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Paperback. Darwin's work of 1872 still provides the basis of research in the theory of emotion and expression. Though strides have been made, behavorial scientists still rely on it. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 386 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JML; PSVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1965
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
386
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226136561
ISBN
9780226136561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.57

Paperback. This study examines 17th-century mathematical sciences - astronomy, optics and mechanics - not as abstract ideas, but as vital enterprises that involved practices related to both experience and experiment. Mersenne, Descartes, Pascal, Barrow, Newton, Boyle and the Jesuits are discussed. Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 halftones, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: 3JD; JFCX; PB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226139449
ISBN
9780226139449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.39

Paperback. Considers how science as such has evolved and positioned itself. This book reveals how the two principles of craft and understanding became formalized into a single enterprise, science, that would be carried out by a new kind of person, the scientist. It is useful for aficionados and historians of science. Num Pages: 254 pages, 14 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226139494
ISBN
9780226139494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.46

Paperback. Focuses on the early history of biological field stations and the role these played in the rise of zoological place-based research. The author examines the material and social context in which field stations arose, the actual research that was produced in these places. It tours through the history of studying nature in nature. Num Pages: 320 pages, 44 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; PDX; PSV; TQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226142067
ISBN
9780226142067
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 36.61

Paperback. Examining the tools and methods that the Romans employed for their investigations of nature, as well as their cultural, intellectual, political, and religious contexts, the author shows that the Romans had sophisticated and novel approaches to nature, approaches that were empirically rigorous, philosophically rich, and epistemologically complex. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 halftones, 3 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HPCA; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226143217
ISBN
9780226143217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 28.00

Paperback. Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. Num Pages: 514 pages, x, 504 p., 46 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: MBGR; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 834.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
514
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226143743
ISBN
9780226143743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.03
€ 44.25

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
€ 36.61

Paperback. Editor(s): Dewsbury, Donald A. Num Pages: 512 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: BGA; PSVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 231 x 37. Weight in Grams: 816.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226144108
ISBN
9780226144108
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.34
€ 50.94

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; JPA; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226147635
ISBN
9780226147635
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.91

Paperback. Presents a detailed account of the principles of classical physics, evolutionary theory, and plant biology in order to explain the complex interrelationships among plant form, function, environment, and evolutionary history. Num Pages: 448 pages, 42 halftones, 43 line drawings, 9 tables. BIC Classification: PHVN; PST. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 682.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226150819
ISBN
9780226150819
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 38.52

Paperback. Two species come to mind when one thinks of the Galapagos Islands - the giant tortoises and Darwin's fabled finches. This title collects the illuminating and scientifically significant writings on the finches of the Galapagos to teach the fundamental principles of evolutionary theory and to provide a historical record of scientific debate. Editor(s): Donohue, Kathleen. Num Pages: 560 pages, 34 halftones, 70 line drawings, 31 tables. BIC Classification: PSAJ; PSVW6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 704.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226157719
ISBN
9780226157719
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.34
€ 50.94

Hardcover. Explores the overlap and shift between theistic and naturalistic science through a parallel study of two major scientific figures: James Clerk Maxwell, a devout Christian physicist, and Thomas Henry Huxley, the iconoclast biologist who coined the word agnostic. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HRAM3; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 230 x 25. Weight in Grams: 646.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226164878
ISBN
9780226164878
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.94
€ 79.41

Paperback. Editor(s): Ariew, Roger. Translator(s): Ariew, R. Num Pages: 632 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; PGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 42. Weight in Grams: 964.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2
Number of pages
632
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226169231
ISBN
9780226169231
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.39

Paperback. Examines how the environment shapes the way an animal processes information and makes decisions, and how constraints imposed on nervous systems affect an animal's activities. To help answer these questions, this text integrates evolutionary ecology and cognitive science. Num Pages: 428 pages, 97 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JMR; PSAJ; PSVP; PSVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 233 x 29. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226169330
ISBN
9780226169330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.41
€ 46.16

Hardcover. The origin of cells remains one of the most fundamental problems in biology, one that over the past two decades has spawned a large body of research and debate. This book offers a comprehensive, impartial take on that research and the controversies that keep the field in turmoil. Num Pages: 304 pages, 23 halftones, 12 line drawings. BIC Classification: PSF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 632.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226174143
ISBN
9780226174143
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.05
€ 100.64

Paperback. Starting from the foundations, this text presents an almost entirely self-contained treatment of differentiable spaces of nonpositive curvature, focusing on the symmetric spaces in which every geodesic lies in a flat Euclidean space of dimension at least two. Series: Chicago Lectures in Mathematics. Num Pages: 456 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PBM; PBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226181981
ISBN
9780226181981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 147.16
€ 121.65

Paperback. In this history of the British surveys of India, the author relates how imperial Britain employed modern scientific survey techniques to create and define the spacial image of its Indian empire, and to legitimize its colonialist activities as triumphs of liberal, rational science. Num Pages: 474 pages, 31 halftones, 5 maps, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JF; 3JH; HBTP; PDX; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 27. Weight in Grams: 750.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
474
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226184883
ISBN
9780226184883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 34.69

Paperback. By tracing different constructions of science across different kinds of organizational spaces, this text opens up issues of the role of women within science and questions the meaning of "science" and "science education". Num Pages: 280 pages, 8 line drawings, 3 tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JN; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226195452
ISBN
9780226195452
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.23

Paperback. In this volume, Ekeland and Turnbull are mainly concerned with existence theory. They seek to determine whether, when given an optimization problem consisting of minimizing a functional over some feasible set, an optimal solution-a minimizer-may be found. Series: Chicago Lectures in Mathematics. Num Pages: 176 pages, viii, 166 p. BIC Classification: PBW. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 133 x 6. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226199887
ISBN
9780226199887
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.82

Paperback. In this brief treatise, Ekelund explains some philosophical implications of recent mathematics. He examines randomness, the geometry involved in making predictions, and why general trends are easy to project, but particulars are practically impossible. Num Pages: 160 pages, 44ill. BIC Classification: PBB; PBPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 10. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226199900
ISBN
9780226199900
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.23

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