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History of science
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
€ 67.81
€ 67.81
Paperback. Although there is no exact equivalent to our term science in Greek, Western science may still be said to have originated with the Greeks, for they were the first to attempt to explain natural phenomena consistently in naturalistic terms, and they initiated the practices of rational criticism of scientific theories. Num Pages: 176 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 174
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393005837
- ISBN
- 9780393005837
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.54
€ 15.99
€ 14.54
Hardback. The Proactionary Imperative debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity's privilege as a species, our capacity to 'play God', the idea that we might treat our genes as a capital investment, eugenics and what it might mean to be 'human' in the context of risky scientific and technological interventions. Num Pages: 162 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFM; JHBA; PDA; PDX; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 162
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137302977
- ISBN
- 9781137302977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.25
€ 138.25
Paperback / so. Num Pages: 56 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JNU; PBM; PBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 4. Weight in Grams: 109.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1922
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 56
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642940170
- ISBN
- 9783642940170
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.30
€ 70.30
Hardback. Editor(s): Stadler, Friedrich. Series: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook. Num Pages: 176 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319532578
- ISBN
- 9783319532578
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.74
€ 116.74
hardcover. Series: Vienna Circle Institute Library. Num Pages: 712 pages, 125 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1232.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer Switzerland
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Number of pages
- 712
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319165608
- ISBN
- 9783319165608
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 198.79
€ 198.79
Hardback. Series: Veroffentlichungen Des Instituts Wiener Kreis. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: HPCF; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1179.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319160474
- ISBN
- 9783319160474
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 177.16
€ 177.16
Paperback. Series: Vienna Circle Institute Library. Num Pages: 712 pages, 125 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPCF; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1080.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 712
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319368665
- ISBN
- 9783319368665
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 197.56
€ 197.56
Hardcover. Num Pages: 454 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PB; PDX; TBX; UB; UY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 957.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783540857891
- ISBN
- 9783540857891
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.79
€ 91.79
Paperback / so. Veranstaltet von der Technischen Universitat Chemnitz- Zwickau und der Georg-Agricola-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik e.V." Editor(s): Naumann, Friedrich. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PDX; TBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 26. Weight in Grams: 807.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Basel Switzerland
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783034871600
- ISBN
- 9783034871600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 42.48
€ 48.99
€ 42.48
Paperback. Revised and updated from the original 1986 edition, this definitive study of the most famous invention of America's most famous inventor is completely keyed to the printed and electronic versions of the Edison Papers, inviting the reader to explore further the remarkable original sources. Series: Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Technology. Num Pages: 248 pages, 20, 20 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: PDX; THR. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894824
- ISBN
- 9780801894824
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.65
€ 43.65
Paperback. How do major scientific discoveries reshape their originators, and our own, sense of reality and concept of the physical world? This work explores the interaction between physics and philosophy. It concludes that the dance between science and philosophy is an evolutionary process, which will keep them forever entwined. Num Pages: 355 pages, 19 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 355
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783540213741
- ISBN
- 9783540213741
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 139.38
€ 139.38
Hardcover. This interdisciplinary study surveys the evolution of our changing conceptions of time, organizing coverage around the central themes of cosmology and regularity, stasis and flux, symmetry and asymmetry. Defends a dynamic, rather than a static view of time. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642353468
- ISBN
- 9783642353468
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 35.23
€ 41.99
€ 35.23
Hardback. Scientific ideas change the way we think about the world and our place in it. Nicolaus Copernicus developed a heliocentric view of the cosmos that displaced humans from the physical center of the universe. Charles Darwin developed an evolutionary theory that placed humans firmly within the organismic order of nature. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 258 x 184 x 21. Weight in Grams: 704.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405181846
- ISBN
- 9781405181846
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.94
€ 113.94
Paperback. Scientific ideas change the way we think about the world and our place in it. Nicolaus Copernicus developed a heliocentric view of the cosmos that displaced humans from the physical center of the universe. Charles Darwin developed an evolutionary theory that placed humans firmly within the organismic order of nature. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 172 x 15. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405181839
- ISBN
- 9781405181839
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.32
€ 41.32
Hardback. Num Pages: 260 pages, 32 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations, 8 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX; PHR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 242 x 22. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319317076
- ISBN
- 9783319317076
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.39
€ 128.39
Hardcover. By examining writings of Kepler, Godwin, Hooke, Cyrano, Cavendish, Fontenelle, and others, this title shows that it was through the telling of stories - such as accounts of celestial journeys - that the Copernican hypothesis, for example, found an ontological weight that its geometric models did not provide. Translator(s): Emanuel, Susan. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: DSBD; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226011226
- ISBN
- 9780226011226
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.41€ 50.94
€ 59.41
€ 50.94
Hardback. Leonhart Fuchs's herbal recognized for more than four centuries as a masterpiece of Renaissance botany and one of the most beautiful books ever printed now appears in a facsimile edition, accompanied by a volume of commentary based on three decades of historical and botanical research. Num Pages: 1864 pages, 561 half-tones 100 colour plates. BIC Classification: MMG; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 259 x 366 x 130. Weight in Grams: 6314.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 1864
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738033
- ISBN
- 9780804738033
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 395.02
€ 395.02
Hardback. August Weismann's 1892 theory that inheritance is transmitted through eggs and sperm provided the biological mechanism for natural selection. In this full-length biography, Frederick Churchill situates Weismann in the swirling intellectual currents of his day and shows how his work paved the way for the modern synthesis of genetics and evolution. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: BGT; PDX; PS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 171 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1174.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674736894
- ISBN
- 9780674736894
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.73€ 56.94
€ 61.73
€ 56.94
paperback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PDX; RBP; TBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 210 x 13. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1949
- Publisher
- Springer Austria
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1949
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783211801239
- ISBN
- 9783211801239
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.76
€ 73.76