History of science
Results 261 - 280 of 828
History of science
Paperback. This collection of essays examines the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and Galileo. This volume gives an account of Galileo and his turbulent relationship with the Roman Catholic Church. Contributors provide careful analyses of the interactions of the Church and Galileo between 1612 and 1642. Editor(s): McMullin, Ernan. Series: Studies in Science & the Humanities from the Reilly Centre for Science, Technology & Values. Num Pages: 472 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: HRC; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 170 x 27. Weight in Grams: 667.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268034849
- ISBN
- 9780268034849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.28
€ 36.99
€ 34.28
Hardback. Written by a cancer researcher and teacher, this book offers a personal and professional reflection on the most significant developments in molecular genetics and cell biology. It looks at various crucial scientific advances and offers an insider's perspective on what scientists have actually learned from them. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; PSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231131124
- ISBN
- 9780231131124
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.37€ 80.02
€ 103.37
€ 80.02
Paperback. Written by a cancer researcher and teacher, this book offers a personal and professional reflection on the most significant developments in molecular genetics and cell biology. It looks at various crucial scientific advances and offers an insider's perspective on what scientists have actually learned from them. Num Pages: 176 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; PSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 201 x 182 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231131131
- ISBN
- 9780231131131
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.05
€ 33.99
€ 25.05
paperback. The text of two series of lectures given by one of the great philosopher-scientists of the twentieth century. Series: Canto Classics. Num Pages: 184 pages, 15 b/w illus. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 149 x 9. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107431836
- ISBN
- 9781107431836
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.23
€ 22.23
paperback. Nobel laureate Erwin Schrodinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. Series: Canto Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107604667
- ISBN
- 9781107604667
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.30
€ 22.30
Paperback. Between 1945 and 1953, while the Soviet Union confronted postwar reconstruction and Cold War crises, its unchallenged leader Joseph Stalin carved out time to study scientific disputes and dictate academic solutions. This book demonstrates that Stalin was determined to show how scientific truth and Party doctrine reinforced one another. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW3; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691138251
- ISBN
- 9780691138251
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.72
€ 46.99
€ 33.72
Paperback. Series: Dover Books on Mathematics. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 136 x 28. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486600901
- ISBN
- 9780486600901
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.58
€ 33.99
€ 24.58
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230274358
- ISBN
- 9780230274358
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.20€ 126.02
€ 129.20
€ 126.02
paperback. An analysis of the achievements of genetics and molecular biology in the 20th century. This study traces the developments made in the "century of the gene", arguing that the advances made from gene to genome require both a new vocabulary and a new beginning in 21st-century genetics. Num Pages: 192 pages, 7 halftones, 7 line illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; PSAK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 12. Weight in Grams: 250. Good copy showing light age and wear. Highlighting throughout text
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press England
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0025566
- ISBN
- 9780674008250
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Editor(s): Everett, Horace; Dodson, Geofrey. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNRD; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 159 x 6. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781619424036
- ISBN
- 9781619424036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.82€ 52.53
€ 72.82
€ 52.53
Hardback. A guidebook to "Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity". It guides the reader through Faraday's work, displaying Faraday's experimental virtuosity and keen theoretical insight. Editor(s): Fisher, Howard J. Num Pages: 635 pages. BIC Classification: PDX; PHK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 265 x 188 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1325.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Green Lion Press United States
- Number of pages
- 635
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781888009132
- ISBN
- 9781888009132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.08€ 67.95
€ 69.08
€ 67.95
Hardback. This book presents unpublished excerpts from extensive correspondence between Niels Bohr and his immediate family, and uses it to describe and analyze the psychological and cultural background to his invention of the quantum theory of the atom. Num Pages: 296 pages, 48 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; PDX; PHM; PHQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 169 x 19. Weight in Grams: 738.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199680283
- ISBN
- 9780199680283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.84
€ 110.84
Hardcover. Once upon a time 'The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century' was an innovative concept that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern science came into the world. Half a century later, what we now know as 'the master narrative' serves rather as a strait-jacket - so often events and contexts just fail to fit in. No attempt has been made so Num Pages: 832 pages, 66 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 175 x 231 x 48. Weight in Grams: 2004.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 832
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789089642394
- ISBN
- 9789089642394
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 210.90
€ 210.90
paperback. Forrest and Gross expose the scientific failure, the religious essence, and the political ambitions of "intelligent design" creationism highlighting its threat to public education and to the separation of church and state. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- Updated ed.
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195319736
- ISBN
- 9780195319736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.14
€ 38.14
Paperback. A history of the role that the occult has played in the formation of modern science and medicine, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment has had a tremendous impact on our understanding of the western esoteric tradition. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages, 40 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLH; HRQX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415267694
- ISBN
- 9780415267694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.14
€ 22.14
Paperback. A people's history of the global space race in the 1960s, beginning with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and astronaut Alan Shepard and ending with the close of the Mercury and Voskhod programs in 1965. Series: Outward Odyssey: a People's History of Spaceflight. Num Pages: 432 pages, 20 images and a frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBLW3; PDX; TTDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803226395
- ISBN
- 9780803226395
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.18
€ 24.99
€ 23.18
Paperback. Known as the 'father' of electrical engineering, Michael Faraday is one of the best known scientific figures of all time. In this Very Short Introduction, Frank A.J.L James looks at Faraday's life and works, examining the institutional context in which he lived and worked, his scientific research, and his continuing legacy in science today. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 184 pages, Approx 20 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 113 x 10. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199574315
- ISBN
- 9780199574315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.72
€ 13.99
€ 11.72
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465063826
- ISBN
- 9780465063826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.90
€ 29.90
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718199463
- ISBN
- 9780718199463
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.40
€ 17.99
€ 13.40
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 194 pages, 10 halftones 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; BGT; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691634791
- ISBN
- 9780691634791
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.34
€ 132.34