History of science Books
Yale University Press At the End of an Age
Book SynopsisJohn Lukacs asserts that now, even at the end of the modern age, our understanding of the universe is based on what we fallible human beings have imagined and defined in a historical continuum; it is religion that is the source of the highest form of knowledge.Trade Review"The author tackles weighty matters, but he is a consistently engaging writer, and some of his sly asides are among the best parts of the book." Michael Potemra, National Review "Lukacs is very much a voice worth listening to." Jeet Heer, National Post, Canada "Perhaps no historian has a better right to take stock of our times - and of the state of historical thinking - than Lukacs. A beautifully crafted and unforgettable book, one that every serious historian should read." Choice "The book is, at the same time, provocative and inviting, wild and disciplined, adventurous and carefully reasoned. It is hard to imagine a reader coming away from it without thinking differently about things that really matter." First Things
£29.33
Yale University Press Matters of Exchange
Book SynopsisA new and unexpected history of the Dutch pursuit of commerce in the 16th and 17th centuries and how it triggered the Scientific RevolutionTrade Review"'A considerable scholarly achievement.' Steven Shapin, London Review of Books 'Drawing on nearly twenty years of research, Matters of Exchange is a dense, scholarly, fascinating book, packed with information and full of marvellous stories about cultural exchange between different cultures, and containing at its heart an important but complicated argument about the roots of scientific objectivity and the rise of the global trade. It is a huge, if slightly daunting achievement, but it will undoubtedly become a standard work for anyone interested in the Dutch Golden Age.' Jerry Brotton, BBC History Magazine"
£51.58
Yale University Press The Legacy of the Mastodon
Book SynopsisTells the story of the grandest period of fossil discovery in American history, the years from 1750 to 1890. This volume begins with Thomas Jefferson, whose keen interest in the American mastodon led him to champion the study of fossil vertebrates. It also provides descriptions of the actual work of prospecting for fossils.Trade Review"'This tale begins Thomson's look at the early years of American fossil hunting. In addition to a history of paleontology, it is an account of the opening of the West and of how adventurous and often egotistical men mined the new land for fossils. The book explains how Darwinian evolution made the second half of this 'golden age' important scientifically, but Thomson really succeeds by bringing to life the fossil-finders and their world.' Marc Kaufman, Washington Post 'this unique and fascinating book... but what makes the book unique is that Thomson links the emergence of the new nation to the discovery of its fossils. Along the way, he turns up many surprising gems.' Michelle Press, Scientific American"
£43.79
Yale University Press The Religion and Science Debate
Book SynopsisWhy does the tension between science and religion continue? How have those tensions impacted the public debate about so-called 'intelligent design' as a scientific alternative to evolution? This title addresses the conflict from its philosophical roots to its manifestations within American culture.
£29.33
Yale University Press Notes from the Ground
Book SynopsisIntegrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, this book shows how and why agrarian Americans - yeoman farmers, gentleman planters, politicians, and policy makers alike - accepted, resisted, and shaped scientific ways of knowing the land.
£32.67
Springer History of Industrial Gases
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£123.49
St Martin's Press A History of Pi
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£14.39
Little Brown Book Group The Measure of All Things
Book SynopsisThe revolutionary adventures of two scientists who inaugurated the metric system.Winner of the 2003 Dingle Prize for the best book on the history of science.Trade Reviewall the pace and plot of a historical adventure novel, as though Longitude had been crossed with A Tale of Two Cities, with a measure of Don Quixote thrown in * The Sunday TIMES *riveting account of the origins of the metric system... an eye-opener * The DAILY TELEGRAPH *
£25.50
Random House USA Inc Life
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£18.27
Random House USA Inc Uncle Tungsten
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£999.99
Springer Brain Mind and Medicine
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£119.99
Springer Physicists on Wall Street and Other Essays on Science and Society
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Springer Circuits in the Brain
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£123.49
Springer The Heritage of Thales
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£66.49
Springer A CENTURY OF PHYSICS Hardcover Jan 01 2001 BROMLEY D A
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£44.99
WW Norton & Co Science and the Founding Fathers Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin John Adams and James Madison Science in of Jefferson Franklin Adams and Madison
Book SynopsisGeneral readers, students of American history, and professional historians alike will profit from reading this engaging presentation of an aspect of American history conspicuously absent from the usual textbooks and popular presentations of the political thought of early America.Trade Review"Intellectually engaging…deftly written." -- Boston Globe"Cohen's eye-opening, elegant study shows that America's Founding Fathers were true citizens of the Age of Reason who sought links between scientific principles and constitutional government." -- Publishers Weekly"A fascinating study…the founding fathers appear in an interesting new light, thanks to Cohen's fresh, not to say iconoclastic, vision." -- Kirkus Reviews
£19.95
W. W. Norton & Company The Chemical Tree A History of Chemistry Norton History of Science
£31.82
Taylor & Francis Ltd Ancient Meteorology Sciences of Antiquity
Book SynopsisThe first book of its kind in English, Ancient Meteorology discusses Greek and Roman approaches and attitudes to this broad discipline, which in classical antiquity included not only ''weather'', but occurrences such as earthquakes and comets that today would be regarded as geological, astronomical or seismological.The range and diversity of this literature highlights the question of scholarly authority in antiquity and illustrates how writers responded to the meteorological information presented by their literary predecessors. Ancient Meteorology will be a valuable reference tool for classicists and those with an interest in the history of science. Trade Review'Offers distinct and major advantages ... insightful ... Taub's book capably and effectively closes a gap in the literature of the history and ancient science ... It is a book that both specialists and beginners will need to use when approaching the subject.' - RHIZAI'Reports clearly, succinctly, and with convincing control and expertise ... I warmly recommend her book.' - Classical World'Reports clearly, succinctly, and with convincing control and expertise ... I warmly recommend her book.' - Classical WorldTable of ContentsList of illustrations, A note on the spelling of Greek names and terms, Abbreviations, Acknowledgements, 1 ANCIENT METEOROLOGY IN GREECE AND ROME: AN INTRODUCTION, 2 PREDICTION AND THE ROLE OF TRADITION: ALMANACS AND SIGNS, PARAPE? GMATA AND POEMS, 3 EXPLAINING DIFFICULT PHENOMENA, 4 METEOROLOGY AS A MEANS TO AN END: PHILOSOPHERS AND POETS, 5 AN ENCYCLOPEDIC APPROACH, Notes, Bibliography, Index
£176.17
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Performance and Evolution in the Age of Darwin Out of the Natural Order
Book SynopsisJane Goodall reveals the ways in which the major themes of evolution were taken up in the performing arts during Darwin's adult lifetime and in the generation after his death.Trade Review'This well crafted and entertaining book makes a valuable contribution to this history of ideas.' - New Theatre QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction. Chapter One: Out of Natural History. Chapter Two: Missing Links and Lilliputians. Chapter Three: Performing Ethnology. Chapter Four: Varieties. Chapter Five: Lowly Origins. Chapter Six: Natural Vigour. Notes and References. Index.
£49.34
Random House USA Inc The Story of More
Book SynopsisThe essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it. “Hope Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet? (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction).“Hope Jahren is the voice that science has been waiting for.” —Nature Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a brilliant writer, a passionate teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, she illuminates the link between human habits and our imperiled planet. In concise, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions—from electric power to large-scale farming to automobiles—that, even as they help us, release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere like never before. She explains the current and projected consequences of global warming—from superstorms to rising sea levels—and the actions that we all can take to fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of global change and a lively, personal narrative given to us in Jahren’s inimitable voice, The Story of More is “a superb account of the deadly struggle between humanity and what may prove the only life-bearing planet within ten light years (E. O. Wilson).
£11.50
Random House USA Inc Probable Impossibilities
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between. Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, whom The Washington Post has called “the poet laureate of science writers,” explores these questions and more—from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life
£13.60
Penguin Books Ltd Lifes Edge
Book SynopsisFINALIST FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD***A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021***A SCIENCE NEWS FAVORITE BOOK OF 2021***A SMITHSONIAN TOP TEN SCIENCE BOOK OF 2021?Stories that both dazzle and edify… This book is not just about life, but about discovery itself.??Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times Book ReviewWe all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world?from protocells to brains, from zygotes to pandemic viruses?the harder they find it is to locate life?s edge. Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the apple sitting on your kitchen counter alive, or is only the apple tree it came from deserving of the word? If we can?t answer that question here on earth, how will we know when and if we discover alien life on other worlds? The question hangs over some of society?s most charged conflicts?whether a fertilized egg is a living person, for example, and when we ought to declare a person legally dead. Life''s Edge is an utterly fascinating investigation that no one but one of the most celebrated science writers of our generation could craft. Zimmer journeys through the strange experiments that have attempted to re-create life. Literally hundreds of definitions of what that should look like now exist, but none has yet emerged as an obvious winner. Lists of what living things have in common do not add up to a theory of life. It''s never clear why some items on the list are essential and others not. Coronaviruses have altered the course of history, and yet many scientists maintain they are not alive. Chemists are creating droplets that can swarm, sense their environment, and multiply. Have they made life in the lab? Whether he is handling pythons in Alabama or searching for hibernating bats in the Adirondacks, Zimmer revels in astounding examples of life at its most bizarre. He tries his own hand at evolving life in a test tube with unnerving results. Charting the obsession with Dr. Frankenstein''s monster and how the world briefly believed radium was the source of all life, Zimmer leads us all the way into the labs and minds of researchers engineering life from scratch.
£15.30
iUniverse Man 12000 Years Under the Sea A Story of Underwater Archaeology
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£21.53
iUniverse Gods Other Son Isaac Newton The Link Between Science and Religion
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iUniverse A Brief History of Physical Science
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£19.56
iUniverse Voices from Legendary Times We are a bridge between past and future
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£15.20
iUniverse Mysteries of Life Mysteries of Nature
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iUniverse The Atheists Bible How Science Eliminates Theism
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iUniverse Christianity and the Brain Volume III 3
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£18.58
Houghton Mifflin The God Particle
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£20.79
CSIRO Publishing The Hawkesbury River
Book SynopsisA definitive account of the natural history of the Hawkesbury River and the pivotal role it has played in history.Table of Contents Foreword Acknowledgements Conversions Prologue – the best hidden river in the world 1: Geography – Physical and human 2: Geology – A skeleton of sandstone 3: How the Hawkesbury came to be an estuary 4: Hydrology – Floods, droughts and river regulation 5: The vexed matter of water quality 6: Biota – Plants, animals and mythical creatures 7: Jewels in the crown – The protected areas 8: An Aboriginal river 9: European discovery and early exploration 10: European occupation and exploitation 11: Barrier I – Road and ferry crossings 12: Barrier II – Railway crossings 13: Conduit – Boats and shipping 14: A strategic river – Defending the northern gateway to Sydney 15: The river as muse – Artists, musicians and writers inspired by the Hawkesbury 16: Epilogue – Whither the Hawkesbury? References Index
£72.75
Distant Mirror Bechamp or Pasteur
£14.95
Random House USA Inc Rescuing Prometheus
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Abingdon Press What about the Soul Neuroscience and Christian Anthropology
£31.21
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US Darwins Audubon Science And The Liberal Imagination
Book SynopsisIn this retrospective of Gerald Weissmann''s best-known essays, the reader is treated to his unique perspective on what C. P. Snow once dubbed the Two Cultures-art and science. In Darwin''s Audubon, Weissmann examines the powerful influence that the two exert over one another and how they have helped each other evolve. From listening to the scientists who gather ever year to sing at the Woods Hole Cantata Consort to looking at the influence of Audubon''s watercolours on Darwin''s On the Origin of Species from comparing William Carlos Williams''s poetry to his unedited case books to watching Oliver Wendell Holmes grow as doctor and as poet, Weissmann weaves a rich tapestry that will delight fans and newcomers alike.
£15.71
Simon & Schuster The Double Helix A Personal Account of the
Book SynopsisOne of the two discoverers of DNA recalls the lively scientific quest that led to this breakthrough, from the long hours in the lab, to the after-hours socializing, to the financial struggles that almost sank their project. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
£16.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Science in the 20th Century and Beyond
Book Synopsis* Much-needed overview of the history of science from 1900 to the present day. * Emphasises the crucial part that science has played in the bigger picture of twentieth century history, from Einstein s new physics to the Human Genome Project.Trade ReviewWinner of the Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title "Agar has abstracted and made manageable a range of rich and informed analysis. Anyone who thinks seriously about science will find it a very useful source." The Economist "Global in scope and fresh in approach, this monumental history lays out the evolution of science during a tumultuous century." Nature "Truly extraordinary in its depth and breadth, it makes significant contributions to the history of science and more broadly to our understanding of twentieth-century history. It is also remarkable in that, while written primarily with a scholarly audience in mind, it's nevertheless accessible and of interest to a wider audience, and an excellent advertisement for the discipline." British Society for the History of Science "Judging by the majestic scope of Jon Agar’s new volume, we still have fertile big-picture approaches to guide us through the untidily evolving and multiplying plurality of the natural sciences. Generations of students might take great pride in critiquing the book, just as scholars have done for fifty years with Kuhn’s (in)famously challenging The Structure of Scientific Revolutions." Reviews in History "Agar's approach focuses on the relationship of science to external ideas and practices, thus tying it more tightly to broader histories; it also emphasises patterns of discovery over the individual flashes of insight. Both are useful correctives, and scientists, historians and those who aspire to be either will all benefit from them." Prospect - picked for 'What to read this summer' "A masterful, yet eminently readable, synthesis, which is unquestionably an essential addition to the library of historians of science. I suggest it would also be of wider relevance to teachers of A-level science, giving us a little of the breadth occasionally." School Science Review "All technology has its genesis, but everyone seems to have been too busy to synthesise the elements and tell the full story. Jon Agar has set this to rights with this book, which will interest the scholar, the historian and the enquiring mind of any discipline." Network Computing "A synthetic history of a subject as big, broad and diverse as twentieth-century science is a major achievement. But Agar has given us something more than that: his book is an innovative model of how one might think about scientific practices at temporal and institutional scales much larger than those to which modern historical writing has become accustomed." Steven Shapin, Harvard University, and author of The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation "Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond is the book historians of modern science have been waiting for. It offers an ambitious yet masterly synthesis of the vast historical literature on twentieth-century and contemporary science. Through the concept of the 'working worlds' of science, it provides a unified and compelling analytical framework within which to interpret and illuminate this ever expanding literature and the development of the sciences from 1900 to the present. Jon Agar is a sure-footed and informative guide over this complex terrain; what results is a clear and comprehensive work of breadth and vision that few other scholars could have produced. Superbly crafted, elegantly written, inventive and thought-provoking, the book makes an absolutely invaluable contribution to the history of science. It will be indispensable to anyone who teaches, researches or is just interested in the history of modern science and the contemporary world." Jeff Hughes, University of Manchester "A fine chronological survey of the multiple worlds in which scientists worked in the twentieth century, responding to their demands by seeking to understand, to manipulate and to transform them." John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology "A tour-de-force, covering a period of over a hundred years in which the growth of science has been exponential, and astonishing in its coverage of the various branches of science and their inosculations. There is no other book with the same range, and command of material and recent scholarship." David Knight, Durham University "Key ideas are articulated and linked in interesting and surprising ways, key contexts described and a few explored in detail, and the demands of these contexts are linked to ideas. This is a trope which offers the prospect of addressing the scale of twentieth-century science and rendering it in exemplary narratives which convey meaning to the reader in the recognisable form of human lives and work." Robert Bud, The Science Museum, LondonTable of Contents Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Part 1: Science after 1900 2. New Physics 3. New Sciences of Life 4. New Sciences of the Self Part 2: Sciences in a World of Conflict 5. Science and the First World War 6. Crisis: Quantum Theories and Other Weimar Sciences 7. Science and Imperial Order 8. Expanding Universes: Private Wealth and American Science 9. Revolutions and Materialism 10. Nazi Science 11. Scaling Up, Scaling Down Part 3: Second World War and Cold War 12. Science and the Second World War 13. Trials of Science in the Atomic Age 14. Cold War Spaces 15. Cold War Sciences (1): Sciences from the Working World of Atomic Projects 16. Cold War Sciences (2): Sciences from Information Systems Part 4: Sciences of Our World 17. Transition: Sea Change in the Long Sixties 18. Networks 19. Connecting Ends Part 5: Conclusions 20. Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
£22.94
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Making of Modern Science
Book SynopsisOf all the inventions of the nineteenth century, the scientist is one of the most striking. In revolutionary France the science student, taught by men active in research, was born; and a generation later, the graduate student doing a PhD emerged in Germany. In 1833 the word ''scientist'' was coined; forty years later science (increasingly specialised) was a becoming a profession. Men of science rivalled clerics and critics as sages; they were honoured as national treasures, and buried in state funerals. Their new ideas invigorated the life of the mind. Peripatetic congresses, great exhibitions, museums, technical colleges and laboratories blossomed; and new industries based on chemistry and electricity brought prosperity and power, economic and military. Eighteenth-century steam engines preceded understanding of the physics underlying them; but electric telegraphs and motors were applied science, based upon painstaking interpretation of nature. The ideas, discoveries and inventions of Trade Review"Knight loves science and he loves history. This work is a splendid example of how to communicate that enthusiasm." British Journal for the History of Science "A fine synthesis, the fruit of a lifetime's study and reflection, which should prompt some readers to begin a lifetime study of their own." Times Higher Education "A superb history of the discipline." The Diplomat "A magisterial survey. For anyone who has experienced the delight of hearing Knight deliver a public lecture, reading this will summon up his mellifluous voice as though he were standing in the same room." Metascience "Replete with insight and astute synthesis. It conveys the excitement of science and of its history." Social History of Medicine "Knight ably discusses the various threads in this complex story, his description of the people and events which shaped the scientific developments are always interesting, and his interpretation of the philosophical and cultural changes are always insightful. Knight has a lot to offer any reader interested in how the profession established itself as one for skilled minds ... This book is well researched and well written and is to be recommended to anyone interested in how science and scientists emerged in the 20th century." Chemistry World "The book is replete with insight and astute synthesis. It conveys the excitement of science and of its history." Social History of Medicine "David Knight has long delighted his readers with books on the history of science that have been both instructive and entertaining. Here he draws on a lifetime's study to explain how science - as a practical, intellectually challenging, and socially diverse activity - gained its cultural importance in the long nineteenth-century. Warmly recommended." John Hedley Brooke, Andreas Idreos Professor Emeritus of Science & Religion, University of Oxford "David Knight's latest book is a glittering magnum opus in which he describes the professionalization of science by drawing on examples from various disciplines. The writing is erudite, lucid and upbeat. The book is a social history, an institutional history and an internal history all in one, and it is gratifying to see chemistry assuming a rather central position in the story." Eric Scerri, author of The Periodic Table, Its Story and Its Significance "This book is a pleasure to read: light in style, yet incisive, informative, and even profound. With a few well-chosen words Knight can conjure up a Huxley or a Faraday, or explain the problems scientists faced in understanding the variety of human 'races'. His explanations of scientific issues go to the heart of the matter and are never weighed down with detail. I can't think of a better or more rounded introduction to the history of nineteenth-century science." Geoffrey Cantor, University of Leeds Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vi Preface: The Age of Science viii Acknowledgements xiii Introduction: Approaching the Past 1 1 Science in and after 1789 12 2 Science and its Languages 33 3 Applied Science 56 4 Intellectual Excitement 82 5 Healthy Lives 105 6 Laboratories 129 7 Bodies, Minds and Spirits 151 8 The Time of Triumph 172 9 Science and National Identities 195 10 Method and Heresy 217 11 Cultural Leadership 238 12 Into the New Century 264 Timeline 283 Notes and References 289 Index 353
£24.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Science In The Making Scientific Development As
Book SynopsisThis text celebrates, in four volumes, the bicentenary of the Philosophical Magazine and chronicles the history of scientific development as chonicled in its pages. Each volume previews a 50 year period and contains not only classical works but also papers of an amusing controversial nature. Commentaries preceding each part set the papers in the context of the time: Volume One 1798-1850 reproduces, in their orignal form, many celebrated papers of Davy, Faraday and Joule, as well as many papers on the nature of light and matter. Forewards by Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Nevill Mott and Professor John Meurig Thomas, in addition to a preface and introduction, trace the development of the Philosophical Magazine and provide an overview of scientific thought and achievements during the first half of the 19th century. Table of ContentsForeword Sir Nevill Mott, Foreword The Diffusion of Philosophical Knowledge: 1798–1850 Sir John Meurig Thomas, Philosophical Magazine An Abbreviated History, Introduction Science in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, Note to the Reader, Plate Section, Part One Early Papers 1 Part Two Electricity Discovered: The Voltaic Pile to the Electric Motor; Part Three Sir Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday; Part Four Miscellany; Part Five On the Nature of Light and Matter; Part Six Electricity and Magnetism; Part Seven James Prescott Joule.
£276.28
AuthorHouse Heretics and Heroes in Science
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AuthorHouse Did Evolution Really Happen
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AuthorHouse The Honest Truth An Interactive Handbook of Bible and Science for the NonProfessional
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£14.21
Park Row Books Its Elemental
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Springer International Science and National Scientific Identity
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Springer Chemical Lectures of H.T. Scheffer
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£207.00
Springer Ludwig Boltzmann His Later Life and Philosophy 1900 1906 Book One A Documentary History 168 Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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Springer Diffusion of New Technologies in the PostCommunist World Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Marketing of HighTech Know How St 13 Nato Science Partnership Subseries 4
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