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Herbs and Roots A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace
ISBN: HB: 9780300243611, Yale University Press, January 2020
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.
Chinese medicine has a long history in the United States, with written records dating back to the American colonial period. In this intricately crafted history, Tamara Venit Shelton chronicles the dynamic systems of knowledge, therapies, and materia...
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£28,00
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How Knowledge Moves Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology
ISBN: PB: 9780226605999, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
Knowledge matters, and states have a stake in managing its movement to protect a variety of local and national interests. The view that knowledge circulates by itself in a flat world, unimpeded by national boundaries, is a myth. The transnational mov...
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£30,00
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Helmholtz A Life in Science
ISBN: HB: 9780226481142, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
944 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 40 halftones
Hermann von Helmholtz was a towering figure of nineteenth-century scientific and intellectual life. Best known for his achievements in physiology and physics, he also contributed to other disciplines such as ophthalmology, psychology, mathematics, ch...
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£41,00
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House of Lost Worlds Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth
ISBN: PB: 9780300226928, Yale University Press, June 2017
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 97 colour illus.
This fascinating book tells the story of how one museum changed ideas about dinosaurs, dynasties, and even the story of life on earth. The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, now celebrating its 150th anniversary, has remade the way we see the wo...
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£16,99
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Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science
ISBN: PB: 9780226422336, ISBN: HB: 9780226164878, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
During the Victorian period, the practice of science shifted from a religious context to a naturalistic one. It is generally assumed that this shift occurred because naturalistic science was distinct from and superior to theistic science. As Huxley's...
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£22,00
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£36,00
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History Within The Science, Culture, and Politics of Bones, Organisms, and Molecules
ISBN: HB: 9780226347325, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 6 line drawings
Personal genomics services such as 23andMe and Ancestry. com now offer what once was science fiction: the ability to sequence and analyze an individual's entire genetic code – promising, in some cases, facts about that individual's ancestry that may...
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£40,00
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How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
ISBN: PB: 9780226324159, ISBN: HB: 9780226046631, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 17 line drawings
In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top milita...
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£16,00
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£31,00
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Halle Orphanage as Scientific Community Observation, Eclecticism, and Pietism in the Early Enlightenment
ISBN: HB: 9780226243771, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones
Founded around 1700 by a group of German Lutherans known as Pietists, the Halle Orphanage became the institutional headquarters of a universal seminar that still stands largely intact today. It was the base of an educational, charitable, and scientif...
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£32,00
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Hawking Incorporated Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject
ISBN: PB: 9780226522289, ISBN: HB: 9780226522265, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones
These days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality, as we are all, in one way or another, constantly connected, extended, wired, and dispersed in and through technology. One wonders where the individual, the pe...
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£26,50
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£78,00
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Histories of Scientific Observation
ISBN: PB: 9780226136783, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
480 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 5 colour illus.
Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the naked senses but also tools such as the telescope and microscope, the questionnaire, the photographic...
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£25,50
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