Catálogo de libros: Historia de la ciencia

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  • HISTORY OF PARTICLE THEORY
    Jihn E Kim / PAUL H FRAMPTON / PAUL H FRAMPTON & JIHN E KIM
    History of Particle Theory fills an important gap existing in the literature by discussing the impressive progress in understanding the elementary particles out of which all everyday objects are made. Most of this progress has happened in the last seventy years after the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED) was perfected as an extremely accurate description of electromagneti...
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    105,23 €

  • DARK ENERGY SURVEY, THE
    LUCY CALDER JULIAN MAYERS & OFER LAHAV
    This book is about the Dark Energy Survey, a cosmological experiment designed to investigate the physical nature of dark energy by measuring its effect on the expansion history of the universe and on the growth of large-scale structure. The survey saw first light in 2012, after a decade of planning, and completed observations in 2019. The collaboration designed and built a 570-...
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    157,58 €

  • DARK ENERGY SURVEY, THE
    LUCY CALDER JULIAN MAYERS & OFER LAHAV
    This book is about the Dark Energy Survey, a cosmological experiment designed to investigate the physical nature of dark energy by measuring its effect on the expansion history of the universe and on the growth of large-scale structure. The survey saw first light in 2012, after a decade of planning, and completed observations in 2019. The collaboration designed and built a 570-...
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    72,85 €

  • The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900
    Theodore M. Porter
    An essential work on the origins of statisticsThe Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 explores the history of statistics from the field’s origins in the nineteenth century through to the factors that produced the burst of modern statistical innovation in the early twentieth century. Theodore Porter shows that statistics was not developed by mathematicians and then applied t...
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    42,86 €

  • Trust in Numbers
    Theodore M. Porter
    A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantificationWhat accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules, or cells should be an attractive model for research on...
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    42,95 €

  • PERIODIC TABLE, THE
    GEOFF RAYNER-CANHAM
    That fossilized chart on every classroom wall — isn't that The Periodic Table? Isn't that what Mendeléev devised about a century ago? No and No. There are many ways of organizing the chemical elements, some of which are thought-provoking, and which reveal philosophical challenges. Where does hydrogen 'belong'? Can an element occupy more than one location on the ...
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    120,24 €

  • PERIODIC TABLE, THE
    GEOFF RAYNER-CANHAM
    That fossilized chart on every classroom wall - isn’t that The Periodic Table? Isn’t that what Mendeléev devised about a century ago? No and No. There are many ways of organizing the chemical elements, some of which are thought-provoking, and which reveal philosophical challenges. Where does hydrogen ’belong’? Can an element occupy more than one location on the chart? Which are...
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    60,12 €

  • DAY AT CERN, A
    GAUTIER DEPAMBOUR
    What lies within CERN’s entrails? What is the path followed by the particles that are accelerated before they collide? What does the ATLAS detector look like? Does research at CERN find applications in everyday life?From the accelerator control room to the huge Computing Centre, via the auditorium where the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced in July 2012, I invite you t...
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    35,03 €

  • DAY AT CERN, A
    GAUTIER DEPAMBOUR
    What lies within CERN’s entrails? What is the path followed by the particles that are accelerated before they collide? What does the ATLAS detector look like? Does research at CERN find applications in everyday life?From the accelerator control room to the huge Computing Centre, via the auditorium where the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced in July 2012, I invite you t...
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    70,56 €

  • The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America
    Greta LaFleur
    If sexology--the science of sex--came into being sometime in the nineteenth century, then how did statesmen, scientists, and everyday people make meaning out of sex before that point? In The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America, Greta LaFleur demonstrates that eighteenth-century natural history--the study of organic life in its environment--actually provided the intell...
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    47,15 €

  • Freedom’s Laboratory
    Audra J Wolfe
    Scientists like to proclaim that science knows no borders. Scientific researchers follow the evidence where it leads, their conclusions free of prejudice or ideology. But is that really the case? In Freedom's Laboratory, Audra J. Wolfe shows how these ideas were tested to their limits in the high-stakes propaganda battles of the Cold War.Wolfe examines the role that scienti...
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    27,52 €

  • The Future of Biblical Archaeology
    Dr. David Tee / DrDavid Tee
    This book is an examination of the subfield of Archaeology called Biblical Archaeology. Its purpose is to look at what is currently happening and see what changes need to be made so that the field can be more honoring to God, make a bigger impact on the world for Jesus as well as find the truth of the ancient past as it relates to the bible and its people, civilizations and so ...
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    11,98 €

  • BETWEEN MAKING AND KNOWING
    JOSEPH D MARTIN & CYRUS C M MODY
    This book offers a comprehensive sketch of the tools used in material research and the rich and diverse stories of how those tools came to be. We aim to give readers a sense of what tools materials researchers required in the late 20th century, and how those tools were developed and became accessible. The book is in a sense a collective biography of the components of what the p...
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    244,24 €

  • SUPERCONDUCTIVITY BEGINS WITH H
    JORGE E HIRSCH
    This iconoclastic book proposes that superconductivity is misunderstood in contemporary science and that this hampers scientific and technological development. Superconductivity is the ability of some metals to carry electric current without resistance at very low temperatures. Properly understanding superconductivity would facilitate finding materials that superconduct at room...
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    83,25 €

  • SPINACH ON THE CEILING
    MARTIN KARPLUS
    Nobel Laureate Martin Karplus was eight when his family fled Nazi-occupied Austria via Switzerland and France for the United States. He would later credit his life as a refugee as a decisive influence on his world view and approach to science.Spinach on the Ceiling is an autobiographical telling of Karplus' life story, and how it led him to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...
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    107,96 €

  • SPINACH ON THE CEILING
    MARTIN KARPLUS
    Nobel Laureate Martin Karplus was eight when his family fled Nazi-occupied Austria via Switzerland and France for the United States. He would later credit his life as a refugee as a decisive influence on his world view and approach to science.Spinach on the Ceiling is an autobiographical telling of Karplus' life story, and how it led him to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...
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    47,83 €

  • Time
    Joseph Needham
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve ...
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    11,06 €

  • The Origin of Life On the Earth
    MK GALI
    Since the beginning of time, every man on Earth must have pondered over the origin of life at least once in his lifetime. Has he, or science, found an answer yet? What were the struggles that science had to overcome in its quest for truth? And what other challenges lay ahead? This book is an attempt to answer these questions by providing a comprehensive historical account of th...
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    11,48 €

  • Short’s Stories
    Ronan Short / TBD
    Short’s Stories, Name Dropping, is the second in a series recounting, with more humor and wit, the author’s life and travels. Ronan Short was born in London, England in 1940 and brought up at the British National Institute for Medical Research, where his father was in charge of the animal division. His early life was full of adventures and encounters. This volume, Name Dropping...
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    13,22 €

  • Sulphuric Utopias
    Christos Lynteris / Lukas Engelmann
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    43,72 €

  • Resisting Scientific Realism
    K. Brad Wray / KBrad Wray
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    35,81 €

  • AS THE WORLD TURNS
    PETER KOSSO
    We know the Earth rotates, but how do we know? When and how did it become reasonable to believe that the Earth rotates?This book offers a historical account, from ancient Greek science to the theory of relativity and ultimately to videos taken from outer space, of how this widely known truth came to be. Using an accessible and entertaining narrative suitable for anyone interest...
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    68,67 €

  • Cesarean Section
    Jacqueline H Wolf
    Between 1965 and 1987, the cesarean section rate in the United States rose precipitously--from 4.5 percent to 25 percent of births. By 2009, one in three births was by cesarean, a far higher number than the 5-10% rate that the World Health Organization suggests is optimal. While physicians largely avoided cesareans through the mid-twentieth century, by the early twenty-first ce...
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    33,97 €

  • Imagining Consumers
    Regina Lee Blaszczyk / TBD
    Originally published in 1999. Imagining Consumers tells for the first time the story of American consumer society from the perspective of mass-market manufacturers and retailers. It relates the trials and tribulations of china and glassware producers in their contest for the hearts of the working- and middle-class women who made up more than eighty percent of those buying mass-...
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    66,30 €

  • Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes
    Charles Babbage
    Charles Babbage, (born December 26, 1791, London, England—died October 18, 1871, London), English mathematician and inventor who is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer.In 1812 Babbage helped found the Analytical Society, whose object was to introduce developments from the European continent into English mathematics. In 1816 he was elected a fello...
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    19,01 €

  • Lives of the Engineers
    Samuel Smiles
    Samuel Smiles, (born Dec. 23, 1812, Haddington, Berwickshire, Scot.—died April 16, 1904, London), Scottish author best known for his didactic work Self-Help (1859), which, with its successors, Character (1871), Thrift (1875), and Duty (1880), enshrined the basic Victorian values associated with the “gospel of work.”One of 11 children left fatherless in 1832, Smiles learned the ...
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    30,44 €

  • Lives of the Engineers
    Samuel Smiles
    Samuel Smiles, (born Dec. 23, 1812, Haddington, Berwickshire, Scot.—died April 16, 1904, London), Scottish author best known for his didactic work Self-Help (1859), which, with its successors, Character (1871), Thrift (1875), and Duty (1880), enshrined the basic Victorian values associated with the “gospel of work.”One of 11 children left fatherless in 1832, Smiles learned the ...
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    19,82 €

  • Conquering the Electron
    Derek Cheung / Eric Brach
    Conquering the Electron offers readers a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of friction and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smart phone and the iPad. ...
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    16,98 €

  • S CHANDRASEKHAR
    KAMESHWAR C WALI
    Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Laureate in Physics, was a towering figure in 20th century physics, but remained a highly private man. The many letters and correspondence in this book reveal in Chandrasekhar's own words the depth of his pursuit of science as well as his personal struggles. This book is an important addition to the three previous volumes by Kameshwar C. Wa...
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    108,00 €

  • 500 YEARS AFTER LEONARDO DA VINCI MACHINES
    Arturo Buscarino / Carlo Famoso / LUIGI FORTUNA & ARTURO BUSCARINO / Maide Bucolo
    The book focuses on the role of the Leonardo da Vinci projects and inventions, specifically the interdisciplinarity of his studies that represents perhaps the first example of the paradigm of complex systems engineering. The projects are characterized within a modern conception of his thinking, looking at the main motivations behind his machines. The book also proposes a set of...
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    58,09 €


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