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  • El ateísmo científico
    Carlos Javier Alonso Gutiérrez
    La superación del reduccionismo científico pretende ser un diagnóstico lúcido del pensamiento contemporáneo, que presenta, entre otras patologías, una fuerte indigestión de cientificismo, ampliamente difundido de mil modos en la opinión pública, mediante revistas de divulgación científica, libros de texto, exposiciones, etc. Por cientificismo debemos entender la teoría en virtu...
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    13,52 €

  • Code
    Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
    In Code Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and colonialism shaped early accounts of cybernetics and digital media by theorists including Norbert Wiener, Warren Weaver, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roman Jakobson, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Luce Irigaray. His analysis ...
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    128,00 €

  • Code
    Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
    In Code Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and colonialism shaped early accounts of cybernetics and digital media by theorists including Norbert Wiener, Warren Weaver, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roman Jakobson, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Luce Irigaray. His analysis ...
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    33,98 €

  • Samuel Butler and the Science of the Mind
    Cristiano Turbil
    Darwin’s theory of evolution was received with great interest all across Europe. The theory of evolution generated numerous debate among scientists, philosophers and the general public. Questions concerning the evolution of animals and humans, the existence of any blueprint or design in biology, and the relationship between Darwinism and Lamarckism rapidly became key topics of ...
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    17,75 €

  • They Believed That? A Cultural Encyclopedia of Superstitions and the Supernatural around the World
    William Burns
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    140,86 €

  • The Scopes 'Monkey Trial'
    Randy Moore
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    82,14 €

  • The Humans Lost in Time
    Vaishali Alapati
    Think of history, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Just take a moment to pause and think.  Does your mind wander to the pyramids of Ancient Egypt, The Rise and Fall of the Aztec Civilization, The Discovery of the Americas, or maybe the Industrial Revolution.Today’s world owes an immense debt to the mighty empires and great cities of ancient history. Their inventions a...
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    9,27 €

  • Kings Dethroned - A History of the Evolution of Astronomy from the Time of the Roman Empire up to the Present Day;Showing it to be an Amazing Series of Blunders Founded Upon an Error Made in the Secon
    Gerrard Hickson
    Exploring the history of the evolution of astronomy from the Roman Empire to the early twentieth century, Kings Dethroned attempts to debunk scientific facts with Gerrard Hickson’s alternative theories.From Nicolaus Copernicus to Albert Einstein, this 1922 volume tracks the scientific developments in the field of astronomy and traces the ’mistakes’ made by well-known pioneers a...
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    27,08 €

  • The Lightning Tamers
    Kathy Joseph
    Science and History Collide: True Stories of the People Who Powered Our WorldIn this physics and engineering chronicle disguised as an electric time-travel adventure, Kathy Joseph, physicist, educator, and creator of the popular Kathy Loves Physics documentary channel on YouTube, shares over 400 years of the history of electricity through the linked breakthroughs of men and wom...
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    13,97 €

  • The Lightning Tamers
    Kathy Joseph
    Science and History Collide: True Stories of the People Who Powered Our WorldIn this physics and engineering chronicle disguised as an electric time-travel adventure, Kathy Joseph, physicist, educator, and creator of the popular Kathy Loves Physics documentary channel on YouTube, shares over 400 years of the history of electricity through the linked breakthroughs of men and wom...
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    19,39 €

  • The Pulse of the Bay 2022
    Jay Davis / Melissa Foley
    This year marks the 50th anniversary of a transformationalturning point for Bay water quality: passage of the FederalWater Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, commonlyknown as the Clean Water Act (CWA). On the occasion of this momentous milestone, this edition of The Pulse of the Bay includes nineperspectives written by representatives of the groupsthat have a prominent r...
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    13,90 €

  • History of Physics
    Jordan Maxwell
    In this book we will cover the history of physics.From Newton to Einstein, from Maxwell to Feynman, we will cover everything about the story that crafted modern physics and knowledge of the universe.We will discover secrets and hidden physics stories you did’t know yet. How physics crafted the modern world, from computers to casino and betting, from atomic power to finance.Phys...
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    17,80 €

  • Theoretical Physics in Your Face
    Sidney Coleman (1937-2007) was a renowned theoretical physicist, who taught for more than forty years at Harvard University. He contributed critical work on quantum field theory, high-energy particle physics, and cosmology. He was also a remarkably effective teacher who introduced generations of physicists to quantum field theory, mentoring several leading members in the field....
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    170,07 €

  • Theoretical Physics in Your Face
    Sidney Coleman (1937-2007) was a renowned theoretical physicist, who taught for more than forty years at Harvard University. He contributed critical work on quantum field theory, high-energy particle physics, and cosmology. He was also a remarkably effective teacher who introduced generations of physicists to quantum field theory, mentoring several leading members in the field....
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    73,06 €

  • Tesla’s Words
    Ellis Oswalt
    Full Color Edition (color interior). Tesla’s Words is an extraordinary voyage of Nikola Tesla’s actual words. In this debut work, Ellis Oswalt has crafted a heavily researched drama to reinforce the importance of Nikola Tesla, and to highlight previously unexplored aspects about the mind of this great forgotten super-genius. 130 years after achieving some of humankind’s most n...
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    20,16 €

  • Tea on the terrace
    Kathleen Sheppard
    A history of travel, tourism, and Egyptology, Tea on the terrace examines what Egyptologists did between home and the field site and how their activities in hotels and on dahabeahs impacted the development of the discipline at the turn of the twentieth century. ...
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    145,31 €

  • Bedeviled
    Jimena Canales
    How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities-demons-to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible Science may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously...
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    32,87 €

  • Numbers
    Robert Kiely
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    105,41 €

  • The Rise and Fall of the National Atlas in the Twentieth Century
    John Rennie Short
    Many countries produced an official national atlas in the twentieth century. This book examines these national atlases as an intriguing window into the connections between science, state, territory and power. ...
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    181,83 €

  • Charles Darwin, the Copley Medal, and the Rise of Naturalism, 1861-1864
    Dann Siems / Elizabeth E. Dunn / Marsha Driscoll
    Since its appearance in 1859, Darwin’s long-awaited treatise in 'genetic biology' had received reviews both favorable and damning. Thomas Huxley and Samuel Wilberforce presented arguments for and against the theory in a dramatic and widely publicized face-off at the 1860 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Oxford. Their encounter sparked a vigor...
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    39,24 €

  • Hot Spot
    Mary Engel
    How did Seattle become home to some of the world’s most influential infectious-diseases researchers? Hot Spot tells the story of young physician-scientists drawn to the 'off you go' spirit of the Pacific Northwest. A University of Washington researcher discovered scores of new sexually transmitted pathogens and created a widely copied 'Seattle model' to treat and prevent them. ...
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    16,02 €

  • Last Call
    Daniel R Altschuler
    This book tries to look at human thought and action from a scientific perspective, and in the process, acquaints the reader with essential concepts about science and its history. It takes a broad look at our present troubles without overlooking some crucial historical, religious, and political causes but places science at the center stage.The author applies what he has learned ...
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    71,64 €

  • Last Call
    Daniel R Altschuler
    This book tries to look at human thought and action from a scientific perspective, and in the process, acquaints the reader with essential concepts about science and its history. It takes a broad look at our present troubles without overlooking some crucial historical, religious, and political causes but places science at the center stage.The author applies what he has learned ...
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    48,39 €

  • Scientonomy
    During the so-called ’historical turn’ in the philosophy of science, philosophers and historians boldly argued for general patterns throughout the history of science. From Kuhn’s landmark 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' until the 'Scrutinizing Science' project led by Larry Laudan, there was optimism that there could be a general theoretical approach to understanding the p...
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    72,01 €

  • Alfred Russel Wallace
    Denise Carrington-Smith
    Wallace was a wonderful man...a man full of wonderEverything which took his interest, he studied as deeply as he could, yet, despite the growing recognition he received, he always remained quiet and humble. He was kind and generous, loyal, with a gentle sense of humour which enabled his expressions of grievance to be made without rancour.Wallace was acclaimed in his time as one...
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    21,23 €

  • Science on the Roof of the World
    Lachlan Fleetwood
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    127,89 €

  • The Beginning of the Path to Human Extinction, and HOW TO GET OFF IT - Notes on a Paradigm Shift
    Scott Haley
    This is a story involving you, me, everyone else in the world, all nonhuman life, our environment, science, and ecoethics.  As a species, we are beset by a Crisis which was decades in the making.  We don't have decades to correct the unprecedented mess we've made for ourselves.  Plus, some of the negative effects of that Crisis often are not readily visible.  With a lot...
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    12,67 €

  • Between Nature and Society
    Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
    This volume opens the readers’ eyes to the central role of materials in human societies and in the environment by telling the life stories of fifteen materials. In this rich collection of stories, materials are found at the complex interface between nature and society. They are not just atomic structures with a set of properties and behaviors. They capture the attention of nati...
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    120,19 €

  • George Adamski - Letters to Emma Martinelli
    George Adamski / Gerard Aartsen
    After his time with the Royal Order of Tibet in the 1930s George Adamski lived a life of relative obscurity before he rose to world fame as the first flying saucer contactee to come forward in 1952. Published here in full for the first time, George Adamski’s letters to his student Emma Martinelli, written between 1950 and 1952, shed light on this pivotal phase in his mission, a...
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    12,27 €

  • The Planet-Girded Suns
    Sylvia Engdahl
    Interest in exoplanets--the worlds of other stars--is not new. From the late 17th century until the end of the 19th, almost all educated people believed that the stars are suns surrounded by inhabited planets--a belief that was expressed not in science fiction, but in serious speculation, both scientific and religious, as well as in poetry. Only during the first half of the 20t...
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    13,86 €


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