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Science: general issues

Paperback. Gary Fildes left school at sixteen, got a trade like most of his mates and was soon married with four kids. His life seemed set. But he had a secret. Something he only practised late at night with a few like-minded friends. Then one day, middle age approaching alarmingly, he acted on his lifelong passion. He finally came out. As an astronomer. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYN; BM; PDZ; WNX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784754389
ISBN
9781784754389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. The media is full of advice about what we should eat and warnings about what we shouldn't. What should you believe-and how much of what you hear can you trust? In this title, the author dispels the confusion and applies his knowledge of food chemistry to the top food trends. It also looks at the real science behind losing weight. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ; VFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851687268
ISBN
9781851687268
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.54

Paperback. Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, the author was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life? This book tells his personal journey. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3 x 8 page picture sections. BIC Classification: BGTA; PDZ; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552779050
ISBN
9780552779050
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.58

Hardcover. Num Pages: 2 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PDN; TDCT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 130. Weight in Grams: 1058.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
2
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471192602
ISBN
9780471192602
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 1,044.77

Paperback. The six American philosophers of technology whose work is profiled in this introduction to the field - Albert Borgmann, Hubert Dreyfus, Andrew Feenberg, Donna Haraway, Don Ihde, and Langdon Winner - are shown to represent an empirical direction in the philosophical study of technology that has developed mainly in North America. Series: Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Technology. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 b&w photographs, 1 index. BIC Classification: HPCF; PDA; TB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253214492
ISBN
9780253214492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.04

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
€ 29.83

Paperback. Online and mobile technologies are profoundly influencing how we read and write, speak and listen, but not in the ways you might suppose. Always On draws upon a decade of research to reveal how instant messaging, cell phones, multitasking, Facebook, blogs, and internet search functions are reshaping social interaction and written culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: CFB; GTC; JFD; JFFP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199735440
ISBN
9780199735440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.09

hardcover. Raising fascinating questions of consumption, environment, and desire, Upcycling Aluminum is for anyone interested in industrial and environmental history, discard studies, engineering, product design, music history, or antiques. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Num Pages: 216 pages, 20, 18 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: PDX; TBX; TDM; TQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
KJH0000388
ISBN
9781421421865
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 8.04

Paperback. Editor(s): Al-Khalili, Jim. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ; VXQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Unknown Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781256817
ISBN
9781781256817
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.70

Paperback. Born in Usk, Gwent, in 1823, Alfred Russel Wallace left school at fourteen and in his mid-twenties spent four years in the Amazon collecting for museums and wealthy patrons, only to lose all his finds in a shipboard fire in mid-Atlantic. This title reveals Wallace as a courageous and unconventional explorer. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; BG; PD; PS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712665773
ISBN
9780712665773
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.79

Paperback. The Sunday Times bestseller Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 30. Weight in Grams: 332. 8vo.clean copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
SKU
KEX0262419
ISBN
9781408809594
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 30.00

Paperback. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is famous for his work in physical geography, botanical geography, and climatology, and his role as a popularizer of the sciences. This volume traces Humboldt's biographical identities through Germany's collective past to shed light on the historical instability of our scientists. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: BGT; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
University of Chicago Press Paperback Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226731490
ISBN
9780226731490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.94

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: PDZM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 25. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408845721
ISBN
9781408845721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.23

Paperback. Will relentless consumerism end up destroying our planet? Or can science and technology allow us to innovate our way out of trouble? This book invite you to examine the risks and opportunities to come. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BM; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 134 x 18. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781921372728
ISBN
9781921372728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.07

Paperback. Using the previously misunderstood interactions between Robert Boyle, widely known as "the father of chemistry," and George Starkey, an alchemist and the most prominent American scientific writer before Benjamin Franklin, as their guide, William R. Newman and Lawrence M. Num Pages: 360 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: HRQX2; PDX; PN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 325 x 30. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Paperback Ed
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226577029
ISBN
9780226577029
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.47

Paperback. Offers a selection of personal papers. This title includes rhymes, an exchange with Queen Elizabeth of Belgium about fine music, and expressions of his devotion to Zionism. Editor(s): Dukas, Helen; Hoffmann, Banesh. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: BGT; BJ; PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 148 x 12. Weight in Grams: 188.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
With a New foreword by Ze'ev Rosenkranz
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691160238
ISBN
9780691160238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.93

Paperback. Editor(s): Schilpp, Paul Arthur. Series: Library of Living Philosophers. Num Pages: 799 pages. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1043.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1970
Publisher
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Edition
3 Rev ed
Number of pages
799
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875482866
ISBN
9780875482866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.19
€ 54.45

Paperback. The author of Dirt and Oak brings to life this quickest, most sustaining, most communicative element of the earth. Num Pages: 416 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZ; RBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
398
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393345391
ISBN
9780393345391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.79

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.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226476698
ISBN
9780226476698
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.29
€ 45.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 32 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: PDN; TD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 212 x 1. Weight in Grams: 97.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
32
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816904044
ISBN
9780816904044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.46

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