Science: general issues
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Science: general issues
Paperback. Einstein's theory of relativity shattered the world of physics - replacing Newtonian ideas of space and time with bizarre and counterintuitive conclusions: a world of slowing clocks and stretched space, black holes and curved space-time. This Very Short Introduction explores and explains the theory in an accessible and understandable way. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 128 pages, 30 line drawings. BIC Classification: PDZ; PHR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 113 x 8. Weight in Grams: 106.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199236220
- ISBN
- 9780199236220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.52
€ 13.52
paperback. Series: Mitteilungen Aus Dem Institut Fur Angewandte Mathematik. Num Pages: 77 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: GB; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 4. Weight in Grams: 127.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1957
- Publisher
- Birkh?user Switzerland
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 77
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783764303235
- ISBN
- 9783764303235
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.31
€ 57.31
Hardback. Num Pages: 127 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GB; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 7. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Birkh?user Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 127
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783764308742
- ISBN
- 9783764308742
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.41
€ 58.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 halftones, 10 line art illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: DSB; JFD; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816646869
- ISBN
- 9780816646869
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.99
€ 24.99
€ 22.99
Hardback. Ryan Wasserman explores a range of fascinating puzzles raised by the possibility of time travel, with entertaining examples from physics, science fiction, and popular culture, and he draws out their implications for our understanding of time, tense, freedom, fatalism, causation, counterfactuals, laws of nature, persistence, change, and mereology. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDA; PHR. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198793335
- ISBN
- 9780198793335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.12
€ 110.12
Paperback. A textbook presenting notions and ideas at the foundations of a statistical treatment of risks. The text is unlike that found in traditional mathematics literature and differs from typical textbooks in its verbal approach to many explanations and examples. Num Pages: 281 pages, 7 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PBT; PDE; TBJ; TGPQ; TN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642063466
- ISBN
- 9783642063466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 101.01
€ 101.01
Paperback. Editor(s): Miller, Ryder W. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDR; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- ibooks United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781596871434
- ISBN
- 9781596871434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.47
€ 10.99
€ 9.47
Paperback. Captures the diverse, topical and timely expertise generated by the EU Kids Online project, which brings together 60 researchers in 21 countries across Europe. Editor(s): Livingstone, Sonia; Haddon, Leslie. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFF; JKSB1; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847424389
- ISBN
- 9781847424389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.68
€ 33.99
€ 32.68
Paperback. Editor(s): Brier, Soren; Glanville, Ranulph. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 250 x 173 x 10. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Imprint Academic United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780907845911
- ISBN
- 9780907845911
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.77
€ 25.77
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Imprint Academic United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 98
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780907845928
- ISBN
- 9780907845928
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.45
€ 18.45
Paperback. Undergraduate research (UR) is widely believed to enhance the learning experience of students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs. This is the first comprehensive, practical, research-based book on undergraduate research. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GPS; PD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 277 x 218 x 16. Weight in Grams: 760.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Jossey-Bass
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470227572
- ISBN
- 9780470227572
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.52
€ 52.52
Paperback. How can we tell who is right, and how we should respond? And why is there no scientific consensus on a matter of such vital importance? This work addresses these questions. It describes how the interplay between familiar phenomena, winds and clouds, light and air, maintains climates that permit a diversity of fauna and flora to flourish on Earth. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 tables, 85 line illus. BIC Classification: PDZ; RBP; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691050348
- ISBN
- 9780691050348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.45
€ 46.99
€ 33.45
Paperback. Until 1997, few people had heard of the seasonal current that Peruvians nicknamed El Nino. This book discusses the scientific, political, economic and cultural developments that shaped our perceptions of this force of nature. It outlines the history of El Nino, an innocuous current that appears off the coast of Peru around Christmas time. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 line illus. 1 halftone. 3 tables. BIC Classification: PDZ; RBKC; RBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691126227
- ISBN
- 9780691126227
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.37
€ 46.99
€ 33.37
paperback. Showing aspiring science writers how to achieve the balance between creating engaging, clear stories whilst dealing with complex issues and research methods, this book features a host of stories including Q&As, blog posts and prize-winning pieces. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNJ; PD; TB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- CQ Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781604264814
- ISBN
- 9781604264814
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 90.90
€ 90.90
Hardcover. This book illustrates scientific methodology through descriptions of how actual scientists "create science. " The authors present a novel point of view, arguing that the popular perception of science as being strictly objective is untrue and that knowledge is often acquired through very personal means. Series: Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. Num Pages: 296 pages, indexes. BIC Classification: PBT; PDA; PDN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471396857
- ISBN
- 9780471396857
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 176.35
€ 176.35
Paperback. Provides an account of the knowledge that science provides. This title offers an absorbing discussion of how life works, of the nature of reproduction, aging, and death, and of the necessary fragility of the individual life compared to the resilience of life itself. Num Pages: 265 pages, 7 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: PDA; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 54.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520239111
- ISBN
- 9780520239111
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.19
€ 31.99
€ 23.19
Hardcover. After Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, his second declaration, after socialism, was that Cuba would become a leader in international science. This book shows how Cuba came to compete with US pharmaceutical giants - despite a trade embargo and crippling national debt. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBJK; HBLW3; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226709178
- ISBN
- 9780226709178
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.16
€ 52.99
€ 41.16
Paperback. Narrates how two charismatic, exceptionally talented physicists - J Robert Oppenheimer and Hans A Bethe - came to terms with the nuclear weapons they helped to create. This work tells the story of modern physics, the development of atomic weapons, and the Cold War. Series: Princeton Series in Physics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: BGT; JWMN; PDX; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691127859
- ISBN
- 9780691127859
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.37
€ 46.99
€ 33.37
Paperback. Series: New Accents. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; JF; PDR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415538381
- ISBN
- 9780415538381
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.03
€ 51.03
hardcover. A collection of essays by experts in the field, exploring how nature works to produce systems of increasing complexity from simple components, and how our understanding of this phenomenon of emergence can lead us to a deeper appreciation of both our humanity and our relationship with God. Num Pages: 392 pages, figures. BIC Classification: HPM; HRAB; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 27. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199204717
- ISBN
- 9780199204717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 263.36
€ 263.36