» książki » Science - History
topmenu
 |
Life's Splendid Drama: Evolutionary Biology and the Reconstruction of Life's Ancestry, 1860-1940
ISBN: 9780226069227 / Angielski / Miękka / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of life's splendid drama has captivated generations of the general public, just as it has intrigued biologists, especially those who began to try to solve evolutionary puzzles in the years immediately after the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species" in 1859. Yet histories of the Darwinian revolution have paid far more attention to theoretical debates and have largely ignored the researchers who struggled to comprehend the deeper evolutionary significance of fossil bones and the structures of living animals. Peter J. Bowler recovers some of this lost history in "Life's Splendid...
The story of life's splendid drama has captivated generations of the general public, just as it has intrigued biologists, especially those who began t...
|
cena:
163,97 zł |
 |
Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology
ISBN: 9780226080901 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is hard to imagine, by their very name, the life sciences not involving the study of living things, but until the twentieth century much of what was known in the field was based primarily on specimens that had long before taken their last breaths. Only in the last century has "ethology" the study of animal behavior emerged as a major field of the life sciences.
In "Patterns of Behavior," Richard W. Burkhardt Jr. traces the scientific theories, practices, subjects, and settings integral to the construction of a discipline pivotal to our understanding of the diversity of life. Central to... It is hard to imagine, by their very name, the life sciences not involving the study of living things, but until the twentieth century much of what wa...
|
cena:
204,96 zł |
 |
From Natural Philosophy to the Sciences: Writing the History of Nineteenth-Century Science
ISBN: 9780226089287 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 19th century, much of the modern scientific enterprise took shape: scientific disciplines were formed, institutions and communities were founded and unprecedented applications to and interactions with other aspects of society and culture occurred. taught us about this exciting time and identify issues that remain unexamined or require reconsideration. They treat scientific disciplines - biology, physics, chemistry, the earth sciences, mathematics and the social sciences - in their specific intellectual and sociocultural contexts as well as the broader topics of science and...
During the 19th century, much of the modern scientific enterprise took shape: scientific disciplines were formed, institutions and communities were fo...
|
cena:
184,46 zł |
 |
Multiple Exposures (Paper Only)
ISBN: 9780226097855 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Catherine Caufield has written an important book on an important topic:
the history behind the safety standards limiting the effects of high energy radiation on human beings. . . . Provides an immense amount of information in a very readable form." W. Alan Runciman, "Prometheus" "From fallout and radon to radioactive smoke detectors and dental X-rays, Caufield traces the proliferation of the uses of radiation in medicine, industry and the military, and in generating energy. An intelligent, non-alarmist history." "Publishers Weekly"" "Catherine Caufield has written an important book on an important topic:
the history behind the safety standards limiting the effects of high ener... |
cena:
143,47 zł |
 |
Shaping Science with Rhetoric: The Cases of Dobzhansky, Schrodinger, and Wilson
ISBN: 9780226099071 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do scientists persuade colleagues from diverse fields to cross the disciplinary divide, risking their careers in new interdisciplinary research programs? Why do some attempts to inspire such research win widespread acclaim and support, while others do not? In Shaping Science with Rhetoric, Leah Ceccarelli addresses such questions through close readings of three scientific monographs in their historical contexts-Theodosius Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species (1937), which inspired the "modern synthesis" of evolutionary biology; Erwin Schrodinger's What Is...
How do scientists persuade colleagues from diverse fields to cross the disciplinary divide, risking their careers in new interdisciplinary research pr...
|
cena:
153,72 zł |
 |
The Sciences in Enlightened Europe
ISBN: 9780226109404 / Angielski / Miękka / 580 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Radically reorienting our understanding of the Enlightenment, this book explores the complex relations between -enlightened- values and the making of scientific knowledge. Here monsters and automata, barometers and botanical gardens, polite academies and boisterous clubs are all given their due place in the landscape of enlightened Europe.
The contributors examine the production of new disciplines through work with instruments and techniques; consider how institutions of public taste and conversation helped provide a common frame for the study of human and nonhuman natures; and explore... Radically reorienting our understanding of the Enlightenment, this book explores the complex relations between -enlightened- values and the making of ...
|
cena:
204,96 zł |
 |
The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry
ISBN: 9780226112800 / Angielski / Miękka / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this first book-length historiographical study of the Scientific Revolution, H. Floris Cohen examines the body of work on the intellectual, social, and cultural origins of early modern science. Cohen critically surveys a wide range of scholarship since the nineteenth century, offering new perspectives on how the Scientific Revolution changed forever the way we understand the natural world and our place in it.
Cohen's discussions range from scholarly interpretations of Galileo, Kepler, and Newton, to the question of why the Scientific Revolution took place in seventeenth-century Western... In this first book-length historiographical study of the Scientific Revolution, H. Floris Cohen examines the body of work on the intellectual, social,...
|
cena:
266,45 zł |
 |
Gravity's Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves
ISBN: 9780226113784 / Angielski / Miękka / 864 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to the theory of relativity, we are constantly bathed in gravitational radiation. When stars explode or collide, a portion of their mass becomes energy that disturbs the very fabric of the space-time continuum like ripples in a pond. But proving the existence of these waves has been difficult; the cosmic shudders are so weak that only the most sensitive instruments can be expected to observe them directly. Fifteen times during the last thirty years scientists have claimed to have detected gravitational waves, but so far none of those claims have survived the scrutiny of the...
According to the theory of relativity, we are constantly bathed in gravitational radiation. When stars explode or collide, a portion of their mass bec...
|
cena:
256,20 zł |
 |
Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946-1972
ISBN: 9780226120195 / Angielski / Miękka / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brookhaven National Laboratory was the first major national laboratory built for basic civilian research. From Nobel Prize-winning work in atomic physics to addressing community concerns over radiation leaks, the history of Brookhaven parallels the changing fortunes of "big science" in the United States. Robert P. Crease brings to life the people, the instruments, the science, and the politics of Brookhaven's first quarter-century.
" A] very readable, well illustrated and sometimes even racy, recounting of Brookhaven's history, politics and personalities." Denys Wilkinson, "Physics... Brookhaven National Laboratory was the first major national laboratory built for basic civilian research. From Nobel Prize-winning work in atomic phys...
|
cena:
163,97 zł |
 |
The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965
ISBN: 9780226120263 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We normally think of viruses in terms of the devastating diseases they cause, from smallpox to AIDS. But in "The Life of a Virus, " Angela N. H. Creager introduces us to a plant virus that has taught us much of what we know about all viruses, including the lethal ones, and that also played a crucial role in the development of molecular biology.
Focusing on the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) research conducted in Nobel laureate Wendell Stanley's lab, Creager argues that TMV served as a model system for virology and molecular biology, much as the fruit fly and laboratory mouse have for genetics... We normally think of viruses in terms of the devastating diseases they cause, from smallpox to AIDS. But in "The Life of a Virus, " Angela N. H. Creag...
|
cena:
204,96 zł |
 |
Biographies of Scientific Objects
ISBN: 9780226136721 / Angielski / Miękka / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why does an object or phenomenon become the subject of scientific inquiry? Why do some of these objects remain provocative, while others fade from center stage? And why do objects sometimes return as the focus of research long after they were once abandoned?
Addressing such questions, Biographies of Scientific Objects is about how whole domains of phenomena dreams, atoms, monsters, culture, society, mortality, centers of gravity, value, cytoplasmic particles, the self, tuberculosis come into being and sometimes pass away as objects of scientific study. With examples drawn from both... Why does an object or phenomenon become the subject of scientific inquiry? Why do some of these objects remain provocative, while others fade from cen...
|
cena:
153,72 zł |
 |
The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World
ISBN: 9780226139494 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the history of the Western world, science has possessed an extraordinary amount of authority and prestige. And while its pedestal has been jostled by numerous evolutions and revolutions, science has always managed to maintain its stronghold as the knowing enterprise that explains how the natural world works: we treat such legendary scientists as Galileo, Newton, Darwin, and Einstein with admiration and reverence because they offer profound and sustaining insight into the meaning of the universe.
In The Intelligibility of Nature, Peter Dear considers how science as such... Throughout the history of the Western world, science has possessed an extraordinary amount of authority and prestige. And while its pedestal has been ...
|
cena:
107,33 zł |
 |
The Self as Project: Politics and the Sciences
ISBN: 9780226190877 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Osiris "annually examines a particular topic in the history of science, bringing together experts in the field to consider multiple aspects of the time period, episode, or theme. Volume 22 explores the ways that twentieth-century political institutions and the human sciences in the western world attempted to understand and shape the attitudes and behaviors of individuals."
"Osiris "annually examines a particular topic in the history of science, bringing together experts in the field to consider multiple aspects of the... |
cena:
128,10 zł |
 |
The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny
ISBN: 9780226199955 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds. And pessimists fear that might really be the case. But what "is" the best of all possible worlds? How do we define it? This question has preoccupied philosophers and theologians for ages, but there was a time, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when scientists and mathematicians felt they could provide the answer.
This book is their story. Ivar Ekeland here takes the reader on a journey through scientific attempts to envision the best of all possible worlds. He begins with the French physicist Maupertuis, whose... Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds. And pessimists fear that might really be the case. But what "is" the best of all possible w...
|
cena:
71,74 zł |
 |
The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History
ISBN: 9780226261485 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The discovery of hundreds of botanical and zoological drawings at Windsor Castle led to a trail that led across Europe to a little-known scientific organization from 17th century Italy called the academy of Linceans (or Lynxes). This volume documents the history of their work.
The discovery of hundreds of botanical and zoological drawings at Windsor Castle led to a trail that led across Europe to a little-known scientific or...
|
cena:
180,11 zł |
 |
Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences
ISBN: 9780226276502 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. But it was also a time when ordinary people from across the social spectrum were given the opportunity to participate in science, for education, entertainment, or both. In Victorian Britain science could be encountered in myriad forms and in countless locations: in panoramic shows, exhibitions, and galleries; in city museums and country houses; in popular lectures; and even in domestic conversations that revolved around...
The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased socia...
|
cena:
256,20 zł |
 |
A Century of Nature: Twenty-One Discoveries That Changed Science and the World
ISBN: 9780226284156 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the description of the first fossil link between humans and apes in 1925 to the identification of the first planet outside our solar system in 1995 and the announcement of the birth of Dolly, the cloned sheep, in 1997, many of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century were first reported in the journal Nature. This book brings together in one volume its greatest hits - reproductions of twenty-one seminal contributions that changed science and the world. the neutron, opened up entirely new fields of study. Others, like Watson and Crick's article describing the...
From the description of the first fossil link between humans and apes in 1925 to the identification of the first planet outside our solar system in 19...
|
cena:
146,03 zł |
 |
Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science, with a New Preface
ISBN: 9780226302317 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arguably the best available introduction to constructivism, a research paradigm that has dominated the history of science for the past forty years, Making Natural Knowledge reflects on the importance of this theory, tells the history of its rise to prominence, and traces its most important tensions.
Viewing scientific knowledge as a product of human culture, Jan Golinski challenges the traditional trajectory of the history of science as steady and autonomous progress. In exploring topics such as the social identity of the scientist, the significance of places where science is... Arguably the best available introduction to constructivism, a research paradigm that has dominated the history of science for the past forty years, |
cena:
184,46 zł |
 |
The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour
ISBN: 9780226316567 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The scientific article has been a hallmark of the career of every important western scientist since the seventeenth century. Yet its role in the history of science has not been fully explored. Joseph E. Harmon and Alan G. Gross remedy this oversight with "The Scientific Literature," a collection of writings excerpts from scientific articles, letters, memoirs, proceedings, transactions, and magazines that illustrates the origin of the scientific article in 1665 and its evolution over the nextthree and a halfcenturies. The scientific article has been a hallmark of the career of every important western scientist since the seventeenth century. Yet its role in the hi... |
cena:
163,97 zł |
 |
Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays
ISBN: 9780226326597 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hermann von Helmholtz was a leading figure of nineteenth-century European intellectual life, remarkable even among the many scientists of the period for the range and depth of his interests. A pioneer of physiology and physics, he was also deeply concerned with the implications of science for philosophy and culture. From the 1850s to the 1890s, Helmholtz delivered more than two dozen popular lectures, seeking to educate the public and to enlighten the leaders of European society and governments about the potential benefits of science and technology to a developing modern society. David...
Hermann von Helmholtz was a leading figure of nineteenth-century European intellectual life, remarkable even among the many scientists of the period f...
|
cena:
205,37 zł |
Czytaj nas na:
Zobacz: Księgarnia Czeska | Wydawnictwo Książkowe Klimaty | Mapa strony | Lista autorów
KrainaKsiazek.PL - Księgarnia Internetowa
KrainaKsiazek.PL - Księgarnia Internetowa
