History of Science
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Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1: The Birth of Humankind
David VandermeulenCurrent price €22.56Original price €23.50The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER. Featuring 256 pages of ...
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Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization
Yuval Noah HarariCurrent price €22.56Original price €23.50Discover the second volume of an epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's multi-million copy bestse...
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A Short History of Nearly Everything (A)
Bill BrysonCurrent price €10.85Original price €11.30Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity abou...
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The Chemistry Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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Ten Women Who Changed Science, and the World
Catherine WhitlockCurrent price €18.19Original price €19.99'These minibiographies of women who persisted will move anyone with an avid curiosity about the world.' Publishers Weekly With a foreword by Athene...
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Our Moon: A Human History
Rebecca BoyleCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99'Superb: as much a feat of imagination as it is a work of globe-trotting scholarship'TELEGRAPH'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book t...
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Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation
Neil deGrasse TysonCurrent price €17.59Original price €19.99Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurr...
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Space: A thrilling human history by Britain''s beloved astronaut Tim Peake
Tim PeakeCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake, an inspirational human history of space travel, from the Apollo missions to our future for...
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The Time Machine (Collins Classics)
H. G. WellsCurrent price €4.46Original price €5.25HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. In a moment I was clutched by several hands, an...
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A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong
Dr Becky SmethurstCurrent price €15.40Original price €17.50In A Brief History of Black Holes, award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakth...
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The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War
Tom WhippleCurrent price €23.32Original price €26.50'Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thriller' Mail on Sunday'Chock full of memorable char...
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The Medicine Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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Ancient Greek and Roman Science: A Very Short Introduction
Liba TaubCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Ancient Greece is often considered to be the birthplace of science and medicine, and the exp...
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Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950
Elizabeth A WilliamsCurrent price €28.20Original price €30.99Why do we eat? Is it instinct, or some other impetus? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to eat are widespread in our cult...
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Copernicus: A Very Short Introduction
Owen GingerichCurrent price €14.07Original price €15.99Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) is a pivotal figure in the birth of modern science, the astronomer who stopped the sun and set the earth in motion....
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The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Diane Greco JosefowiczCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50A major new history of the race between two geniuses to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Europ...
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Science: Vintage Minis
Ian McEwanCurrent price €5.81Original price €6.75''''This is a history of intellectual courage, hard work, occasional inspiration and every conceivable form of human failing. It is also an extende...
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Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction
Adam ShapiroCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Debates about science and religion are rarely out of the news. Whether it concerns what's b...
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2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity
John C. LennoxCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Will technology change what it means to be human? You don't have to be a computer scientist to have discerning conversations about artificial intel...
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Science: The Definitive Visual Guide
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Psychology Led Astray: Cargo Cult in Science and Therapy
Tomasz WitkowskiCurrent price €27.29Original price €29.99Current price €27.29Original price €29.99Save 9% -
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos
Dava SobelCurrent price €15.40Original price €17.50The bestselling author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter tells the story of Nicolaus Copernicus and the revolution in astronomy that changed the ...
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Alexander von Humboldt: Tagebücher der Amerikanischen Reise: Von Spanien nach Cumaná (1799/1800)
Sarah MorganCurrent price €65.69Original price €72.99Der erste Tagebuchband der amerikanischen Reise Alexander von Humboldts gibt Einblicke in die Überfahrt von Europa nach Amerika, den Aufenthalt auf...
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Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
Jim DownsCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern me...
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Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
Alex WellersteinCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our postCold War present. The American atomic bomb was born in ...
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Third Thoughts: The Universe We Still Dont Know
Steven WeinbergCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99The phrase public intellectual is much bandied about. Just a few real heavyweights in the world merit the title, and Steven Weinberg is preeminent ...
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Inside the Stargazer''s Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Northern Europe
Violet MollerCurrent price €28.60Original price €32.50Enter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories 'A scintillating journey into a worl...
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Die Arbeit mit dem Radium: Radioaktivitätsforschung 1896 -1914
Beate CeranskiCurrent price €65.69Original price €72.99Dieses Buch macht die überraschende Vielfalt der Personen und Tätigkeiten in der Radioaktivitätsforschung sichtbar. Dabei wird der Begriff der wiss...
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Time in Eternity: Pannenberg, Physics, and Eschatology in Creative Mutual Interaction
Robert John RussellCurrent price €133.19Original price €147.99According to Robert John Russell, one of the foremost scholars on relating Christian theology and science, the topic of time and eternity is centra...
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Principles of Anatomy according to the Opinion of Galen by Johann Guinter and Andreas Vesalius
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €131.03Original price €143.99Principles of Anatomy according to the Opinion of Galen is a translation of Johann Guinters textbook as revised and annotated by Guinters student, ...
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The Stuff of the Universe: Matter, Energy, Atoms, and Quantum for the Non-Scientist
Irwin TylerCurrent price €15.93Original price €17.50Current price €15.93Original price €17.50Save 9% -
Impressionable Biologies: From the Archaeology of Plasticity to the Sociology of Epigenetics
Maurizio MeloniCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99During the twentieth century, genes were considered the controlling force of life processes, and the transfer of DNA the definitive explanation for...
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Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
Jim DownsCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Maladies of Empire has a captivating writing style, is exhaustively researched, and is persuasive in argumentation. Jim Downs has written a game-ch...
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National Races: Transnational Power Struggles in the Sciences and Politics of Human Diversity, 18401945
University of Nebraska PressCurrent price €69.29Original price €76.99National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to produce powerful, rac...
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Making Sense of World History
Rick SzostakCurrent price €55.35Original price €61.50Making Sense of World History is a comprehensive and accessible textbook that helps students understand the key themes of world history within a ch...
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Soviet Science and Engineering in the Shadow of the Cold War
Hiroshi IchikawaCurrent price €126.71Original price €143.99The 1950s were a vital time in the history of science. In accordance with the intensification of the Cold War, many scientific talents were mobiliz...
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Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know ®
Jerry KaplanCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50AI expert Jerry Kaplan explains how generative AI will revolutionize virtually every human activity. Highly recommended. - Francis Fukuyama, Politi...
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The Culture of Diagram
John BenderCurrent price €80.99Original price €89.99The Culture of Diagram is about visual thinking. Exploring a terrain where words meet pictures and formulas meet figures, the book foregrounds diag...
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Beams: The Story of Particle Accelerators and the Science They Discover
Volker ZiemannCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99This book describes and explains the world of particle accelerators and the physics they study. The presentation is non-technical (E=mc2 is the onl...
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Anaximander: And the Nature of Science
Carlo RovelliCurrent price €19.35Original price €21.99A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Anaximander is a delight and so is this book' -- James McConnachie, Sunday TimesNow widely available in English for the fir...
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Einstein at Work on Unified Field Theory: The Five-Dimensional Einstein-Bergmann Approach
Tobias SchützCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99This book meticulously examines over one hundred documents of research notes by Albert Einstein, many of which were previously unidentified, held ...
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The Bureaucracy of Empathy: Law, Vivisection, and Animal Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain
Shira ShmuelyCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99The Bureaucracy of Empathy revolves around two central questions: What is pain? And how do we recognize, understand, and ameliorate the pain of non...
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The Bureaucracy of Empathy: Law, Vivisection, and Animal Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain
Shira ShmuelyCurrent price €116.99Original price €129.99The Bureaucracy of Empathy revolves around two central questions: What is pain? And how do we recognize, understand, and ameliorate the pain of non...
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The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything
Marcus ChownCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2017'Does Einstein proud . . . Eminently readable' Guardian'No one has covered the topic with such a ligh...
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Conversations with Galileo: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts
William SheaCurrent price €15.46Original price €16.99When Galileo Galilei pointed his telescope to the skies, he ushered in a scientific revolution: the Moon turned out to be covered with mountains an...
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