Science: general issues
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Science: general issues
hardcover. Follows Peirce from May 1890 through July 1892 - a period of turmoil as his career unravelled at the US Coast and Geodetic Survey. This title includes reviews and essays from "The Nation" in which Peirce critiques Paul Carus, William James, Comte Lombroso, and Karl Pearson, and takes part in a famous dispute between Frank E Abbot and Josiah Royce. Editor(s): Peirce Edition Project. Series: Selections from the Writings of Charles S. Peirce. Num Pages: 824 pages, 10 b&w illus., 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPC; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 1474. Weight in Grams: 1315.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- Chronological ed
- Number of pages
- 824
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253372086
- ISBN
- 9780253372086
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Souvenir Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780285635944
- ISBN
- 9780285635944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.64
€ 15.99
€ 11.64
Paperback. At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. This title traces the making - and unmaking - of Oppenheimer's wartime and postwar scientific identity. Num Pages: 384 pages, 18 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: BGT; PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 171 x 28. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226798462
- ISBN
- 9780226798462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.52
€ 37.99
€ 29.52
Hardcover. Examines the connected histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in twentieth-century Britain. Editor(s): Sleigh, Charlotte; Leggett, Dr. Don. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; PDK; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 187 x 31. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719090981
- ISBN
- 9780719090981
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.97
€ 160.97
Hardback. In various industrial applications, turbulence can be affected by density variations resulting from different origins acting simultaneously. This monograph is intended as a first attempt to address variable density fluid turbulence in a unifying manner. Series: Fluid Mechanics and its Applications. Num Pages: 392 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PHDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402006715
- ISBN
- 9781402006715
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 248.07
€ 248.07
Hardcover. By the late nineteenth century, engineers and experimental scientists generally knew how radio waves behaved, and by 1901 scientists were able to manipulate them to transmit messages across long distances. This title documents this monumental discovery and the advances in radio ionospheric propagation research that occurred in its aftermath. Num Pages: 360 pages, 3 halftones, 68 line drawings. BIC Classification: PDX; PG; PHK; TJKR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226015194
- ISBN
- 9780226015194
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.07€ 78.49
€ 95.07
€ 78.49
paperback. Focusing on gauge theory of elementary particle physics, this volume provides graduate students with problems and solutions, enabling them to learn the calculational techniques necessary to understand the research literature. All problems have been given a descriptive title, allowing the reader to select according to his preferences. Num Pages: 318 pages, line figures. BIC Classification: PDX; PHP; PHQ; PHR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780198506218
- ISBN
- 9780198506218
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 116.07
€ 116.07
Hardback. BIC Classification: PD. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Da Capo Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306445071
- ISBN
- 9780306445071
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.15
€ 64.15
paperback. Num Pages: 175 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX; PHQ; PHS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 279.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9783319356426
- ISBN
- 9783319356426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 184.22
€ 184.22
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Seachrist, Judith A. Num Pages: 240 pages, numeros line illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZ; PSAK; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 136 x 12. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195327069
- ISBN
- 9780195327069
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.36
€ 21.99
€ 20.36
Hardback. Focusing primarily on evaluation of agreement with continuous measurements with additional coverage devoted to categorical measurements, Measuring Agreement Methodology and Applications successfully blends the currently available statistical methodologies for agreement evaluation in a unified, coherent, and lucid manner. Series: Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: MJ; PB; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118078587
- ISBN
- 9781118078587
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.82
€ 126.82
Paperback. What if the numbers that really matter, the ones that hold the key to winning matches, are actually 2.66, 53.4, 50/50, and 0 > 1? What if managers only make a 15 per cent difference? What if Chelsea should have bought Darren Bent? This book shows that every shred of knowledge we can gather can help us to love football and understand it even more. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: PDZM; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 200 x 26. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241963623
- ISBN
- 9780241963623
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
Paperback. Reveals the evidence of life beyond death. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: PD; VXPR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 622. Evidence for the Immortality of Consciousness. 384 pages. Carter's rigorous argument provesbeyond any reasonable doubtnot only that consciousness survives death and continues in the afterlife, but that it precedes birth as well. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: PD; VXPR. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 24. Weight: 618.
- Publisher
- Inner Traditions Bear and Company
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594774522
- ISBN
- 9781594774522
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.47
€ 25.99
€ 17.47
Paperback. Traces humanity's journey from the mythical origins of religion, through the struggles to make sense of Christianity in the fourth century, and the strangely similar struggles to make sense of quantum theory in the twentieth century, to modern quantum cosmology. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAM3; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846943201
- ISBN
- 9781846943201
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.50
€ 19.99
€ 18.50
Paperback. Although the dream of flying is as old as the human imagination, the notion of rocketing into space may have originated with Chinese gunpowder experiments during the Middle Ages. Rockets as both weapons and entertainment are examined in this engaging history of how human beings acquired the ability to catapult themselves into space. Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight. Num Pages: 264 pages, 29 photographs, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: PDX; TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Edition
- 0th edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803245211
- ISBN
- 9780803245211
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.15
€ 24.99
€ 22.15
Paperback. "Impey combines the vision of a practicing scientist with the voice of a gifted storyteller."-Dava Sobel Num Pages: 448 pages, 75 illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZ; PGK; WNX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393343861
- ISBN
- 9780393343861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.46
€ 17.99
€ 16.46
Hardback. Describes the unmanned space missions that have opened windows on distant worlds. Spanning four decades of dramatic advances in astronomy and planetary science, this book tells the story of eleven iconic exploratory missions and how they have fundamentally transformed our scientific and cultural perspectives on the universe and our place in it. Num Pages: 464 pages, 24 color illus. 41 halftones. 13 line illus. BIC Classification: PDZ; PG; TTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 936.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691147536
- ISBN
- 9780691147536
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. Winner of the Aventis Science Book Prize. 'A scientific detective story, a brilliant cross between Edgar Allan Poe and Gray's anatomy' J G Ballard, New Stateman Books of the Year Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 33. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753813553
- ISBN
- 9780753813553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. When did the first people arrive here? What did they look like? How did they survive? Who were the Neanderthals? The author takes us back to when it was so tropical we lived alongside hippos, elephants and sabre-toothed tigers or to times so cold we hunted reindeer and mammoth, and to others even colder when we were forced to flee a wall of ice. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), col. maps, ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; JHMP; PDZ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 111 x 18. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141018133
- ISBN
- 9780141018133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
€ 15.99
€ 11.81
Paperback. Do all humans originate from Africa? How did we spread across the globe? Are we separate from Neanderthals, or do some of us actually have their genes? Has human evolution stopped, or are we still evolving? This title tackles the big questions in the ongoing debate about the beginnings of human life on earth. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JHMP; PDZ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141037202
- ISBN
- 9780141037202
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
€ 15.99
€ 11.81