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History of science
Hardcover. In A History of Modern Psychology in Context , the authors resist the traditional storylines of great achievements by eminent people, or schools of thought that rise and fall in the wake of scientific progress. Instead, psychology is portrayed as a network of scientific and professional practices embedded in specific contexts. Num Pages: 408 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JM; PDX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 886.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470276099
- ISBN
- 9780470276099
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.16
€ 144.16
Hardback. Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783764323165
- ISBN
- 9783764323165
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.53
€ 91.53
Hardcover. Num Pages: 496 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; PSAJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 165 x 237 x 38. Weight in Grams: 894.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226347325
- ISBN
- 9780226347325
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.34€ 44.70
€ 51.34
€ 44.70
Hardcover. The fascinating stories behind their design, construction, and marketing reveal in rich detail how these buildings became cultural symbols that shaped the urban landscape. Series: Studies in Industry and Society. Num Pages: 328 pages, 48, 46 black & white halftones, 1 black & white halftones, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; PDR; PDX; RGL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801899874
- ISBN
- 9780801899874
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.00€ 59.24
€ 63.00
€ 59.24
Paperback. Countering the tendency to remember great scientists for a single achievement, this book celebrates the lesser-known inventions of such versatile innovators as James Watt, Alexander Graham Bell and Edmond Halley. Includes detailed illustrations and much more. Num Pages: 177 pages, 81 black & white illustrations, 17 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PDZ; TBY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- 2012
- Number of pages
- 170
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461408598
- ISBN
- 9781461408598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.40
€ 37.99
€ 31.40
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
€ 211.05
€ 211.05
Hardback. Specialists focus on Hungary's outstanding achievments in various fields, notably technology, literature and the arts, and sport. The volume includes a biographical dictionary, map, and illustrations. Editor(s): Somlyody, Laszlo; Somlyody, Nora. Num Pages: 720 pages, Illustrations, 1 map, ports. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JH; 3JJ; AC; JFC; PDX; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 148. Weight in Grams: 1089.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 720
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880335331
- ISBN
- 9780880335331
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.17€ 50.50
€ 64.17
€ 50.50
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780226422336
- ISBN
- 9780226422336
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.00€ 26.17
€ 28.00
€ 26.17
Hardcover. Explores the overlap and shift between theistic and naturalistic science through a parallel study of two major scientific figures: James Clerk Maxwell, a devout Christian physicist, and Thomas Henry Huxley, the iconoclast biologist who coined the word agnostic. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HRAM3; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 230 x 25. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226164878
- ISBN
- 9780226164878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.34€ 79.41
€ 93.34
€ 79.41
Hardcover. Drawing on historical and scientific accounts, as well as a rich trove of anecdotes, this title shows how scientists, amateur breeders, and countless anonymous farmers and gardeners slowly caused the evolutionary pressures of nature to be supplanted by those of human needs. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: PDX; TVK; TVS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 60 x 90 x 37. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226437040
- ISBN
- 9780226437040
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 34.31
€ 43.99
€ 34.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11 halftones, 31 line illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674440753
- ISBN
- 9780674440753
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 35.38
€ 37.99
€ 35.38
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521398381
- ISBN
- 9780521398381
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 40.08
€ 41.99
€ 40.08
Hardcover. Chemists in the nineteenth century were faced with a particular problem: how to depict the atoms and molecules beyond the direct reach of our bodily senses. This title focuses on the community of organic chemists in Germany to provide the basis for an understanding of the nature of scientific creativity. Series: Synthesis. Num Pages: 416 pages, 44 halftones, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; PDX; PNN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226723327
- ISBN
- 9780226723327
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.34€ 50.37
€ 58.34
€ 50.37
Paperback. 'Norton writes with wit and a fine eye for the poetry in the scientific world..funny and gripping.' The Guardian Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: PDX; PDZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444732580
- ISBN
- 9781444732580
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Hardback. These "images of the fetus may be produced by machines,the authors write, "but they live vividly in the human imagination." Num Pages: 336 pages, 17, 15 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MBDC; MBX; MJT; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421407937
- ISBN
- 9781421407937
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.73
€ 67.73
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGT; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781613731109
- ISBN
- 9781613731109
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.55
€ 30.99
€ 27.55
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBTQ; JFF; MBS; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 215 x 27. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349509560
- ISBN
- 9781349509560
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
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
€ 93.34€ 78.69
€ 93.34
€ 78.69
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
€ 36.99€ 29.59
€ 36.99
€ 29.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; HPC; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349317882
- ISBN
- 9781349317882
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29