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History of science

Hardback. Using the history of the concept of extinction with the dodo as a case study, this title weaves together story fragments to give a cohesive view of 17th century exploration and the grave ramifications it had for the survival and extinction of many species. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PSVW6; RNKH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 291 x 25. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780387988764
ISBN
9780387988764
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 38.69

Paperback. Lecce, 1993 Editor(s): Garola, Claudio; Rossi, Arcangelo. Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics. Num Pages: 471 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; PBC; PBT; PDX; PHQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 753.
Publisher
Springer
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9789401040174
ISBN
9789401040174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.95

Paperback. In addition to providing an insightful account of life and work in nineteenth-century urban America, The Horse in the City brings us to a richer understanding of how the animal fared in this unnatural and presumably uncomfortable setting. Series: Animals, History, Culture. Num Pages: 280 pages, 42, 42 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFSG; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 177 x 235 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421400433
ISBN
9781421400433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.85

Hardcover. Herrera's 'Plasmogenia' and Other Collected Works Num Pages: 209 pages, 126 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer
Edition
2014th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781493907359
ISBN
9781493907359
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.25

Paperback. Series: The Frontiers Collection. Num Pages: 413 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, 23 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; PDA; PDX; PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
413
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319380650
ISBN
9783319380650
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 100.93

Hardcover. The Beginning and the End Series: The Frontiers Collection. Num Pages: 379 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, 23 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; PDX; PGC; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 758.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer
Edition
2014th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319050614
ISBN
9783319050614
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.32

Hardback. Num Pages: 477 pages, 189 black & white illustrations, 137 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; PDX; PGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 895.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
477
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319328461
ISBN
9783319328461
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.43

paperback. Showing how ordinary people participate in creating science, this text documents how the development of science has affected ordinary people, and how ordinary people have perceived that development. Num Pages: 568 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 265 x 41. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Avalon Publishing Group United States
Number of pages
568
Condition
New
SKU
V9781560257486
ISBN
9781560257486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.79

Paperback. Series: SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice. Num Pages: 155 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 14 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: LBBS; LNKJ; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 8. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
155
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319154398
ISBN
9783319154398
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.44

Paperback. Series: Springerbriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice / Texts and Protocols. Num Pages: 180 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 7 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: LBBS; LNKJ; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 291.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319154428
ISBN
9783319154428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.70

Paperback. The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing hierarchies. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBJD1; HBTB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349463954
ISBN
9781349463954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

Hardcover. Weaves together scientific and historical evidence to demonstrate the vast role the New Madrid earthquakes played in the United States in the early nineteenth century, shaping the settlement patterns of early western Cherokees and other Indians, heightening the credibility of Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa for their Indian League in the War of 1812. Num Pages: 480 pages, 26 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 771.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
480
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226053899
ISBN
9780226053899
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.06
€ 79.61

Paperback. From December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping large trees midtrunk, and briefly but dramatically reversing the flow of the continent's mightiest river. This book reminds the major environmental disaster, demonstrating how events that have been long forgotten, and more. Num Pages: 472 pages, 22 halftones, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 230 x 31. Weight in Grams: 746.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226273754
ISBN
9780226273754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 28.00

Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PDX; TBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1909
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Condition
New
SKU
V9783642484797
ISBN
9783642484797
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 74.31

Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PDX; TBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 210 x 5. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1910
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Condition
New
SKU
V9783642503597
ISBN
9783642503597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.21

paperback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PDX; TBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 210 x 16. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1907
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1907
Condition
New
SKU
V9783642505423
ISBN
9783642505423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 79.92

Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PDX; TBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1918
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Condition
New
SKU
V9783662244777
ISBN
9783662244777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.59

Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: HB; PDX; TBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 210 x 10. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1919
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Condition
New
SKU
V9783662392270
ISBN
9783662392270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.61

Hardback. The Presocratics were the first in Western thought to interpret the universe critically. This book offers an accessible account of the founding and evolution of their thought, and it sheds unprecedented light on the scientific dimension of their work. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 309 pages, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPCA; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1360.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
309
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402097904
ISBN
9781402097904
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.73

Paperback. From Jules Verne to the Jetsons, from a 500-passenger flying wing to an anti-aircraft flying buzz-saw, the vision of the future as seen through the eyes of the past demonstrates the play of the American imagination on the canvas of the future. Num Pages: 176 pages, 166, 166 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCX; PDR; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 252 x 10. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801853999
ISBN
9780801853999
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.16

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