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Hardback. This books examines the conditions under which scientists compromised the ideals of science, and elucidates these with reference to the challenges of profit motives and national security concerns. The book also offers suggestions for changing the political and economic conditions under which the integrity of science and its ethos can be practiced. Num Pages: 121 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; PDA; PDR; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 307.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 121
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137519412
- ISBN
- 9781137519412
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.98
€ 65.98
Paperback. Designed to be read and taught, the book offers a critical historical view, providing historians, policy makers, researchers, program managers, and students with an essential new perspective on the formation and implementation of global-health policies and practices. Num Pages: 432 pages, 20, 15 black & white halftones, 5 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MBN; MBX; PDX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421420332
- ISBN
- 9781421420332
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.33
€ 44.99
€ 37.33
Paperback. Film tie-in: an intimate portrait of Charles Darwin Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ; PDX; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848542020
- ISBN
- 9781848542020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.12
€ 13.99
€ 11.12
An American Scientist on the Research Frontier. Edward Morley, Communi...
Ralph R. (University Of Oklahoma) Hamerla
Paperback. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 391.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048170388
- ISBN
- 9789048170388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
An American Scientist on the Research Frontier. Edward Morley, Communi...
Ralph R. (University Of Oklahoma) Hamerla
Hardback. A study of the nineteenth-century American scientist Edward Williams Morley. By revealing important aspects of the scientific culture of the American heartland, it deepens our understanding of this individual scientist and of American science more broadly. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 565.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402040887
- ISBN
- 9781402040887
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.01
€ 133.01
Paperback. Tracks the astonishing growth of geology's prestige in Britain, exploring how a geohistory far more alluring than the standard six days of Creation was assembled and sold to the wider Bible-reading public. Num Pages: 542 pages, 8 colour plates, 89 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; PDX; RBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 181 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1014.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 542
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226103204
- ISBN
- 9780226103204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.30
€ 54.99
€ 43.30
Paperback. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; PG; PHDV; PHVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441924193
- ISBN
- 9781441924193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 100.48
€ 100.48
Paperback. Focuses on the early history of biological field stations and the role these played in the rise of zoological place-based research. The author examines the material and social context in which field stations arose, the actual research that was produced in these places. It tours through the history of studying nature in nature. Num Pages: 320 pages, 44 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; PDX; PSV; TQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226142067
- ISBN
- 9780226142067
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 36.61
€ 46.99
€ 36.61
Paperback. Using both personal and general historical contexts, this book offers an authoritative account of the rational asymptotic modeling approach. It traces the developments in the field from its early beginnings to the present day. Num Pages: 178 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PHDF; PHU; PHVG; TGMF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783662522424
- ISBN
- 9783662522424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.44
€ 126.44
Hardcover. Five Decades of Tackling Models for Stiff Fluid Dynamics Problems Num Pages: 178 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PHDF; PHU; PHVG; TGMF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 15. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642395406
- ISBN
- 9783642395406
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.13
€ 127.13
Hardcover. Takes you on a journey through time and space. The author begins at "year zero," and looks back from there, photographing the past in the present. Alongside the photographs, she combines tales of her worldly adventures tracking down these subjects with informative insight from the scientists who are studying them and their environments. Num Pages: 304 pages, 120 colour plates, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: AJB; AJC; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 238 x 1. Weight in Grams: 2084.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226057507
- ISBN
- 9780226057507
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.97
€ 65.97
Paperback. "A fine treatment of this critical time in geology's history. Although it goes against our standard histories of the field, Laudan defends her views convincingly. Her style is direct, with carefully reasoned personal opinions and interpretations clearly defined." Jere H. Lipps, "The Scientist"" Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. Num Pages: 290 pages, 16ill. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; PDX; PNV; RBGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 0002-
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226469478
- ISBN
- 9780226469478
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.39
€ 41.39
Paperback. Editor(s): Clifton, R.K. Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; PDE; PDX; TBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048146437
- ISBN
- 9789048146437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Paperback. Rob White reconsiders Freud's controversial theory of inherited memory, referring it both to Anglo-American commentary and post-structuralist work on psychoanalysis. White proposes that this theory is evidence of an underlying haunted retrospection in Freudian theorizing, which time and again discovers that meaning has been lost. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFD; D; HPM; JF; JMAF; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 189
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349280896
- ISBN
- 9781349280896
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.38
€ 126.38
Hardback. A description of the development of a class of statistical fitting procedures between 1750 and 1900. It contains detailed algebraic descriptions of the fitting of linear relationships by the method of least squares and the least absolute deviations and minimax absolute deviations procedures. Series: Springer Series in Statistics. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; PBT; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387985985
- ISBN
- 9780387985985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.34
€ 133.34
Hardcover. This book is essential for anyone interested in knowing how science works nationally and internationally in the contemporary world. It offers a comprehensive analysis of scientific collaboration and its relation to development and the productivity of scientists, with specific reference to South Africa in both the past and the present. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; GTF; PDK; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493064
- ISBN
- 9781137493064
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFC; JHB; PDR; PDX; YQS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349504725
- ISBN
- 9781349504725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.42
€ 66.42
Paperback. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 432 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBD; HBJD1; HPC; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349431854
- ISBN
- 9781349431854
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.39
€ 128.39
Hardcover. In what variety of ways has the human mind, with its subjectivity and its capacity for self-deception, but also its piercing gifts of discovery, managed to come to terms with 'the whimsical tricks of nature'? This book conveys historical thought about modes of scientific advance. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 478 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 835.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1999th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792357742
- ISBN
- 9780792357742
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 203.33
€ 203.33
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.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349464395
- ISBN
- 9781349464395
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.82
€ 126.82