History of Science
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The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine, and Spain, 1922-1923
Albert EinsteinCurrent price €27.29Original price €29.99Albert Einstein''s travel diary to the Far East and Middle EastIn the fall of 1922, Albert Einstein, along with his then-wife, Elsa Einstein, embar...
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Life on Mars: What to Know Before We Go
David A. WeintraubCurrent price €26.39Original price €29.99The story of the search for life on Mars-and the moral issues confronting us as we prepare to send humans thereDoes life exist on Mars? The questio...
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The Quotable Darwin
Princeton University PressCurrent price €22.05Original price €24.50A treasure trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from the legendary naturalist Here is Charles Darwin in his own words--the naturalist...
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Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity
Theodore M. PorterCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredityIn the early 1800s, a century before there wa...
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Storytelling and Science: Rewriting Oppenheimer in the Nuclear Age
David K. HechtCurrent price €81.89Original price €90.99No single figure embodies Cold War science more than the renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Although other scientists may have been more inf...
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How Mystics Can Unify Science and Religion
Kim MichaelsCurrent price €1,565.09Original price €1,738.99Current price €1,565.09Original price €1,738.99Save 10% -
Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation
Timothy J. JorgensenCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as ma...
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Fisica de Aristoteles, Coleccion La Critica Literaria Por El Celebre Critico Literario Juan Bautista Bergua, Ediciones Ibericas
Aristoteles Arist TelesCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Current price €23.39Original price €25.99Save 10% -
Nature & Politics
Thomas StruthCurrent price €39.77Original price €50.99This catalogue accompanies a museum exhibition of the latest work of German artist, Thomas Struth. The touring show focuses on photographs Struth h...
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The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
Richard HamblynCurrent price €11.52Original price €12.80An extraordinary yet little-known scientific advance occurred in the opening years of the nineteenth century when a young amateur meteorologist, Lu...
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Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
Frank WilczekCurrent price €20.34Original price €24.50One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical worldIn Fun...
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The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
Chris GosdenCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50A Telegraph Book of the Year A remarkable, unprecedented account of the role of magic in cultures both ancient and modern -- from the first known h...
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The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery
Seb FalkCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Daily Telegraph, TLS, BBC History Magazine and Tablet'Compulsive, brilliantly clear and superbly well-wr...
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The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History
Paolo ZelliniCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of mathematics - its a...
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Planting the World: Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany
Jordan GoodmanCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Based on meticulous research in original sources Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was Shining a light on individuals wh...
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The Science of Can and Can''t: A Physicist''s Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals
Chiara MarlettoCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50A luminous guide to how the radical new science of counterfactuals can reveal the full scope of our universeThere is a vast class of properties, wh...
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Boffinology
Justin PollardCurrent price €12.47Original price €15.99The history of science is often seen as a story of advancement but nothing could be further from the truth. Science, it is true, has progressed, bu...
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Essays on the History of Scientific Thought in Modern Japan
Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for CultureCurrent price €50.95Original price €55.99Current price €50.95Original price €55.99Save 9% -
Scientists Who Changed History
DKCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99Delve into the lives, inspirations, motivations, and achievements of the greatest scientists in the world and through all time. Explore the stories...
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Citizen Science: How Ordinary People are Changing the Face of Discovery
Caren CooperCurrent price €18.19Original price €19.99Current price €18.19Original price €19.99Save 9% -
The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table
Sam KeanCurrent price €15.93Original price €17.50Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin ...
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Night Thoughts: George Gaylord Simpson''s Reflections on Leaving the American Museum of Natural History
George Gaylord SimpsonCurrent price €17.79Original price €19.99Current price €17.79Original price €19.99Save 11% -
The Wizard War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945
Jones V RCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Current price €28.79Original price €31.99Save 10% -
ATOMOS - Inventing the Ultimate Constituents of ''Matter''
Jonathan PowersCurrent price €9.89Original price €10.99Current price €9.89Original price €10.99Save 10% -
Nature, Power, and Liberty: Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury and Derbyshire
Jonathan PowersCurrent price €9.89Original price €10.99Current price €9.89Original price €10.99Save 10% -
Science : A History in 100 Experiments
John GribbinCurrent price €35.17Original price €38.65A history of science distilled into 100 notable experiments - epic moments that have fuelled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond. ...
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Iron Making in the Olden Times as Instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of the Forest of Dean
H G NichollsCurrent price €16.37Original price €17.99Current price €16.37Original price €17.99Save 9%