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Science: general issues

Hardback. Henry More (1614-1687), the Cambridge Platonist, is often presented as an elusive and contradictory figure, who defended the existence of witchcraft and wrote on the nature of the soul and the world of spirits. This book places his religious and philosophical preoccupations centre-stage, and provides a coherent interpretation of his work. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 609.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Edition
annotated ed
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402015021
ISBN
9781402015021
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.02

Paperback. About 375 million people are infected with the hepatitis B virus. The discovery of this virus and the vaccine against it was one of the triumphs of twentieth-century medicine. This book describes how Baruch Blumberg and a team of researchers found a virus they were not looking for and created a vaccine for a disease they knew little about. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 table, 16 halftones, 3 line illus. BIC Classification: BG; MJJ; MMFM; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691116235
ISBN
9780691116235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 30.78

Paperback / so. Editor(s): Zoche, Peter. Series: Technik, Wirtschaft, Und Politik. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, black & white tables, bibliography. BIC Classification: KC; PD; TJK; UY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 653.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Physica-Verlag GmbH & Co Germany
Condition
New
SKU
V9783790807905
ISBN
9783790807905
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.21

Hardback. Series: Springer Biographies. Num Pages: 284 pages, 96 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: BGT; PDX; PHF; PHU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 566.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
2015th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319148502
ISBN
9783319148502
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.97

Paperback. Discovers the source of life and how it has developed into the wonder around us today. From ant-colonies to zinc mining, this book takes us on a journey around the world and from the top of the food-chain to the very chemicals of which we are made, and explores how the fate of humanity is in our own hands. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 195 x 13. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241950739
ISBN
9780241950739
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.77

Hardcover. Series: Leonardo Book Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, 54 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ8; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 178 x 12. .
Publisher
The MIT Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262035729
ISBN
9780262035729
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 43.86

Paperback. John Waller describes the changing ideas concerning heredity from antiquity to the modern biological understanding, considering both the efforts over the centuries to identify the physiological mechanisms involved and how views of heredity have been used to justify or condemn inequalities of class, gender, and race. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 144 pages, 23 black and white images. BIC Classification: HBTB; PDX; PSAK. Dimension: 174 x 111. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198790457
ISBN
9780198790457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 173 color illus. BIC Classification: FXZ; HPC; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691168692
ISBN
9780691168692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.55

Hardback. A biography of Hermann von Helmholtz, a 19th-century scientist renowned for the co-discovery of the second law of thermodynamics and his invention of the ophthalmoscope. It relates how von Helmholtz also made contributions to the fields of physiology, philosophy of science and mathematics. Editor(s): Cahan, David. Series: California Studies in the History of Science. Num Pages: 704 pages, 12 photographs, 19 figures. BIC Classification: 3JH; BG; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 50. Weight in Grams: 962.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
704
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520083349
ISBN
9780520083349
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.07
€ 72.70

Paperback. Takes Weyl's "Raum - Zeit - Materie" (Space - Time - Matter) as center of concentration and starting field for a look at his work. This book discusses Weyl's deep involvement in relativity, cosmology and matter theories between the classical unified field theories and quantum physics. Editor(s): Scholz, Erhard. Series: Oberwolfach Seminars. Num Pages: 403 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; PDE; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 21. Weight in Grams: 712.
Publisher
Birkhäuser
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2001st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783764364762
ISBN
9783764364762
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 87.80

Hardback. Aims to bridges analytic and hermeneutic and phenomenological philosophy of science. This book features resources for students of the philosophy and history of quantum mechanics and the Copenhagen Interpretation, cognitive theory and the psychology of perception, and the history and philosophy of art. Editor(s): Babich, Babette E. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 500 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 901.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
500
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402002342
ISBN
9781402002342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 250.52

Hardback. Proceedings of the First Conference of the International Society for Hermeneutics and Science Editor(s): Feher, Marta; Kiss, Olga (Department of Philosophy, University of Economics, Budapest, Hungary); Ropolyi, Laszlo (Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary). Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 399 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
399
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792357988
ISBN
9780792357988
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.69

Hardback. Attests to the the world-wide development of a hermeneutical approach to the natural sciences. This title raises such questions: What is a phenomenology of 'scientific' perception? How does meaning arise out of laboratory situations? and more. Editor(s): Crease, Robert. Num Pages: 154 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Edition
Reprinted from man and world, 30:3, 1997
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792348108
ISBN
9780792348108
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.36

Paperback / so. Series: Leben Und Gesundheit. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: GB; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 5. Weight in Grams: 109.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
Condition
New
SKU
V9783764317881
ISBN
9783764317881
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.19

Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: GB; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 4. Weight in Grams: 91.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
Condition
New
SKU
V9783764323349
ISBN
9783764323349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.37

Paperback / so. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: GB; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 8. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9783764319618
ISBN
9783764319618
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.17

paperback. Num Pages: 357 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1976
Publisher
Birkhäuser Switzerland
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
357
Condition
New
SKU
V9783764308797
ISBN
9783764308797
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 42.75

Paperback. Series: Columbia Series in Science and Religion. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HREX; PDA; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 9. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231141512
ISBN
9780231141512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.22

Hardback. Bridging the gap between the world of science and the realm of the spiritual, this title introduces a natural theory of human consciousness that has its roots in contemporary physics and Buddhism. Series: Columbia Series in Science and Religion. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231141505
ISBN
9780231141505
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.18
€ 63.58

Hardcover. Editor(s): Westhead, David R.; Vijayabaskar, M. S. Series: Methods in Molecular Biology. Num Pages: 221 pages, 42 black & white illustrations, 17 colour illustrations, 19 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: PDE; PSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Humana Press
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781493967513
ISBN
9781493967513
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 200.51

Paperback. The age of information, media and virtuality is transforming many aspects of human experience. This is an investigation of the postmodern world which critically examines a wide range of contemporary cultural practices. The author contends that postmodern culture is full of creative possibilities. Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 354 pages, 13 colour plates, 122 halftones. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; PDR; U. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 184 x 24. Weight in Grams: 800.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226791593
ISBN
9780226791593
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.06

Hardback. An introduction to a special class of hierarchical systems of optimal control, where subsystems are described by partial differential equations of various types. It is of interest to specialists in operations research, optimization, optimal control, and mathematical physics. Series: Applied Optimization. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBWR; PDE; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792361756
ISBN
9780792361756
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.33

Hardback. This basic guide introduces the relationships between observation, perception, and learning that form the substance of hierarchy theory. This theory aims to answer the question of whether there is a basic structure to nature, comprising discreet levels of organization within an overall pattern. Num Pages: 208 pages, 44 H/T, 43 line. BIC Classification: HPK; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231084802
ISBN
9780231084802
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.05

Paperback. A new particle - and very likely a new kind of particle - had been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider, the huge particle accelerator designed to reproduce energies present in the universe a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. It explains epochal discovery and it's startlingly beautiful implications. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 5. Weight in Grams: 70.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847922571
ISBN
9781847922571
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.10

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