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Hardcover. Founded around 1700 by a group of German Lutherans known as Pietists, the Halle Orphanage became the institutional headquarters of a universal seminar that still stands largely intact today. The author reveals, those teaching and training in Halle Orphanage contributed to the transformation of scientific observation and its related activities. Num Pages: 200 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226243771
- ISBN
- 9780226243771
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 36.38
€ 46.99
€ 36.38
Hardback. A unique account of Thomas Jefferson's passion for science, the influence of science on his vision for America, and the amazing extent of his scientific contributions Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300184037
- ISBN
- 9780300184037
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.56
€ 26.99
€ 20.56
Hardcover. Suitable for those interested in popular science, this title focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain and demonstrates how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6 halftones, 9 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; PDX; PDZ; PHR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226680736
- ISBN
- 9780226680736
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.29€ 46.02
€ 53.29
€ 46.02
Paperback. Women's bodies and the study of anatomy in Italy between the late thirteenth and the mid-sixteenth centuries. Num Pages: 419 pages, 62 b&w illus. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; PDX; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Zone Books United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 419
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781890951689
- ISBN
- 9781890951689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.92
€ 33.99
€ 24.92
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 25. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520282292
- ISBN
- 9780520282292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.55
€ 35.99
€ 26.55
Paperback. This volume models a new path where historicized and cultural accounts of scientific practice retain their specificity and complexity without falling into the traps of cultural essentialism, examining issues that range from the history of quadratic equations in China to the studying of employment discrimination in the social sciences. Editor(s): Chemla, Karine; Keller, Evelyn Fox. Num Pages: 424 pages, 35 illustrations. BIC Classification: PDR; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822363729
- ISBN
- 9780822363729
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Hardback. This volume models a new path where historicized and cultural accounts of scientific practice retain their specificity and complexity without falling into the traps of cultural essentialism, examining issues that range from the history of quadratic equations in China to the studying of employment discrimination in the social sciences. Editor(s): Chemla, Karine; Keller, Evelyn Fox. Num Pages: 424 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: PDR; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822363569
- ISBN
- 9780822363569
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.47
€ 128.47
Paperback. A challenge to the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of knowledge construction in botany, cartography, terrestrial surveying, linguistics, education and colonial administration, Raj demonstrates the crucial role of intercultural encounter and circulation. Num Pages: 304 pages, 2 maps, 24 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FK; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230238503
- ISBN
- 9780230238503
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 130.24€ 124.82
€ 130.24
€ 124.82
Paperback. Eureka! Discover the real stories behind the history of science Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: PDX; PDZ; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848542013
- ISBN
- 9781848542013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.85
€ 15.99
€ 11.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691176345
- ISBN
- 9780691176345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.98
€ 33.99
€ 24.98
Paperback. The definitive edition of one of the most important scientific books of the twentieth century, setting out the conceptual structure underlying evolutionary biology. Num Pages: 784 pages, 2 b&w illus. BIC Classification: PDX; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1080.
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 784
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- The Definitive Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262513661
- ISBN
- 9780262513661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.84€ 54.59
€ 56.84
€ 54.59
Hardback. How did Europeans three centuries apart respond to two mysterious beasts a living rhinoceros previously known only from ancient texts and a nameless monster's massive bones? Juan Pimentel shows that their reactions reflect deep cultural changes but also the enduring power of image and imagination to shape our understanding of the natural world. Translator(s): Mason, Peter. Num Pages: 324 pages, 66 halftones. BIC Classification: PDX; PSVW7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 150 x 31. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674737129
- ISBN
- 9780674737129
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.76
€ 33.99
€ 28.76
Paperback. "Uncommonly good .. makes a compelling case that .. intellectual curiosity not only changed Europe, but launched modernity." -Cleveland Plain Dealer Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; WTLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393349795
- ISBN
- 9780393349795
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.51
€ 17.99
€ 16.51
Hardcover. An engrossing history of the voyages of exploration that ignited curiosity about nature and gave birth to modern science. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; RGR; WTLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 27. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393239515
- ISBN
- 9780393239515
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.64
€ 27.99
€ 24.64
Hardback. With its crucial role in the development of European astronomy, as well as the physical sciences under Islam and in Jewish culture, this book contains an important episode in Islamic intellectual history, Jewish civilization, and the history of astronomy. Translator(s): Morrison, Robert G. Series: Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship. Num Pages: 410 pages, 79 b/w line drawings. BIC Classification: PDX; PG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520287990
- ISBN
- 9780520287990
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.73€ 72.84
€ 94.73
€ 72.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PDN; PDX; PHK; TBX; THR; TJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 180 x 14. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- I.E.E.E.Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780780311930
- ISBN
- 9780780311930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 151.19
€ 151.19
Paperback. Based on interviews with physicists of all ages this text examines how their hopes, dreams and ambitions have evolved. The study reveals how greatness eludes nearly all people in their heroic quests for extraordinary achievment. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 line drawings, 15 tables. BIC Classification: PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226327679
- ISBN
- 9780226327679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.00
€ 31.99
€ 25.00
Paperback. What can we learn when we study people over the years and across the course of their professional lives? In this title, the author asks this question specifically about scientists and answers it here by tracking fifty-five physicists through different stages of their careers at a variety of universities across the country. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 line drawing, 29 tables. BIC Classification: PD; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226005645
- ISBN
- 9780226005645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 37.45
€ 47.99
€ 37.45
paperback. This collection of essay explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early- modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national. Num Pages: 248 pages, 43 illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804755443
- ISBN
- 9780804755443
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.70
€ 33.99
€ 30.70
Hardback. This collection of essay explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early- modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national. Num Pages: 248 pages, 43 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804755436
- ISBN
- 9780804755436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.23
€ 139.23