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Hardcover. The aim of this book is to remove the mystique surrounding reliability engineering techniques. It provides practical guidance to the practising engineer who may have a general knowledge of the concepts of reliability, but who lacks a sufficiently precise understanding of the language concerned. Editor(s): Hunsley, Cathy. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations, forms. BIC Classification: TGB; TGPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 276 x 204 x 16. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780852988817
- ISBN
- 9780852988817
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 159.03
€ 159.03
Paperback. Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from the contentious problem of why the wasteful reproductive process exists at all, to how individuals choose their mates and what traits they find attractive. This book explores those findings. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JF; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140167726
- ISBN
- 9780140167726
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.81
€ 13.00
€ 11.81
Paperback. Used Copy. Very Good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KDK0014277
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Covers Dull, Otherwise Good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Washington Square Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KDK0014271
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Used Copy. Very Good
- Publisher
- Bantam BooksPaperback
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- KDK0014276
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. This book argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts. Num Pages: 312 pages, 6 halftones. 9 line illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: CFD; HPM; JMAQ; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 253 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Updated edition with a New Foreword
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691160948
- ISBN
- 9780691160948
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.52
€ 26.99
€ 20.52
Hardback. Challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. This book argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts. It shows how the recursive mind was critical to survival in the harsh conditions of the Pleistocene epoch. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 halftones. 9 line illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: CFD; HPM; JMAQ; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691145471
- ISBN
- 9780691145471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.59
€ 46.99
€ 33.59
Paperback. Continuing William Mitchell's investigations of how we understand, reason about, and use images, The Reconfigured Eye provides the first systematic, critical analysis of the digital imaging revolution. Num Pages: 283 pages, 110. BIC Classification: JFD; TTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 858.
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 283
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262631600
- ISBN
- 9780262631600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.87€ 49.42
€ 50.87
€ 49.42
Hardcover. The advent of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s was a key moment in the history of both biotechnology and the commercialization of academic research. This book brings to life the hybrid origin story of biotechnology and ways the academic culture of science has changed in tandem with the early commercialization of recombinant DNA technology. Series: Synthesis. Num Pages: 304 pages, 18 halftones, 10 line drawings. BIC Classification: PSAK; PSB; TBX; TCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 257 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226143835
- ISBN
- 9780226143835
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 36.50
€ 46.99
€ 36.50
The Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner. As Told to Andrew Szanton.
Szanton, Andrew; Wigner, Eugene P.
paperback. One of the greatest physicists of the 20th century recounts his journey from Hungary and the Nazi invasion to the creation of the first atomic bomb. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGTA; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 427.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The Perseus Books Group United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780738208862
- ISBN
- 9780738208862
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.65
€ 32.99
€ 23.65
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138192102
- ISBN
- 9781138192102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.58
€ 43.58
Hardback. The Real Numbers Series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Num Pages: 244 pages, 62 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PBC; PBKB; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 243 x 21. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 262
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319015767
- ISBN
- 9783319015767
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 44.07
€ 47.99
€ 44.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 33 line illus. BIC Classification: PBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 179 x 255 x 14. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691172934
- ISBN
- 9780691172934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.92
€ 33.99
€ 24.92
Hardback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 33 line illus. BIC Classification: PBKB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 185 x 262 x 18. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691173870
- ISBN
- 9780691173870
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.35€ 57.11
€ 73.35
€ 57.11
Hardcover. This volume has been written specifically to assist developers who reclaim contaminated land for productive re-use, and for the regulators charged with ensuring that this recycling does not expose the public or the wider environment to unacceptable risks. Num Pages: 228 pages, Illustrations, plans. BIC Classification: RNH; TNFR; TQK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 237 x 180 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471948933
- ISBN
- 9780471948933
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 321.89
€ 321.89
Hardcover. This text provides a description of a set of software tools from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) real-time control systems (RCS) library, useful in the development of hierarchical and distributed real-time control systems for a wide variety of applications. Series: Wiley Series on Intelligent Systems. Num Pages: 298 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: TJFM1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 243 x 19. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471435655
- ISBN
- 9780471435655
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 166.51
€ 166.51
Hardback. A presentation of the theory behind the Rayleigh-Ritz (R-R) method, as well as a discussion of the choice of admissible functions and the use of penalty methods, including recent developments such as using negative inertia and bi-penalty terms. Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: TNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 171 x 19. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848216389
- ISBN
- 9781848216389
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 179.03
€ 179.03
Hardcover. Presents the author's solution to biology's hardest problem - what consciousness is, and why we have it, and what it means for our self perception and our mental health. This title argues that human knowledge evolved to gather knowledge, specifically to extract meaningful patterns from raw information (as we do while playing word games). Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: PDZ; PS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 594. How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning. 352 pages, illustrations. Presents the author's solution to biology's hardest problem - what consciousness is, and why we have it, and what it means for our self perception and our mental health. This title argues that human knowledge evolved to gather knowledge, specifically to extract meaningful patterns from raw information (as we do while playing word games). Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: PDZ; PS. Dimension: 242 x 157 x 31. Weight: 596.
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465020478
- ISBN
- 9780465020478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 20.63
€ 30.99
€ 20.63
Hardcover. While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This title offers contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of innovation and technological change. Editor(s): Lerner, Josh A.; Stern, Scott. Series: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. Num Pages: 632 pages, 1 halftone, 49 line drawings, 54 tables. BIC Classification: KCD; KCM; PDG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 160 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1090.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 632
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226473031
- ISBN
- 9780226473031
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.69€ 120.86
€ 146.69
€ 120.86
Hardcover. Presents a unified theoretical treatment, which is complete and rigorous but nonetheless readable. The theoretical treatment requires a variety of mathematical and physical tools. To keep the main text uncluttered, these tools are developed in comprehensive Appendices to which cross--references are made in the main text. Num Pages: 624 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PNFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 197 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471490289
- ISBN
- 9780471490289
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 508.48
€ 508.48