History of Science
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The Big Bang Revolutionaries: The Untold Story of Three Scientists Who Reenchanted Cosmology
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It''s a Gas: The Magnificent and Elusive Elements that Expand Our World
Mark MiodownikCurrent price €27.08Original price €28.50'A delight' Dara O Briain'A witty, smart writer who has a great talent' Bill Gates'A winning blend of education and anecdote' Clive Cookson, FTWhy ...
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Imagining Progress: Science, Faith, and Child Mortality in America
Kristin JohnsonCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Explores the intellectual history of Americans divergent assumptions about God, nature, and science Offering fascinating examples from the works of...
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Elephant Trails: A History of Animals and Cultures
Nigel RothfelsCurrent price €38.24Original price €44.99Why have elephantsand our preconceptions about thembeen central to so much of human thought?From prehistoric cave drawings in Europe and ancient ro...
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A Mind Over Matter: Philip Anderson and the Physics of the Very Many
Andrew ZangwillCurrent price €35.69Original price €41.99A Mind Over Matter is a biography of the Nobel-prize winner Philip W. Anderson, a person widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influe...
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Imagining Progress: Science, Faith, and Child Mortality in America
Kristin JohnsonCurrent price €97.19Original price €107.99Explores the intellectual history of Americans divergent assumptions about God, nature, and science Offering fascinating examples from the works of...
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The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron
Benjamin EhrlichCurrent price €29.74Original price €34.99The first major biography of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered neurons and transformed our understanding of the human mind-illustrat...
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Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
Ed ConwayCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR**Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award**Picked as a Boo...
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Chasing the Moon: How America Beat Russia in the Space Race
Alan AndresCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people o...
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Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio
Gareth WilliamsCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99The story of mankind's struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medici...
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After Apollo?: Richard Nixon and the American Space Program
John M. LogsdonCurrent price €61.19Original price €67.99Once the United States landed on the moon in July 1969, it was up to President Nixon to decide what to do in space after Apollo. This book chronicl...
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Modernism and Nihilism
S. WellerCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99Focusing on a wide range of philosophers and writers, from Nietzsche to Derrida and Flaubert to Borges, this book charts the history of the deploym...
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Global Goods and the Spanish Empire, 1492-1824: Circulation, Resistance and Diversity
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99Drawing upon economic history, cultural studies, intellectual history and the history of science and medicine, this collection of case studies exam...
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Voices of the Soviet Space Program: Cosmonauts, Soldiers, and Engineers Who Took the USSR into Space
S. GerovitchCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99In this remarkable oral history, Slava Gerovitch presents interviews with the men and women who witnessed Soviet space efforts firsthand. Rather th...
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Post-Industrial Landscape Scars
A. StormCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99Post-industrial landscape scars are traces of 20th century utopian visions of society; they relate to fear and resistance expressed by popular move...
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Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology
B. RegalCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99The first academic study of this subject is an entertaining look at the search for Sasquatch which considers not just the nature of monsters and mo...
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John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon
J. LogsdonCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99While there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts, this book uses primary source material and interviews ...
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Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio
Gareth WilliamsCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99The story of mankind's struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medici...
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The Square Kilometre Array: A Science Mega-Project in the Making, 1990-2012
Peter E. DewdneyCurrent price €41.79Original price €43.99The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a grand vision project to build the most sensitive radio telescope in the world. This open access book tells th...
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The Ash Wednesday Supper: A New Translation
Giordano BrunoCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99Giordano Brunos The Ash Wednesday Supper is the first of six philosophical dialogues in Italian that he wrote and published in London between 1584 ...
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Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution
Ian DuncanCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary scienceThe 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) ...
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The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth
Michael MarshallCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99From the primordial soup to meteorite impact zones, the Manhattan Project to the latest research, this book is the first full history of the scient...
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The Alphabet of Galen: Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Nicholas EverettCurrent price €94.99Original price €99.99The Alphabet of Galen is a critical edition and English translation of a text describing, in alphabetical order, nearly three hundred natural produ...
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Moral Figures: Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu
Alexandra WidmerCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50In the early twentieth century, people in the southwestern Pacific nation of Vanuatu experienced rapid population decline, while in the early twent...
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A History of Science in Society, Volume I: From the Ancient Greeks to the Scientific Revolution, Fourth Edition
Andrew EdeCurrent price €33.24Original price €34.99In A History of Science in Society, Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the ...
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Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900-2000
Bert TheunissenCurrent price €70.54Original price €82.99In the 1970s, scientists claimed that farm animal breeding was finally evolving from an art into a science. In their view, the switch to scientific...
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The Light of the World: Astronomy in al-Andalus
Joseph ibn NahmiasCurrent price €89.29Original price €93.99This book contains an edition - with an extensive introduction, translation and commentary - of The Light of the World, a text on theoretical astro...
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Doctors beyond Borders: The Transnational Migration of Physicians in the Twentieth Century
University of Toronto PressCurrent price €53.09Original price €58.99The transnational migration of health care practitioners has become a critical issue in global health policy and ethics. Doctors beyond Borders pro...
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Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection is Changing Life on Earth
Juan EnriquezCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Why are rates of conditions like autism, asthma, obesity and allergies exploding at an unprecedented pace? Why are humans living longer, getting sm...
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Einstein''s Entanglement: Bell Inequalities, Relativity, and the Qubit
Dr Timothy McDevittCurrent price €59.84Original price €62.99Einstein introduced quantum entanglement in 1935 and referred to it as spooky actions at a distance because it seemed to conflict with his theory o...
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The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism
Alice KuzniarCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99Homeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann who ardently proposed that like cures like, counter to the conventional tre...
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Our Battle for the Human Spirit: Scientific Knowing, Technical Doing, and Daily Living
Willem H. VanderburgCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Western society has become saturated with scientific and technological modes of thinking that impact our lives and our relationships. Expanding soc...
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Anatomical Drawing: A Scenographic Intersection Between Science, the Visual Arts and Performance
Sue FieldCurrent price €91.07Original price €98.99Intersecting art, science and the scenographic mise-en-scène, this book provides a new approach to anatomical drawing, viewed through the contempor...
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Science Fraud: Darwin''s Plagiarism of Patrick Matthew''s Theory
Mike SuttonCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99Current price €22.09Original price €25.99Save 15% -
Globalizing Physics: One Hundred Years of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
Oxford University PressCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99This is an open access book available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platfor...
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Topography of a Method: François Louis Ganshof and the Writing of History
Henning TrüperCurrent price €84.54Original price €88.99What does the practical work of writing contribute to historical writing? What does it mean for historical knowledge that it is, inescapably, writt...
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Medicine in Iran: Profession, Practice and Politics, 1800-1925
H. EbrahimnejadCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book traces how medicine in modern Iran was both theoretically and institutionally transformed in the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores the...
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The Descent of Artificial Intelligence: Scenes from the Deep History of a Field 400 Years in the Making
Kevin DonnellyCurrent price €42.74Original price €44.99The idea that a new technology could challenge human intelligence is as old as the warning from Socrates and Plato that written language eroded mem...
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Indigenous Science and Technology: Nahuas and the World Around Them
Kelly S. McDonoughCurrent price €108.89Original price €120.99Current price €108.89Original price €120.99Save 10% -
BRVE HISTOIRE DE LA MDECINE - De l''Antiquit aux Avances Modernes
Sophie Domingues-MontanariCurrent price €25.18Original price €26.50Current price €25.18Original price €26.50Save 5% -
This is Philosophy of Science: An Introduction
Franz-Peter GriesmaierCurrent price €37.99Original price €39.99A clear and engaging introduction to the philosophy of science, exploring the role of science within the broader framework of human knowledge and e...
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Leonardo da Vincis Giant Crossbow
Matt LandrusCurrent price €53.19Original price €55.99Although Leonardos Giant Crossbow is one of his most popular drawings, it has been one of the least understood. Leonardos Giant Crossbow offers the...
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Transforming Science in South Africa: Development, Collaboration and Productivity
R. SooryamoorthyCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book is essential for anyone interested in knowing how science works nationally and internationally in the contemporary world. It offers a com...
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Fermats Last Theorem (Collins Modern Classics)
Simon SinghCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light ...
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The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 14: The Correspondence, October 1873-October 1875
University of Pittsburgh PressCurrent price €121.49Original price €134.99The 499 letters in the fourteenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall cover a number of particularly intense and acrimonious disputes. Mor...
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Tea on the Terrace: Hotels and Egyptologists Social Networks, 18851925
Kathleen SheppardCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Tea on the terrace takes the reader on a fascinating journey down the Nile with legendary Egyptologists. Spending time with these remarkable men an...
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