Searching with Subject Headings
Subject headings compose a controlled vocabulary that describes the main concepts contained in a book in a uniform way. This is different from a keyword search because subject headings are especially selected and applied by a librarian and reflect concepts, while keyword searches return simple word matches. Click on one of the links below to browse books that have been assigned to that subject heading.
Call Number Ranges
Print books in the library are assigned a call number according to their primary subject. A call number will also tell you where to find the book on the library shelves. Click on one of the links below to browse books by call number.
Selected Print Books
The Discoverers by Call Number: CB69 .B66 1983ISBN: 0394402294Publication Date: 1983-10-12An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him.- Landmarks of Science byCall Number: Q125 .B87 1989Publication Date: 1989-09-01Using the actual writings of famous scientists like Galileo, Darwin, and Freud, the author traces the history of science.
- Women Scientists from Antiquity to the Present byCall Number: Q141 .H475 1986Publication Date: 1986-03-01
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Call Number: Q175 .K95 2012ISBN: 9780226458113Publication Date: 2012-04-30With The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn challenged long-standing linear notions of scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don't arise from the day-to-day, gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation but that the revolutions in science, those breakthrough moments that disrupt accepted thinking and offer unanticipated ideas, occur outside of "normal science," as he called it.
Norton History of Environmental Sciences by Call Number: Q175 .K95 2012Publication Date: 1993-08-01Historical highlights & development of the environmental sciences.
We Have Never Been Modern by Call Number: Q175.5 .L3513 1993ISBN: 9780674948389Publication Date: 1993-11-01With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith. What does it mean to be modern? What difference does the scientific method make?
Death of Nature by Call Number: Q130 .M47 1989ISBN: 0062505955Publication Date: 1990-01-10An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion, and a new socioeconomic order.
The Birth of a New Physics by Call Number: QC122 .C6 1985ISBN: 0393019942Publication Date: 1985-07-01The earth circles the sun every year and rotates on its axis every twenty-four hours. The earth does not stand still.
Selected eBooks
The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science by ISBN: 0195112296Publication Date: 2003-03-27
Transforming Matter by ISBN: 080186609xPublication Date: 2001-06-19Levere examines the dynamic rise of chemistry from the study of alchemy in the seventeenth century to the development of organic and inorganic chemistry in the age of government-funded research and corporate giants.- The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science by ISBN: 0195112296Publication Date: 2003-03-27Containing 609 encyclopedic articles written by more than 200 prominent scholars, The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science presents an unparalleled history of the field invaluable to anyone with an interest in the technology, ideas, discoveries, and learned institutions that have shaped our world over the past five centuries.
The Cambridge History of ScienceISBN: 9780521594486Publication Date: 2013-10-07Six Volumes:
Medieval Science
Early Modern Science
Eighteenth-Century Science
Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Modern Life and Earth Sciences
Modern Social Sciences
On Their Own Terms by ISBN: 0674016858Publication Date: 2005-04-30In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900).
