Catálogo de libros: Historia de la ciencia

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  • THEORETICAL PHYSICS IN YOUR FACE
    DIANA COLEMAN & DAVID KA AARON S WRIGHT
    Sidney Coleman (1937-2007) was a renowned theoretical physicist, who taught for more than forty years at Harvard University. He contributed critical work on quantum field theory, high-energy particle physics, and cosmology. He was also a remarkably effective teacher who introduced generations of physicists to quantum field theory, mentoring several leading members in the field....
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    73,06 €

  • Tesla’s Words
    Ellis Oswalt
    Full Color Edition (color interior). Tesla’s Words is an extraordinary voyage of Nikola Tesla’s actual words. In this debut work, Ellis Oswalt has crafted a heavily researched drama to reinforce the importance of Nikola Tesla, and to highlight previously unexplored aspects about the mind of this great forgotten super-genius. 130 years after achieving some of humankind’s most n...
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    20,16 €

  • Tea on the terrace
    Kathleen Sheppard
    A history of travel, tourism, and Egyptology, Tea on the terrace examines what Egyptologists did between home and the field site and how their activities in hotels and on dahabeahs impacted the development of the discipline at the turn of the twentieth century. ...
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    145,31 €

  • Bedeviled
    Jimena Canales
    How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities-demons-to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible Science may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously...
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    32,87 €

  • Numbers
    Robert Kiely
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    105,41 €

  • The Rise and Fall of the National Atlas in the Twentieth Century
    John Rennie Short
    Many countries produced an official national atlas in the twentieth century. This book examines these national atlases as an intriguing window into the connections between science, state, territory and power. ...
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    181,83 €

  • Charles Darwin, the Copley Medal, and the Rise of Naturalism, 1861-1864
    Dann Siems / Elizabeth E. Dunn / Marsha Driscoll
    Since its appearance in 1859, Darwin’s long-awaited treatise in 'genetic biology' had received reviews both favorable and damning. Thomas Huxley and Samuel Wilberforce presented arguments for and against the theory in a dramatic and widely publicized face-off at the 1860 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Oxford. Their encounter sparked a vigor...
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    39,24 €

  • Hot Spot
    Mary Engel
    How did Seattle become home to some of the world’s most influential infectious-diseases researchers? Hot Spot tells the story of young physician-scientists drawn to the 'off you go' spirit of the Pacific Northwest. A University of Washington researcher discovered scores of new sexually transmitted pathogens and created a widely copied 'Seattle model' to treat and prevent them. ...
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    16,02 €

  • LAST CALL
    DANIEL R ALTSCHULER
    This book tries to look at human thought and action from a scientific perspective, and in the process, acquaints the reader with essential concepts about science and its history. It takes a broad look at our present troubles without overlooking some crucial historical, religious, and political causes but places science at the center stage.The author applies what he has learned ...
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    71,64 €

  • LAST CALL
    DANIEL R ALTSCHULER
    This book tries to look at human thought and action from a scientific perspective, and in the process, acquaints the reader with essential concepts about science and its history. It takes a broad look at our present troubles without overlooking some crucial historical, religious, and political causes but places science at the center stage.The author applies what he has learned ...
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    48,39 €

  • Scientonomy
    During the so-called ’historical turn’ in the philosophy of science, philosophers and historians boldly argued for general patterns throughout the history of science. From Kuhn’s landmark 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' until the 'Scrutinizing Science' project led by Larry Laudan, there was optimism that there could be a general theoretical approach to understanding the p...
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    72,01 €

  • Alfred Russel Wallace
    Denise Carrington-Smith
    Wallace was a wonderful man...a man full of wonderEverything which took his interest, he studied as deeply as he could, yet, despite the growing recognition he received, he always remained quiet and humble. He was kind and generous, loyal, with a gentle sense of humour which enabled his expressions of grievance to be made without rancour.Wallace was acclaimed in his time as one...
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    21,23 €

  • BETWEEN NATURE AND SOCIETY
    BERNADETTE BENSAUDE-VINCENT
    This volume opens the readers’ eyes to the central role of materials in human societies and in the environment by telling the life stories of fifteen materials. In this rich collection of stories, materials are found at the complex interface between nature and society. They are not just atomic structures with a set of properties and behaviors. They capture the attention of nati...
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    120,19 €

  • Science on the Roof of the World
    Lachlan Fleetwood
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    120,20 €

  • The Beginning of the Path to Human Extinction, and HOW TO GET OFF IT - Notes on a Paradigm Shift
    Scott Haley
    This is a story involving you, me, everyone else in the world, all nonhuman life, our environment, science, and ecoethics.  As a species, we are beset by a Crisis which was decades in the making.  We don't have decades to correct the unprecedented mess we've made for ourselves.  Plus, some of the negative effects of that Crisis often are not readily visible.  With a lot...
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    12,67 €

  • George Adamski - Letters to Emma Martinelli
    George Adamski / Gerard Aartsen
    After his time with the Royal Order of Tibet in the 1930s George Adamski lived a life of relative obscurity before he rose to world fame as the first flying saucer contactee to come forward in 1952. Published here in full for the first time, George Adamski’s letters to his student Emma Martinelli, written between 1950 and 1952, shed light on this pivotal phase in his mission, a...
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    12,27 €

  • The Planet-Girded Suns
    Sylvia Engdahl
    Interest in exoplanets--the worlds of other stars--is not new. From the late 17th century until the end of the 19th, almost all educated people believed that the stars are suns surrounded by inhabited planets--a belief that was expressed not in science fiction, but in serious speculation, both scientific and religious, as well as in poetry. Only during the first half of the 20t...
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    11,55 €

  • SCHRODINGER IN OXFORD
    DAVID C CLARY
    Erwin Schrödinger was one of the greatest scientists of all time but it is not widely known that he was a Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford in the 1930s. This book is an authoritative account of Schrödinger’s time in Oxford by Sir David Clary, an expert on quantum chemistry and a former President of Magdalen College, who describes Schrödinger’s remarkable life and scientific c...
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    117,22 €

  • SCHRODINGER IN OXFORD
    DAVID C CLARY
    Erwin Schrödinger was one of the greatest scientists of all time but it is not widely known that he was a Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford in the 1930s. This book is an authoritative account of Schrödinger’s time in Oxford by Sir David Clary, an expert on quantum chemistry and a former President of Magdalen College, who describes Schrödinger’s remarkable life and scientific c...
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    44,79 €

  • ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD, PHILOSOPHER OF TIME
    REMY LESTIENNE
    Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), a mathematician and logician by training, is the author of highly original works at the crossroads of science and philosophy, exploring the nature of the world around us and its temporal flow.Convinced that everyday terms distort reality, Whitehead invented or borrowed terms more appropriate to his project. The word 'Process', which gives its...
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    105,72 €

  • Glass Technology
    The objects of the Society of Glass Technology are to encourage and advance the study of the history, art, science, design, manufacture, after treatment, distribution and end use of glass of any and every kind. These aims are furthered by meetings, publications, the maintenance of a library and the promotion of association with other interested persons and organisations.Glass T...
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    253,76 €

  • The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920-1950
    Karen Hunger Parshall
    A meticulously researched history on the development of American mathematics in the three decades following World War IAs the Roaring Twenties lurched into the Great Depression, to be followed by the scourge of Nazi Germany and World War II, American mathematicians pursued their research, positioned themselves collectively within American science, and rose to global mathematica...
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    185,18 €

  • Relativity
    Albert Einstein / Words Power
    First published in German in 1916, and later translated into English in 1920, ’Relativity: The Special and the General Theory’ is a short paper and was eventually published as a book by Albert Einstein, German-born, best known for his work on the theory of Relativity, gaining him the title of ’Father of Modern Physics’. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, and his work...
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    18,92 €

  • SUN AND THE OTHER STARS OF DANTE ALIGHIERI, THE
    MASSIMO CAPACCIOLI / Sperello di Serego Alighieri / SPERELLO DI SEREGO ALIGHIERI & MASSIMO C
    The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is the story of a journey across the Universe as it was known in the Middle Ages, a work of science fiction ante litteram. Dante had an encyclopedic mind, no doubt, and his poem is the most widely read book after the Bible. He was a master of the astronomical knowledge of his time, and used astronomy in his work to indicate places, to measur...
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    70,63 €

  • SUN AND THE OTHER STARS OF DANTE ALIGHIERI, THE
    MASSIMO CAPACCIOLI / Sperello di Serego Alighieri / SPERELLO DI SEREGO ALIGHIERI & MASSIMO C
    The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is the story of a journey across the Universe as it was known in the Middle Ages, a work of science fiction ante litteram. Dante had an encyclopedic mind, no doubt, and his poem is the most widely read book after the Bible. He was a master of the astronomical knowledge of his time, and used astronomy in his work to indicate places, to measur...
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    35,09 €

  • Wilhelm’s Way
    Teresa Wilhelm Waldof
    Winner of the Minnesota Book AwardRecipient of the Excellence in Iowa History AwardThe untold story of the humble man whose scientific innovation helped end World War II In February 1942, leaders of the Manhattan Project had a problem: to prove a controlled nuclear chain reaction was possible, they needed pure uranium-tons of it and in less than ten months. With only a few gr...
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    25,03 €

  • Charles Lyell And Modern Geology
    Thomas George Bonney
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSCharles Lyell And Modern Geology: Edited By Sir Henry E. Roscoe, D.C.L., Ll.D., F.R.S.This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we...
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    10,54 €

  • Conclusions—Pragmatic Reality
    Stanisł / aw Kapuś / ciń / ski
    In CONCLUSIONS—Pragmatic Reality, Stanisław Kapuściński responds to the arguments raised in DELUSIONS - Pragmatic Realism, leaving no questions unanswered. In addition, he advances compelling measures for saving our civilization and points out the direction that we ought to take in order to revert the present decline in the evolution of Homo sapiens. The book achieves this by u...
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    17,13 €

  • Bizarre Medicine
    Ruth Engs
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    141,04 €

  • ALZHEIMER DISEASE DECOD (2ND ED)
    Jefferson Chen / Nolan Brown / NOLAN BROWN JEFFERSON RONALD SAHYOUNI / Ronald Sahyouni
    This book aims to present, educate and inform individuals about Alzheimer’s disease in a comprehensive manner. Its scope ranges from the discovery of the disease, epidemiology and basic biological principles underlying it, to advanced stem cell therapies used in the treatment of Alzheimer’s. It adopts a 'global' perspective on Alzheimer’s disease, and include epidemiological da...
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    48,20 €


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