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Hardback. Darwin's theory of natural selection still ignites debate between evolutionists and creationists, but this seminal work in the field of Biosemiotics offers a new angle, one that focuses on the life of living beings, treating them as co-creators of their world. Series: Biosemiotics. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PSAJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1110.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402099694
- ISBN
- 9781402099694
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 198.40
€ 198.40
Paperback. Focusing on the period from 1970s onwards, this is a study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States. It demonstrates that the history of biotechnology cannot be understood without taking into account the simultaneous rise of neo-liberalism as a political force and an economic policy. Series: In Vivo - A Mclellan Book. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295987910
- ISBN
- 9780295987910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Series: Synthesis. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MMN; PDX; PHN; PNRL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 37. Weight in Grams: 772.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226323961
- ISBN
- 9780226323961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.00
€ 34.99
€ 28.00
Paperback. Looks inside this landscape of digital scientific work. This title chronicles the emergence of bioinformatics - the mode of working across and between biology, computing, mathematics, and statistics - from the 1960s to the present, seeking to understand how knowledge about life is made in and through virtual spaces. Num Pages: 272 pages, 19 halftones, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: MBF; PDX; PSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226080208
- ISBN
- 9780226080208
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.91
€ 37.99
€ 29.91
Hardcover. Looks inside this landscape of digital scientific work. This title chronicles the emergence of bioinformatics - the mode of working across and between biology, computing, mathematics, and statistics - from the 1960s to the present, seeking to understand how knowledge about life is made in and through virtual spaces. Num Pages: 272 pages, 19 halftones, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: MBF; PDX; PSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226080178
- ISBN
- 9780226080178
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.81€ 83.43
€ 99.81
€ 83.43
Paperback. BIC Classification: PDX; PDZ; PSAK1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 34. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781251416
- ISBN
- 9781781251416
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.33
€ 17.99
€ 13.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, Map, 8 pp bw plate section. BIC Classification: 1QFM; 3F; HRAM3; HRH; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784531386
- ISBN
- 9781784531386
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.69
€ 26.69
Paperback. Num Pages: 369 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; KN; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 369
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349514571
- ISBN
- 9781349514571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Paperback. A biography that interprets both the life and times of Lise Meitner (1878 - 1968), providing a background of the scientific discoveries and social milieu that affected the research, events, personalities, and politics of 20th century quantum physics. Num Pages: 432 pages, 35 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PDZ; PHN; PNRL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1810.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Birkhauser Boston Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1999. 2nd printing 2006
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817645595
- ISBN
- 9780817645595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 136.76
€ 136.76
Hardcover. This book gives a complete overview of how the different views of scientific progress have developed since the time of the Vienna Circle. In the process, it introduces a completely new, non-relativistic philosophy of science. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Pelican
- Edition
- 4th Corrected ed. 2007, Corr. 3rd printing 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402063534
- ISBN
- 9781402063534
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 200.14
€ 200.14
Paperback. Editor(s): Page, Ra. Num Pages: 298 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FV; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 360. Short Stories from Modern Science. 288 pages. Editor(s): Page, Ra. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DQ; FV; PDX. Dimension: 132 x 197 x 23. Weight: 360.
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd.
- Number of pages
- 298
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905583331
- ISBN
- 9781905583331
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.39
€ 17.99
€ 17.39
Paperback. What can we learn when we study people over the years and across the course of their professional lives? In this title, the author asks this question specifically about scientists and answers it here by tracking fifty-five physicists through different stages of their careers at a variety of universities across the country. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 line drawing, 29 tables. BIC Classification: PD; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226005645
- ISBN
- 9780226005645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 37.57
€ 47.99
€ 37.57
Paperback. This unique book presents an overview of believers and disbelievers in a cerebral seat of human morality. With depth and clarity, the book presents their positions and arguments, and offers an explanation for these attempts to localise our moral sense. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMM; MBX; PDA; PDX; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400791268
- ISBN
- 9789400791268
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.97
€ 127.97
Hardback. The idea for this volume took shape within a group of scholars working on the history of science in Asia. The subject area is unique and the book can be used as supplemental reading for the history of science in 'non-western' countries. Editor(s): Bretelle-Establet, Florence. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 472 pages, 17 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GL; HB; JFC; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1850.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2010
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048136759
- ISBN
- 9789048136759
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 258.68
€ 258.68
Looking at it from Asia: the Processes That Shaped the Sources of Hist...
Florence . Ed(S): Bretelle-Establet
Paperback. The idea for this volume took shape within a group of scholars working on the history of science in Asia. The subject area is unique and the book can be used as supplemental reading for the history of science in 'non-western' countries. Editor(s): Bretelle-Establet, Florence. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 472 pages, 17 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GL; HB; JFC; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 659.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400732490
- ISBN
- 9789400732490
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 251.17
€ 251.17
Hardback. This fascinating book traces the growing awareness of that epistemological gap through textbooks and natural philosophy treatises to canonical poetry and plays, presciently registering and exploring the magnitude of the human loss that accompanied the beginnings of modern science. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415314
- ISBN
- 9781421415314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.07
€ 65.07
Paperback. Series: SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice. Num Pages: 173 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, 21 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHM; LNKJ; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 173
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319018959
- ISBN
- 9783319018959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.01
€ 66.01
Hardcover. Suitable for those interested in popular science, this title focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain and demonstrates how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6 halftones, 9 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; PDX; PDZ; PHR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226680736
- ISBN
- 9780226680736
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.47€ 46.16
€ 53.47
€ 46.16
Hardback. This text gives a detailed record of Ludwig Boltzmann's life and philosophical thoughts during his final years, a period of major change in physics, needing a new methodology of theoretical, idealized science. Editor(s): Blackmore, John T. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJC; PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792332312
- ISBN
- 9780792332312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 210.81
€ 210.81
Paperback. Editor(s): Blackmore, John T. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HB; PDA; PDX; PHS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 1995
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048144921
- ISBN
- 9789048144921
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 207.30
€ 207.30