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Science: general issues
Hardback. If you've ever wondered whether you have what it takes to be the ultimate human-machine hero, then this book is for you. Num Pages: 224 pages, 41, 12 black & white line drawings, 29 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: FXS; PD; TB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421402260
- ISBN
- 9781421402260
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.20
€ 36.20
Paperback. Chang examines how scientists first created thermometers; how they measured temperature beyond the reach of standard thermometers; and how they managed to assess the reliability and accuracy of these instruments without a circular reliance on the instruments themselves. Series: Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 304 pages, Black and white throughout. BIC Classification: HP; JFCX; PDA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195337389
- ISBN
- 9780195337389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.08
€ 70.08
Far from being a record of southern failure, Lakwete concludes, the cotton gin-correctly understood-supplies evidence that the slave labor-based antebellum South innovated, industrialized, and modernized. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Num Pages: 248 pages, 26, 16 black & white halftones, 10 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB; PDX; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801873942
- ISBN
- 9780801873942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.53
€ 67.53
Paperback. A book about art, literature, science -- and meteorology Num Pages: 304 pages, facsimiles, portraits. BIC Classification: BGH; PDX; PDZ; WNWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Edition
- Reprints
- Publisher
- Picador
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330391955
- ISBN
- 9780330391955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.73
€ 15.99
€ 11.73
Paperback. Translator(s): Smith, Daniel W. Series: Theory out of bounds. BIC Classification: 1D; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 251 x 177 x 11. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816630561
- ISBN
- 9780816630561
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.48
€ 27.99
€ 26.48
Paperback. "From this lively and personal account, we learn that we can all practice inventorship to great advantage-measured either in gold or pleasure, or perhaps both!"-From the Foreword by Walter Cronkite "Inventorship is truly the stuff from which the future will be molded. Num Pages: 256 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: KJH; PDG; TBY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471414070
- ISBN
- 9780471414070
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.74
€ 32.99
€ 25.74
Paperback. Investigating Science Communication in the Information Age is a collection of newly-commissioned chapters by leading science communication scholars. It addresses current theoretical, practical and policy developments in science communication, and engagement and dialogue on the part of professional scientists with members of the public. Editor(s): Holliman, Richard; Whitelegg, Elizabeth; Scanlon, Eileen; Smidt, Sam; Thomas, Jeffrey L. Series: Communicating Science in the Information Age. Num Pages: 312 pages, 11 BW line, 8 BW half-tone, 2 plates. BIC Classification: CBWJ; CBWT; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 246 x 172 x 15. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199552665
- ISBN
- 9780199552665
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.89
€ 58.89
Hardback. In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France, a number of groups turned to the wondrous and occult as a means of understanding and explaining the world. This title examines these varied efforts through the phenomena witnessed at seances. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBJD; HRQX; MBX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421400136
- ISBN
- 9781421400136
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.28
€ 63.28
Hardcover. Series: Acting with Technology. Num Pages: 248 pages, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 1H; PDR; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 237 x 18. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262017367
- ISBN
- 9780262017367
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 43.87
€ 50.99
€ 43.87
Paperback. If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex. Perhaps all three. Impulses like these have always been at the heart of our fascination with invisibility. This book offers a history of humanity's turbulent relationship with the invisible. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: PDX; PDZ; PHJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099590439
- ISBN
- 9780099590439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.66
€ 23.99
€ 17.66
Paperback / so. Series: Sammlung Vieweg. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: GB; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1967
- Publisher
- Vieweg+Teubner Verlag United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783663063520
- ISBN
- 9783663063520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.84
€ 69.84
paperback. Num Pages: 295 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: GB; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 16. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Birkhäuser Switzerland
- Edition
- 1991st Edition
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783034852258
- ISBN
- 9783034852258
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.67
€ 69.67
Paperback / so. Series: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fur Forschung Des Landes Nordrhein-Westf. Num Pages: 63 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: GB; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 135.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 63
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783663006893
- ISBN
- 9783663006893
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.48
€ 68.48
Paperback. This sensitive and enthralling history of the USS Monitor ensures that this fateful ship, and the men who served on it, will be remembered for generations to come. Series: Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Technology. Num Pages: 208 pages, 15, 11 black & white halftones, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HBWJ; PDX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- updated edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421405209
- ISBN
- 9781421405209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.63
€ 31.99
€ 26.63
Hardcover. An exploration of the evolution of political complexity and centralizaton in Hunza, a remote high-mountain kingdom in the western Karakoram mountains. The study follows the argument that the rise of the Hunza state is linked to the construction of Hunza's large-scale irrigation works. Num Pages: 198 pages, 20 photographs. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; HBLL; HBTP; JHM; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761802044
- ISBN
- 9780761802044
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.15
€ 81.15
Paperback / so. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: GB; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783663030331
- ISBN
- 9783663030331
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.58
€ 70.58
Paperback. Informed by material as divergent as quantum physics, 'mirror' neurons, and Libet's experimental results, this philosophical exploration of the conflict between free will and resurgent neuroscientific determinism combines scientific rigor and deep analysis. Editor(s): Suarez, Antoine; Adams, Peter. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMR; PDA; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781489996329
- ISBN
- 9781489996329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 185.48
€ 185.48
Paperback. Explores what the last few decades of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. This book proposes new directions for thinking about objectivity, method, and reflexivity in light of the new understandings developed in the post-World War II world. Series: Race, Gender, & Science. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 171 x 16. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st PB Edition
- SKU
- V9780253211569
- ISBN
- 9780253211569
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.72
€ 20.72
Hardcover. Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races. Series: Debating Race. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: JFMG; JFSL1; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 122 x 16. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 140
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780745689210
- ISBN
- 9780745689210
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.56
€ 53.56
Paperback. Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races. Series: Debating Race. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: JFMG; JFSL1; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 126 x 189 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745689227
- ISBN
- 9780745689227
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.70
€ 15.70