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Science & Technology
Hardcover. Despite the growing interest in security amongst governments, organizations and the general public, the provision of much security is substandard. This book explores the problems facing security, and sets out innovative proposals to enhance the effectiveness of security in society, at national and organizational levels. Series: Crime Prevention and Security Management. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSW1; TNKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230553118
- ISBN
- 9780230553118
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.90
€ 138.90
Hardcover. Through the prism of gender, this text explores the contrasting cultures and practice of mathematics and science and asks how they impacted on women. Claire Jones assesses nineteenth-century ideas about women's intellect, femininity and masculinity, and assesses how these attitudes shaped women's experiences as students and practitioners. Num Pages: 273 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; JFSJ1; PBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230555211
- ISBN
- 9780230555211
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. We are living in a world of transformation, and the world tomorrow will be very different from the world today, or the world of yesterday. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJ; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 21. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230573215
- ISBN
- 9780230573215
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardcover. Approaching the intersection of politics and science from the perspective of political history, this book looks at how nineteenth-century British Whigs used the themes of natural science to signal their identities, and how their devotion to a culture of liberality helped to define them. Offers a fresh take on a central theme in Victorian politics. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 222 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JPFK; PDX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230574847
- ISBN
- 9780230574847
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. This book is the first critical genealogy of Jacques Derrida's philosophy of technology. It traces the evolution of what Derrida calls 'originary technicity' via an appraisal of his own philosophy of technology together with that of key interlocutors including Marx, Freud, Lacan, Heidegger and Bernard Stiegler. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576926
- ISBN
- 9780230576926
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.95
€ 149.95
Hardcover. An assessment of some ethical implications of increasing life spans. Taking as a starting point the idea that to increase longevity is a form of medical enhancement, it examines the value of living longer; the means for extending life spans; the consequences of greater longevity for the fair distribution of resources and healthcare in particular. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBDC; MFKH3; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346. 256 pages. An assessment of some ethical implications of increasing life spans. Taking as a starting point the idea that to increase longevity is a form of medical enhancement, it examines the value of living longer; the means for extending life spans; the consequences of greater longevity for the fair distribution of resources and healthcare in particular. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: MBDC; MFKH3; PSAD. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 16. Weight: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576957
- ISBN
- 9780230576957
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. In this excellent book Sebastien Gandon focuses mainly on Russell's two major texts, Principa Mathematica and Principle of Mathematics, meticulously unpicking the details of these texts and bringing a new interpretation of both the mathematical and the philosophical content. Winner of The Bertrand Russell Society Book Award 2013. Editor(s): Beaney, Michael. Series: History of Analytic Philosophy. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPL; PBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 4. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576995
- ISBN
- 9780230576995
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.88
€ 116.88
Hardcover. The first volume of its kind to analyze the impact that theories and practices of imaging have had on a variety of fields. It draws on an impressive range of philosophical approaches, from analytic, to pragmatic, to phenomenological - concluding that imaging is developing a social and cultural impact comparable to language. Editor(s): Selinger, Evan. Num Pages: 364 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPN; JMM; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580657
- ISBN
- 9780230580657
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.75
€ 129.75
Paperback. For over 1500 years books have weathered numerous cultural changes remarkably unaltered. Through wars, radio, TV, computer games and fluctuating literacy rates, the book has, somewhat bizarrely, remained the more robust and culturally relevant way to communicate ideas. Now, for the first time since the Middle Ages, all that is about to change. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KNTP; PDZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 191 x 123 x 16. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1 Reprint
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230614468
- ISBN
- 9780230614468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.03
€ 31.99
€ 27.03
Hardcover. This work explores the wide-ranging educational activism of conservative Protestant fundamentalists in the 1920s. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; HBTB; HRLP; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623729
- ISBN
- 9780230623729
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
"This book is on the emergence of mammals in Asia, based largely on new fossil finds throughout Asia and cutting-edge biostratigraphic and geochemical methods of dating the fossils and their geological substrate"--Provided by publisher. Editor(s): Wang, Xiaoming; Flynn, Lawrence J.; Fortelius, Mikael. Num Pages: 752 pages, 143 figures. BIC Classification: GBC; PSAJ; RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 286 x 216 x 43. Weight in Grams: 2630.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 752
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231150125
- ISBN
- 9780231150125
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.69€ 101.95
€ 127.69
€ 101.95
Paperback. A lively introduction to MIT hacks, from the police car on the Great Dome to the abduction of the Caltech cannon. Num Pages: 248 pages, 77 color illus., 65 b&w illus. BIC Classification: JNB; JNM; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 202 x 21. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd United States
- Edition
- updated edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262515849
- ISBN
- 9780262515849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.72
€ 33.99
€ 28.72
Paperback. When first published in 1982, this work was one of the most remarkable scholarly projects ever undertaken by an America historian: a systematic rewriting of U.S. history that put fire at the center of the narrative. From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books. Num Pages: 680 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSW2; PSAF; RNF; TNKF; TTP; TVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate; (XV) Technical / vocational (manuals etc). Dimension: 157 x 232 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1060.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 680
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295975924
- ISBN
- 9780295975924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.37
€ 53.37
Hardback. Translator(s): Adashko, J.George. Series: Reviews of Plasma Physics. Num Pages: 307 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PHFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 619.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 307
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306110078
- ISBN
- 9780306110078
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.59
€ 68.59
Hardback. Translator(s): Yankovskii, E.M. Num Pages: 460 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 260 x 170 x 25. Weight in Grams: 943.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 460
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306110290
- ISBN
- 9780306110290
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.99
€ 130.99
Hardback. Num Pages: 390 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBKF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 960.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 390
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306110375
- ISBN
- 9780306110375
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.31
€ 70.31
Hardcover. Deals with the theory of valued fields and mutli-valued fields. This work shows that by introducing the Zariski topology on families of valuation rings, it is possible to distinguish two important subfamilies of Prufer rings that correspond to Boolean and near Boolean families of valuation rings. Series: Siberian School of Algebra and Logic. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBF; PBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1270.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2001st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306110689
- ISBN
- 9780306110689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 254.75
€ 254.75
Paperback. Series: Sagamore Army Materials Research Conference Proceedings. Num Pages: 346 pages, 49 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PHD; TDM; TG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Publisher
- Plenum Publishing Corporation United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306400407
- ISBN
- 9780306400407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.33
€ 68.33
Paperback. Series: Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Science and Engineering. Num Pages: 331 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1978
- Number of pages
- 331
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306400872
- ISBN
- 9780306400872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 206 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PST. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306401688
- ISBN
- 9780306401688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 129.13
€ 129.13