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Science: general issues

Paperback. In examining the role that timing can play in the establishment of theory and explanation, this book argues that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics was accepted not because it was better than David Bohm's (who supplied an alternative explanation), but because it appeared first. Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. Num Pages: 328 pages, 13 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFCX; PDA; PDX; PHQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226132044
ISBN
9780226132044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.56
€ 44.87

Hardcover. The natural world is full of unusual relationships, and negotiation between life-forms striving to survive is evolution at its most diverse and awe-inspiring. This title takes us on a voyage of discovery into the world of unusual natural histories, focusing on extraordinary interactions involving animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria. Illustrator(s): Crump, Alan. Num Pages: 224 pages, 120 line drawings. BIC Classification: PDZ; WNC; WNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226121857
ISBN
9780226121857
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 23.58

Paperback. In this text, Angela N.H. Creager introduces the reader to the plant virus that taught much of what we know about all viruses, including the lethal ones, and that also played a crucial role in the development of molecular biology. Num Pages: 398 pages, 30 halftones, 31 line drawings. BIC Classification: 3JJ; PDX; PSGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
398
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226120263
ISBN
9780226120263
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 40.29

Hardcover. Offers recommendations on all matters of writing style and citation. Developed by the Council of Science Editors (CSE), the leading professional association in science publishing, this guide encompasses all areas of the sciences. It has been fully revised to reflect the best practices in scientific publishing. Num Pages: 840 pages, 75 line drawings, 126 tables. BIC Classification: CBW; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 187 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1738.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Eighth Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226116495
ISBN
9780226116495
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.92
€ 64.02

Paperback. Presents the English translation of "Protogaea", a central text in natural philosophy and an account of terrestrial history. Num Pages: 204 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226113012
ISBN
9780226113012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 40.29

Paperback. Examines the body of work on the intellectual, social and cultural origins of early modern science. Cohen surveys a wide range of scholarship since the 19th century, offering new perspectives on how the Scientific Revolution changed the way we understand the natural world and our place in it. Num Pages: 680 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: HBAH; JFCX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 232 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1052.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
680
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226112800
ISBN
9780226112800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.73
€ 51.43

Hardcover. Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This title explains how observing networks transformed an instant of panic and confusion into a field for scientific research, turning earthquakes into natural experiments at the nexus of the physical and human sciences. Num Pages: 368 pages, 14 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; PDX; RBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 642.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226111810
ISBN
9780226111810
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.44
€ 77.81

Hardcover. Examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species, wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite. Editor(s): Dawson, Gowan; Lightman, Bernard. Num Pages: 368 pages, 12 halftones, 2 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: 3JH; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 634.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226109503
ISBN
9780226109503
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 42.15

Hardcover. Historians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on Charles Darwin. This book reveals that two evolutionary and political traditions developed in England in the wake of the 1832 Reform Act: one Malthusian, the other decidedly anti-Malthusian. Num Pages: 464 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; JP; PDX; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226108490
ISBN
9780226108490
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 39.32

Paperback. Ten papers by prominent philosophers of science which challenge van Fraassen's thesis from a variety of realist perspectives. Together with van Fraassen's extensive reply, the articles provide a comprehensive picture of the current debate in philosophy of science between realists and anti-realists. Editor(s): Churchland, Paul M.; Hooker, C. A. Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8ill. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226106540
ISBN
9780226106540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 36.58

Paperback. Resurrects the largely forgotten figure of Velikovsky and uses his strange career and surprisingly influential writings to explore the changing definitions of the line that separates legitimate scientific inquiry from what is deemed bunk and to show how vital this question remains to us today. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226101729
ISBN
9780226101729
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.09

Paperback. The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation together fund more than $40 billion of research annually in the US and around the globe. Suitable for those who want to learn how federal legislation and regulations affect laboratory research, this primer reveals the often obscured intersection of government and science. Num Pages: 336 pages, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNT; PDG; PDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226101651
ISBN
9780226101651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 31.94

Hardcover. Drawing on a diverse collection of institutional archives, personal correspondence and papers, and interviews, the author shows how game theory offered social scientists, biologists, military strategists, and others a common, flexible language that could facilitate wide-ranging thought and debate on some of the most critical issues of the day. Num Pages: 384 pages, 2 halftones, 13 line drawings. BIC Classification: PBUD; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226097039
ISBN
9780226097039
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.28
€ 87.43

Hardcover. In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies - telegraphy, photography, cinematography - this title locates the reverberations of this 'perceptual moment' throughout culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 33 halftones. BIC Classification: PDX; PGZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 60 x 90 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226093185
ISBN
9780226093185
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.44
€ 77.81

Hardcover. Questions of national identity have long dominated China's political, social, and cultural horizons. This title uses the development of modern geology to explore this complex relationship between science and nationalism in Republican China. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPFN; PDX; RBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226090405
ISBN
9780226090405
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 42.10

Paperback. Eleven leading historians assess what their field has taught us about this time, and identify issues that remain unexamined or require reconsideration. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; HB; HP; PDX; PS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 27. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226089287
ISBN
9780226089287
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 36.53

Paperback. Tracing the cultural and scientific history of such drastically opposed convictions, this title introduces us to the scientists, venturesome medical practitioners, determined police interrogators, and, in some cases, incorrigible sensation seekers who sought to master this mysterious power. Num Pages: 336 pages, 32 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: JMRM; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226084541
ISBN
9780226084541
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 20.77

Hardcover. Today we are all familiar with the iconic pictures of the nebulae produced by the Hubble Space Telescope's digital cameras. This book sheds entirely new light on the ways in which the production and reception of hand-drawn images of the nebulae in the nineteenth century contributed to astronomical observation. Num Pages: 296 pages, 85 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JH; PDX; PGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 264 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1270.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226084374
ISBN
9780226084374
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 42.30

Hardcover. Looks inside this landscape of digital scientific work. This title chronicles the emergence of bioinformatics - the mode of working across and between biology, computing, mathematics, and statistics - from the 1960s to the present, seeking to understand how knowledge about life is made in and through virtual spaces. Num Pages: 272 pages, 19 halftones, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: MBF; PDX; PSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226080178
ISBN
9780226080178
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.11
€ 81.15

Paperback. This text focuses on the social and intellectual world of 19th-century German physics. In providing a biography of Hertz and his scientific community, Buchwald aims to reconstitute the tacit knowledge - the shared, unwritten assumptions, values and understandings - that shapes the work of science. Num Pages: 496 pages, 2 halftones, 83 line drawings, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; BG; PDX; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 27. Weight in Grams: 707.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226078885
ISBN
9780226078885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.24
€ 54.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 498 pages, 116 line drawings. BIC Classification: PDX; PHJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 35. Weight in Grams: 790.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
498
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226078861
ISBN
9780226078861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.40
€ 50.21

Paperback. Describes the transformative role played by outsiders in the growth of the modern life sciences. This volume brings together biographical essays of some of the most remarkable outsiders of the modern era - from Noam Chomsky using linguistics to answer questions about brain architecture, to Erwin Schrodinger contemplating DNA as a physicist would. Editor(s): Harman, Oren; Dietrich, Michael R. Num Pages: 376 pages, 22 halftones, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: PDX; PS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226078403
ISBN
9780226078403
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.91

Paperback. Presents a short history of the scientific visual, and then formulate a theory about the interaction between the visual and textual. This title argues that scientific meaning itself comes from the complex interplay between the verbal and the visual in the form of graphs, diagrams, maps, drawings, and photographs. Num Pages: 328 pages, 92 halftones, 46 line drawings. BIC Classification: PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226068480
ISBN
9780226068480
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.11

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226060941
ISBN
9780226060941
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.47
€ 105.15

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