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Hardback. The Asko meetings were an annual forum where leading economists and ecologists developed solutions for a myriad of issues and challenges surrounding sustainable development. This book showcases ten papers chosen from the Asko meetings held from 1993 to 2002. Editor(s): Soderqvist, Tore; Sundbaum, Anna; Folke, Carl; Maler, Karl-Goran. Num Pages: 246 pages, 2 black & white tables, 1 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: GT; J; KC; PDZ; PSAF; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048194759
- ISBN
- 9789048194759
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.25
€ 195.25
Hardback. This book provides the first study of scientific reasoning during the BSE epidemic in the UK. It argues for a closer integration of philosophy within public health science, an integration exemplified by the case of scientific reasoning during the BSE affair. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPL; MBNS; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1200.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048195039
- ISBN
- 9789048195039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.10
€ 199.10
Hardback. Scientific Structuralism explores subsets of this popular new topic, including structural realism, structural empiricism, structural approaches to intertheoretic relations, and structuralism in physics. Top contributors fill a glaring gap in current philosophy of science literature. Editor(s): Bokulich, Alisa; Bokulich, Peter. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048195961
- ISBN
- 9789048195961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.83
€ 186.83
Hardback. With contributions from leading researchers in the field, and including recent breakthrough work, this collection of recent results on near wall turbulence includes theory, new experiments, DNS, and modeling with RANS, LES and Low Order Dynamical Systems. Editor(s): Stanislas, M.; Jimenez, Javier; Marusic, Ivan. Series: ERCOFTAC Series. Num Pages: 485 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDE; PHDF; TBJ; TGMF; TRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 857.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 485
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048196029
- ISBN
- 9789048196029
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 203.65
€ 203.65
Hardback. This is the first up-to-date book that addresses belief revision in the context of scientific enquiry. It provides a number of new perspectives likely to guide research, and it establishes new connections between areas previously assumed unrelated. Editor(s): Olsson, Erik J.; Enqvist, Sebastian. Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science. Num Pages: 379 pages, 15 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPL; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 379
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048196081
- ISBN
- 9789048196081
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 201.46
€ 201.46
Hardback. This book combines an analytical and critical perspective with a historical and sociological framework for the understanding of the emergence of Science Studies. It also points to fruitful lines of development for Science and Technology Studies in the future. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JH; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048197408
- ISBN
- 9789048197408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.81
€ 132.81
Hardback. This book presents and analyzes the strong and weak elements of the Cyprus experience in water resource management, thus offering crucial insights and experience to policymakers from similarly arid and semi-arid countries from all over the world. Editor(s): Koundouri, Phoebe. Series: Global Issues in Water Policy. Num Pages: 177 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 14 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; K; PBT; PD; RNFD; TBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2011
- Number of pages
- 177
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048198245
- ISBN
- 9789048198245
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Hardback. Presenting a unique study of Integrative Problem-Solving (IPS), this volume integrates sophisticated mathematics and the scientific method with philosophical thinking and sociological analysis. The text explores stochastic reasoning, as it underlines the conceptual and methodological framework of IPS. Num Pages: 527 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GT; MBN; PBT; PDA; PSA; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1096.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 527
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048198894
- ISBN
- 9789048198894
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 198.43
€ 198.43
Hardcover. This book discusses specific instances of greening and the presence of greened spaces in promoting and enhancing recovery, and perhaps resilience, in social-ecological systems disrupted by violent conflict or other catastrophic disaster. Editor(s): Krasny, Marianne E.; Tidball, Keith G. Num Pages: 534 pages, 11 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: J; PDZ; RNC; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 239 x 32. Weight in Grams: 884.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048199464
- ISBN
- 9789048199464
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 287.12
€ 287.12
Hardback. Argues that the process of transmission of knowledge whether theoretical or practical was not a simple and one-way process from the donor to the receiver as it is often admitted, but a multi-dimensional and complex cultural process of selection and transformation where ancient scientific and local traditions and elements. Editor(s): Gunergun, Feza; Raina, Dhruv. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 292 pages, 20 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HB; MBX; PDA; PDX; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048199679
- ISBN
- 9789048199679
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.82
€ 199.82
hardcover. Editor(s): Clementi, Enrico. Num Pages: 1160 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDN; PN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 62. Weight in Grams: 2376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 1160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789072199072
- ISBN
- 9789072199072
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 210.78
€ 210.78
Hardback. Probabilistic Logic and Probabilistic Networks presents a groundbreaking framework within which various approaches to probabilistic logic naturally fit. Additionally, the text shows how to develop computationally feasible methods to mesh with this framework. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 155 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPL; PBT; PDA; UYA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 14. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 155
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400700079
- ISBN
- 9789400700079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.12
€ 70.12
Hardback. Seen as a flash point of the Scientific Revolution, early modern astronomy witnessed an explosion of views about the function and structure of the world. This study explores these theories in a wide variety of settings, and challenges our view of modern science as the straightforward successor of Aristotelian natural philosophy. Editor(s): Bonner, Patrick. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; PBX; PDX; PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 174 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 181
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400700369
- ISBN
- 9789400700369
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.35
€ 131.35
Hardback. In recent decades, there has been much controversy over the basic ontological commitments of the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. This volume brings together papers from many of the leading scholars of Leibniz's thought, all of which deal with the cluster of questions surrounding Leibniz's philosophy of body. Editor(s): Smith, Justin E. H.; Nachtomy, Ohad. Series: The New Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400700406
- ISBN
- 9789400700406
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Hardback. Computational Methods in Earthquake Engineering provides an insight in advanced methods and concepts for the design and analysis of seismic loading. The book consists of 25 chapters dealing with a wide range of timely issues in contemporary Earthquake Engineering. Editor(s): Papadrakakis, Manolis; Fragiadakis, Michalis; Lagaros, Nikos D. Series: Computational Methods in Applied Sciences. Num Pages: 600 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDE; TBC; TBJ; TGMD4; TNCC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1012.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400700529
- ISBN
- 9789400700529
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 261.21
€ 261.21
Hardback. Highlighting the coherence of, and connections between, current themes in the subject, this volume collates original contributions from key researchers into a new trend in the contemporary theory of knowledge and belief known as 'dynamic epistemology'. Editor(s): Girard, Patrick R.; Roy, Olivier; Marion, Mathieu. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 252 pages, 10 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPL; JPA; KCH; PDA; UMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400700734
- ISBN
- 9789400700734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.55
€ 132.55
Hardback. This book offers a critical reexamination of Otto Neurath's conception of the unity of science. Leading Neurath scholars, along with prominent philosophers of science, discuss the relevance of his work, and his place in the history of philosophy of science. Editor(s): Symons, John; Pombo, Olga; Torres, Juan Manuel. Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400701427
- ISBN
- 9789400701427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.94
€ 132.94
Hardback. This volume offers translations of early work of Pierre Duhem, illustrating his interest in the rigorous development of physical theory for which he is famous. Benefits scholars of history and philosophy of science, and the development of physical chemistry. Editor(s): Needham, Paul. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX; PHH; PNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400703100
- ISBN
- 9789400703100
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.08
€ 128.08
Hardcover. As the rise in computing power enables ever more detailed simulations, this volume features the work of prominent experts who review current approaches to modeling turbulent combustion. It includes algorithms, theoretical methods, and application examples. Editor(s): Echekki, Tarek; Mastorakos, E. Series: Fluid Mechanics and its Applications. Num Pages: 512 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDE; PHDF; TBC; TBJ; TGMB; TGMF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 34. Weight in Grams: 890.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400704114
- ISBN
- 9789400704114
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 259.34
€ 259.34
Hardback. This text is a comprehensive introduction to the use of models and modeling in science education. It identifies and describes many different modeling tools and presents recent applications of modeling as a cognitive tool for scientific enquiry. Editor(s): Khine, Myint Swe; Saleh, Isa M. Series: Models and Modeling in Science Education. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNU; PD; YQS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1320.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400704480
- ISBN
- 9789400704480
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.49
€ 133.49