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Power, Knowledge, and Covid-19: The Making of a Scientific Orthodoxy

Power, Knowledge, and Covid-19: The Making of a Scientific...

Author: Alex Broadbent (Durham University) ,  Pieter Streicher (University of Johannesburg and Durham University)
ISBN: 9781041224853
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Power, Knowledge, and Covid-19: The Making of a Scientific Orthodoxy shows, step by step, how a dominant scientific...  Read More >>

Ethics and Professionalism in Forensic Anthropology

Ethics and Professionalism in Forensic Anthropology...

Author: Nicholas V. Passalacqua ,  Marin A. Pilloud
ISBN: 9781683405726
Format: Hardback
$208.00

This book provides discussion and case studies of ethical best practices for the discipline of forensic anthropology,...  Read More >>

So Very Small: How humans discovered germs, uncovered infectious diseases, and deluded themselves that we had conquered them

So Very Small: How humans discovered germs, uncovered...

Author: Thomas Levenson
ISBN: 9781800249080
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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The Shape of Things Unseen: A New Science of Imagination

The Shape of Things Unseen: A New Science of Imagination...

Author: Adam Zeman
ISBN: 9781526609748
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A compelling insight into how our imagination works, based on the latest scientific research.  Read More >>

A Brief History of the Universe (and our place in it)

A Brief History of the Universe (and our place in it)...

Author: Sarah Alam Malik
ISBN: 9781398539990
Format: Paperback
$36.99

A beautifully written and accessible history of humanity’s attempts to understand our place in the cosmos.  Read More >>

Against the Odds: Women Pioneers of Science

Against the Odds: Women Pioneers of Science

Author: John Gribbin & Mary Gribbin ,  Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
ISBN: 9781837731329
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Even in the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is still harder for women to make a career in science than...  Read More >>

The Art of the ""What-If?"": In 17 Science Fiction Tales from the Past

The Art of the ""What-If?"": In 17 Science Fiction Tales...

Author: Paul J. Nahin
ISBN: 9783032156174
Format: Paperback
$59.49

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The Sexual Evolution: How 500 million years of sex, gender and mating shape modern relationships

The Sexual Evolution: How 500 million years of sex,...

Author: Nathan H. Lents
ISBN: 9781837261215
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A perspective-altering journey through the history of sexuality and gender across the animal kingdom by forensic...  Read More >>

Beyond the Hype: A Realist's Guide To AI

Beyond the Hype: A Realist's Guide To AI

Author: Andy Hayler
ISBN: 9781919241920
Format: Paperback
$50.13

A practical, evidence-based guide to how artificial intelligence really works, why so many AI projects fail, and...  Read More >>

A Brief History of the Universe (and our place in it)

A Brief History of the Universe (and our place in it)...

Author: Sarah Alam Malik
ISBN: 9781398539983
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A beautifully written and accessible history of humanity’s attempts to understand our place in the cosmos.  Read More >>

In Search of Now: The Science and Mystery of the Present Moment

In Search of Now: The Science and Mystery of the Present...

Author: Jo Marchant
ISBN: 9781838858735
Format: Hardback
$45.00

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The Longest Experiment

The Longest Experiment

Author: Antonio Pascarella
ISBN: 9798999985590
Format: Hardback
$145.07

The Longest Experiment examines what happens when scientific knowledge advances without resolution, and institutions...  Read More >>

The Perils and Promises of Prediction in the Natural Sciences: Historical and Epistemological Perspectives

The Perils and Promises of Prediction in the Natural...

Author: Theodore Arabatzis ,  Stathis Arapostathis
ISBN: 9783032117052
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book provides a novel approach to a key topic in the history and philosophy of science, the role and status...  Read More >>

Digital Archives of Science: Revisiting the Vestiges of Knowledge-Making

Digital Archives of Science: Revisiting the Vestiges...

Author: Alina Volynskaya
ISBN: 9783119148221
Format: Hardback
$145.17

The archive of science is a place where scientific practices are sedimented in the form of drafts, protocols of...  Read More >>

The Development of Newton's Principia During 1685: A Variorum Translation of De motu Corporum, Liber Secundus

The Development of Newton's Principia During 1685: A...

Author: George E. Smith ,  Riccardo Strobino
ISBN: 9783032150561
Format: Hardback
$527.97

This book provides the first variorum translation into English of Isaac Newton’s De motu corporum in gyrum, from...  Read More >>

Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves into a State of Emergency

Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves into a State...

Author: Megan Garber
ISBN: 9781035430468
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A snappy, sharp and urgent look at what happens when we cede our reality to entertainment at any cost -- for fans...  Read More >>

Reaching for the Extreme: How the Quest for the Biggest, Fewest and Weirdest Makes Maths

Reaching for the Extreme: How the Quest for the Biggest,...

Author: Professor Ian Stewart
ISBN: 9781805221593
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A journey through some of mathematics' prickliest conundrums - and why they matter  Read More >>

Intoxicated Ways of Knowing: The Untold Story of Intoxicants and the Biological Subject in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Intoxicated Ways of Knowing: The Untold Story of Intoxicants...

Author: Matthew Perkins-McVey
ISBN: 9780226846132
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Argues that intoxication was fundamental to German physiological, psychological, and psychiatric research during...  Read More >>

Island in the Net: Digital Culture in Post-Castro Cuba

Island in the Net: Digital Culture in Post-Castro Cuba...

Author: Steffen Köhn
ISBN: 9780691273143
Format: Paperback
$57.99

An exploration of Cuba's emerging digital culture and Cubans' creation of grassroots networks, digital black markets,...  Read More >>

Why Translate Science?: Documents from Antiquity to the 16th Century in the Historical West (Bactria to the Atlantic)

Why Translate Science?: Documents from Antiquity to...

Author: Dimitri Gutas
ISBN: 9789004760899
Format: Paperback
$234.96

A collection of documents from antiquity to the 16th century in the historical West (Bactria to the Atlantic), in...  Read More >>

Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves into a State of Emergency

Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves into a State...

Author: Megan Garber
ISBN: 9781035430451
Format: Hardback
$55.00

A snappy, sharp and urgent look at what happens when we cede our reality to entertainment at any cost -- for fans...  Read More >>

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