Science: general issues
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Science: general issues
Paperback. A New York Times Bestseller. A "fascinating" (Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times) look at how digital technology is transforming our work and our lives. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: KCY; PDR; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393350647
- ISBN
- 9780393350647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.23
€ 18.99
€ 17.23
Hardcover. A New York Times Bestseller A revolution is under way. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white line drawings, figures, graphs. BIC Classification: KC; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393239355
- ISBN
- 9780393239355
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.31
€ 31.99
€ 27.31
Hardcover. Brock traces the complex history of the second information revolution, from its roots in World War II through to the bursting bubble of the internet economy, explaining that it sprang from an interdependent series of technological advances, entrepreneurial innovations and changes to public policy. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: HBT; KNTT; KNTX; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 621.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674011786
- ISBN
- 9780674011786
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.22€ 68.00
€ 75.22
€ 68.00
Hardback. Num Pages: 146 pages, 28 black & white illustrations, 20 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: MFN; PDX; PSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 146
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319263342
- ISBN
- 9783319263342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23
€ 64.23
Paperback. This two-volume collection of Abner Shimony's essays written over a period of forty years explores the interrelations between science and philosophy. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK; HPS; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521377454
- ISBN
- 9780521377454
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.16
€ 52.16
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; CBWT; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691170220
- ISBN
- 9780691170220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.46
€ 23.99
€ 18.46
Hardback. The author of this book offers a uniquely comprehensive and documented history of theories of the atom from Democritus to the twentieth century. He has drawn on the results of his own scholarly research as well as that of others to produce a challenging work. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 597.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 299
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048123612
- ISBN
- 9789048123612
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.84
€ 127.84
Hardcover. Tells the remarkable lives of the pioneers of science from Galileo and Newton, Faraday and Darwin, Pasteur and Marie Curie, to Einstein, Freud, Turing, and Crick and Watson. This title features articles that offer an account of the lives and personalities behind the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time. Num Pages: 304 pages, 200 illustrations, 150 in colour. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 195 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1164.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500251911
- ISBN
- 9780500251911
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.81
€ 32.99
€ 23.81
Paperback. The author of this book offers a uniquely comprehensive and documented history of theories of the atom from Democritus to the twentieth century. He has drawn on the results of his own scholarly research as well as that of others to produce a challenging work. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 299
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400705333
- ISBN
- 9789400705333
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 125.46
€ 125.46
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590172940
- ISBN
- 9781590172940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 18.96
€ 27.99
€ 18.96
Paperback. How do major scientific discoveries reshape their originators, and our own, sense of reality and concept of the physical world? This work explores the interaction between physics and philosophy. It concludes that the dance between science and philosophy is an evolutionary process, which will keep them forever entwined. Num Pages: 355 pages, 19 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 355
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783540213741
- ISBN
- 9783540213741
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 133.54
€ 133.54
Hardback. How do major scientific discoveries reshape their originators' and our own, sense of reality and concept of the physical world? This book explains that what we understand by nature and science have undergone fundamental conceptual changes as a result of the discoveries of electromagnetism, thermodynamics and atomic structure. Num Pages: 355 pages, 19 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 29. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 355
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783540205807
- ISBN
- 9783540205807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.03
€ 129.03
Paperback. Editor(s): Biekowska, B. Translator(s): Cenkalska, C. Num Pages: 155 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BGT; PDX; PNV; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 8. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1973
- Number of pages
- 155
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789401026185
- ISBN
- 9789401026185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.14
€ 121.14
Paperback / so. Editor(s): Cattell, Raymond. Num Pages: 618 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: GB; PD; WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 848.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer United States
- Number of pages
- 618
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781468422641
- ISBN
- 9781468422641
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Paperback. Lawrence M. Principe takes a fresh approach to the story of the scientific revolution, emphasising the historical context of the society and its world view at the time. From astronomy to alchemy and medicine to geology, he tells this fascinating story from the perspective of the historical characters involved. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 168 pages, 15 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199567416
- ISBN
- 9780199567416
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.59
€ 11.99
€ 10.59
Paperback. The 16th and 17th centuries witnessed a fundamental transformation in how nature was understood and studied; a transformation which came to be known as the Scientific Revolution. This book introduces students to the best recent writings on this important era in the history of science. Editor(s): Hellyer, Marcus. Series: Blackwell Essential Readings in History. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; HBG; HBLH; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 173 x 15. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631236306
- ISBN
- 9780631236306
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.31
€ 56.31
Paperback. The 16th and 17th centuries witnessed a fundamental transformation in how nature was understood and studied; a transformation which came to be known as the Scientific Revolution. This book introduces students to the best recent writings on this important era in the history of science. Editor(s): Hellyer, Marcus. Series: Blackwell Essential Readings in History. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; HBG; HBLH; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631236290
- ISBN
- 9780631236290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 140.45
€ 140.45
Paperback. Examines the body of work on the intellectual, social and cultural origins of early modern science. Cohen surveys a wide range of scholarship since the 19th century, offering new perspectives on how the Scientific Revolution changed the way we understand the natural world and our place in it. Num Pages: 680 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: HBAH; JFCX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 232 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1052.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 680
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226112800
- ISBN
- 9780226112800
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.22€ 51.42
€ 60.22
€ 51.42
paperback. Explores the nature and scope of scientific knowledge, the increased power of nature that science affords and the changes in the lives of human beings that result from different forms of science. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; PDA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 132 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415474627
- ISBN
- 9780415474627
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.37
€ 20.37
Paperback. A collection of writings - excerpts from scientific articles, letters, memoirs, proceedings, transactions, and magazines - that illustrates the origin of the scientific article in 1665 and its evolution over the next three and a half centuries. Num Pages: 312 pages, 31 halftones, 27 line drawings. BIC Classification: GBC; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226316567
- ISBN
- 9780226316567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 32.89
€ 42.99
€ 32.89
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
€ 22.00€ 20.79
€ 22.00
€ 20.79
Hardcover. 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: PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 167 x 36. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 486
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226750248
- ISBN
- 9780226750248
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.24
€ 35.99
€ 28.24
Paperback. Editor(s): Redondi, Pietro; Sironi, Giorgio; Tucci, P.; Vegni, Guido. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642072161
- ISBN
- 9783642072161
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.34
€ 65.34
Hardback. A collection of reviews, essays and personal reminiscences on Beppo Occhialini's scientific life and work. Editor(s): Redondi, Pietro; Tucci, P.; Vegni, Guido; Sironi, Giorgio. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1880.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783540373537
- ISBN
- 9783540373537
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.58
€ 77.58