Biography: science, technology & medicine
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Biography: science, technology & medicine
Hardback. Since Einstein first described them, gravitational waves have been the subject of more sustained controversy than perhaps any other phenomenon in physics. This book takes readers through the theoretical controversies and thorny debates that raged around the subject of gravitational waves after the publication of Einstein's theory. Num Pages: 336 pages, 20 halftones. 20 line illus. BIC Classification: BGT; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 173 x 373 x 34. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691117270
- ISBN
- 9780691117270
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.12€ 43.11
€ 55.12
€ 43.11
Hardback. August Weismann's 1892 theory that inheritance is transmitted through eggs and sperm provided the biological mechanism for natural selection. In this full-length biography, Frederick Churchill situates Weismann in the swirling intellectual currents of his day and shows how his work paved the way for the modern synthesis of genetics and evolution. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: BGT; PDX; PS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 171 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1174.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674736894
- ISBN
- 9780674736894
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.65€ 54.91
€ 59.65
€ 54.91
Hardback. Janeway was one of the most prominent paediatricians of the 20th century. This biography describes his illustrious medical family and his remarkable tenure of nearly three decades as Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and head of the department of medicine at Children's Hospital, Boston. Num Pages: 425 pages, 22 b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGT; MJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 39. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674023802
- ISBN
- 9780674023802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.07
€ 38.99
€ 33.07
Hardback. Barnum Brown led a remarkable life (1873-1963), spending most of it searching for fossils - and sometimes oil - in every corner of the globe. This biography discloses the details about his life and travels - from his youth on the western frontier to his spying for the US government under cover of his expeditions. Num Pages: 384 pages, 44 b/w photographs, 9 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: BGT; RBX; WNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 678.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520252646
- ISBN
- 9780520252646
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.41€ 45.40
€ 57.41
€ 45.40
Hardcover. Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. This title traces Humboldt's ideas for "Cosmos" to his 1799 journey to the Americas, where he first experienced the diversity of nature and of the world's people. Num Pages: 424 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGT; PDX; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 28. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226871820
- ISBN
- 9780226871820
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.57
€ 42.99
€ 33.57
Paperback. At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. This title traces the making - and unmaking - of Oppenheimer's wartime and postwar scientific identity. Num Pages: 384 pages, 18 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: BGT; PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 171 x 28. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226798462
- ISBN
- 9780226798462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.96
€ 36.99
€ 28.96
Paperback. Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. This work offers a portrait of this man, revealing how his private life and public works made him a man of science in eighteenth-century Europe. Num Pages: 468 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; BGT; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 185 x 23. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 468
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226793610
- ISBN
- 9780226793610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 36.34
€ 46.99
€ 36.34
Paperback. In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen. This is a biography of Owen. Num Pages: 356 pages, 20 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: BGT; PS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 231 x 20. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226731773
- ISBN
- 9780226731773
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.73
€ 40.99
€ 31.73
Paperback. Num Pages: 292 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGT; KNDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226238050
- ISBN
- 9780226238050
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.77
€ 15.99
€ 13.77
Hardcover. How did one create and maintain for oneself the persona of scientist at the beginning of the twentieth century? What special conditions bore upon scientific women, and on married women in particular? This book provides a composite picture not only of the making of Marie Curie, but the making of modern science itself. Series: Science-Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: BGT; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226235844
- ISBN
- 9780226235844
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.86€ 75.79
€ 91.86
€ 75.79
hardcover. Explore Darwin's world in a unique, first hand account through his letters, many of which have never been published before. Editor(s): Burkhardt, Frederick H.; Pearn, Alison M.; Evans, Samantha. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521874120
- ISBN
- 9780521874120
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 28.27
€ 28.27
Paperback. In THE NURSES, journalist Alexandra Robbins peers behind the staff only door to write a lively, fast paced story. Robbins followed real like nurses in four hospitals and interviewed hundreds of others in a captivating book filled with joy and violence, miracles and heartbreak, dark humour and narrow victories, gripping drama and unsung heroism. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BGT; MQC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 210 x 41. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Workman Publishing Company
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761189251
- ISBN
- 9780761189251
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.15
€ 16.99
€ 13.15
Hardback. During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Samuel Bentham influenced both the technology and the administrative ideas employed in the management of the British navy. Regarded by the Navy Board as a dangerous maverick, this book reveals the experiences, creativity and thinking that made him a major figure in British naval development. Series Editor(s): Benbow, Dr. Tim; Kennedy, Professor Greg; Robb-Webb, Dr. Jon. Series: Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies Series. Num Pages: 292 pages, Includes 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DVUA; 3JF; BGH; BGT; JWF; TRLD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 193 x 26. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781472412676
- ISBN
- 9781472412676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 174.68
€ 174.68
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: BGT; MBDP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 204 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Broadway Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804138673
- ISBN
- 9780804138673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.13
€ 17.99
€ 16.13
Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 plate sections & integrated. BIC Classification: BGT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 798.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Buckingham Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780956071613
- ISBN
- 9780956071613
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 24.37
€ 32.99
€ 24.37
Paperback. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne as Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife Jane. It chronicles their relationship, from his early development of ALS to his success in physics. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: BGTA; BM; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 32. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Alma Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846883668
- ISBN
- 9781846883668
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.33
€ 13.99
€ 11.33
Paperback. This biography of the logician and philosopher Kurt Godel is an in-depth account to integrate details of his personal life with his work. Based on the author's intensive study of Godel's papers and surviving correspondence, the author examines the life of this driven man. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white halftones, frontispiece. BIC Classification: BGT; PBCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781568812564
- ISBN
- 9781568812564
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.05
€ 57.05
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 382
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752437279
- ISBN
- 9780752437279
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.94
€ 16.99
€ 15.94
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. Tells the story of John Lilly's discoveries from his early experiments; mapping the brains of monkeys and communication with dolphins, to his experience with consciousness expanding drugs. The book includes an update on Lilly's work on human/dolphin communication and returning animals to the wild. Num Pages: 232 pages, b&w. BIC Classification: BGTA; PDZ; PSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Ronin Publishing United States
- Edition
- Third
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780914171720
- ISBN
- 9780914171720
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.32
€ 19.99
€ 19.32