Science: general issues
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Science: general issues
Hardcover. Examines Bogdanov's roles as revolutionary, novelist, and scientist, presenting his protagonist as a coherent thinker who pursued his ideas in a wide range of venues. This title offers an analysis of the interactions between scientific ideas and societal values. Num Pages: 184 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: DSK; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226454122
- ISBN
- 9780226454122
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€ 52.99€ 40.64
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Hardcover. This text reconstructs Lakatos's original counter-arguments from lectures and correspondence previously unpublished in English, allowing us to enjoy the "fun" two of this century's most eminent philosophers had, matching their wits and ideas on the subject of the scientific method. Editor(s): Motterlini, Matteo. Num Pages: 462 pages, 7 halftones, 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: HPCF; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 780.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226467740
- ISBN
- 9780226467740
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€ 95.10€ 78.69
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Paperback. "A fine treatment of this critical time in geology's history. Although it goes against our standard histories of the field, Laudan defends her views convincingly. Her style is direct, with carefully reasoned personal opinions and interpretations clearly defined." Jere H. Lipps, "The Scientist"" Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. Num Pages: 290 pages, 16ill. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; PDX; PNV; RBGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 0002-
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226469478
- ISBN
- 9780226469478
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.48
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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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 632
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226473031
- ISBN
- 9780226473031
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Condition: New
€ 147.41€ 119.61
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Hardcover. The author enlists her readers in pursuit of the elusive concept of atmosphere in literary works. In this title, she shows how diverse conceptions of air in the eighteenth century converged in British fiction, producing the modern literary sense of atmosphere and moving novelists to explore the threshold between material and immaterial worlds. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226476698
- ISBN
- 9780226476698
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€ 53.50€ 45.64
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Hardcover. Focuses on the journalists and writers who wrote about science for a general audience in the second half of the nineteenth century. This title examines more than thirty of the popularizers of the day, investigating how they communicated with their audience. It offers insights into the role of women in scientific inquiry. Num Pages: 528 pages, 68 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 860.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226481180
- ISBN
- 9780226481180
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Condition: New
€ 71.33€ 59.80
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Hardcover. These days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality, as we are all, in one way or another, constantly connected, extended, wired, and dispersed in and through technology. The author focuses on a man who is permanently attached to assemblages of machines, devices, and collectivities of people: Stephen Hawking. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: JHMC; PD; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226522265
- ISBN
- 9780226522265
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Condition: New
€ 106.99€ 88.12
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Hardcover. Argues that the long-standing scientific and philosophical deference to reductive explanations founded on simple universal laws, linear causal models, and predict-and-act strategies fails to accommodate the kinds of knowledge that many contemporary sciences are providing about the world. Num Pages: 176 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226532622
- ISBN
- 9780226532622
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Condition: New
€ 95.10€ 78.29
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Hardcover. Mark Monmonier looks at the increased use of geographic data, satellite imagery, and location tracking across a wide range of fields. Could these diverse forms of geographic monitoring, he asks, lead to grave consequences for society? Num Pages: 264 pages, 7halftones, 58line drawings. BIC Classification: JPV; PDR; PDZ; RGW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226534275
- ISBN
- 9780226534275
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Condition: New
€ 52.31€ 44.70
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Hardcover. It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. In this book, the authors offer a succinct cultural history of the scientific concept of heredity. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 halftones, 9 line drawings. BIC Classification: PDX; PSAK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 166 x 24. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226545707
- ISBN
- 9780226545707
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Condition: New
€ 95.10€ 78.93
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Paperback. This study argues that morphology was integral to the life sciences of the 19th century. It traces the development of morphological research in German universities and illuminates significant institutional as well as intellectual changes in 19th-century German biology. Num Pages: 428 pages, 9 halftones, 1 map, 7 line drawings, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; HBTB; JNU; PDX; PSVD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 700.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226610887
- ISBN
- 9780226610887
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Condition: New
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paperback. Translator(s): Pallister, Janis L. Num Pages: 256 pages, 91 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; PSVL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 362.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780226645636
- ISBN
- 9780226645636
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.26
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Hardcover. In the early eighteenth century, the modern German word that would later mean "science," naturwissenschaft, was not even included in dictionaries. By 1850, however, the term was in use everywhere. This title follows the emergence of this important new category within German-speaking Europe. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226667379
- ISBN
- 9780226667379
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Condition: New
€ 59.44€ 50.37
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Paperback. Hailed by the Greeks as "the mystery of mysteries", the perplexing question of where babies come from, has puzzled men and women throughout history. This book examines the theory of preformation, which proposed that miniature creatures existed inside potential parents, waiting to be born. Num Pages: 414 pages, 34 halftones, 21 line drawings. BIC Classification: PDA; PSC; PSVH; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 570.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 414
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226669540
- ISBN
- 9780226669540
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.79
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Hardcover. Imperial expansion necessitated changes in the way scientific knowledge was gathered. This book shows how this cosmographic knowledge had considerable strategic, defensive, and monetary value that royal scientists were charged with safeguarding from foreign and internal enemies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 10 colour plates, 14 halftones, 5 line drawings, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KB; PDX; PG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226675343
- ISBN
- 9780226675343
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Condition: New
€ 95.10€ 78.69
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Hardcover. Focuses on Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth century. This title reveals how Boerhaave restructured and reinterpreted various practices from diverse chemical traditions - including craft chemistry. Series: Synthesis. Num Pages: 270 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: PDX; PN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226677606
- ISBN
- 9780226677606
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Condition: New
€ 95.10€ 78.93
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Hardcover. Suitable for those interested in popular science, this title focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain and demonstrates how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6 halftones, 9 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; PDX; PDZ; PHR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226680736
- ISBN
- 9780226680736
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Condition: New
€ 53.50€ 45.64
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Hardcover. Since antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life's measure by reproducing it. This title collects seventeen essays from distinguished scholars in several fields. It is intended for historians and philosophers of science and technology, scientists and engineers working in artificial life and intelligence, and others. Num Pages: 336 pages, 57 halftones, 10 line drawings. BIC Classification: PDX; TBX; UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226720807
- ISBN
- 9780226720807
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Condition: New
€ 95.10€ 78.69
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Hardcover. Chemists in the nineteenth century were faced with a particular problem: how to depict the atoms and molecules beyond the direct reach of our bodily senses. This title focuses on the community of organic chemists in Germany to provide the basis for an understanding of the nature of scientific creativity. Series: Synthesis. Num Pages: 416 pages, 44 halftones, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; PDX; PNN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226723327
- ISBN
- 9780226723327
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Condition: New
€ 59.44€ 50.37
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Paperback. Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. Num Pages: 283 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: KCA; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226727240
- ISBN
- 9780226727240
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.46
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€ 29.46