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Science & Technology
Paperback. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; JHB; JPA; RGB; RND; THX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 187
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349443055
- ISBN
- 9781349443055
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Condition: New
€ 137.40
€ 137.40
Paperback. This book interrogates the global utopian vision for smart energy technologies and the new energy consumer intended to realise it. It enriches and extends the possibilities of four residential smart strategies: energy feedback, dynamic pricing, home automation and micro-generation, focusing on how they are being integrated into everyday practice. Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFSR; JHB; PHD; RNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349443253
- ISBN
- 9781349443253
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Condition: New
€ 65.65
€ 65.65
Paperback. Technology and Touch addresses the development of a range of new touch technologies, both technologies that we reach out to touch and technologies that touch us, by exploring how we use touch to connect with and understand our world, and ourselves. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFSR; JHBA; TBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349443413
- ISBN
- 9781349443413
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Condition: New
€ 65.92
€ 65.92
Paperback. A study of the history of modern insomnia, this book explores how poets, journalists, and doctors of the Victorian period found themselves in near-universal agreement that modernity and sleep were somehow incompatible. It investigates how psychologists, philosophers and literary artists worked to articulate its causes, and its potential cures. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBL; HBTB; MB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349443598
- ISBN
- 9781349443598
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Condition: New
€ 66.01
€ 66.01
Paperback. This book examines the colonial state's approach to venereal disease and 'vice'-driven health risks in the first half of the nineteenth century. Further, it shows that these decisions had wide-ranging and often surprising consequences not simply for the army itself, but for India and the empire more broadly. Shortlisted for the 2014 Templer Award. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBJF; HBTB; HBTQ; JPS; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 369.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349444519
- ISBN
- 9781349444519
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Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Cancer Patients, Cancer Pathways: Historical and Sociological Perspect...
. Ed(S): Timmermann, Carsten; Toon, Elizabeth
paperback. Eleven essays by historians and sociologists examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and North America. These are not stories of inevitable medical progress and obstacles overcome, but of historical contingencies, cultural differences, hope, and often disappointed expectations. Editor(s): Timmermann, Carsten; Toon, Elizabeth. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBL; HBTB; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 438.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349444809
- ISBN
- 9781349444809
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Launius, Roger D. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 390 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 572.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 390
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349445141
- ISBN
- 9781349445141
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Condition: New
€ 150.71
€ 150.71
Paperback. This book shows that a dialectical conceptual model underpins Georg Simmel's writings. The book provides key examples of social forms including fashion, the secret and money as exemplifications of this method. The volume concludes with a reassessment of Simmel's relevance today." Num Pages: 338 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPS; JHBA; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446490
- ISBN
- 9781349446490
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Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJC; KJM; KJSP; KJT; THRB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446551
- ISBN
- 9781349446551
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Condition: New
€ 77.06
€ 77.06
Paperback. This first full length treatment of interventionist theories of causation in the social sciences, the biological sciences and other higher-level sciences the presents original counter arguments to recent trends in the debate and serves as useful introduction to the subject. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349447992
- ISBN
- 9781349447992
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.42
€ 66.42
paperback. This beautifully written history traces the fortunes of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries in Chile. It explains how they showed Chileans a new way to see their own natural environment, teaching a younger generation of scientists there and forging international networks that helped to shape the modern world. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 309 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJK; HBL; HBTB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 397.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 309
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349449132
- ISBN
- 9781349449132
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. The author applies modified versions of pre-modern philosophy (including Aristotle and Aquinas) to psychiatry, arguing that the work of the Aristotelian philosopher, Christian and former Marxist, Alasdair MacIntyre is ideally placed to bring about a transformation of psychiatry from its current captivity to the modern scientific technical paradigm. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; MMH; MMJ; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349449217
- ISBN
- 9781349449217
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.01
€ 66.01
Paperback. Analyses quantitatively in a comprehensive, consistent, and integrated manner the production structure and productivity of post-war Japanese agriculture for the latter half of the twentieth century, more specifically, 1957-97. Num Pages: 403 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCB; KCM; KCN; KCP; RND; TVB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 403
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349449774
- ISBN
- 9781349449774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.49
€ 127.49
Paperback. Analyzes quantitatively in a comprehensive, consistent, and integrated manner the production structure and productivity of postwar Japanese agriculture for the latter half of the 20th century, more specifically, 1957-97. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCB; KCM; KCN; KCP; RND; TVB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 181
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349449798
- ISBN
- 9781349449798
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.77
€ 78.77
Paperback. In 1900 Hungary was a regional power in Europe with imperial pretensions; by 1919 it was crippled by profound territorial, social and national transformations. This book chronicles the development of eugenic thinking in early twentieth-century Hungary, examining how eugenics was an integral part of this dynamic historical transformation. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 353 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 453.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 353
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349451210
- ISBN
- 9781349451210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Paperback. The sharing of nuclear weapons technology between states is unexpected, because nuclear weapons are such a powerful instrument in international politics, but sharing is not rare. This book proposes a theory to explain nuclear sharing and surveys its rich history from its beginnings in the Second World War. Series: Global issues series. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JPS; JPSD; JW; RNQ; THRB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349452361
- ISBN
- 9781349452361
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.65
€ 65.65
Paperback. By examining a sector of the economy that was exposed to increased imports more than four decades ago, Crumley illuminates the economic pressures, resistance, and reform that help to shape Russia's agrarian sector today. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCA; KCB; KCL; KCP; TVB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349453283
- ISBN
- 9781349453283
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Condition: New
€ 65.89
€ 65.89
Paperback. In a lively and subversive analysis, psychologist John Lambie explains how to see another person's point of view while remaining critical - in other words how to be 'critically open-minded'. Using entertaining examples from history and psychology, Lambie explores the implications of critical open-mindedness for scientific and moral progress. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HPM; HPQ; JMR; JMS; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349453382
- ISBN
- 9781349453382
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.92
€ 65.92
Paperback. This systematic and historical treatment of Russell's contributions to analytic philosophy, from his embrace of analysis in 1898 to his landmark theory of descriptions in 1905, draws important connections between his philosophically motivated conception of analysis and the technical apparatus he devised to facilitate analyses in mathematics Series: History of Analytic Philosophy. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPCF5; HPL; PBB; PBC; PBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349453733
- ISBN
- 9781349453733
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 585 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCL; KFFM; KJM; KN; TVB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 914.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 585
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349453832
- ISBN
- 9781349453832
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 130.26
€ 130.26
Paperback. Editor(s): Cox, C. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ; MBS; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349454129
- ISBN
- 9781349454129
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.62
€ 65.62
Paperback. This book provides a comprehensive study of asymmetric territorial conflict combining game theory, statistical empirical analysis and historiographic analysis. Using the Israeli-Palestine conflict as a case study, it tests the model on a database of almost four hundred territorial conflicts. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JPS; JPSD; PBUD; PBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 301
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349454341
- ISBN
- 9781349454341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Paperback. Blending global scope with local depth, this book throws new light on important themes. Spanning four centuries and vast space, it combines the history of ideas with particular histories of encounters between European voyagers and Indigenous people in Oceania (Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands). Series: Palgrave Studies in Pacific History. Num Pages: 361 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBJM; HBL; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 487.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 361
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349454969
- ISBN
- 9781349454969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.41
€ 72.41
Paperback. At the close of the 19th century, strange new forms of energy arrested the American public's attention in ways that no scientific discovery ever had before. This groundbreaking cultural history tells the story of the first nuclear culture, one whose lasting effects would be seen in the familiar "atomic age" of the post-war twentieth century. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 258 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349455478
- ISBN
- 9781349455478
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 148.84
€ 148.84