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Science: general issues
Paperback. To mark the centenary of the 1910 to 1913 publication of the monumental Principia Mathematica by Alfred N. Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, this collection of fifteen new essays by distinguished scholars considers the influence and history of PM over the last hundred years. Editor(s): Griffin, N. Series: History of Analytic Philosophy. Num Pages: 485 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPL; HPM; PBB; PBX; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
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- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 485
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- New
- SKU
- V9781349466115
- ISBN
- 9781349466115
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€ 68.03
€ 68.03
Paperback. Men, Masculinities, Travel and Tourism draws together established and emerging academics that have a key interest in men, masculinity, travel and tourism. Through the chapters collected in this volume the reader will be exposed to cutting edge research and writing that offer global and local perspectives within these fields. Editor(s): Casey, M. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JFSR; JHBS; KNS; PDZ. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
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- New
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- V9781349465118
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- 9781349465118
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€ 66.08
€ 66.08
paperback. The relationship between music and the nervous system is now the subject of intense interest for scientists and people in the humanities, but this is by no means a new phenomenon. This volume sets out the history of the relationship between neurology and music, putting the advances of our era into context. Editor(s): Kennaway, James. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBL; HBTB; MJN; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
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- New
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- 1st ed. 2014
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- V9781349464470
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- 9781349464470
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€ 66.12
€ 66.12
Paperback. The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history. This cultural history reconstructs Spaniards' experience of the flu and traces the emergence of various competing narratives that arose in response to bacteriology's failure to explain and contain the disease's spread. Num Pages: 268 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
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- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 268
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- New
- SKU
- V9781349464395
- ISBN
- 9781349464395
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€ 126.85
€ 126.85
Paperback. The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing hierarchies. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBJD1; HBTB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
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- New
- SKU
- V9781349463954
- ISBN
- 9781349463954
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€ 66.42
€ 66.42
The Ethics of Animal Re-Creation and Modification. Reviving, Rewilding...
. Ed(S): Oksanen, Markku; Siipi, Helena
Paperback. Would it be cool to see woolly mammoth alive one day? Disappeared species have always fascinated the human mind. A new discussion of using genomic technologies to reverse extinction and to help in conservation has been sparked. This volume studies the question philosophically. Editor(s): Oksanen, Markku; Siipi, Helena. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; PDA; PSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
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- New
- SKU
- V9781349463831
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- 9781349463831
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€ 65.60
€ 65.60
Paperback. Editor(s): Boomgaard, P. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
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- New
- SKU
- V9781349462513
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- 9781349462513
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€ 127.21
€ 127.21
Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Z...
O'Gorman, Emily; Henry, Matthew. Ed(S): Beatt...
paperback. Editor(s): Beattie, J. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBTB; PDX; RGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
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- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349462452
- ISBN
- 9781349462452
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€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Paperback. Series: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JMAF; JPA; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
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- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 217
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- New
- SKU
- V9781349461165
- ISBN
- 9781349461165
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€ 65.66
€ 65.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCZ; KJMV6; KJQ; PDX; TJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
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- New
- SKU
- V9781349461004
- ISBN
- 9781349461004
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€ 65.66
€ 65.66
Paperback. This first major study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood shaped ideas about the lives of young women from the 1870s to the 1920s, as theories concerning the biological limitations of female adolescence were challenged and girls moved into new arenas in the workplace, sport and recreation. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; JFSJ; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
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- New
- SKU
- V9781349460373
- ISBN
- 9781349460373
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Aram, Bethany; Yun Casalilla, Bartolome. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 516.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 322
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- New
- SKU
- V9781349458912
- ISBN
- 9781349458912
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€ 149.99
€ 149.99
Paperback. Many philosophers in the analytic tradition are now convinced that metaphysical questions are worth pursuing, but we still lack a convincing meta-metaphysics and methodology. This essay offers an account of how we should conduct our business qua metaphysicians. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 185
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- New
- SKU
- V9781349458615
- ISBN
- 9781349458615
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€ 66.04
€ 66.04
Paperback. Works of theatre that depict grievous histories derive their force from making audible voices of the past. Such performances, theatrical or tourist, require the attentive belief of spectators. This engaging new study explores how theatricality works in each instance and how 'playing the part' of the listener can be understood in ethical terms. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; JHBK; JKV; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 325.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 265
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- New
- SKU
- V9781349458479
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- 9781349458479
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€ 72.02
€ 72.02
Paperback. Through an examination that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary literature, this book places the twentieth-century mental hygiene movement within the broad sweep of modern British psychiatry, offering its own reinterpretation of important elements of this history. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; MBX; MMH; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349458080
- ISBN
- 9781349458080
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€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Paperback. This trans-historical collection explores analogue performance technologies from Ancient Greece to pre-Second World War. From ancient mechanical elephants to early modern automata, Enlightenment electrical experiments to Victorian spectral illusions, this volume offers an original examination of the precursors of contemporary digital performance. Series: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; APF; AS; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 369.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349457427
- ISBN
- 9781349457427
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€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Paperback. In a broad interdisciplinary perspective, established experts and leading young scholars bring together important currents of Hegelianism in Europe from the 19th to the 21st century to trace the political, social and intellectual contexts in which Hegel's philosophy was taken up and inspired very different forms of Hegelianism and Anti-Hegelianism. Editor(s): Herzog, Lisa. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HRAB; J; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 359.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349456369
- ISBN
- 9781349456369
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€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Paperback. At the close of the 19th century, strange new forms of energy arrested the American public's attention in ways that no scientific discovery ever had before. This groundbreaking cultural history tells the story of the first nuclear culture, one whose lasting effects would be seen in the familiar "atomic age" of the post-war twentieth century. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 258 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349455478
- ISBN
- 9781349455478
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€ 150.14
€ 150.14
Paperback. Blending global scope with local depth, this book throws new light on important themes. Spanning four centuries and vast space, it combines the history of ideas with particular histories of encounters between European voyagers and Indigenous people in Oceania (Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands). Series: Palgrave Studies in Pacific History. Num Pages: 361 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBJM; HBL; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 487.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 361
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349454969
- ISBN
- 9781349454969
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€ 73.01
€ 73.01
Paperback. Editor(s): Cox, C. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ; MBS; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349454129
- ISBN
- 9781349454129
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€ 65.64
€ 65.64
Paperback. In a lively and subversive analysis, psychologist John Lambie explains how to see another person's point of view while remaining critical - in other words how to be 'critically open-minded'. Using entertaining examples from history and psychology, Lambie explores the implications of critical open-mindedness for scientific and moral progress. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HPM; HPQ; JMR; JMS; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349453382
- ISBN
- 9781349453382
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€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Paperback. In 1900 Hungary was a regional power in Europe with imperial pretensions; by 1919 it was crippled by profound territorial, social and national transformations. This book chronicles the development of eugenic thinking in early twentieth-century Hungary, examining how eugenics was an integral part of this dynamic historical transformation. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 353 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 453.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 353
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349451210
- ISBN
- 9781349451210
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€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Paperback. The author applies modified versions of pre-modern philosophy (including Aristotle and Aquinas) to psychiatry, arguing that the work of the Aristotelian philosopher, Christian and former Marxist, Alasdair MacIntyre is ideally placed to bring about a transformation of psychiatry from its current captivity to the modern scientific technical paradigm. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; MMH; MMJ; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349449217
- ISBN
- 9781349449217
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€ 66.02
€ 66.02
paperback. This beautifully written history traces the fortunes of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries in Chile. It explains how they showed Chileans a new way to see their own natural environment, teaching a younger generation of scientists there and forging international networks that helped to shape the modern world. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 309 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJK; HBL; HBTB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 397.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 309
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349449132
- ISBN
- 9781349449132
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95