Little History of Science
New Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300283211,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
272 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
272 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
A lively and engaging introduction to the progress of science over the ages.
Science is key to understanding the infinite distances of space, the tiniest living organisms body and the history of our planet. From Hippocrates and Aristotle to Isaac Ne...
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10.99 GBP
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American Phage Group
Founders of Molecular Biology
ISBN: HB: 9780300263565,
Yale University Press,
February 2023
312 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 9 black&white illus.
312 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 9 black&white illus.
A fascinating historical account of the American Phage Group and how its new research framework became the foundation for molecular biology.
This book is the first critical and analytical study of the American Phage Group – a small group of scientis...
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35.00 GBP
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Doctor's Garden
Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain
ISBN: HB: 9780300236101,
Yale University Press,
January 2022
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 32 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 32 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.
As Britain grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new and exotic botanical specimens began to arrive within the nation's public and private spaces. Gardens became sites not just of leisure, sport...
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30.00 GBP
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Generations of Reason
A Family's Search for Meaning in Post-Newtonian England
ISBN: HB: 9780300255492,
Yale University Press,
January 2022
456 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 21 black&white illus.
456 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 21 black&white illus.
This book recounts the story of three Cambridge-educated Englishmen and the women with whom they chose to share their commitment to reason in all parts of their lives. The reason this family embraced was an essentially human power with the potential...
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35.00 GBP
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Polymath
A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
ISBN: PB: 9780300260465,
Yale University Press,
July 2021
352 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 24 colour illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 24 colour illus.
From Leonardo da Vinci and John Dee to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge. Nonetheless, in our current age of specialization, polymaths are often remembered for only one part of their varied achievements....
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11.99 GBP
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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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25.00 GBP
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