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Hardback. Collects a number of important contributions presented during the First Conference on Interdisciplinary Applications of Kinematics (IAK 2008) held in Lima, Peru. Editor(s): Kecskemethy, Andres; Potkonjak, Veljko; Muller, Andreas. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDE; TGMD; TJFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2011
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400729773
- ISBN
- 9789400729773
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.21
€ 128.21
Paperback. This book offers an alternative paradigm for the teaching of science, one that gives more attention to the motivation of students and deems student input essential. Each chapter is introduced with a case study involving elementary or middle school students. Series: Innovations in Science Education and Technology. Num Pages: 343 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNA; JNU; PD; YQS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 563.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 343
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400730359
- ISBN
- 9789400730359
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 194.80
€ 194.80
Paperback. Prolific instrument maker Rudolph Koenig built, in 19th century Paris, one of the more influential scientific workshops in the history of acoustics. This book provides a detail portrait of his vibrant atelier, a place of construction, commerce and experiment. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 372 pages, 60 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: MBX; PDX; PHDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 623.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400730618
- ISBN
- 9789400730618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 228.36
€ 228.36
The Vienna Circle in the Nordic Countries. Networks and Transformation...
. Ed(S): Manninen, Juha; Stadler, Friedrich
Paperback. The 20th Century rise of scientific philosophy is linked to the interaction between the Logical Empiricists of Central Europe and the Nordic scientists and philosophers. This book considers the interactions of these groups, focusing on the Cold War period. Editor(s): Manninen, Juha; Stadler, Friedrich. Series: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPL; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400730625
- ISBN
- 9789400730625
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.08
€ 128.08
Paperback. A multiplicity of stakeholders have begun to analyze the implications of nanotechnology. In the course of these efforts, a social phenomenon has emerged, one defined in this book as assessment regime, which explores and critically analyses this regime. Editor(s): Kaiser, Mario; Kurath, Monika; Maasen, Sabine; Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph (University of Basel). Series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook. Num Pages: 337 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 539.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 337
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400730779
- ISBN
- 9789400730779
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.32
€ 128.32
Paperback. Pre-modern and early modern conceptions of Scientia differ systematically from one another. This book offers a variety of glimpses of this difference by exploring the works of individual philosophers as well as philosophical movements and groupings. Editor(s): Sorell, Professor Tom; Rogers, G. A. J.; Kraye, Jill. Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 154 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GBC; HPCF; JF; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 8. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400730809
- ISBN
- 9789400730809
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. This book traces reactions to Ptolemy from his own times to ours. It shows the complex processes by which an ancient scientist and his work gained and subsequently lost an overreaching reputation and authority. Editor(s): Jones, Alexander. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HB; PDX; PG; RGW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400730861
- ISBN
- 9789400730861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 248.98
€ 248.98
Paperback. Nature-minding design selects the production methods and technologies that impact the environment the least. This book presents an overview of the fundamental principles, problems and issues of human and nature-minding automation and industrial systems. Series: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering. Num Pages: 366 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDZ; TJFM1; TQK; UBJ; UYZG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 563.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400731271
- ISBN
- 9789400731271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 194.80
€ 194.80
Paperback. For 100 years, the conceptual pair of Erklaren (explanation) and Verstehen (understanding) has fostered philosophical and methodological debates. This book considers these terms in historical context and systematically reviews the arguments they've inspired. Editor(s): Feest, Uljana. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; PDA; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400731349
- ISBN
- 9789400731349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 183.36
€ 183.36
Paperback. A key result of the contemporary study of discovery and creativity concerns the availability of descriptive and normative models for explaining discovery and creative processes. This book addresses these models and the changes they induced within methodology. Editor(s): Nickles, Thomas. Series: Origins: Studies in the Sources of Scientific Creativity. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400731523
- ISBN
- 9789400731523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Paperback. This comprehensive account of Huckel's career examines his scientific work and his key role in the emergence of quantum chemistry as an independent discipline. It also covers his clash with Linus Pauling over the properties of the benzene molecule. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; PHQ; PNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 343.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400731554
- ISBN
- 9789400731554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. Galileo's trial over his theories on the Earth's motion ended with his condemnation by the Inquisition. This book judiciously compares and contrasts that trial and the subsequent controversy over the rightness of that condemnation continuing to our day. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 393 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; PDA; PDX; PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 605.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 393
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400731646
- ISBN
- 9789400731646
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 195.08
€ 195.08
Paperback. Celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the 1909 publication of Minkowski's seminal paper "Space and Time", this volume includes a fresh translation as well as the original in German, and a number of contributed papers on the still-controversial subject. Editor(s): Petkov, Vesselin. Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics. Num Pages: 368 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 519.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400731844
- ISBN
- 9789400731844
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.48
€ 128.48
paperback. This book presents applications of spectral methods to problems of uncertainty propagation and quantification in model-based computations, focusing on the computational and algorithmic features of these methods most useful in dealing with models based on partial differential equations, in particular models arising in simulations of fluid flows. Series: Scientific Computation. Num Pages: 552 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBD; PBKJ; PDE; PHDF; PHU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 837.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400731929
- ISBN
- 9789400731929
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 119.25
€ 119.25
Paperback. This collection of essays aims to establish the starting point for the development, evaluation and appraisal of the phenomenology of mathematics. It combines both historical and systematic studies from various angles by primary scholars in this emerging field. Editor(s): Hartimo, Mirja. Series: Phaenomenologica. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPCF3; HPL; PBX; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 391.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400731967
- ISBN
- 9789400731967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 194.08
€ 194.08
The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge. Embodied Empiricism in...
. Ed(S): Wolfe, Charles T.; Gal, Ofer
Paperback. This book features papers from a workshop organized by the unit for History and Philosophy of Science in Sydney, held in 2009. It focuses on the development of empiricism as an interest in the body, both as the object of research and the subject of experience. Editor(s): Wolfe, Charles T.; Gal, Ofer. Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 360 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 551.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400732018
- ISBN
- 9789400732018
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 249.99
€ 249.99
Paperback. Why should mathematics, the purest of sciences, have a history? This book explores how Renaissance scholars recovered and reconstructed the origins of mathematics by tracing its invention in prehistoric Antiquity, its development by the Greeks, and its transmission to modern Europe via the works of Euclid, Theon and Proclus. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 5 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; PB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 321.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 5
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400732148
- ISBN
- 9789400732148
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 160.96
€ 160.96
Paperback. Featuring contributions from leading experts, this book represents the first collection of essays on the topic of art and science in the analytic tradition of philosophy. The volume offers a very different and welcome approach to study. Editor(s): Frigg, Roman; Hunter, Matthew. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; HPK; HPN; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400732155
- ISBN
- 9789400732155
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 194.12
€ 194.12
Paperback. These essays explore the understanding of historical and contemporary geographies of science. From the 16th to the 20th centuries, they examine the formation and changing geographies of such scientific centers as museums, laboratories and world fairs. Editor(s): Meusburger, Peter; Livingstone, David; Jons, Heike. Series: Knowledge and Space. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; PDX; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400732261
- ISBN
- 9789400732261
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 194.14
€ 194.14
Paperback. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 342 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AMA; PBX; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400732308
- ISBN
- 9789400732308
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.24
€ 128.24