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Paperback. From 1930-62 the idea of race was studied across a range of academic disciplines. This book explores expert thinkings on race in the period and explains the relationship between scientific racial research, social policy and attitudes regarding immigration, ultimately offering new insight into the evolving understanding of the idea of race. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; JFSL; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349284351
- ISBN
- 9781349284351
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Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Paperback. In the 1940s chemists discovered that barbasco, a wild yam indigenous to Mexico, could be used to mass produce synthetic steroid hormones. This book features the story of how rural yam pickers, international pharmaceutical companies, and the Mexican state collaborated and collided over the barbasco. Num Pages: 352 pages, 26 illustrations, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; KNDP; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822346050
- ISBN
- 9780822346050
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Condition: New
€ 29.85
€ 29.85
Paperback. This generous selection from Galileo's writings contains all the essential texts. Newly translated by Mark Davie and William R. Shea, the contents include full representation from his scientific masterpieces, his contributions to the debate on science and religion, and key documents from his trial before the Inquisition in 1633. Translator(s): Davie, Mark. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages, drawings and diagrams by Galileo. BIC Classification: 3JD; PDX; PGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199583690
- ISBN
- 9780199583690
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.49
€ 14.99
€ 12.49
Spanning Galileo's career, this title presents an annotated translation of Galileo's important writings as judged by their historical impact from the 17th century to the present. It provides those writings that bear closely on key developments in physics, astronomy, epistemology, and scientific methodology, and those relevant to general culture. Num Pages: 390 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 149 x 27. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872209381
- ISBN
- 9780872209381
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Condition: New
€ 50.16€ 40.81
€ 50.16
€ 40.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: PDX; PG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226320090
- ISBN
- 9780226320090
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.42
€ 20.99
€ 18.42
Paperback. "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition". Translator(s): Drake, Stillman. Num Pages: 495 pages, 3 black-and-white illustrations and 31 line illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 141 x 37. Weight in Grams: 822.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 495
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1962
- Edition
- Second
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520004504
- ISBN
- 9780520004504
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Condition: New
€ 35.00€ 29.39
€ 35.00
€ 29.39
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 390
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1 Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872209374
- ISBN
- 9780872209374
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.99
€ 20.99
€ 16.99
Paperback. The story of mankind's struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medicine, it was a battleground between good and bad science. Gareth Williams takes an original view of the journey to understanding and defeating polio. Num Pages: 354 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBL; HBTB; JFF; MBX; MJ; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 575.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 354
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349452927
- ISBN
- 9781349452927
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Condition: New
€ 49.06
€ 49.06
Paperback. Weissenbacher, Stephen P. Weldon, and Tomoko Yoshida Editor(s): Ferngren, Gary B. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: HRA; MBX; PDX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- second edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421421728
- ISBN
- 9781421421728
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.29
€ 40.99
€ 34.29
Paperback. "-JAMA"An important book, for students of Christian theology who understand health and healing to be topics of theological interest, and for health care practitioners who seek a historical perspective on the development of the ethos of their vocation."-Journal of Religion and Health Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRA; MBX; PDX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421412160
- ISBN
- 9781421412160
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.72
€ 33.99
€ 28.72
Paperback. Their long experience in medical charity led to the creation of the first hospitals, a singular Christian contribution to health care. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HRA; MBX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421420066
- ISBN
- 9781421420066
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 30.13
€ 34.99
€ 30.13
Hardcover. "-JAMA"An important book, for students of Christian theology who understand health and healing to be topics of theological interest, and for health care practitioners who seek a historical perspective on the development of the ethos of their vocation."-Journal of Religion and Health Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRA; MBX; PDX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 151 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421412153
- ISBN
- 9781421412153
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Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardback. Offers a treatment of the professionalization and institutionalization of the academic discipline of geography in Europe and North America, with emphasis on the 20th century and the last quarter of the 19th. This book contains essays. It is intended for geographers, as well as practitioners of the social sciences, and historians of science. Editor(s): Dunbar, Gary S. Series: Geojournal Library. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; PDX; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402000195
- ISBN
- 9781402000195
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Condition: New
€ 202.60
€ 202.60
The Invisible Industrialist. Manufactures and the Production of Scient...
Gaudillere, Jean-Paul. Ed(S): Lowy, Ilana
Hardback. Displays the role of industry in the construction of fundamental scientific knowledge through the examination of case studies taken from the history of 19th and 20th-century physics, chemistry and biomedical sciences. Editor(s): Lowy, Ilana. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 392 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; KN; PDG; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 34. Weight in Grams: 651.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333647530
- ISBN
- 9780333647530
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 185.70
€ 185.70
Hardback. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFSR; JHB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 459.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137516855
- ISBN
- 9781137516855
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.34
€ 106.34
Hardback. He examines how the machine emerged as a technology of truth, transporting readers back to the obscure origins of criminology itself, ultimately concluding that the lie detector owes as much to popular culture as it does to factual science. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Num Pages: 256 pages, 18, 18 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; JKVF; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421405308
- ISBN
- 9781421405308
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 36.91
€ 43.99
€ 36.91
Paperback. The age of the baroque - a time of great strides in science and mathematics - also saw the construction of some of the world's most magnificent buildings. Hersey explores the interrelations of the two developments and how they cross-fertilised. Num Pages: 280 pages, 52 colour plates, 106 halftones, 52 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 3JD; ACQB; AMA; PBM; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 187 x 18. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226327846
- ISBN
- 9780226327846
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Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 40.92
€ 51.99
€ 40.92
Paperback. Countering the pervasive view that the facts of Darwin's world must lead to a disenchanting vision of it, the author shows that Darwin's ideas and the language of his books offer an alternative form of enchantment. He makes a case for an enchanted secularism - a commitment to the value of the natural world and the human striving to understand it. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: PDX; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691136394
- ISBN
- 9780691136394
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.27
€ 36.99
€ 27.27
Num Pages: 554 pages, 112 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 27. Weight in Grams: 589.
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 554
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486277400
- ISBN
- 9780486277400
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.68
€ 19.99
€ 18.68
Paperback. Leads us on a tour of organisms, which differ radically from both animals and plants. This book ponders the impact of microbes on the evolution of civilization. It offers various tales into an account of the nature of fungi. It discusses topics such as the role of fungi in the Irish potato famine. It is intended for science enthusiasts. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16 color illus. 43 halftones. BIC Classification: PDX; PDZ; PSQ; PSTP; WNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 5th
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691070162
- ISBN
- 9780691070162
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.39
€ 36.99
€ 27.39