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Paperback. In "Moby-Dick", Ishmael declares, 'Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me'. This book recovers the story of Maurice versus Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the biblically sanctioned-view that the whale was a fish. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 color plates. 19 halftones. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691146157
- ISBN
- 9780691146157
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
€ 40.99
€ 29.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; JFSL; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816673032
- ISBN
- 9780816673032
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.40
€ 27.99
€ 26.40
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252074639
- ISBN
- 9780252074639
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.15
€ 24.99
€ 23.15
Hardback. Shows how the key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West. This title traces how the recursive argument method was first developed by Buddhist scholars and was spread by them throughout ancient Central Asia. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FC; HBLC1; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 171 x 239 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691155319
- ISBN
- 9780691155319
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.56
€ 46.99
€ 33.56
Paperback. The evolution and reception of the Renaissance was mediated by, amongst other influences: the Protestant Reformation; the development of science or natural philosophy; and an interest in witchcraft and demonology. These are evaluated alongside the influence of Montaigne's "Essays". Editor(s): Elmer, Peter. Series: Open University: The Renaissance in Europe. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; 3JB; HBJD; JFCX; PDX. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 189 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1070.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300082203
- ISBN
- 9780300082203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 6.23
€ 24.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. In the court of the Medicis and the Vatican, Galileo fashioned both his career and his science to the demands of patronage and to its complex systems of wealth, power, and prestige. Now, Mario Biagioli shows how Galileo's courtly role was integral to his science--the questions he examined, his methods, and even his conclusions. Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. Num Pages: 416 pages, 10 halftones, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: JFCX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226045603
- ISBN
- 9780226045603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.79
€ 35.99
€ 28.79
Paperback. This book, for the first time, describes the topic of chocolate as medicine from a historical perspective but also explores the benefits of cocoa, its positive health effects and the myths around why chocolate was thought to be bad for you. Num Pages: 213 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: MMG; PDX; TDCT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 12. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849734110
- ISBN
- 9781849734110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.11
€ 41.11
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs,U.S.
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781610393218
- ISBN
- 9781610393218
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.27
€ 18.99
€ 14.27
Paperback. Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? This book tells the author's story about who scientists are, who we think they are, and why our sensibilities about such things matter. Num Pages: 486 pages, 16 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 486
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226750255
- ISBN
- 9780226750255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.20
€ 25.99
€ 21.20
Hardcover. Revealing the life and career histories of successful 20th-century scientists, this resource offers students a research tool and a practical guide to launching a science career. Scientists mentioned in this book include: Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Dian Fossey and Margaret Meade. Series: Popular Authors Series. Num Pages: 525 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; YNK; YNN; YQS. Category: (EJ) Primary; (ES) Secondary; (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 180 x 263 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1146.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO United States
- Number of pages
- 525
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781563086748
- ISBN
- 9781563086748
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.60
€ 94.60
Hardcover. By examining writings of Kepler, Godwin, Hooke, Cyrano, Cavendish, Fontenelle, and others, this title shows that it was through the telling of stories - such as accounts of celestial journeys - that the Copernican hypothesis, for example, found an ontological weight that its geometric models did not provide. Translator(s): Emanuel, Susan. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: DSBD; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226011226
- ISBN
- 9780226011226
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.15€ 50.58
€ 59.15
€ 50.58
Paperback. If we want nonscientists and opinion-makers in the press, the lab, and the pulpit to take a fresh look at the relationship between science and religion, the author suggests that we must first dispense with the hoary myths that have masqueraded too long as historical truths. Editor(s): Numbers, Ronald L. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM3; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780674057418
- ISBN
- 9780674057418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.12
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€ 30.12
Paperback. Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five, while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a period of which he wrote: 'I was in the prime of age for invention'. This book demonstrates his perceptions, which changed our world forever. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; PDX; PDZ; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099287384
- ISBN
- 9780099287384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 4.99
€ 10.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A people's history of the global space race in the 1960s, beginning with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and astronaut Alan Shepard and ending with the close of the Mercury and Voskhod programs in 1965. Series: Outward Odyssey: a People's History of Spaceflight. Num Pages: 432 pages, 20 images and a frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBLW3; PDX; TTDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803226395
- ISBN
- 9780803226395
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.99
€ 24.99
€ 22.99
Paperback. Bragg's bestselling account of the greatest figures and discoveries in the history of science from Archimedes to DNA Num Pages: 384 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: BG; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 262. Good clean copy with minimal reading wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Sceptre
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCD0022325
- ISBN
- 9780340712603
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A spirited volume on the great adventures of science throughout history, for curious readers of all ages Series: Little Histories. Num Pages: 272 pages, 40 b/w illus. BIC Classification: PDX; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300197136
- ISBN
- 9780300197136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.62
€ 11.99
€ 9.62
Paperback. This volume presents Steven Weinberg's essays which each struggle in one way or another with the necessity of facing up to the discovery that the laws of nature are impersonal, with no hint of a special status for human beings. Num Pages: 306 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674011205
- ISBN
- 9780674011205
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.01
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€ 38.01
Paperback. Moving from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad to Oxford, and from the Museum of Alexandria to the Royal Society of London, the author shows that the scientists of the past not only did not understand what we understand about the world - they did not understand what there is to understand. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: JFCX; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141980874
- ISBN
- 9780141980874
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.14
€ 12.99
€ 11.14
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The Perseus Books Group United States
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465055982
- ISBN
- 9780465055982
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 20.63
€ 30.99
€ 20.63
Paperback. Groundbreaking biography of Galileo, one of the greatest scientists and religious heretics in history Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations (some col.), ports. (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: BGH; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753822104
- ISBN
- 9780753822104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
€ 17.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. This wide-ranging and intensely interdisciplinary collection by one of the most distinguished historians and sociologists of science represents some of the leading edges of change in the scholarly understanding of science over the past several decades. Num Pages: 568 pages, 1, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- Second
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894213
- ISBN
- 9780801894213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 39.20
€ 41.99
€ 39.20
Paperback. This 1993 book explores how the 'critical assembly' of scientists at Los Alamos created the first atomic bombs. Num Pages: 528 pages, 82 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; PDX; TTMW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 231 x 35. Weight in Grams: 776.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780521541176
- ISBN
- 9780521541176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.04
€ 41.04
Paperback. "Uncommonly good .. makes a compelling case that .. intellectual curiosity not only changed Europe, but launched modernity." -Cleveland Plain Dealer Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; WTLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393349795
- ISBN
- 9780393349795
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.51
€ 17.99
€ 16.51
Hardcover. The untold story of an eccentric, scientific visionary whose death-defying research has saved millions of lives. Num Pages: 432 pages, 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; PDX; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 167 x 40. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871406774
- ISBN
- 9780871406774
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.77
€ 30.99
€ 25.77