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Paperback. Facts and figures have been thoroughly updated and the work includes a comprehensive Guide to Resources, incorporating the major published literature along with a vetted list of websites and Internet resources for students and lay readers. Num Pages: 544 pages, 119, 36 black & white illustrations, 83 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: PDX; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 30. .
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
third edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421417752
ISBN
9781421417752
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.75

Hardback. Traces the path of electricity through early American culture, exploring how the relationship between human, natural, and divine powers was understood in the 18th Century. This book offers a view of the origins of American science and the cultural meaning of the American Enlightenment. It talks about the revolutionary New World of wonder. Num Pages: 378 pages, 15 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBTB; PDX; PHK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 582.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674022997
ISBN
9780674022997
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.39

Paperback. Series: SpringerBriefs in Physics. Num Pages: 84 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX; PHU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 4. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
84
Condition
New
SKU
V9783642348914
ISBN
9783642348914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.46

Hardback. Thus does Dent, a little-known Supreme Court case, influence how Americans receive health care more than a hundred years after the fact. Num Pages: 224 pages, 13, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: LNTJ; MBN; MBX; PDX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421411415
ISBN
9781421411415
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Paperback. Thus does Dent, a little-known Supreme Court case, influence how Americans receive health care more than a hundred years after the fact. Num Pages: 224 pages, 13, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: LNTJ; MBN; MBX; PDX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 150 x 226 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421411422
ISBN
9781421411422
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.96

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. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2014
SKU
V9781349464470
ISBN
9781349464470
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.10

Paperback. Presents a study of that scientific work and the human struggles that accompanied quantum theory from the beginning. Series: The historical Development of Quantum Theory. Num Pages: 504 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PHQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 26. Weight in Grams: 732.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Springer
Condition
New
SKU
V9780387951751
ISBN
9780387951751
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 510.96

Paperback. Deals with the historical development of Quantum Theory. Series: The historical Development of Quantum Theory. Num Pages: 672 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PHQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 2170.
Publisher
Springer
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st ed. 2000. 1st softcover printing 2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780387951812
ISBN
9780387951812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 437.71

Paperback. Traces the issue of radioactive waste in Western countries from the end of World War II to the blossoming of the environmental movement in the early 1970s. This book looks at the myriad mishaps and subsequent cover-ups that were born out of the dilemma of where to house deadly nuclear materials. Num Pages: 326 pages. BIC Classification: PDX; RNP; TQSR3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813546742
ISBN
9780813546742
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 42.18

Paperback. .
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Ebury Publishing
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849901154
ISBN
9781849901154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

Hardback. Editor(s): Boulding, J.Russell. Series: Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice. Num Pages: 212 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, 26 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: BJ; JFSJ1; JHBK; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319465371
ISBN
9783319465371
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.27

Hardcover. The Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, was the birthplace of particle accelerators, radioisotopes, and modern big science. This title presents the laboratory's history. It helps you learn how Ernest Lawrence used local and national technological, economic, and manpower resources to build the cyclotron. Series: California Studies in the History of Science. Num Pages: 648 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; PHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 40. Weight in Grams: 976.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
648
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520064263
ISBN
9780520064263
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.92
€ 53.97

Paperback. This work describes how the founder of quantum theory rose to the pinnacle of German science. It portrays a man who suffered morally and intellectually as his lifelong habit of service to his country and to physics was confronted by the brutalities of World War I and the Third Reich. Num Pages: 272 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BG; PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674004399
ISBN
9780674004399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 137 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PDZM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 2. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer
Edition
2nd ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781493937783
ISBN
9781493937783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 116.19

Paperback. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HB; PDA; PDX; PHD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9789048159253
ISBN
9789048159253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 194.20

hardcover. Nothing is considered more natural than the connection between Isaac Newton's science and the modernity that came into being during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. This study challenges the claim that Isaac Newton's solitary genius is the reason for his iconic status as the father of modern physics and the philosophe movement. Num Pages: 464 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 167 x 41. Weight in Grams: 928.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226749457
ISBN
9780226749457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.29
€ 60.49

Paperback. The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike. Editor(s): McNeill, Professor J. R.; Stewart Mauldin, Erin. Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History. Num Pages: 568 pages. BIC Classification: PDX; RG; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 174 x 29. Weight in Grams: 854.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118977538
ISBN
9781118977538
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.96

Hardback. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9789024725205
ISBN
9789024725205
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.69

Hardback.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2013th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137380791
ISBN
9781137380791
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Hardback. Series: Studies in the History of Modern Science. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9789027716484
ISBN
9789027716484
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.32

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