the fractal patterns produced by electricity passing through an insulator |
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