An examination of ophthalmology, including chapters covering how the eye sees and how to examine the eye, as well as on typical complaints such as the watering eye, cataract, glaucoma, the squint, retinal detachment and the effects of hypertension and diabetes on the eye.

Product Description: Our world would be a much different place without the groundbreaking work of scientific visionaries such as Hennig Brand, Marie and Pierre Curie, and Antoine Lavoisier, to name a few. This volume offers readers a vivid and colorful history of chemistry, highlighting some of field's most notable discoveries...read more

Product Description: “Uncommonly good . . . makes a compelling case that . . . intellectual curiosity not only changed Europe, but launched modernity.” ―Cleveland Plain Dealer When Columbus first returned to Spain from the Caribbean, he dazzled King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with exotic parrots, tropical flowers, and bits of gold...read more

Product Description: In The Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, India and China, twelve scholars examine how knowledge, things and people moved within, and between, the East and the West from the early modern period to the twentieth century. The collection starts by looking at the ways and means that knowledge circulated, first in Europe, but then beyond to India and China...read more

Product Description: Winner of the IgNobel Prize in physics and the 2004 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, Len Fisher showed just how much fun science can be in his enthusiastically praised debut, How to Dunk a Doughnut. In this new work, he reveals that science sometimes takes a path through the ridiculous and the bizarre to discover that Nature often simply does not follow common sense...read more

Product Description: An examination of ophthalmology, including chapters covering how the eye sees and how to examine the eye, as well as on typical complaints such as the watering eye, cataract, glaucoma, the squint, retinal detachment and the effects of hypertension and diabetes on the eye.