Catálogo de libros: Historia de la ciencia

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  • Experimental Design and Data Analysis for Biologists
    Gerry P. Quinn / Michael J. Keough
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    193,92 €

  • Spectacles and the Victorians
    Gemma Almond-Brown
    This book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption in medical and non-medical contexts shaped, and continues to shape, our understanding of sensory perception and the assimilation of assistive devices. ...
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    157,15 €

  • Global Rhetorics of Science
    Lynda C. Olman
    Takes a multicultural, interdisciplinary approach to the rhetoric of science to expand our toolkit for the collective management of global risks like climate change and pandemics. ...
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    126,99 €

  • A History of Biology
    Michel Morange / Joseph Muise / Teresa Lavender Fagan
    A comprehensive history of the biological sciences from antiquity to the modern eraThis book presents a global history of the biological sciences from ancient times to today, providing needed perspective on the development of biological thought while shedding light on the field’s upheavals and key breakthroughs through the ages. Michel Morange brings to life the dynamic interpl...
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    29,98 €

  • The Enlightenment
    Billy Wellman
    Can you imagine how the world would be different today if there had been no Enlightenment era?The Age of Enlightenment, which lasted throughout the 18th century, brought about fundamental changes in people’s thinking and transformed the entire fabric of society.Even ordinary people began to question the entrenched beliefs and dogmas. They wanted education, justice, freedom, and...
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    20,17 €

  • A culture of curiosity
    Leonie Hannan
    This book reveals the eighteenth-century home as a site of emergence for science. By rejecting the limiting associations of ’domestic life’, this book re-imagines a culture of enquiry populated by apprentices and housewives as much as Fellows of the Royal Society. ...
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    157,26 €

  • Science and Technology-The Cutting Edge Innovations in the Capitals
    Kelli Tempest
    Are you ready to explore the fascinating world of science and technology? Then come and dive into the exciting pages of 'Science and Technology - The Cutting Edge Innovations in the Capitals.'This book takes you on a thrilling journey through the bustling capitals of the world and their contributions to scientific and technological progress. From the towering skyscrapers of New...
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    10,51 €

  • Louis Pasteur
    René Vallery-Radot
    Louis Pasteur: His Life and Labours by René Vallery-Radot has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Si...
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    25,31 €

  • The Migrations of an American Boat Type
    Howard Irving Chapelle
    The Migrations of an American Boat Type by Howard Irving Chapelle has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reforma...
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    19,73 €

  • Collective Consciousness of Afrocentric Intellectuals vol 1
    Chavis McCray / Kofi Piesie / Robert McCardell
    This publication was inspired by the 'As I learn, We all learn' & 'Each one teach one' paradigms that champion the sharing of knowledge and wisdom specifically with the youth and universal knowledge seekers in general wherever they can be found. It is a compilation of a few of my previous presentations expanded on in essay form, new topics I was passionate enough to want to doc...
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    26,11 €

  • Possible Knowledge
    Debapriya Sarkar
    The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowledge, Debapriya Sarkar argues for the pivotal role of literature--what early moderns termed poesie--in the dynamic intellectual culture of this era of profound incertitude. Revealing how problems of epistemology are inextricable from questions of literary form...
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    82,48 €

  • ROAD TO SCIENTIFIC SUCCESS (V3)
    DEBORAH D L CHUNG / VOLUME 3
    The book is unique in its emphasis on the road to scientific success rather than the science itself. Scientists communicate much on their science through research publications, but they tend to talk much less, if at all, on the challenges encountered on the road to success. Information on the road to scientific success is helpful to people that are considering embarking on the ...
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    127,54 €

  • ROAD TO SCIENTIFIC SUCCESS (V3)
    DEBORAH D L CHUNG / VOLUME 3
    The book is unique in its emphasis on the road to scientific success rather than the science itself. Scientists communicate much on their science through research publications, but they tend to talk much less, if at all, on the challenges encountered on the road to success. Information on the road to scientific success is helpful to people that are considering embarking on the ...
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    63,56 €

  • Thomas Jefferson’s ’Notes on the State of Virginia’
    M. Andrew Holowchak
    Why did Jefferson write ’Notes on the State of Virginia’? There are today two common theses. The first, the Alphabet-Soup Thesis, maintains that the book is more or less a loose collection of notes in answer to the 22 queries given by French diplomat François Barbé-Marbois. Jefferson’s altering the arrangement of his answers to the questions is a matter of allowing for a smooth...
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    66,38 €

  • GENESIS UNDERSTOOD
    Lance Thomas Wynn
    Genesis means beginning, and the book starts from the creation of GOD to Adam and Eve, Noah’s flood, Cain’s offspring, the Israelites, and finishes at present and ends in the future. Genesis Understood tells the truth about what really happened in the Garden of Eden. This book gives the location of where the Garden of Eden and Noah’s flood occurred. Cain the great sea king and ...
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    19,34 €

  • GENESIS UNDERSTOOD
    Lance Thomas Wynn
    Genesis means beginning, and the book starts from the creation of GOD to Adam and Eve, Noah’s flood, Cain’s offspring, the Israelites, and finishes at present and ends in the future. Genesis Understood tells the truth about what really happened in the Garden of Eden. This book gives the location of where the Garden of Eden and Noah’s flood occurred. Cain the great sea king and ...
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    28,60 €

  • Charged
    James Morton Turner
    Winner of the 24th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book PrizeFinalist for the 2023 Cundill History PrizeGold Medal Recipient, Nautilus Book Awards, SustainabilityThe dirty work essential to a clean energy transitionTo achieve fossil fuel independence, few technologies are more important than batteries. Used for powering zero-emission vehicles, storing electricity from so...
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    27,77 €

  • Equal Natures
    Shalyn Claggett
    Explores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms of power. ...
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    121,70 €

  • Regenerating Romanticism
    Melissa Bailes
    Within key texts of Romantic-era aesthetics, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and other writers and theorists pointed to the poet, naturalist, and physician Erasmus Darwin as exemplifying a lack of originality and sensibility in the period’s scientific literature-the very qualities that such literature had actually sought to achieve. The success of this strawman tac...
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    46,36 €

  • Regenerating Romanticism
    Melissa Bailes
    Within key texts of Romantic-era aesthetics, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and other writers and theorists pointed to the poet, naturalist, and physician Erasmus Darwin as exemplifying a lack of originality and sensibility in the period’s scientific literature-the very qualities that such literature had actually sought to achieve. The success of this strawman tac...
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    165,46 €

  • An archaeology of innovation
    Catherine J. Frieman
    This monograph takes a unique archaeological approach to the investigation of innovation and the innovation process. Case studies span the breadth of human history, from our earliest hominin ancestors to the contemporary world. The emphasis is on the social context and temporality of invention, adoption, creativity and resistance. ...
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    35,67 €

  • Centaur in London
    Fabian Kraemer
    A nuanced reframing of the dual importance of reading and observation for early modern naturalists.Historians traditionally argue that the sciences were born in early modern Europe during the so-called Scientific Revolution. At the heart of this narrative lies a supposed shift from the knowledge of books to the knowledge of things. The attitude of the new-style intellectual bro...
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    73,30 €

  • Making Machines of Animals
    Neal A Knapp
    How the Chicago International Livestock Exposition leveraged the eugenics movement to transform animals into machines and industrialize American agriculture.In 1900, the Chicago International Livestock Exposition became the epicenter of agricultural reform that focused on reinventing animals’ bodies to fit a modern, industrial design. Chicago meatpackers partnered with land-gra...
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    76,21 €

  • Quomodo probatur in conflatorio
    Nick Roberts.
    Poetry by Nick Roberts.Nick Roberts is a 25-year old poet, academic, and researcher from Boston, Massachusetts. His work has been previously featured in La Piccioletta Barca, Black Horse Review, and Iris. He studied at UMass Boston, where he received his BA and MA in English, focusing on Old English and the poetry of Charles Olson. He currently lives in Dorchester with his part...
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    11,53 €

  • The Chemical History of a Candle
    Michael Faraday
    The Chemical History of a Candle is an enlightening and engaging exploration of the science behind the humble candle. Written by the renowned scientist Michael Faraday, this classic work offers a detailed examination of the chemical reactions that occur when a candle is burned, and how these reactions relate to the larger principles of physics and chemistry.Through a series of ...
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    9,81 €

  • CONFRONTING THE ENIGMA OF TIME
    JOHN R FANCHI
    In Newton’s classical mechanics, time played the role of a monotonically increasing evolution parameter. Einstein rejected the Newtonian concept and instead identified time as the fourth coordinate of a space-time four-vector. Today, scientists are considering different concepts of time as a means of resolving incompatibilities between relativity and quantum mechanics. Some vie...
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    70,91 €

  • CONFRONTING THE ENIGMA OF TIME
    JOHN R FANCHI
    In Newton’s classical mechanics, time played the role of a monotonically increasing evolution parameter. Einstein rejected the Newtonian concept and instead identified time as the fourth coordinate of a space-time four-vector. Today, scientists are considering different concepts of time as a means of resolving incompatibilities between relativity and quantum mechanics. Some vie...
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    35,38 €

  • The Interlopers
    Vera Keller
    A reframing of how scientific knowledge was produced in the early modern world.Many accounts of the scientific revolution portray it as a time when scientists disciplined knowledge by first disciplining their own behavior. According to these views, scientists such as Francis Bacon produced certain knowledge by pacifying their emotions and concentrating on method. In The Interlo...
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    73,20 €

  • The Book of Nna
    Tanehesi The Restorer’s
    In the Book of Nna Vol.III we discuss how technological development (IT) can assist and preserve the traditional AfRaKaN perspective by integrating culture, language, history, and science and creating a renewed AfraKan Development Strategy. Specifically, WEB and Application Development and Systems Engineering are key areas where the AfRaKaN perspective should be focused on. If...
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    24,74 €

  • They All Laughed...
    Ira Flatow
    An enlightening and fun look at scientific discoveries and the often wacky and accidental ways in which they have led to some of the most important inventions--by award-winning journalist Ira Flatow. ...
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    16,44 €


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