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  • Hands Off My Food!
    Dr. Sina McCullough
    Americans have stopped being watchdogs over their own food supply. Roughly 100 years ago, with the birth of the FDA, we handed that responsibility over to the government and the food industry. They, in turn, have fundamentally transformed our food supply and it’s making us sick, including our children. Not only are we losing our health to food related illnesses like cancer and ...
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    11,29 €

  • Ancient Wisdom and Modern Misconceptions
    Wolfgang Smith
    In this book Wolfgang Smith shows how the physical sciences, freed from prevailing misconceptions, actually corroborate a traditional wisdom long thought to be dead. Basing himself in part upon epistemological considerations first enunciated by Sir Arthur Eddington, he shows that the so-called physical universe proves finally to be constructed by the strategies of the experimen...
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    15,71 €

  • Ancient Wisdom and Modern Misconceptions
    Wolfgang Smith
    In this book Wolfgang Smith shows how the physical sciences, freed from prevailing misconceptions, actually corroborate a traditional wisdom long thought to be dead. Basing himself in part upon epistemological considerations first enunciated by Sir Arthur Eddington, he shows that the so-called physical universe proves finally to be constructed by the strategies of the experimen...
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    27,88 €

  • Equal Natures
    Shalyn Claggett
    Explores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms of power. ...
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    44,61 €

  • The Birds of Dog
    Ann B. Parson
    The Birds of Dog opens in the early days of the Boston Society of Natural History and simmers with remarkable lost stories about America’s emerging fields of science and its first scientists. Catharine Pickering, a curator’s assistant, finds herself increasingly drawn to Nature’s treasures, especially birds, and more and more opposed to the 'kill-and-collect' methods of hunters...
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    17,90 €

  • Do I Know You?
    Sharrona Pearl
    A fascinating history of how we recognize faces--or fail to recognize them.In Do I Know You? Sharrona Pearl explores the fascinating category of face recognition and the 'the face recognition spectrum,' which ranges from face blindness at one end to super recognition at the other. Super recognizers can recall faces from only the briefest exposure, while face blind people lack t...
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    44,76 €

  • Beyond Versus
    James Tabery
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    43,82 €

  • 25 Inventos Accidentales - Historias Surpreendentes de Errores que Cambiaron el Mundo
    Mike Ciman
    25 inventos accidentales que, por error, cambiaron el mundo.Muchos de los inventos que utilizamos en nuestra vida cotidiana tienen su origen en momentos inesperados en los que científicos, ingenieros e inventores tropezaron con soluciones brillantes mientras perseguían otros objetivos.Desde la creación de la penicilina hasta el descubrimiento de los rayos X, pasando por los mic...
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    14,50 €

  • No Wisdom without Folly
    Danielle Losman
    This book is a biography of François Englert, the first Belgian Nobel Laureate in Physics. Jointly awarded to him and British physicist Peter Higgs, the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was celebrated for the understanding of the origin of massive particles in the emerging Universe, one of the most important breakthroughs in Physics in the second half of the 20th century.From his ch...
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    83,29 €

  • No Wisdom without Folly
    Danielle Losman
    This book is a biography of François Englert, the first Belgian Nobel Laureate in Physics. Jointly awarded to him and British physicist Peter Higgs, the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was celebrated for the understanding of the origin of massive particles in the emerging Universe, one of the most important breakthroughs in Physics in the second half of the 20th century.From his ch...
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    35,46 €

  • The Great Deep
    Shirley E Andersen
    Have you ever wondered about the circle inscribed on the face of the deep mentioned in the book of Proverbs? Or questioned the biblical account of creation and how it aligns with science as we know it today? The Great Deep explores all of these things and exposes secrets about human history in light of God’s Word--the filter for all wisdom and knowledge. This seminal book will ...
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    22,08 €

  • Energy
    Jean Pierre Fillard
    Energy has been both a driving force behind human civilizations and the source of so many conflicts and wars around the world. Today, it remains a major element which guides both economic and political decisions. Yet despite its huge influence on human life, energy remains an immense subject which is, in many ways, a purely abstract one to most of us; after all, nobody has actu...
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    58,30 €

  • Investigations into Bioactive Macrocyclic Peptides
    Balochi Ghana
    In 'Bioactive Macrocyclic Peptides Research,' Vidya Gunjal delves into the latest advancements and research in the field of bioactive macrocyclic peptides. The book provides an overview of the fundamental principles of macrocyclic peptides and focuses on the bioactive peptides, including Teixobactin, pseudoxylallemycin B, arthroamide, and fusaristatin C. The author begins by di...
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    24,92 €

  • In the Land of Marvels
    Paola Bertucci
    How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science.In 1749, the celebrated French physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet set out on a journey through Italy to solve an international controversy over the medical uses of electricity. At the end of his nine-month tour, he published a highly influential account ...
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    67,37 €

  • Maralinga Mystery
    Alan Parkinson
    Maralinga. A uniquely Australian tourist destination. A remote site in the State of South Australia where thousands of Service personnel, mainly British and Australian, witnessed the deliberate contamination of pristine Australian bush with plutonium. Maralinga, where Britain exploded 22 atomic bombs in the 1950s and 60s. 15 of those bombs were exploded in the infamous Vixen B ...
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    11,00 €

  • Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented.
    Basilius Valentinus / Daniel Cable
    Dieses klassische Buch wurde ursprünglich vor Jahrzehnten veröffentlicht als Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented. . Es wurde jetzt von Writat für seine deutschsprachigen Leser ins Deutsche übersetzt. Bei Writat liegt uns die Bewahrung...
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    16,92 €

  • Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented.
    Basilius Valentinus / Daniel Cable
    Ce livre classique a été initialement publié il y a des décennies sous le titre '' Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented. . Il a maintenant été traduit par Writat en langue française pour leurs lecteurs francophones. Chez Writat, nous s...
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    16,78 €

  • Spectacles and the Victorians
    Gemma Almond-Brown
    This book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption in medical and non-medical contexts shaped, and continues to shape, our understanding of sensory perception and the assimilation of assistive devices. ...
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    157,15 €

  • Global Rhetorics of Science
    Lynda C. Olman
    Takes a multicultural, interdisciplinary approach to the rhetoric of science to expand our toolkit for the collective management of global risks like climate change and pandemics. ...
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    126,99 €

  • The Enlightenment
    Billy Wellman
    Can you imagine how the world would be different today if there had been no Enlightenment era?The Age of Enlightenment, which lasted throughout the 18th century, brought about fundamental changes in people’s thinking and transformed the entire fabric of society.Even ordinary people began to question the entrenched beliefs and dogmas. They wanted education, justice, freedom, and...
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    20,17 €

  • A culture of curiosity
    Leonie Hannan
    This book reveals the eighteenth-century home as a site of emergence for science. By rejecting the limiting associations of ’domestic life’, this book re-imagines a culture of enquiry populated by apprentices and housewives as much as Fellows of the Royal Society. ...
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    157,26 €

  • Science, Prophecy, and Prediction; Man’s Efforts to Foretell the Future, From Babylon to Wall Street
    Richard 1894- Lewinsohn
    Science, Prophecy, and Prediction is a fascinating exploration of humanity’s attempts to predict the future. From ancient divination practices to modern scientific models, this book covers all aspects of prophesying. With engaging prose and insightful analysis, Science, Prophecy, and Prediction is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of science and the human quest f...
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    37,35 €

  • A Guide to the History of Science; a First Guide for the Study of the History of Science, With Introductory Essays on Science and Tradition
    George 1884-1956 Sarton
    Georges Sarton’s groundbreaking work is an essential guide for anyone interested in the history of science. The book explores the origins of scientific thought and the development of scientific knowledge across the ages. With introductory essays on the nature of science and its relationship to tradition, this book is an insightful and thought-provoking read.This work has been s...
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    37,36 €

  • The Scientific Revolution 1500 1800
    A.R. Hall
    A.R. Hall offers a comprehensive overview of the Scientific Revolution, from the early developments in astronomy and physics to the birth of modern chemistry and biology. He explores the intellectual and cultural contexts of this transformative period in human history.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civ...
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    41,58 €

  • Science, Prophecy, and Prediction; Man’s Efforts to Foretell the Future, From Babylon to Wall Street
    Richard 1894- Lewinsohn
    Science, Prophecy, and Prediction is a fascinating exploration of humanity’s attempts to predict the future. From ancient divination practices to modern scientific models, this book covers all aspects of prophesying. With engaging prose and insightful analysis, Science, Prophecy, and Prediction is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of science and the human quest f...
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    26,02 €

  • The Life Of Science
    George. Sarton
    This work by George Sarton is an engaging look into the history of science and scientific thought from ancient civilizations to modern times. It explores the great thinkers and discoveries that have shaped our understanding of the natural world, and provides insight into the scientific process itself. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of science or the developmen...
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    35,64 €

  • College Physics
    John A Eldridge
    An introductory textbook on college-level physics, covering topics such as mechanics, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, ...
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    47,08 €

  • The Scientific Revolution 1500 1800
    A.R. Hall
    A.R. Hall offers a comprehensive overview of the Scientific Revolution, from the early developments in astronomy and physics to the birth of modern chemistry and biology. He explores the intellectual and cultural contexts of this transformative period in human history.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civ...
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    27,94 €

  • A Guide to the History of Science; a First Guide for the Study of the History of Science, With Introductory Essays on Science and Tradition
    George 1884-1956 Sarton
    Georges Sarton’s groundbreaking work is an essential guide for anyone interested in the history of science. The book explores the origins of scientific thought and the development of scientific knowledge across the ages. With introductory essays on the nature of science and its relationship to tradition, this book is an insightful and thought-provoking read.This work has been s...
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    26,03 €

  • The Life Of Science
    George. Sarton
    This work by George Sarton is an engaging look into the history of science and scientific thought from ancient civilizations to modern times. It explores the great thinkers and discoveries that have shaped our understanding of the natural world, and provides insight into the scientific process itself. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of science or the developmen...
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    23,16 €


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