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Paperback. An investigation of the boundaries of science. Gieryn argues that when scientific claims reach courtrooms, boardrooms and living rooms, we use cultural 'maps' to decide whom to believe and to demarcate science from ideology, faith or nonsense. He argues that there are no stable criteria to distinguish science from non-science. Num Pages: 376 pages, 1 halftone, 1 map, 1 line drawing, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JHM; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226292625
- ISBN
- 9780226292625
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 37.57
€ 47.99
€ 37.57
Paperback. Num Pages: 536 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; PDX; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 142 x 30. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226299778
- ISBN
- 9780226299778
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Condition: New
€ 59.49€ 50.94
€ 59.49
€ 50.94
Paperback. The quotations trace a broad conversation about Darwin across great distances of time and space, revealing his profound influence on the great thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Num Pages: 552 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: GBCQ; PDZ; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 784.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894626
- ISBN
- 9780801894626
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.14
€ 37.99
€ 32.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Publisher
- Ebury Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781400082148
- ISBN
- 9781400082148
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.30
€ 17.99
€ 16.30
Paperback. A history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism, and global security, it evaluates what the author calls "the question of technology". Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Num Pages: 400 pages, 54, 54 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421401539
- ISBN
- 9781421401539
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 27.64
€ 27.99
€ 27.64
Hardback. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white line drawings, 2 maps, 2 recorded music it. BIC Classification: HBJK; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. .
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421418681
- ISBN
- 9781421418681
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 34.75
€ 41.99
€ 34.75
Paperback. Examines Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism with the tools of literary criticism, exploring questions of meaning, structure, and style. This title presents a definitive argument against Hertz's claim that Maxwell's theory is Maxwell's system of equations. Num Pages: 190 pages, figures. BIC Classification: CFG; PDX; PHK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Green Lion Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781888009316
- ISBN
- 9781888009316
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.58
€ 19.99
€ 18.58
Paperback. Features Newton, Maxwell, and Marx as champions of a scientific vision that leads to intellectual freedom and human emancipation. This title points toward a vision of science, common to these three thinkers, as a powerful means of attaining human freedom, material, intellectual, and even spiritual. Num Pages: 312 pages, 45 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: KCP; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- Green Lion Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781888009378
- ISBN
- 9781888009378
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.38
€ 24.99
€ 22.38
Hardcover. A study of Maxwell's Treatise that takes seriously the way Maxwell's presents his arguments. It is presented in an attractive readable layout. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: PDX; PHK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 189 x 32. Weight in Grams: 926.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Green Lion Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781888009361
- ISBN
- 9781888009361
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.29€ 53.73
€ 57.29
€ 53.73
Hardback. Leitch regards Wikipedia as an ideal instrument for probing the central assumptions behind liberal education, making it more than merely, as one of its severest critics has charged, "the encyclopedia game, played online." Series: Tech.edu: A Hopkins Series on Education and Technology. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JNM; JNP; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415352
- ISBN
- 9781421415352
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.80
€ 40.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: PD. Dimension: 254 x 181. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691616360
- ISBN
- 9780691616360
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.95
€ 54.99
€ 39.95
Paperback. The detailed analogies between the activities and science learning make this book an ideal resource for middle and high school teachers. This thorough and thought-provoking text includes more than 200 up-to-date internet resources, as well as extensions to each of the physical science, biology, and chemistry activities. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- National Science Teachers Association
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935155102
- ISBN
- 9781935155102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.31
€ 16.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 530 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; PDX; TB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 159 x 34. Weight in Grams: 752.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 530
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226359274
- ISBN
- 9780226359274
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.91
€ 37.99
€ 29.91
Hardcover. The objective of this book is to motivate an appreciation of contemporary statistical techniques within the context of engineering. The author presents an optimum blend between statistical thinking and statistical methodology through emphasis of a broad sweep of "tools" rather than endless streams of seemingly unrelated methods and formulae. Num Pages: 608 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PBT; PDE; TBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 180 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1194.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470081877
- ISBN
- 9780470081877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 212.06
€ 212.06
Paperback. Challenges long-standing linear notions of scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don't arise from the day-to-day, gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation, but that revolutions in science, those breakthrough moments that disrupt accepted thinking and offer unanticipated ideas, occur outside of normal science. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 348. 288 pages. Challenges long-standing linear notions of scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don't arise from the day-to-day, gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation, but that revolutions in science, those breakthrough moments that disrupt accepted thinking and offer unanticipated ideas, occur outside of normal science. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: PDA. Dimension: 138 x 216 x 19. Weight: 350.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226458120
- ISBN
- 9780226458120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.08
€ 21.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 56 line illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Edition
- New edition
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674171039
- ISBN
- 9780674171039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.05
€ 37.99
€ 34.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 398 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; JFCX; PD; PHQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 398
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Edition
- Reprinted by Arrangement with OUP
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226458007
- ISBN
- 9780226458007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 38.42
€ 49.99
€ 38.42
Paperback. "The road since structure", assembled with Kuhn's input before his death in 1996, follows the development of his thought through the later years of his life. Collected here are several essays and an extensive autobiographical interview discussing his life and philosophy Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: HPC; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226457994
- ISBN
- 9780226457994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.91
€ 37.99
€ 29.91
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814741160
- ISBN
- 9780814741160
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardcover. Our minds have spawned civilizations and technologies that have changed the face of the Earth, while even our closest primate relatives remain confined to the borders of their dwindling forest habitats. This book gives an account of what makes human minds different from those of other animals, and how this difference arose. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: JMM; PDZ; PSAJ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465030149
- ISBN
- 9780465030149
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 23.07
€ 33.99
€ 23.07