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The Fascination with Unknown Time
ISBN: 9783319664378 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores 'unknown time' as a cultural phenomenon, approaching past futures, unknown presents, and future pasts through a broad range of different disciplines, media, and contexts. As a phenomenon that is both elusive and fundamentally inaccessible, time is a key object of fascination. Throughout the ages, different cultures have been deeply engaged in various attempts to fill or make time by developing strategies to familiarize unknown time and to materialize and control past, present, or future time. Arguing for the perennial interest in time, especially in the unknown and...
This volume explores 'unknown time' as a cultural phenomenon, approaching past futures, unknown presents, and future pasts through a broad range of di...
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Mendeleev to Oganesson: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on the Periodic Table
ISBN: 9780190668532 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 1969, the international chemistry community has only held conferences on the topic of the Periodic Table three times, and the 2012 conference in Cusco, Peru was the first in almost a decade. The conference was highly interdisciplinary, featuring papers on geology, physics, mathematical and theoretical chemistry, the history and philosophy of chemistry, and chemical education, from the most reputable Periodic Table scholars across the world. Eric Scerri and Guillermo Restrepo have collected fifteen of the strongest papers presented at this conference, from the most notable Periodic Table...
Since 1969, the international chemistry community has only held conferences on the topic of the Periodic Table three times, and the 2012 conference in...
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616,09 |
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Hayek and the Evolution of Capitalism
ISBN: 9780226556000 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hayek used arguments from evolution to build his view of capitalism; Beck analyzes them and finds them wanting-incomplete, inaccurate, and failing to understand the science.
Hayek used arguments from evolution to build his view of capitalism; Beck analyzes them and finds them wanting-incomplete, inaccurate, and failing to ...
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178,97 |
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The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of Darpa, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
ISBN: 9780804169721 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on exclusive interviews with senior Pentagon officials and previously unseen declassified documents, this is the definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency--the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly sixty years. Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, the agency's original mission was to create "the unimagined weapons of the future." Over the decades, DARPA has been responsible for countless inventions and technologies that extend well beyond military technology. Sharon Weinberger gives us a riveting...
Based on exclusive interviews with senior Pentagon officials and previously unseen declassified documents, this is the definitive history of the De...
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83,62 |
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Where Have All the Heavens Gone?
ISBN: 9781498296007 / Angielski / Twarda / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twenty years before his famous trial, Galileo Galilei had spent two years carefully considering how the results of his own telescopic observations of the heavens as well as his convictions about the truth of the Copernican theory could be aligned with the Catholic Church's position on biblical interpretation and the authority of the magisterium. The product of these two years was an unpublished letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, the mother of his patron, Cosimo II de' Medici. Much has changed since this letter was written in 1615, but much has remained the same. This collection...
Twenty years before his famous trial, Galileo Galilei had spent two years carefully considering how the results of his own telescopic observations of ...
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148,24 |
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Lewis Swift: Celebrated Comet Hunter and the People's Astronomer
ISBN: 9783319637204 / Angielski / Twarda / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This biography covers the life of Lewis Swift (1820-1913), who discovered 13 comets and nearly 1,200 other deep sky objects.
This biography covers the life of Lewis Swift (1820-1913), who discovered 13 comets and nearly 1,200 other deep sky objects.
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The Frontiers of Ancient Science: Essays in Honor of Heinrich Von Staden
ISBN: 9783110559224 / Francuski / Miękka / 775 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The volumes published in the series "Beiträge zur Altertumskunde" comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient Philosophy as well as Classical Reception Studies. The series thus offers indispensable research tools for a wide range of disciplines related to the Ancient Studies.
The volumes published in the series "Beiträge zur Altertumskunde" comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on...
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148,51 |
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The Cosmic Machine: The Science That Runs Our Universe and the Story Behind It
ISBN: 9780997934106 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Energy, Entropy, Atoms, and Quantum Mechanics form the very foundation of our universe. But how do they govern the world we live in? What was the difficult path to their discovery? Who were the key players that struggled to shape our current understanding? Energy, Entropy, Atoms, and Quantum Mechanics form the very foundation of our universe. But how do they govern the world we live in? What was the d... |
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The Cosmic Machine: The Science That Runs Our Universe and the Story Behind It
ISBN: 9780997934137 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. “A superb resource for science fans or those struggling to understand the subject; an impressive fit in an age of Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson web videos.” –Kirkus Reviews “A superb resource for science fans or those struggling to understand the subject; an impressive fit in an age of Bill Nye and Neil d... |
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141,50 |
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and Its Timings: When Is Death?
ISBN: 9781137583277 / Angielski / Twarda / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of Adolf Hitler's survival, and the legal concept of brain death.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-dept...
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112,72 |
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The Wizard War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945
ISBN: 9781635610543 / Angielski / Twarda / 610 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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153,05 |
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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 25, 1877
ISBN: 9781108423045 / Angielski / Twarda / 938 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Letters from 1877, when Darwin published Forms of flowers and, with his son Francis, experimented on plant movement.
Letters from 1877, when Darwin published Forms of flowers and, with his son Francis, experimented on plant movement.
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540,15 |
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The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War
ISBN: 9780226556451 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A history of the development of the concept of the human body as an integrated whole susceptible to damage but also available for treatment, largely in the wake of the catastrophic injuries seen in WWI.
A history of the development of the concept of the human body as an integrated whole susceptible to damage but also available for treatment, largely i...
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511,35 |
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A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
ISBN: 9780198794981 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2018 marks the centenary not only of the Armistice but also of women gaining the vote. A Lab of One's Own commemorates both anniversaries by exploring how the War gave female scientists, doctors, and engineers unprecedented opportunities to undertake endeavours normally reserved for men.
2018 marks the centenary not only of the Armistice but also of women gaining the vote. A Lab of One's Own commemorates both anniversaries by exploring...
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The Forgotten Sense: Meditations on Touch
ISBN: 9780226561332 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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409,08 |
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The Role of Theology in the History and Philosophy of Science
ISBN: 9789004360211 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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356,95 |
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Tangled Diagnoses: Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk
ISBN: 9780226534091 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A history of prenatal testing that shows it to be more complicated than a simple medical advance, bringing with it a host of questions about ethics and responsibility.
A history of prenatal testing that shows it to be more complicated than a simple medical advance, bringing with it a host of questions about ethics an...
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163,63 |
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The Forgotten Sense: Meditations on Touch
ISBN: 9780226561479 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A series of belles lettres-style reflections on touch and its role in our life, art, and culture.
A series of belles lettres-style reflections on touch and its role in our life, art, and culture.
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122,72 |
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Eugenics and Protestant Social Reform
ISBN: 9781532605796 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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193,85 |
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The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment
ISBN: 9781503605442 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book shows how British Enlightenment writers and thinkers used science as a metaphor to reconfigure evidence and authority, to reimagine the self and society, and to present literary knowledge as a form of truth.
This book shows how British Enlightenment writers and thinkers used science as a metaphor to reconfigure evidence and authority, to reimagine the self...
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485,78 |
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