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Science: general issues
Paperback. From the age of ten, looking up at the stars, Jerry Ross knew that he wanted to journey into space. This autobiography tells the story of how he came not only to achieve that goal, but to become the most-launched astronaut in history, as well as a NASA veteran whose career spanned the entire US Space Shuttle program. Num Pages: 320 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: B; PDZ; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. .
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557537850
- ISBN
- 9781557537850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99
€ 20.99
Paperback. Laboratory Techniques in Organic Chemistry is the most comprehensive presentation of the lab techniques that organic chemistry students need to know. Compatible with any organic chemistry lab manual or set of experiments, it provides effective support for guided-inquiry and design-based experiments, as well as traditional lab experiments. Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PDN; PNN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 181 x 254 x 17. Weight in Grams: 746.
- Publisher
- W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Fourth Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781464134227
- ISBN
- 9781464134227
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Condition: New
€ 102.83€ 99.10
€ 102.83
€ 99.10
Paperback. Over the coming decades, Artificial Intelligence will profoundly impact the way we work and live. Whose interests should such systems serve? What limits should we place on their use? This book is a succinct introduction to the complex social, ethical, legal, and economic issues raised by the emergence of intelligent machines. Series: What Everyone Needs to Know. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: PDA; PDZ; UYQ; UYZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190602390
- ISBN
- 9780190602390
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.54
€ 14.99
€ 12.54
Paperback. Why Evolution is True focuses on the hard evidence that proves evolution by natural selection to be a fact. Weaving together and explaining the latest discoveries and ideas from many disparate areas of modern science, this succinct and important book will leave no one with an open mind in any doubt about the truth-and the beauty-of evolution Num Pages: 336 pages, 27 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZ; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199230853
- ISBN
- 9780199230853
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.08
€ 15.99
€ 13.08
Paperback. Outlines new directions for the study of religion and/as technology that will resonate across the human sciences Editor(s): Stolow, Jeremy. Num Pages: 368 pages, 9 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAM3; HRAX; PDX; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823249817
- ISBN
- 9780823249817
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.94
€ 45.94
Paperback. A fascinating and unique anthropological study. Num Pages: 272 pages, b&w line drawings. BIC Classification: JMTK; PDZ; PSAK1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780753808511
- ISBN
- 9780753808511
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 6.28
€ 10.99
€ 6.28
paperback. Num Pages: 768 pages, 118 black and white. BIC Classification: PDZ; PSAJ; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 42. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- WTM Publishing and Communications
- Condition
- New
- Publication date
- 2016
- SKU
- V9781741290240
- ISBN
- 9781741290240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.55
€ 20.99
€ 19.55
hardcover. Jeremy Brown offers the first major study of the Jewish reception of the Copernican revolution, examining four hundred years of Jewish writings on the Copernican model. Brown shows the ways in which Jews ignored, rejected, or accepted the Copernican model, and the theological and societal underpinnings of their choices. Num Pages: 416 pages, 2 color halftones; 24 black and white halftones and line drawings. BIC Classification: HRAM3; HRAX; HRJT; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 167 x 24. Weight in Grams: 730. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033648
- ISBN
- 9780199754793
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; PDR; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 42. Weight in Grams: 772.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300208672
- ISBN
- 9780300208672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.17
€ 41.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 34. BIC Classification: PDX; PNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801475177
- ISBN
- 9780801475177
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.68
€ 22.68
Hardback. Jeremy Bernstein guides readers through high-energy physics from early twentieth-century atomic models to leptons, mesons, quarks, and the newly discovered Higgs boson, drawing them into the excitement of a universe where 80 percent of all matter has never been identified. From molecules to galaxies, the more we discover, the less we seem to know. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11 halftones, 11 line illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 121 x 180 x 22. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072510
- ISBN
- 9780674072510
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.27
€ 58.27
Paperback. Greene's history sheds light on the controversies shadowing the success of generics: problems with the generalizability of medical knowledge, the fragile role of science in public policy, and the increasing role of industry, marketing, and consumer logics in late-twentieth-century and early twenty-first century health care. Num Pages: 376 pages, 17, 8 black & white halftones, 9 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MBX; MMG; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 28. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421421643
- ISBN
- 9781421421643
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.65
€ 37.65
Paperback. Argues that the long abeyance of the Diversity Project points to larger, fundamental questions about how to understand knowledge, democracy, and racism in an age when expert claims about genomes increasingly shape the possibilities for being human. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL; PDR; PDX; TCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691118574
- ISBN
- 9780691118574
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.07
€ 57.07
Paperback. The second edition of a highly successful introductory textbook on essential mathematics. Num Pages: 650 pages, 592 b/w illus. 14 tables 770 exercises. BIC Classification: PDE; PH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 274 x 218 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1596. A Self-help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students. 648 pages, 592 b/w illus. 14 tables 770 exercises. New edition of highly successful introductory textbook on essential mathematics. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: PDE; PH. Dimension: 274 x 218 x 48. Weight: 1670.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 648
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521017077
- ISBN
- 9780521017077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.60
€ 58.60
Paperback. Recovering the controversies and commentary surrounding the early creation of scientific photography and drawing on a wide range of new sources and critical theories, Tucker establishes a greater understanding of the rich visual culture of Victorian science and alternative forms of knowledge, including psychical research. Num Pages: 308 pages, 68, 68 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; AJC; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421410937
- ISBN
- 9781421410937
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.62
€ 48.62
Paperback. This Revision Workbook has been specifically written for Unit 8: Scientific Skills in Application of Science of the Level 2 BTEC Firsts in Applied Science. Worked examples, exam questions, revision practice questions and 'test yourself' questions prepare learners for the Unit 8 exam. Series: BTEC First Applied Science 2012. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 4KVTF; PD. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 295 x 212 x 6. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781446902844
- ISBN
- 9781446902844
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.61
€ 11.61
Paperback. This Revision Workbook is specifically written for the externally assessed Unit 1: Principles of Science in Award 1 of the Level 2 BTEC Firsts in Applied Science. Series: BTEC First Applied Science 2012. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 4KVTF; PD. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 211 x 297 x 5. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781446902783
- ISBN
- 9781446902783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.89
€ 11.89
Paperback. This Revision Guide is specifically written for the externally assessed Unit 8: Scientific skills in Application of Science of the Level 2 BTEC Firsts in Applied Science. This guide will help learners revise examination topics and is cross-referenced to the companion Student Book for ease of use. Series: BTEC First Applied Science 2012. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 4KVTF; PD. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 295 x 212 x 5. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781446902837
- ISBN
- 9781446902837
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.85
€ 11.85
Paperback. The Nature of Cities brings together environmental and urban history to reveal how, over four decades, this ecological vision shaped the development of cities around the nation. Num Pages: 328 pages, 12, 3 black & white line drawings, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBJK; JHB; PDX; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421413846
- ISBN
- 9781421413846
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.91
€ 49.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CBW; CJCW; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publisher
- BMJ Publishing Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780727916259
- ISBN
- 9780727916259
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.47
€ 69.47
Six historical case studies-two from Britain, one each from France and Germany, and two from the United States-illustrate the concept's fascinating development and provide context for the meanings of, and uses for, efficiency today and in the future. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10, 8 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JFCX; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801886935
- ISBN
- 9780801886935
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40
Paperback. Series: Electronic Mediations. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PDR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 180 x 255 x 24. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816693146
- ISBN
- 9780816693146
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.93
€ 39.93
Paperback. From mobile phones to surveillance cameras, from fracking to genetically modified food, we live in an age of intense debate about technology's place in our culture. This book is an essential guide and a primer for beginners and a suitable resource for those deeply committed to understanding the new digital culture. Num Pages: 269 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; JFCD; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 225 x 16. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781433107757
- ISBN
- 9781433107757
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.01
€ 39.01
Hardcover. The Principle of Least Action underlies all physics and leads into quantum mechanics and Einstein's Relativity. There are some textbooks that do the calculations, and one book with nice pictures, but no book (before this one) that explains what 'action' is, and why nature follows this principle. Num Pages: 272 pages, 52. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198743040
- ISBN
- 9780198743040
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.40
€ 54.40