Catálogo de libros: Historia de la ciencia

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  • The Hand of the Engraver
    Hans-Jörg Rheinberger / Kate Sturge
    A rich intellectual encounter, revolving around the hands of the experimenter and those of the artist, highlighting the relation between the sciences and the arts. ...
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    41,29 €

  • Planning for the Planet
    Simone Schleper
    In the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern not only led to widespread calls for new policies, but also created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise. This led to novel challenges for advocacy groups such as the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which had to navigate rival scientific approaches, Cold War politics, and de...
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    184,26 €

  • Ten Equations to Explain the Mysteries of Modern Astrophysics
    Santhosh Mathew
    This book introduces ten equations that transcend the boundaries of time and space. It takes readers through a journey of self-discovery where they will learn the history, science, and significance of these equations in the context of their lives. Moreover, the mathematical beauty of these equations is presented in a profoundly modest fashion to highlight the idea that equation...
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    36,91 €

  • From Lectern to Laboratory
    W. Nikola-Lisa / WNikola-Lisa
    In this well-documented account, W. Nikola-Lisa explores how science and technology changed the face of America’s colleges and universities during the nineteenth century, bringing much needed reform to the classical liberal arts curriculum as well as suggesting new approaches to instruction. The author’s highly detailed narrative explores the origins of the classical liberal ar...
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    21,28 €

  • From Lectern to Laboratory
    W. Nikola-Lisa / WNikola-Lisa
    In this well-documented account, W. Nikola-Lisa explores how science and technology changed the face of America’s colleges and universities during the nineteenth century, bringing much needed reform to the classical liberal arts curriculum as well as suggesting new approaches to instruction. The author’s highly detailed narrative explores the origins of the classical liberal ar...
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    14,02 €

  • ROCKS, RADIO AND RADAR
    MARY HARRIS
    Many women scientists, particularly those who did crucial work in two world wars, have disappeared from history. Until they are written back in, the history of science will continue to remain unbalanced. This book tells the story of Elizabeth Alexander, a pioneering scientist who changed thinking in geology and radio astronomy during WWII and its aftermath.Building on an unpubl...
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    177,79 €

  • Inspiring air
    Pere Grapí
    | Recommended by CHOICE, November 2019 Vol. 57 No. 3 | Eudiometers were instruments originally devised for checking the ‘goodness’ of common air. Seeking to be more than just a chronological inventory of eudiometers, this book presents a unique retrospective of these fascinating apparatuses from the end of the eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. By paying particul...
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    78,17 €

  • Media in History
    Jukka Kortti
    Since media is omnipresent in our lives, it is crucial to understand the complex means and dimensions of media in history, and how we have arrived at the current digital culture. Media in History addresses the increasing multidisciplinary need to comprehend the meanings and significances of media development through a variety of different approaches. Providing a concise, access...
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    47,10 €

  • Revolutionary Networks
    Joseph M Adelman
    During the American Revolution, printed material, including newspapers, pamphlets, almanacs, and broadsides, played a crucial role as a forum for public debate. In Revolutionary Networks, Joseph M. Adelman argues that printers--artisans who mingled with the elite but labored in a manual trade--used their commercial and political connections to directly shape Revolutionary polit...
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    69,68 €

  • Emerging Syntheses in Science
    Santa Fe, October 1984. Many of the most accomplished creative minds in science—including four Nobel laureates—gather to create an institution unlike any other: where unconventional thinking flourishes and disciplinary boundaries fall away.From this meeting emerged some of the most generative research programs of the last three decades, including the physics of living systems, ...
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    24,32 €

  • A History of the Electron
    Jaume Navarro
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    35,41 €

  • Quantitative Methods in the Humanities
    Claire Lemercier / Claire Zalc / Arthur Goldhammer
    This timely and lucid guide is intended for students and scholars working on all historical periods and topics in the humanities and social sciences--especially for those who do not think of themselves as experts in quantification, 'big data,' or 'digital humanities.'The authors reveal quantification to be a powerful and versatile tool, applicable to a myriad of materials from ...
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    26,26 €

  • Quantitative Methods in the Humanities
    Claire Lemercier / Claire Zalc / Arthur Goldhammer
    This timely and lucid guide is intended for students and scholars working on all historical periods and topics in the humanities and social sciences--especially for those who do not think of themselves as experts in quantification, 'big data,' or 'digital humanities.'The authors reveal quantification to be a powerful and versatile tool, applicable to a myriad of materials from ...
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    52,58 €

  • Science and the State
    John Gascoigne
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    108,10 €

  • GOING UNDERGROUND
    MARTIN BEECH
    This book follows the historical trail by which humanity has determined the shape and internal structure of the Earth. It is a story that bears on aspects of the history of science, the history of philosophy and the history of mathematics. At the heart of the narrative is the important philosophical practice of performing thought experiments — that is, the art of considering an...
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    57,71 €

  • GOING UNDERGROUND
    MARTIN BEECH
    This book follows the historical trail by which humanity has determined the shape and internal structure of the Earth. It is a story that bears on aspects of the history of science, the history of philosophy and the history of mathematics. At the heart of the narrative is the important philosophical practice of performing thought experiments — that is, the art of considering an...
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    93,25 €

  • LOVE AND PHYSICS
    MIKHAIL SHIFMAN
    This special book is a compilation of essays on a remarkable but little-known story that lasted over half a century of world-renown physicist, the late Sir Rudolf Peierls and his wife Genia Kannegiser. Peierls collected a lot of prestigious awards in his lifetime, and in the beginning of WW2, he and Otto Frisch were responsible for the inception of the Anglo-American nuclear pr...
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    60,64 €

  • LOVE AND PHYSICS
    MIKHAIL SHIFMAN
    This special book is a compilation of essays on a remarkable but little-known story that lasted over half a century of world-renown physicist, the late Sir Rudolf Peierls and his wife Genia Kannegiser. Peierls collected a lot of prestigious awards in his lifetime, and in the beginning of WW2, he and Otto Frisch were responsible for the inception of the Anglo-American nuclear pr...
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    96,18 €

  • Inspiring air
    Pere Grapí
    | Recommended by CHOICE, November 2019 Vol. 57 No. 3 | Eudiometers were instruments originally devised for checking the ‘goodness’ of common air. Seeking to be more than just a chronological inventory of eudiometers, this book presents a unique retrospective of these fascinating apparatuses from the end of the eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. By paying particul...
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    90,79 €

  • The Life and Times of Tycho Brahe
    Mukesh Gupta
    This book is a brief biography of one of the founding fathers of physics and astronomy. Tycho Brahe lived an extraordinary life in a royal family to life under self-exile. His profound curiosity to explore the night sky and make observations is unparalleled in the history of astronomy. His inventions of astronomical instruments before the telescope era for measuring the most pr...
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    7,97 €

  • Einstein for Anyone
    David Topper
    Here is the compact story of this famous man, from the smiling contrarian in his grade school picture to the nonconformist adult who refused to groom his hair. As such, it fills a gap: the need for a very short book on Einstein that gives a brief but up-to-date story of his life and thought, with a simple explanation of what he contributed to 20th century physics and beyond. T...
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    23,29 €

  • When the BioMass Hits the Wind Turbine
    Jay Warmke
    Ask yourself:Do you feel that this generation, and the generations to come face a future of only limited resources – and even less hope?Is this the last generation that will have access to millions of years of stored energy in the form of fossil fuels?Do you feel like the corporations and politicians are lying about how much fossil fuels remain unused – and how much they will c...
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    17,32 €

  • The Physics and Art of Photography, Volume 3
    John Beaver
    This book uses art photography as a point of departure for learning about physics, while also using physics as a point of departure for asking fundamental questions about the nature of photography as an art. Although not a how-to manual, the topics center around hands-on applications, sometimes illustrated by photographic processes that are inexpensive and easily accessible to ...
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    92,83 €

  • The Physics and Art of Photography, Volume 3
    John Beaver
    This book uses art photography as a point of departure for learning about physics, while also using physics as a point of departure for asking fundamental questions about the nature of photography as an art. Although not a how-to manual, the topics center around hands-on applications, sometimes illustrated by photographic processes that are inexpensive and easily accessible to ...
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    117,95 €

  • An Introduction to Classical Electrodynamics
    Jonathan W. Keohane / Joseph P. Foy
    An Introduction to Classical Electrodynamics covers the topics of Electricity, Magnetism, and Optics at the upper-level undergraduate level in physics or electrical engineering.  This book tells the story of the historical development of electrodynamics, at the same time as introducing students to electrodynamics with vector calculus. This is the best treatment of the historica...
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    43,69 €

  • LIQUIDATOR
    SERGEI BELYAKOV
    In the late April of 1986, the world learned about the quaint town in the Central Ukraine — Chernobyl. The largest nuclear catastrophe in the history of mankind, which affected the lives of millions and millions, had forced the USSR government to take unprecedented actions. One of them was the formation of a cleanup crew from the Army reservists. They were tasked with a titanic...
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    33,60 €

  • LIQUIDATOR
    SERGEI BELYAKOV
    In the late April of 1986, the world learned about the quaint town in the Central Ukraine — Chernobyl. The largest nuclear catastrophe in the history of mankind, which affected the lives of millions and millions, had forced the USSR government to take unprecedented actions. One of them was the formation of a cleanup crew from the Army reservists. They were tasked with a titanic...
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    56,85 €

  • The Cambridge History of Science
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    192,72 €

  • The Hand of the Engraver
    Hans-Jörg Rheinberger / Kate Sturge
    This book is the first to explore in detail the encounter between Albert Flocon and Gaston Bachelard in postwar Paris. Bachelard was a philosopher and historian of science who was also involved in literary studies and poetics. Flocon was a student of the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany, who specialized in copper engraving. Both deeply ingrained in the surrealist avant-garde movement...
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    127,52 €

  • The Physics and Art of Photography, Volume 1
    John Beaver
    This book uses art photography as a point of departure for learning about physics, while also using physics as a point of departure for asking fundamental questions about the nature of photography as an art. Although not a how-to manual, the topics center around hands-on applications, most-often illustrated by photographic processes that are inexpensive and easily accessible to...
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    86,00 €


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