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Paperback. This Very Short Introduction maps the historical development of chemistry from man's earliest exploration in the Stone Age to the nanotechnology of today's materials science. In this succinct but comprehensive overview Brock balances the approaches to - and interpretations of - the subject, revealing chemistry's rich and diverse history. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 152 pages, 17 black and white halftones and line drawings. BIC Classification: PDX; PN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 111. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198716488
ISBN
9780198716488
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.73

Paperback. Offers a translation of the "Geography" and provides an introduction, which treats the historical and technical background of Ptolemy's work, the contents of the "Geography", and the later history of the work. This work also includes color reproductions of maps from manuscripts and early printed editions of the text. Translator(s): Berggren, J. Lennart; Jones, Alexander. Num Pages: 208 pages, 13 maps, 20 line Illus., 2 tables, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: PDX; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 250 x 176 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691092591
ISBN
9780691092591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.16
€ 51.18

Paperback. Based on extensive research in formerly secret archives, this volume examines the progress of Soviet industrialisation against the background of the rising threat of aggression from Germany, Japan and Italy, and the consolidation of Stalin's power. Num Pages: 496 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJ; HBL; HBW; KCD; KCZ; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349391240
ISBN
9781349391240
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 252.50

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

€ 126.85

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

€ 129.35

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

€ 67.03

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

€ 67.72

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 358 pages, 8 halftones 29 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; JMR; MBX; PDX; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691632216
ISBN
9780691632216
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 230.76

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

€ 126.84

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

€ 35.00
€ 31.48

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

€ 60.66
€ 54.35

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

€ 45.99
€ 36.03

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

€ 49.00
€ 43.30

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

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

€ 43.99
€ 37.33

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

€ 66.46

Grizzle provides a history of science/religion interactions, with an emphasis on Christianity. He also examines his own history of dialogue, which involves self-reflection and interactions with others on science and religion. He focuses on what we have learned about the structure, history, and functioning of creation. Num Pages: 110 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRAM3; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 236 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
110
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761858058
ISBN
9780761858058
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.56

Hardback. Philanthropic societies funded by the Rockefeller family were prominent in the social history of the twentieth century, for their involvement in medicine and applied science. This book provides the first detailed study of their relatively brief but nonetheless influential foray into the field of mathematics. Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies. Num Pages: 354 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JJG; PBX; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 877.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
SKU
V9783764364687
ISBN
9783764364687
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.73

Paperback. Countering the tendency to remember great scientists for a single achievement, this book celebrates the lesser-known inventions of such versatile innovators as James Watt, Alexander Graham Bell and Edmond Halley. Includes detailed illustrations and much more. Num Pages: 177 pages, 81 black & white illustrations, 17 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PDZ; TBY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Edition
2012
Number of pages
170
Condition
New
SKU
V9781461408598
ISBN
9781461408598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.40

Hardback. This important text will be of interest to a wide range of historians-of science, of scholarly practices and the book, and of early-modern intellectual and cultural history. Num Pages: 280 pages, 30, 28 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HBLC1; HBLH; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. .
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421421773
ISBN
9781421421773
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.50

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