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History of science

Hardcover. While Marco Polo's writings would go on to inspire the likes of Christopher Columbus, scholars have long debated their veracity. Now, there's new evidence: a collection of fourteen little-known maps and related documents said to have belonged to the family of Marco Polo himself. The author offers an analysis of these artifacts. Num Pages: 176 pages, 13 colour plates, 23 halftones, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; PDX; RGV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226149820
ISBN
9780226149820
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 40.43

Paperback. Num Pages: 118 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PSAJ; TTDS; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 10. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
2015th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319170039
ISBN
9783319170039
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.77

Paperback. Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Robert Sussman explains why-when it comes to race-too many people still mistake bigotry for science. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL; JHM; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674660038
ISBN
9780674660038
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.52

Paperback. .
Publisher
National Academies Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780309137256
ISBN
9780309137256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 8.90

Paperback. This volume challenges the widespread belief that scientific knowledge as such is international. Employing case studies from Austria, Poland, the Czech lands, and Hungary, the authors show how scientists in the late Habsburg Monarchy simultaneously nationalized and internationalized their knowledge. Editor(s): Ash, M.; Surman, Jan. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBL; PDX; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349331123
ISBN
9781349331123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.25

Hardback. This volume challenges the widespread belief that scientific knowledge as such is international. Employing case studies from Austria, Poland, the Czech lands, and Hungary, the authors show how scientists in the late Habsburg Monarchy simultaneously nationalized and internationalized their knowledge. Editor(s): Ash, Mitchell G.; Surman, Jan. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDU; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230289871
ISBN
9780230289871
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

Hardback. Series: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. Num Pages: 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBL; JPA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319538464
ISBN
9783319538464
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.02

Hardcover. Examines scientific views about children's emotional needs and mother love from World War II until the 1970s, paying particular attention to John Bowlby's ethological theory of attachment behavior. In this title, the author tracks the development of Bowlby's work and the research that he used to support his theory. Num Pages: 304 pages, 20 halftones, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226020556
ISBN
9780226020556
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.06
€ 79.61

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
€ 34.75

Paperback. Translator(s): Bergin, T. G.; Fisch, M.H. Num Pages: 496 pages, 1ch. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 32. Weight in Grams: 724.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Edition
3rd Unabridged
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801492655
ISBN
9780801492655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Hardcover. Makes a contribution towards a more nuanced appreciation of the Jesuits' interaction with "modernity". This work contains six essays that provide a cross-section of the complex Jesuit encounter with the mathematical sciences during the seventeenth century, as well as a factor in the quandary faced by practitioners in their pursuit of science. Editor(s): Feingold, Mordechai. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 270 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 584.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Springer
Edition
2003rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402008481
ISBN
9781402008481
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.89

Paperback. Looking at literary discourse, including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, diaries, and drama, this collection offers remarkable and fascinating examples of women writers who integrated scientific material in their literary narratives. Editor(s): Hayden, Prof. Judy A. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; HBTB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
279
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349292714
ISBN
9781349292714
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

hardcover. Nothing is considered more natural than the connection between Isaac Newton's science and the modernity that came into being during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. This study challenges the claim that Isaac Newton's solitary genius is the reason for his iconic status as the father of modern physics and the philosophe movement. Num Pages: 464 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 167 x 41. Weight in Grams: 928.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226749457
ISBN
9780226749457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.29
€ 60.49

Paperback. The Normal and the Pathological is one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in the last half century. Translator(s): Fawcett, Carolyn R. Num Pages: 327 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFCX; PDA; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 584.
Publisher
Zone Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780942299595
ISBN
9780942299595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.48

Paperback. The atomic age was described as one that might soon end in the destruction of human civilization, but from the beginning, utopian images were attached to it as well. This book compares representations of nuclear power in popular media from around the world to to trace divergences, convergences, and exchanges. Editor(s): Van Lente, Dick. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 290 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBTB; PDX; RNQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349343645
ISBN
9781349343645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 138.85

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

€ 65.97

Hardback. Translator(s): Leneaux, G.F. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 631 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1061.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
631
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792308980
ISBN
9780792308980
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 375.08

Paperback. Tracing the development of population genetics through the writings of such luminaries as Darwin, Galton, Pearson, Fisher, Haldane and Wright, this text sheds light on this complex field as well as its bearing on other branches of biology. Series: Chicago History of Science & Medicine. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; PSAK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226684642
ISBN
9780226684642
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.84

paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages, 118 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HPK; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 40. Weight in Grams: 572.
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262529846
ISBN
9780262529846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.72

Hardcover. Num Pages: 368 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226442112
ISBN
9780226442112
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.13
€ 90.12

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