GERMANS IN THE ANTARCTIC. Cornelia Lüdecke. 2021. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 284 p, illustrated, hardcover. 978-3-030-40923-4. 978-3-030-40924-1 (eBook). Translated by Bernard Oelkers from the German language edition DEUTSCHE IN DER ANTARKTIS. EXPEDITIONEN UND FORSCHUNGEN VOM KAISERREICH BIS HEUTE. 2015. Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag.

Asymmetry: The Foundation of Information. By Scott Muller. Springer: Berlin, 2007. VIII, 165 p, 33 illus., Hardcover. CHF 139.50. ISBN: 978-3-540-69883-8

Normally a religious book should be read at least 100 times; a philosophy book 10 times and a science monograph should be read carefully at least once before you can claim that you have read the book and understand something. However, with the information explosion, nowadays, people do not have enough time to read even one time from cover to cover, even for books prepared by philosophers. That ...

The Welfare of Performing Animals. A Historical Perspective. By David A. H. Wilson. Springer: Berlin, Germany, 2015; 278 pp; $189.00; ISBN 978-3-662-50931-9

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Nathan Sivin, Health Care in Eleventh-Century China (Cham, Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht, London: Springer, 2015), pp. xvii, 223, $119, e-book, ISBN: 978-3-319-20427-7; $159, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-319-20426-0.

The history of medicine in China is often studied through the lens of a textual approach, grounded on classical manuals or on the accounts of practitioners who, until fairly recently, were mostly involved with curing the ailments of the upper class. As such, the ‘other’ types of response to illness, namely the folk therapy, religious rites and other magical treatments tend to be left outside th...

Symmetry Rules: How Science and Nature Are Founded on Symmetry. By Joe Rosen. Springer: Berlin, 2008, XIV, 305 p, 86 illus., Hardcover. CHF 70. ISBN: 978-3-540-75972-0

This book belongs to the book series The Frontiers Collection, edited by A.C. Elitzur, M.P. Silverman, J. Tuszynski, R. Vaas and H.D. Zeh. In Prigogine's entropy theory symmetry has been regarded as "order" (reduction of entropy). The main idea of the Chemistry Nobel Prize winner Prigogine's thermodynamic theory cannot be correct, because as a senior chemist I know Prigogine's theory has not fo...

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