Lise Meitner : a life in physics / by Sime, Ruth Lewin, 1939-

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Dazzled and deceived : mimicry and camouflage / by Forbes, Peter, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Darwinians, mockers and mimics -- Swallowtails and Amazon -- Delight in deception -- Pangenesis -- On the wings of angels -- Dazzle in the dock: The First World War -- Camouflage and cubism in the First World War -- Hopeful monsters? …”
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The dawn of fluid dynamics : a discipline between science and technology / by Eckert, Michael, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Diverging trends before the twentieth century -- The beginnings of fluid dynamics in Göttingen, 1904-1914 -- Aviation and the rise of aerodynamics in the First World War -- The internationalization of fluid mechanics in the 1920s -- A working program for research on turbulence -- Aerodynamics comes of age -- New applications -- Prandtl, fluid dynamics and National Socialism -- New centers -- Fluid dynamics on the eve of the Second World War.…”
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The dawn of fluid dynamics : a discipline between science and technology / by Eckert, Michael, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Diverging trends before the twentieth century -- The beginnings of fluid dynamics in G说tingen, 1904-1914 -- Aviation and the rise of aerodynamics in the First World War -- The internationalization of fluid mechanics in the 1920s -- A "working program" for research on turbulence -- Aerodynamics comes of age -- New applications -- Prandtl, fluid dynamics and National Socialism -- New centers -- Fluid dynamics on the eve of the Second World War.…”

Albert Einstein from pacifism to the idea of world government /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Lucio Levi -- The Birth of the Global Public Intellectual / Richard Crockatt -- The First World War and the Manifesto to Europeans / Jean-Francis Billion -- The Einstein-Freud Letters on the Abolition of War / Joseph Preston Baratta -- Five Phases of Pacifism / Claudio Giulio Anta -- Three Types of Pacifism / Pietro Greco -- Einstein and Federalism / Lucio Levi -- A Personal Recollection / René V.L. …”
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Gay-Neck; the story of a pigeon. by Mukerji, Dhan Gopal, 1890-1936

Einstein on politics : his private thoughts and public stands on nationalism, Zionism, war, peace, and the bomb /

Table of Contents: “…The first world war and its impact, 1914-1921 -- Science meets politics : the relativity revolution, 1918-1923 -- Anti-semitism and Zionism, 1919-1930 -- Internationalism and European security, 1922-1932 -- Articles of faith, 1930-1933 -- Hitler's Germany and the threat to European Jewry, 1933-1938 -- The fate of the Jews, 1939-1949 -- The Second World War, nuclear weapons, and world peace, 1939-1950 -- Soviet Russia, political economy, and socialism, 1918-1952 -- Political freedom and the threat of nuclear war, 1931-1955.…”

Science, technology, environment, and medicine in Russia's Great War and Revolution, 1914-22 /

Table of Contents: “…Heywood -- Embattled Nature: Men and Landscapes on the Eastern Front of the First World War / Iaroslav A. Golubinov and Oksana S. …”
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Lise Meitner : a life in physics / by Sime, Ruth Lewin, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings in Berlin; 3. The First World War; 4. Professor in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut; 5. …”
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Einstein on politics : his private thoughts and public stands on nationalism, Zionism, war, peace, and the bomb /

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Texts -- Preface -- Note on Sources and Method -- Acknowledgments -- Historical Introduction -- Chapter 1. The First World War and Its Impact, 1914-1921 -- Chapter 2. …”
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Einstein and twentieth-century politics : 'a salutary moral influence' / by Crockatt, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Einstein and Twentieth-Century Politics: 'A Salutary Moral Influence'; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: The Making of a Global Public Intellectual; THE POLITICAL EDUCATION OF ALBERT EINSTEIN; THE RISE OF THE GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL; LIBERAL INTERNATIONALISM IN THE WAKE OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR; EINSTEIN AND THE LIBERAL INTELLECTUALS; CONNECTIONS; EINSTEIN'S FIRST CAMPAIGN; THE SCIENTIST AS GLOBAL CELEBRITY; 2: Foundations of Thought: Principles, Privacy, and Performance; THE DIFFICULTY OF EINSTEIN; THE EINSTEIN PARADOX…”
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One hundred years at the intersection of chemistry and physics : the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, 1911-2011 /

Table of Contents: “…." -- Origins and Founding of the Institute -- Haber's Institute during the First World War -- 2 The "Golden Years" of Haber's Institute -- Rebuilding within the Kaiser Wilhelm Society -- Research Orientation: Colloid Chemistry and Atomic Structure -- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry -- Spectroscopy and Quantum Physics -- 3 The "National Socialist Model Enterprise" -- Ousters and Reorganizations -- Research Activities -- Integration into the National Socialist System -- 4 A Patchwork Institute -- Structure Research under Laue -- The Special Case of Ruska -- Rudolf Brill and the end of the Laue era -- 5 Reshaping the Fritz Haber Institute -- Research Programs, Initiated and Expired -- The Institute for Electron Microscopy (IFE) -- between Science and Technology -- Alexander Bradshaw and Synchrotron Research in Berlin (BESSY) -- Fritz Haber Institute as an International Center for Surface Science -- 6 Current Era -- Ushering in the Institute's next hundred years -- Theory Department -- Department of Inorganic Chemistry -- Department of Chemical Physics -- Department of Molecular Physics -- Department of Physical Chemistry -- Members of the Advisory Board 1981-2011 -- List of References -- Archives -- List of Figures -- Index.…”
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From servant to queen : a journey through Victorian Mathematics / by Heard, John

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The tragic sense of life : Ernst Haeckel and the struggle over evolutionary thought / by Richards, Robert J. 1942-

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The asymmetric nature of time : accounting for the open future and the fixed past / by Grandjean, Vincent

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Friend beloved : Marie Stopes, Gordon Hewitt, and an ecology of letters /

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Chemistry was their life : pioneering British women chemists, 1880-1949 / by Rayner-Canham, Marelene F.

Table of Contents: “…Women chemists and the First World War. The war and young women. Women chemists and the war gases. …”
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Foundations of quantum theory /

Table of Contents: “…The years of the First World War (1914-1918); 2. Post-War years (1919-1921); 3. …”
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Microbiology in action / by Heritage, J.

Table of Contents: “…How did microbes contribute to the First World War effort? What role do microbes play in the oil industry and in mining? …”
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