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Quantum Legacies Dispatches from an Uncertain World
ISBN: HB: 9780226698052, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
360 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 47 halftones
The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel through walls; cats suspended in zombielike states, neither alive nor dead; and twinned particles that s...
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£21,00
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Groovy Science Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture
ISBN: PB: 9780226372914, ISBN: HB: 9780226372884, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 2 tables
In his 1969 book "The Making of a Counterculture", Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science "as if from a place inhabited by plague", and even seeking "subversion of the scientific worldview" itself. Roszak's view has...
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£20,00
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£52,50
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Science and the American Century Readings from "Isis"
ISBN: PB: 9780226925141, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
488 pp., 25.4x17 cm, 59 halftones, 10 line illus.
The twentieth century was one of astonishing change in science, especially as pursued in the United States. Against a backdrop of dramatic political and economic shifts brought by world wars, intermittent depressions, sporadic and occasionally massiv...
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£25,50
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