Stepping in the Same River Twice
Replication in Biological Research
ISBN: HB: 9780300209549,
Yale University Press,
June 2017
344 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 38 black&white illus.
344 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 38 black&white illus.
An international team of biologists, philosophers, and historians of science explores the critically important process of replication in biological and biomedical research.
Without replication, the trustworthiness of scientific research remains in d...
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47.50 GBP
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Exploration and Discovery
Treasures of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
ISBN: PB: 9781933789057,
Yale University Press,
April 2016
128 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, 150 colour illus.
128 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, 150 colour illus.
Founded in 1866 with a generous gift from international financier George Peabody, the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University has for 150 years acquired, studied, protected, and displayed its ever-expanding collections. Among the museum'...
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17.99 GBP
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Naturalists at Sea
Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin
ISBN: PB: 9780300205404,
Yale University Press,
October 2015
336 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 36 colour illus.
336 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 36 colour illus.
On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the "long eighteenth century", naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrati...
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16.99 GBP
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Private Doubt, Public Dilemma
Religion and Science Since Jefferson and Darwin
ISBN: HB: 9780300203677,
Yale University Press,
July 2015
224 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
224 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
Each age has its own crisis-our modern experience of science-religion conflict is not so very different from that experienced by our forebears, Keith Thomson proposes in this thoughtful book. He considers the ideas and writings of Thomas Jefferson an...
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43.00 GBP
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Power of Knowledge
How Information and Technology Made the Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9780300208672,
Yale University Press,
June 2015
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country's ability to acquire knowledge and technical skill and transform them into strength and prosperity. Leading historian Jeremy Bla...
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13.99 GBP
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Voyaging in Strange Seas
The Great Revolution in Science
ISBN: PB: 9780300212754,
Yale University Press,
May 2015
336 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, 32 black&white illus.
336 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, 32 black&white illus.
In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed – Luther's Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the ignorance of the an...
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11.99 GBP
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Jefferson's Shadow
The Story of His Science
ISBN: PB: 9780300205930,
ISBN: HB: 9780300184037,
Yale University Press,
June 2014
288 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 12 black&white illus.
288 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Hundreds, even thousands, of books have been written about Thomas Jefferson's many accomplishments as statesman, leader of men, country farmer, inventor, lawyer, architect, and philosopher. But until now, no author has focused on the important role o...
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27.00 GBP
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20.00 GBP
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Liberty's Dawn
A People's History of the Industrial Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9780300205251,
Yale University Press,
March 2014
320 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 16-page section of black&white illus.
320 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 16-page section of black&white illus.
This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. "The Industrial Revolution" brought not simply misery...
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14.99 GBP
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Little History of Science
ISBN: PB: 9780300197136,
Yale University Press,
August 2013
288 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 40 black&white illus.
288 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 40 black&white illus.
Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted to make sense of the world and harness its...
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10.99 GBP
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Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine
ISBN: HB: 9780300186635,
Yale University Press,
July 2013
384 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 7 black&white illus.
384 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 7 black&white illus.
A collection of ten essays paired with substantial prefaces, this book chronicles and contextualizes Roger Cooter's contributions to the history of medicine. Through an analysis of his own work, Cooter critically examines the politics of conceptual a...
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53.00 GBP
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