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In this Very Short Introduction Terence Allen, an established expert on microscope techniques, describes the scientific principles behind the main forms of microscopy, and the exciting new developments in the field. Focusing on the main underlying principles, and introducing the power of what is achievable today using microscopes, Allen demonstrates how microscopy impinges on almost every aspect of our daily lives; from medical diagnosis to quality control in manufacture. Beginning with a brief history of the early stages of microscopy development, Allen then concludes with a comprehensive account of the diverse spectrum of microscopy available today. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. 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With a refreshingly approachable and articulate style, the book walks you through the considerations that go into designing an experiment in clear, practical terms. Using examples drawn from across the life sciences - from ecology, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, and health sciences - the authors illustrate how these concepts are applied within the broad context of real biological research.Online Resource CentreThe Online Resource centre to accompany Experimental Design for the Life Sciences features:For students:  Self-test questions and answers Additional examples Supplementary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview from previous edition This is an excellent book for learning how to approach the design of experimental and, indeed, observational work. 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It is easy to read, the learning objectives and case studies complement the subject area within each chapter, and the figures and diagrams keep the reader interested. This is the best book on the market for anyone studying biomedical science or related fields. * Khalid Rahman, Professor of Physiological Biochemistry, Liverpool John Moores University *\u003cbr\u003eBiomedical Science Practice clearly explains a number of commonly used laboratory techniques, but is also an excellent reference source for our Personal and Professional Development module as it thoroughly covers topics such as CPD and industry regulatory bodies. The chapter on Health and Safety is a particular strength and provides valuable information about legal requirements in the workplace as well as risk assessment procedures that are relevant to both biological and chemical laboratory work. 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In this book, Rheinberger again pulls from the primary literature with which he is most familiar, that in molecular biology, to probe how both research materials and researchers' encounters with them, through experiments, shape the emergence of scientific knowledge. . . . There is much of interest to the working biologist in \u003ci\u003eSplit and Splice\u003c\/i\u003e. Rheinberger offers a convincing way of characterizing the biologist's role in her craft: She is the mediator between the real and the written; between the world of the living and the books and papers that, eventually, report new discoveries.” * FASEB Journal *\u003cbr\u003e“A highly original, systematically organized, and empirically enriched essay on scientific experimentation. . . . While its first part convinces with a precise and logically ordered analysis, the second part leads through a broad variety of philosophical thoughts and observa­tions. . . . The reader is taken on an impressive journey through the vast territo­ries of experimental knowledge cultures. And it adds to the surprises of the journey that each and every part of it is enriched with examples from the history of molecular biological experimentation.” * Minerva *\u003cbr\u003e“This book provides a captivating perspective on an essential area in the development of a comprehensive and cohesive epistemology of experimentation. Until now, this subject has only been approached in an incomplete and piecemeal manner. 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Building on three decades of world-leading research in the history and philosophy of biology, Rheinberger shows how, in life as in science, experiments epitomize the human aspiration to intervene in the world with predictable results, and yet their power lies in exposing the limits of attempts to control and foresee the future. An unmissable read for anybody wishing to understand how science thrives by failing to carve nature at its joints.” -- Sabina Leonelli, University of Exeter\u003cbr\u003e“In this new book, drawing on his groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eToward a History of Epistemic Things\u003c\/i\u003e, Rheinberger explores the logic of a ‘phenomenology of experimentation.’ Attentive to the materiality of science, it brings out the creative, epistemic, and collective dimensions of scientific production in experimental context. Written by a historian and philosopher of science trained in molecular biology, \u003ci\u003eSplit and Splice\u003c\/i\u003e opens up the path to a genuine historical epistemology of the forms of scientific practices for the twenty-first century.” -- Pierre-Olivier Méthot, Université Laval\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I Infra-Experimentality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Traces\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Models\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Making Visible\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Grafting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Protocols\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II Supra-Experimentality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Shapes of Time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Experimental Cultures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Knowing and Narrating\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Thinking Wild\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 A Eulogy of the Fragment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePostscript\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex of Names\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732930048343,"sku":"9780226825328","price":22.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226825328.jpg?v=1719998994"},{"product_id":"the-kitchen-science-cookbook-9780241395585","title":"The Kitchen Science Cookbook","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAll you need to explore science is a kitchen, this book - and a dash of curiosity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Kitchen Science Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautifully crafted book with a unique twist: each recipe is a science experiment that you can do at home, using the everyday ingredients you''ll find in your kitchen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo need to be a science expert -- these easy-to-follow recipes make mind-blowing science experiments fun for everyone. 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Dr Michelle Dickinson has an inspiring ability to make science accessible to all and this beautiful book easily brings science into the home where all you need is a kitchen, a recipe and a dash of curiosity * Natural Parent magazine *\u003cbr\u003eIf bad weather keeps you indoors during the school holidays, this book could help pass a few hours or a few days * Cuisine *\u003cbr\u003eThere is so much to love about this book. It's beautifully laid out and illustrated. . . Every child will be able to see themselves in it * The Sapling *\u003cbr\u003eDickinson is a scientist on a mission, promoting the idea that science doesn't just happen in a classroom or laboratory but can be found everywhere and is for everyone * New Zealand Herald *\u003cbr\u003eWho knew you could make a candle out of an almond and a banana, or release your inner Rodin using milk to build sculptures? 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What does this mean in chemistry, the experimental science par excellence? And what are the most beautiful chemical experiments of all time? This book offers ten suggestions for where beauty might reside in experimental chemistry. In some cases the beauty lies in the clarity of conception; sometimes it is a feature of the instrumental design. But for chemistry, there can also be a unique beauty in the way atoms are put together to make new molecules, substances not known in nature. The ten experiments described here offer a window into the way that chemists think and work, and how what they do affects the rest of science and the wider world. This book aims to stimulate the reader to think anew about some of the relationships and differences between science and art, and to challenge some of the common notions about particular ''famous experiments''. Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry is accessible to all readers, including those without a scientific background and can provide an unusual point of entry into some of the basic concepts of chemistry. Phillip Ball is a renowned, prolific, award winning science writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...wonderful, compelling read...\"\"...will be of interest to chemistrs and historians alike.  This is a timely and very welcome achievement.\" * Ambix, Vol 54, No 1 March 2007, Pedro Cintas *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a delightful (beautiful?) book that deserves a wide audience......The book contains ten chapters that do more than describe individual experiments; they put it in the context of contemporary thought and attitudes and the characters of the chemists themselves.It should be read by A-level students to put their learning in context and by undergraduates to examine the experimental process....an excellent addition to Phillip Ball's growing list of popular science titles. * Physical Sciences Educational Reviews, Volume 8, Issue 2, October 2007 (Roy Lowry) *\u003cbr\u003eThis book is particularly strong in that it is readily accessible by a general readership.  It provokes you to think about how aesthetic values are related to experimental virtues. * Joachim Schummer, *\u003cbr\u003eI highly recommend Ball's book, which makes much of chemistry.  Accessible to the nonchemist. * Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, Vol 31, Number 1 (2006) (Leo B Slater) *\u003cbr\u003eOne of Ball's objectives is to encourage us to think about what an experiment is and what role experiments play in the evolution of science.The whole book is full of vivid characters, pointed anecdote and insightful comment, and is a delight to read.  It is accessible to any reasonably well-motivated non-chemist, and would make a fine present for such a person. * Chemistry \u0026amp; Industry, 15th May 2006 (Martyn Berry) *\u003cbr\u003eIt is rare for a book on chemistry to involve such feelings of awe as this one does.  Elegant Solutions is an absolute delight, completely fulfilling Armstrong's words about the chemist being full of feeling.  Wherever you work in chemistry, this book will have something to help you, to set you thinking, and to make you proud of your professional calling.  Make sure you get a copy. * Education in Chemistry, March 2006 (John Nicholson) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: What is an Experiment? 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Chapters guide readers through FlyBase, versatile gene expression systems, analysis of microRNA function, single-cell transcriptome data and metabolism, recent applications of CRISPR for precise genome editing, transcriptional activation and cell lineage tracing, protein inhibition and tagging, optogenetic and optochemical control of tissue mechanics, AFM measurements, sample preparation for electron microscopy, live imaging of different tissues and organs, and quantitative image analysis. 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The focus on the rhetoric of experimental method permits a series of clear and incisive comments on how the scientific community—as it grew into a profession—established, enforced, and renegotiated its standards for experimental practice. Schickore serves up lucid prose while nimbly balancing several layers of argument. Although it will be most valuable to those with some field-specific preparation, the book serves as an effective tool for introducing graduate students or advanced undergraduates to major issues in the field, as well as for motivating expansions and responses from practicing researchers. Highly recommended.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAbout Method\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to rescue methodology from Feyerabend’s more radical views by showing that, while scientific methodologies change, they play a crucial role in directing the practice of science. Her examples are informative and are firmly grounded in their historical contexts.” * Times Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003e\"Jutta Schickore's \u003ci\u003eAbout Method\u003c\/i\u003e . . .  has the potential to change our conception of scientists’ methodological statements drastically. . . . . Schickore recovers scientific methodology as a topic of interest and breaks fresh ground in several ways. . . . About Method puts methods discourse back on the agenda and provides a framework that will be helpful to all historians and philosophers interested in the practical and experimental aspects of science.\"\u003cbr\u003e   * Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society *\u003cbr\u003e\"A book that quietly challenges whatever hopes we might have for finding the one true scientific method, while loudly showing us how intricate and creative diverse experimental methodologies have always been. . . . Schickore provides an invaluable tool for researchers and students of history and philosophy of science . . . . \u003ci\u003eAbout Method\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderful example of long-term microhistories having a long-lasting philosophical payoff—including an increasing acceptance that we might never actually reach our supposedly beloved scientific method, because the experimental situations are forever too complex to be completely controlled.\" * HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science *\u003cbr\u003e\"It surveys a three-century span not to tell a comprehensive history of venom research, but to intricately contextualise the shifting ways in which modern scientists have committed publicly and procedurally to experimental method. The focus on Atlantic world investigators necessarily side-lines scholarship on venom research in Asia, India, Australia and Africa, while Schickore’s engagement with the ethics and heuristics of vivisection is restrained rather than foregrounded. The book also treads a fine analytical line between the elaborate specifics of laboratory praxis and the literary technologies and witnessing procedures articulated by Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer in their seminal work . Yet, written in a pleasant and at times jocular style, Schickore’s text sustains an intellectual rigour and precision throughout. In asking fundamental questions about what experimenters believed they were doing, its interpretive value for scholars across the biomedical and human sciences is undoubted.\" * History of the Human Sciences *\u003cbr\u003e\"Excellent . . . . A very welcome addition to the recent literature on the history and philosophy of experiment.\" * Metascience *\u003cbr\u003e“Schickore entices us to be interested in snake venom and then shows how researchers worked their way to answers that made sense in their different circumstances. The process of uncovering what made snake venom poisonous did not follow a straight line that culminates in our superior knowledge today. She follows the complex steps forward, sideways, and sometimes backward to show how scientific understanding emerged and evolved within the complex contexts of the time. Whether about Fontana, Weir Mitchell, or recent protein studies, Schickore’s discussions ring true to her sources while also drawing out larger lessons from history and discussion of methodological and epistemological approaches to the fascinating nature of snake bites.” * Jane Maienschein, Arizona State University *\u003cbr\u003e“Who would have thought that a book on the history of snake venom research could yield so many interesting and important insights? One of Schickore’s great strengths is her nose for good problems and for sources relevant to them. She has an uncanny ability to probe the seemingly barren landscape of neglected developments and minor historical figures—and to find gold. Her new book adds much evidence to the claim that the detailed epistemology of modern science has arisen out of scientific work itself, in the various disciplines, rather than from grand methodological theories such as inductivism. No one has done more than Schickore to demonstrate the value of an integrated history and philosophy of science.” * Thomas Nickles, emeritus, University of Nevada, Reno *\u003cbr\u003e“Following \u003ci\u003eThe Microscope and the Eye\u003c\/i\u003e, Schickore has produced another sophisticated treatise giving a fully historicized view of scientific knowledge and scientific methodology as dynamically evolving entities. She weaves together history, philosophy, and science into a coherent and pleasing tapestry. Her choice of subject matter in \u003ci\u003eAbout Method\u003c\/i\u003e is itself a testament to her sharp eye for a phase of the history of science that reveals easily overlooked aspects of practice and effectively exposes the blind spots in standard philosophical discourse. Under her deft treatment, the long and complicated history of research on snake venom emerges not only as a fascinating episode in its own right but also as a rich source of insights for a new general framework for philosophical thinking on scientific methodology. Schickore’s historical reflections also have plenty of pertinence to current methodological debates in science, such as the ongoing ‘replication crisis’ in biology and psychology.” * Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: “A matter so obscure, so difficult, and likewise so new . . .”\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Argument, Narrative, and Methods Discourse\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Many, Many Experiments\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Trying Again\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Newtonian Poison: A Mechanical Account of Viper Venom\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Experiment as the Only Guide\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Thousands of Experiments\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Practical Criticisms\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Controlling Experiment\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Unobservables\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Fragmentation and Modularity: Notes on Crotoxin\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: About MethodsAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400110285143,"sku":"9780226759890","price":30.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226759890.jpg?v=1730469755"},{"product_id":"split-and-splice-a-phenomenology-of-experimentation-9780226825304","title":"Split and Splice  A Phenomenology of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSplit and Slice\u003c\/i\u003e borrows new perspectives from a broad range of scholarly fields, generating a long list of cited authors who are rarely associated in the same book. 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Building on three decades of world-leading research in the history and philosophy of biology, Rheinberger shows how, in life as in science, experiments epitomize the human aspiration to intervene in the world with predictable results, and yet their power lies in exposing the limits of attempts to control and foresee the future. An unmissable read for anybody wishing to understand how science thrives by failing to carve nature at its joints.” -- Sabina Leonelli, University of Exeter\u003cbr\u003e“In this new book, drawing on his groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eToward a History of Epistemic Things\u003c\/i\u003e, Rheinberger explores the logic of a ‘phenomenology of experimentation.’ Attentive to the materiality of science, it brings out the creative, epistemic, and collective dimensions of scientific production in experimental context. 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