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Anthropology
What is anthropology
A day in Samoa
The economic process in
primitive societies
The early education of
Manus children
Moral standards and social
organization
Production in primitive
societies
The rules of good fieldwork
The science of custom
Survival in the cage
Gestures
Regional signals
The voices of time
Biology
Evolution and natural
selection.
The laws of heredity:
Mendel
Banting and the discovery
of insulin
The Galapagos
On the origin of species
A modern look at monsters
Business
Brands Up
How to be a great manager
Derivatives - the beauty
Motives
Research & development
SONY
American and Japanese
styles
Chemistry
Metallurgy: Making alloys
Electricity helps Chemistry:
Electro-plating
Economics
The conventional wisdom
Markets
Investment
Barter
Productivity as a guide
to wages
The failure of the classical
theory of commercial policy
Education
The personal qualities
of a teacher
Rousseau's Emile
The beginnings of scientific
and technical education
Supposed mental faculties
and their training
The concept of number
English in the primary
school
Britain and Japan:
Two roads to higher education
What types of students
do you have to teach?
Spoon-fed feel lost at
the cutting edge
Geology/Geography
The age of the earth
Oils
The use of land
History
The nature, object and
purpose of history
The expansion of Western
civilization
The career of Jenghis
Khan
The trial and execution
of Charles I
Peter the Great
The United States in
1790
Civilisation and history
Coal
Language
'Primitiveness' in language
English in the fifteenth
century
An international language
Language as symbolism
From word symbol to phoneme
symbol
Scientific words: Their structure and meaning.
Law
Modern constitutions
The functions of government
Initiative and referendum
Law report
The legal character
of international law
The law of negligence
The death penalty
Mathematics
On different degrees
of smallness
Chance or probability
Philosophy
Definition and some
of its difficulties
The subject matter of
philosophy
What can we communicate?
Ethics
Aristotle's Ethics
The road to happiness
Logic
Inductive and deductive
logic
Physics
The origin of the sun
and the planets.
Can life exist on the
planets?
The theory of continuous
creation.
The creation of the universe
Atomic radiation and
life
Marconi and the invention
of radio
Particles or waves?
Matter, mass and energy
Structure of matter
The quantum theory of
radiation
Footprints of the atom
Splitting the atom
The development of electricity
The discovery of x-rays
Politics
Crowds
Diplomacy
What future for Africa?
Nationalism
Democracy
Locke's political theory
The search for world order
The declaration of
independence
The rights of man
Psychology
Society and intelligence
The pressure to conform
Learning to live with
the computer
Forgetting
Adolescence
Body language
Distance regulation
in animals
An observation and
an explanation
Gestures
Adaptive control of
reading rate
Sociology
Rational and irrational
elements in contemporary society
Social life in a provincial
university
The menace of over-population
Changes in English social
life after 1918
Scientific method in
the social sciences
Shopping in Russia
Technology
Seduced by technology
Blowing hot and cold
on British windmills
Direct uses of solar
radiation
Industrial robots
Tomorrow's phone calls
Coal
The medium is the message
The development of electricity
The autonomous house
Twentieth Century Discovery
Discovery of insecticides
and pesticides
The origin of life
The structure of matter
Distance in our solar
system
Space travel
The Artificial World Around Us
What men are doing
to things
The nose does not
know
"This movie
smells"
The artificial air
The odor-makers
The truth about
tastes
Inside the flavor
factory
Let us have "Nothing"
to eat
What is happening
to the steel age?
Diamonds of the
laboratory
Who made this ruby?
The synthetic future
The English we Use for Science
SCIENCE: ITS NATURE AND IMPORTANCE
1 What Science Is by Maurice Goldsmith
2 Science and the World's Problems by Professor M. S. Thacker
3 Planning for Science and Technology by Professor P. M. S. Blackett
4 The Prospects of Pure Science by Sir John Cockcroft
MATTER
5 Elements and Atoms by Maurice Goldsmith
LIFE ON EARTH
6 The Past Life of the Earth by Dr Errol I. White
7 The Use of Carbon by Plants by Professor H. K. Porter and Dr H. Jones
8 Food, Growth and Time by Professor R. A. McCance
SPACE
9 The Evolution of the Universe by Patrick Moore
10 The Scientific Exploration of Space by Sir Harrie Massey
11 Physiological Problems of Space Flight by Squadron Leader Peter Howard
12 The Radio Telescope by Sir Bernard Lovell
13 Lunar Explorers by Harold Spencer Jones
14 Exploding Stars (from Discovery)
MATHEMATICS
15 The New World of Mathematics by George A. W. Boehm
CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
16 Chemistry by John Read
17 The Discovery of Oxygen by Maurice Goldsmith
18 Crystal Analysis by Sir William Bragg
19 Heat and Energy by Professor E. N. da C. Andrade
ATOMIC SCIENCE
20 The Jubilee of the Atomic Nucleus by Sir Charles Darwin
21 How a Nuclear Power Station Works by Sir John Cockcroft
22 Effects of Radiation (from The Lancet)
POWER, FUEL, WATER AND BUILDING MATERIALS
23 Fuel and Power for the Development of India by Nigel Calder
24 Harnessing Underground Heat (from Discovery)
25 The Search for Water beneath the Deserts by Dr Frank Dixey
26 Nigeria: Features and Resources by I. 0. Oladapo
ENGINEERING
27 The Aswan High Dam by Dr Hassan Zaky
28 Bridge, Tube or Tunnel (from Engineering)
29 Making Steels of Very High Strengths by Arthur Kenneford
30 Reducing Fatigue in Metals used for Aeroplanes (from New Scientist)
31 Wear of a Shaft in its Bearings by Sir Henry R. Ricardo
NOISE
32 The Control of Noise by Dr B. Wheeler Robinson
TELEVISION
33 Technical Problems in Television (from New Scientist)
34 Colour Television by G. F. Newell
SURVIVAL, HEALTH AND MEDICINE
35 The New Birth of Medicine by Sir Clifford Allbutt
36 The Survival Game by Martin Wells
37 Over-Population by Dr A. S. Parkes
38 Coronary Heart Disease by Michael Oliver
39 Malaria Eradication in Africa by Dr L. J. Bruce-Chwatt
40 Death on the Road (from The Lancet)
41 Surgery of Road Accidents (from The Lancet)
42 Artificial Respiration by Professor R. C. Browne
43 Drinking Water (from The Lancet)
44 How much Sleep do we Need? by R. T. Wilkinson
45 Animals and Pain by Lord Brain
IN SEARCH OF FOOD
46 The Cultivation of the Indus Valley by Dr Roger Revelle
47 The Transformation of Japanese Agriculture (from New Scientist)
48 Modern Views of Fish Migration by Dr P. A. Orkin
49 Forecasting the Weather (from Discovery)
WHERE IS SCIENCE LEADING US?
50 Where is Science Leading Us? by Sir Julian Huxley
EPILOGUE
The Training of Professionals by A. N. Whitehead
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