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Hardback. Jane Maienschein examines how understanding of embryos evolved from the speculations of natural philosophers to bioengineering, with its life-enhancing therapies. She shows that research on embryos has always seemed promising to some but frightening to others, and makes the case that public understanding must be informed by scientific findings. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: MFKC3; PDA; PDX; PSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 150 x 209 x 29. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674725553
- ISBN
- 9780674725553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.07
€ 47.99
€ 40.07
Paperback. This concluding volume of Charles Darwin's biography looks closely at the wider publishing world of Victorian England and the different audiences which responded to Darwin's ideas. It considers the Darwinian revolution from his point of view and what it was like to become a scientific celebrity. Num Pages: 608 pages, 24pp b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; BG; PDX; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 46. Weight in Grams: 842.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 608
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712668378
- ISBN
- 9780712668378
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.75
€ 40.99
€ 28.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 82 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; 3JD; ACND; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 251 x 15. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816667659
- ISBN
- 9780816667659
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.45
€ 30.99
€ 27.45
Hardcover. Originally published as: Die Forme des Werdens (Geottingen: Wallstein Verlag, c2010). Num Pages: 432 pages, 68 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JF; HPK; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Zone Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935408765
- ISBN
- 9781935408765
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 37.89
€ 46.99
€ 37.89
Hardcover. The author enlists her readers in pursuit of the elusive concept of atmosphere in literary works. In this title, she shows how diverse conceptions of air in the eighteenth century converged in British fiction, producing the modern literary sense of atmosphere and moving novelists to explore the threshold between material and immaterial worlds. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226476698
- ISBN
- 9780226476698
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.29€ 45.88
€ 53.29
€ 45.88
Paperback. This 'Oxford Handbook' brings together contributions by leading authorities on key areas of the history of physics since the seventeenth century. In a single volume, it offers a comprehensive introduction to scholarly contributions that have tended to be dispersed in journals and books not easily accessible to the student or general reader. Editor(s): Buchwald, Jed Z. (California Institute of Technology); Fox, Robert. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 960 pages, 108 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; PH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198805328
- ISBN
- 9780198805328
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.62
€ 73.62
Hardback. The Dendera zodiac - an ancient bas-relief temple ceiling adorned with mysterious symbols of the stars and planets - was first discovered by the French during Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, and quickly provoked a controversy between scientists and theologians. This title tells the story of this incredible archeological find. Num Pages: 440 pages, 8 page color section. 79 halftones. BIC Classification: HRAM3; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 926.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691145761
- ISBN
- 9780691145761
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.29€ 42.32
€ 53.29
€ 42.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 498 pages, 116 line drawings. BIC Classification: PDX; PHJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 35. Weight in Grams: 790.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 498
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226078861
- ISBN
- 9780226078861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.21€ 50.41
€ 59.21
€ 50.41
Paperback. This text focuses on the social and intellectual world of 19th-century German physics. In providing a biography of Hertz and his scientific community, Buchwald aims to reconstitute the tacit knowledge - the shared, unwritten assumptions, values and understandings - that shapes the work of science. Num Pages: 496 pages, 2 halftones, 83 line drawings, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; BG; PDX; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 27. Weight in Grams: 707.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226078885
- ISBN
- 9780226078885
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Condition: New
€ 65.13€ 55.55
€ 65.13
€ 55.55
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198716747
- ISBN
- 9780198716747
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.85
€ 39.85
Paperback. The Nature of Cities brings together environmental and urban history to reveal how, over four decades, this ecological vision shaped the development of cities around the nation. Num Pages: 328 pages, 12, 3 black & white line drawings, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBJK; JHB; PDX; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421413846
- ISBN
- 9781421413846
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 34.53
€ 41.99
€ 34.53
Paperback. Recovering the controversies and commentary surrounding the early creation of scientific photography and drawing on a wide range of new sources and critical theories, Tucker establishes a greater understanding of the rich visual culture of Victorian science and alternative forms of knowledge, including psychical research. Num Pages: 308 pages, 68, 68 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; AJC; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421410937
- ISBN
- 9781421410937
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.02
€ 44.99
€ 37.02
Paperback. Argues that the long abeyance of the Diversity Project points to larger, fundamental questions about how to understand knowledge, democracy, and racism in an age when expert claims about genomes increasingly shape the possibilities for being human. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL; PDR; PDX; TCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691118574
- ISBN
- 9780691118574
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.61
€ 46.99
€ 33.61
Hardback. Jeremy Bernstein guides readers through high-energy physics from early twentieth-century atomic models to leptons, mesons, quarks, and the newly discovered Higgs boson, drawing them into the excitement of a universe where 80 percent of all matter has never been identified. From molecules to galaxies, the more we discover, the less we seem to know. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11 halftones, 11 line illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 121 x 180 x 22. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072510
- ISBN
- 9780674072510
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.96
€ 47.99
€ 39.96
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 34. BIC Classification: PDX; PNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801475177
- ISBN
- 9780801475177
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.95
€ 23.99
€ 21.95
Paperback. In the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. What Riskin describes as a 'sentimental empiricism' is the ideology which brought together ideas and institutions, practices and politics. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: HBJD; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226720791
- ISBN
- 9780226720791
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.64
€ 42.99
€ 33.64
paperback. Since antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life's measure by reproducing it. This title collects seventeen essays from distinguished scholars in several fields. It is intended for historians and philosophers of science and technology, scientists and engineers working in artificial life and intelligence, and others. Num Pages: 336 pages, 57 halftones, 10 line drawings. BIC Classification: PDX; TBX; UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226720814
- ISBN
- 9780226720814
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.47
€ 42.99
€ 33.47
Paperback. For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. Surveying the golden age of Arabic science, the author reintroduces such figures as the Iraqi physicist Ibn al-Haytham, who practised the modern scientific method over half a century before Bacon. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps, ports. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141038360
- ISBN
- 9780141038360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.02
€ 19.99
€ 15.02
Paperback. Drawing on declassified material such as MI6's Farm Hall transcripts, coded Soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations by Russian scholars of documents from the Soviet archives, Atomic presents a brilliant new account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. Num Pages: 576 pages, 16 black & white plates, 16-page b/w photo section. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBW; JWMN; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 40. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- Icon Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848319929
- ISBN
- 9781848319929
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.37
€ 15.99
€ 11.37
Paperback. Utterly beautiful. Profoundly disconcerting. Quantum theory is quite simply the most successful account of the physical universe ever devised. The pursuit of its implications has been the driving motivation of physicists for 100 years. Jim Baggott traces the story, the personalities and the rivalries, through 40 turning-point moments. Series: Oxford Landmark Science. Num Pages: 496 pages, Two 8pp black and white plate sectionn, 26 black and white line drawings. BIC Classification: PDX; PDZ; PHQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 155 x 39. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Updated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198784777
- ISBN
- 9780198784777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.91
€ 19.99
€ 15.91
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 441
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226207919
- ISBN
- 9780226207919
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.73€ 79.38
€ 94.73
€ 79.38
Paperback. Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) was an internationally renowned botanist, a close friend and early supporter of Charles Darwin, and one of the first - and most successful - British men of science to become a full-time professional. This title uses one individual's career to illustrate the changing world of science in the Victorian era. Num Pages: 441 pages, 50 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226207926
- ISBN
- 9780226207926
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.83
€ 37.99
€ 29.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDA; PDX; PHR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 32. Weight in Grams: 710.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691173177
- ISBN
- 9780691173177
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.36
€ 30.99
€ 22.36
Hardcover. In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies - telegraphy, photography, cinematography - this title locates the reverberations of this 'perceptual moment' throughout culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 33 halftones. BIC Classification: PDX; PGZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 60 x 90 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226093185
- ISBN
- 9780226093185
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.73€ 79.10
€ 94.73
€ 79.10