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Hardback. Num Pages: 238 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: PDX; PHDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783764353988
- ISBN
- 9783764353988
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.30
€ 106.30
paperback. Series: Cold War History. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJK; HBL; HPC; JPA; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349432219
- ISBN
- 9781349432219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.94
€ 126.94
Hardback. Conveys the excitement and wonder that research in physics generated in the 20th century. Num Pages: 114 pages, 87 black & white illustrations, 41 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 114
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387952475
- ISBN
- 9780387952475
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 47.60
€ 52.93
€ 47.60
Hardback. Tells two intertwined stories: how, in early twentieth-century Iran, an emerging middle class used scientific knowledge as its cultural and economic capital, and how, along with the state, it employed biomedical sciences to tackle presumably modern problems like the stress of everyday life, people's defective willpower and demographic stagnation. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1FBN; HBJF1; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254473
- ISBN
- 9780520254473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.36€ 65.36
€ 84.36
€ 65.36
paperback. The primary focus of this work is the mathematical, philosophical, and historical interest in the analytic solution to the lunar problem using the Hill-Brown method. It describes the development of the modern theory and calculation of the Moon's motion. Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Num Pages: 323 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations, 13 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PBX; PDX; PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer United States
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Number of pages
- 323
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461426141
- ISBN
- 9781461426141
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.19
€ 128.19
hardcover. The primary focus of this work is the mathematical, philosophical, and historical interest in the analytic solution to the lunar problem using the Hill-Brown method. It describes the development of the modern theory and calculation of the Moon's motion. Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Num Pages: 323 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations, 13 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 181 x 28. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer United States
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Number of pages
- 323
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441959362
- ISBN
- 9781441959362
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.61
€ 129.61
Paperback. This first major study of a curiously neglected term in the history of sexuality will intrigue students, scholars and enthusiasts alike. The authors take us through a journey across four centuries, showing how notions of sexual coldness and frigidity have been thought about by legal, medical, psychiatric, psychoanalytic and literary writers. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBTB; JHBK; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 323
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349338139
- ISBN
- 9781349338139
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.46
€ 127.46
Hardback. Henry More (1614-1687), the Cambridge Platonist, is often presented as an elusive and contradictory figure, who defended the existence of witchcraft and wrote on the nature of the soul and the world of spirits. This book places his religious and philosophical preoccupations centre-stage, and provides a coherent interpretation of his work. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 609.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402015021
- ISBN
- 9781402015021
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.90
€ 199.90
Hardcover. The untold story of an eccentric, scientific visionary whose death-defying research has saved millions of lives. Num Pages: 432 pages, 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; PDX; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 167 x 40. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871406774
- ISBN
- 9780871406774
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.92
€ 30.99
€ 25.92
The first study on Renaissance theories of weather in five decades, Renaissance Meteorology offers a novel understanding of traditional natural philosophy and its impact on the development of modern science. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; PDX; RBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 232 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421401874
- ISBN
- 9781421401874
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardback. It alters present perceptions not only of the scientific revolution but of the role of Renaissance humanism in the forging of modernity. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HRAM3; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421413167
- ISBN
- 9781421413167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.34
€ 69.34
Paperback. Proceedings of the Symposium on Soviet Scientific Research, NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium, Semptember 24-26,1986 Editor(s): Sinclair, Craig. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JPA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789401081320
- ISBN
- 9789401081320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.15
€ 67.15
A work on the Timaeus that takes Plato's Cosmology as starting point. Num Pages: 390 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCA; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 390
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872203877
- ISBN
- 9780872203877
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.83€ 44.33
€ 55.83
€ 44.33
Paperback. From Jules Verne to the Jetsons, from a 500-passenger flying wing to an anti-aircraft flying buzz-saw, the vision of the future as seen through the eyes of the past demonstrates the play of the American imagination on the canvas of the future. Num Pages: 176 pages, 166, 166 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCX; PDR; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 252 x 10. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801853999
- ISBN
- 9780801853999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.16
€ 48.16
Hardback. The Presocratics were the first in Western thought to interpret the universe critically. This book offers an accessible account of the founding and evolution of their thought, and it sheds unprecedented light on the scientific dimension of their work. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 309 pages, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPCA; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 309
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402097904
- ISBN
- 9781402097904
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.73
€ 133.73
Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: HB; PDX; TBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 210 x 10. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1919
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783662392270
- ISBN
- 9783662392270
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.61
€ 72.61
Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PDX; TBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1918
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783662244777
- ISBN
- 9783662244777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.59
€ 71.59
paperback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PDX; TBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 210 x 16. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1907
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1907
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642505423
- ISBN
- 9783642505423
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 79.92
€ 79.92
Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PDX; TBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 210 x 5. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1910
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642503597
- ISBN
- 9783642503597
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.21
€ 71.21
Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PDX; TBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1909
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642484797
- ISBN
- 9783642484797
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.31
€ 74.31