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is awarded yearly for a book published, during the past three years, on the history of science for a wide public. The book should "introduce an entire field, a chronological period, a national tradition, or the work of a noteworthy individual." The book can be written by multiple authors or editors
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83:, A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988). biography of
280:, Nature’s Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
76:, The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck as Spokesman for German Science (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).
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101:, Medieval and Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990).
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Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
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Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future
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Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize, History of
Science Society, official website
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Pain, Pleasure and the
Greater Good, from the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond
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The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that
Changed a Continent
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Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language
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Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to Know His World and Himself
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Watson Davis Award, Association for
Information Science and Technology
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Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism
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Prize winners of the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize
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This prize should not be confused with the Watson Davis Award
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205:'s meridian expedition in France in the 1790s)
134:(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).
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123:(London: Michael Joseph, 1991).
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