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History of science

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

€ 35.99
€ 33.95

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

€ 44.14

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

€ 47.35

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

€ 135.55

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
€ 13.20

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

€ 16.99
€ 16.87

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

€ 59.89

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

€ 64.57

Hardback. This book presents unpublished excerpts from extensive correspondence between Niels Bohr and his immediate family, and uses it to describe and analyze the psychological and cultural background to his invention of the quantum theory of the atom. Num Pages: 296 pages, 48 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; PDX; PHM; PHQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 169 x 19. Weight in Grams: 738.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199680283
ISBN
9780199680283
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.79

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

€ 72.08

Hardback. Lysenko became one of the most notorious figures in twentieth-century science after his genetic theories were discredited decades ago. Yet some scientists now claim that discoveries in epigenetics prove that he was right after all. Loren Graham reopens the case, to determine whether new developments in molecular biology validate Lysenko's claims. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: PD; PDX; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674089051
ISBN
9780674089051
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.56

Paperback. An account of the history and survival of non-scientific explanations of the world Num Pages: 408 pages, 51 b&w photos, 1 index. BIC Classification: HRQX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 22. Weight in Grams: 622.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253216564
ISBN
9780253216564
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.33

Paperback. Leads us on a tour of organisms, which differ radically from both animals and plants. This book ponders the impact of microbes on the evolution of civilization. It offers various tales into an account of the nature of fungi. It discusses topics such as the role of fungi in the Irish potato famine. It is intended for science enthusiasts. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16 color illus. 43 halftones. BIC Classification: PDX; PDZ; PSQ; PSTP; WNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
5th
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691070162
ISBN
9780691070162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.31

Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 halftones. 14 line illus. BIC Classification: PBB; PBX; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 546.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691171715
ISBN
9780691171715
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.96

Paperback. Editor(s): Grossman, Evelyne. Num Pages: 248 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226422503
ISBN
9780226422503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.72

Hardcover. Blends scientific biography, institutional history, and cultural history to show how genetically standardized mice came to play a central role in contemporary American biomedical research. This work introduces us to mouse "fanciers" who bred mice for different characteristics, and to the structures of modern biomedical research. Num Pages: 312 pages, 36 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBGR; MQW; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 242 x 26. Weight in Grams: 652.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691016368
ISBN
9780691016368
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.34

Paperback. An introduction to constructivism, this book is a research paradigm that reflects on the importance of this theory, tells the history of its rise to prominence, and traces its important tensions. It sheds light on the relations between science and other cultural domains. Num Pages: 368 pages, 10halftones. BIC Classification: GB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226302317
ISBN
9780226302317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.97

Paperback. A behind-the-scenes account of the invention of the polymerase chain reaction, which transformed the practice and potential of molecular biology. This book explores the culture of biotechnology as it emerged at Cetus Corporation in the 1980s, looking at its scientific, social and economic elements. Num Pages: 196 pages, 10 halftones, 10 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPN; PDX; PSD; TCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226701479
ISBN
9780226701479
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.46

Paperback. An introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phrases of the scientific revolution. Series Editor(s): Basalla, George; Hannaway, Owen. Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Science. Num Pages: 172 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 260. Clean copy with minor shelf wear and some discolouring
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KOG0007943
ISBN
9780521293280
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. In this history of the British surveys of India, the author relates how imperial Britain employed modern scientific survey techniques to create and define the spacial image of its Indian empire, and to legitimize its colonialist activities as triumphs of liberal, rational science. Num Pages: 474 pages, 31 halftones, 5 maps, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JF; 3JH; HBTP; PDX; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 27. Weight in Grams: 750.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
474
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226184883
ISBN
9780226184883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.24

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