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History of science

Paperback. A text which describes the ways that European powers used science and scientific inquiry to enforce their supposed cultural superiority on societies of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Editor(s): Meade, Teresa A.; Walker, Mark. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JFCX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 281.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349124473
ISBN
9781349124473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.80

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349458028
ISBN
9781349458028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.92

Paperback. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBJH; HBL; HBTB; MBX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 359.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349684120
ISBN
9781349684120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.10

Paperback. A classic collection of correspondence between two Nobel Prize winners, The Born-Einstein Letters, is also highly topical: scientists continue to struggle with quantum physics, their role in wartime and the public's misunderstanding. Series: Macmillan Science. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDR; PDX; PDZ; PHQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2005
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349729111
ISBN
9781349729111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 39.69

Hardcover. Contains 19 essays dealing with the medical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Egyptian, and Tibetan medicine, this book includes essays on comparing Chinese and western medicine and religion and medicine. Editor(s): Selin, Helaine. Series: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science. Num Pages: 441 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 807.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Springer
Edition
2003rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402011665
ISBN
9781402011665
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 202.81

Paperback. Contains important historical essays Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) published during WWII on the emergence of modern science. Editor(s): Raven, Diederick; Krohn, Wolfgang; Cohen, Robert S. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 326 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402013591
ISBN
9781402013591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 286.42

Hardback. Henry More (1614-1687), the Cambridge Platonist, is often presented as an elusive and contradictory figure, who defended the existence of witchcraft and wrote on the nature of the soul and the world of spirits. This book places his religious and philosophical preoccupations centre-stage, and provides a coherent interpretation of his work. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 609.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Edition
annotated ed
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402015021
ISBN
9781402015021
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 199.90

Hardback. A study of the nineteenth-century American scientist Edward Williams Morley. By revealing important aspects of the scientific culture of the American heartland, it deepens our understanding of this individual scientist and of American science more broadly. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 565.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402040887
ISBN
9781402040887
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.01

Hardcover. Editor(s): Low, Morris. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; GTB; HBJF; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 523.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403968326
ISBN
9781403968326
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.39

Paperback. Translator(s): Eisinger, J. Series: Little Book Series. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PDZ; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 288.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Edition
Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2002
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781441929396
ISBN
9781441929396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.67

Hardback. Provides readers with the results of research from some of the world's leading historians of astronomy on aspects of Arabic, Australian, Chinese, Japanese, and North and South American astronomy and astrophysics. This title features sections on Arabic astronomy, Asian applied astronomy and the history of Australian radio astronomy. Editor(s): Orchiston, Wayne; Nakamura, Tsuko; Strom, Richard (ASTRON, Dwingeloo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Num Pages: 660 pages, 29 black & white tables, 2 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: HD; PDX; PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1163.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Edition
2011
Number of pages
660
Condition
New
SKU
V9781441981608
ISBN
9781441981608
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 375.63

Hardback. Freud on Interpretation offers new insight into Freud's famous "discovery" of the unconscious and the subsequent development of psychoanalytic theories. The authors explore the original context in which these ideas arose and the central debate about the mind as matter, or something that transcends matter. Series: Path in Psychology. Num Pages: 154 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMAF; MMJ; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Edition
2012
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
SKU
V9781461406365
ISBN
9781461406365
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.61

Paperback. Exploring the decisive steps taken by Anaximander of Miletus, this book details the transition from the archaic cosmological world-picture of a flat earth with a celestial vault to the Western world-picture of a free floating earth in an infinite universe. Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library. Num Pages: 296 pages, 5 black & white tables, 1 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; PDX; PGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781461428404
ISBN
9781461428404
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Edition
2012th Edition
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781461430483
ISBN
9781461430483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 40.00

Hardback. This unique volume forestalls the scientific injustice that could have been inflicted on William Gascoigne. The captivating narrative tracks the gradual recovery of the 17th-century astronomer's trailblazing work on the telescopic sight and the micrometer. Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library. Num Pages: 232 pages, 8 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; PDX; PGC; PHJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781461440963
ISBN
9781461440963
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.15

Hardcover. This history of atomic and nuclear physics shows how technological advances have enabled physicists to probe the physical properties of nuclei, offering the reader a clear understanding of how theory is inextricably intertwined with the progress of technology. Num Pages: 530 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PHM; PNRL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 979.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Edition
2013th Edition
Number of pages
533
Condition
New
SKU
V9781461441809
ISBN
9781461441809
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.18

paperback. Series: Path in Psychology. Num Pages: 233 pages, 1 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HB; MMJ; PDA; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 379.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer United States
Edition
2007th Edition
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9781461498025
ISBN
9781461498025
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 160.89

Paperback. Editor(s): Rieber, Robert W.; Robinson, David K. Num Pages: 590 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMM; JMR; MMJ; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1056.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
Number of pages
590
Condition
New
SKU
V9781475710106
ISBN
9781475710106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 231.91

Paperback. Editor(s): Mintz, Stephan L. Series: Studies in the Natural Sciences. Num Pages: 743 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1133.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977
Number of pages
743
Condition
New
SKU
V9781475715675
ISBN
9781475715675
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.47

Paperback. Editor(s): Dalton, Thomas C.; Evans, Rand B. Series: Path in Psychology. Num Pages: 364 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; HPS; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 587.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
SKU
V9781475779714
ISBN
9781475779714
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 128.65

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