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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 €

  • 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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    50,41 €

  • Canulars, fraudes et supercheries scientifiques
    Alma
    Plongez dans un voyage captivant à travers les méandres de l'histoire scientifique, où les tromperies, les fraudes et les canulars ont parfois éclipsé la vérité et semé le doute dans l'esprit des chercheurs et du grand public. Dans "Canulars, fraudes et supercheries scientifiques", nous explorons les plus grands tours de passe-passe, les fraudes spectaculaires et les ca...
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    9,31 €

  • The Logic of Scientific Discovery
    Karl R. Popper
    2024 Hardcover Reprint of Original 1959 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This book by one of the world’s foremost philosophers of science presented a striking new picture of the logical character of scientific discovery--a picture which does full justice to the liberating effect of the Einsteinian revolution in ...
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    42,44 €

  • A Historical Account of Useful Inventions and Scientific Discoveries
    George Grant
    'A Historical Account of Useful Inventions and Scientific Discoveries' by George Grant is a captivating nonfiction exploration of human ingenuity. Grant, a renowned scholar and historian, takes readers on a fascinating journey through the annals of scientific progress. With meticulous research and engaging prose, he chronicles the evolution of innovation from ancient civilizati...
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    14,48 €

  • Science and the Modern World
    Alfred North Whitehead
    2024 Reprint of the 1925 Edition.  Originally published in 1925, Alfred North Whitehead’s Science and the Modern World was a groundbreaking and important book that redefined the concept of modern science. In emphasizing the position of science as a culturally connected activity, Whitehead anticipated arguments that would come to dominate the philosophy of science in the latter ...
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    14,88 €

  • Osservazioni intorno alle vipere
    Francesco Redi
    Redi, con l’aiuto di una penna affilata, rompe gli schemi del suo tempo, sfidando le tradizione aristotelica e ponendo delle solide basi per la nascita della biologia sperimentale. In un connubio di rigore scientifico e eloquenza poetica, l’autore ci conduce attraverso un intricato labirinto di miti e leggende, illuminando la verità con la luce della ragione.  ...
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    20,42 €

  • The Lost Scientists of World War II
    David C Clary
    This book tells the stories of scientists from Germany and other European countries who vanished during World War II. These erudite scholars contributed to diverse scientific fields and were associated with some of the world’s leading universities and research institutions. Despite their proficiency, they all sought help from agencies to relocate to the UK in the 1930s, but wer...
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    117,71 €

  • The Lost Scientists of World War II
    David C Clary
    This book tells the stories of scientists from Germany and other European countries who vanished during World War II. These erudite scholars contributed to diverse scientific fields and were associated with some of the world’s leading universities and research institutions. Despite their proficiency, they all sought help from agencies to relocate to the UK in the 1930s, but wer...
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    45,28 €

  • Predicting the Eclipse
    Stephen Wolfram
    Total eclipses of the Sun are rare and dramatic--and on April 8, 2024, one will cross the US. But when exactly will it happen? In this short but richly illustrated book, prominent scientist and computation pioneer Stephen Wolfram tells the triumphant and hard-won story--spanning more than two thousand years--of how science, mathematics and computation have brought us to the poi...
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    13,52 €

  • Capturing Glaciers
    Dani Inkpen
    Photographs do not simply speak for themselves. Their meanings are built through interpretive frameworks that shift over time. Today, photographs of receding glaciers are one of the most well recognized visualizations of human-caused climate change. These images, captured through repeat photography, have become effective with an unambiguous message: global warming is happening,...
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    38,14 €

  • The Advance Of Science
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    In ’The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century’, written in 1887, Thomas Henry Huxley explores the scientific and technological advancements of the previous fifty years, comparing them to the progress of earlier eras. Despite being written over a century ago, Huxley’s philosophy of science still holds relevance and offers valuable insights. Huxley delves into the advanceme...
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    9,36 €

  • Rough Ways Made Smooth
    Richard A. Proctor
    Rough Ways Made Smooth: A series of familiar essays on scientific subjects, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been r...
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    26,96 €

  • Wissenschaftliche Revolution Vereinfacht
    Dr Samuel James
    Übung; es ist entscheidend für das Verständnis der Komplexitäten aktueller Debatten in Wissenschaft, Technologie und Ethik. Auch wenn die wissenschaftliche Forschung im 21. Jahrhundert weiterhin Grenzen verschiebt, bleiben die während der Wissenschaftlichen Revolution aufgeworfenen Fragen zur Rolle der Wissenschaft, ihren Grenzen und ethischen Implikationen relevant. Dieses Buc...
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    22,42 €

  • Revolução Científica Simplificada
    Dr Samuel James
    Entender a Revolução Científica não é apenas um exercício acadêmico; é crucial para compreender as complexidades dos debates atuais em ciência, tecnologia e ética. Mesmo enquanto a pesquisa científica continua a ultrapassar fronteiras no século XXI, as questões levantadas durante a Revolução Científica sobre o papel da ciência, suas limitações e suas implicações éticas permanec...
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    16,68 €

  • Laws of the Land
    Tristan G. Brown
    A groundbreaking history of fengshui’s roles in public life and law during China’s last imperial dynastyToday the term fengshui, which literally means “wind and water,” is recognized around the world. Yet few know exactly what it means, let alone its fascinating history. In Laws of the Land, Tristan Brown tells the story of the important roles—especially legal ones—played by fe...
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    57,11 €

  • FIRST AND LAST THINGS A CONFESSION OF FAITH AND RULE OF LIFE
    Wells H.G.
    'First and Last Things' is a political portray by using the well-known British author H.G. Wells. Wells is going deep into a number of special topics on this series of essays, asking important questions about life, human beings, and the sector. People frequently praise the writer for his work in science fiction, however in this piece, he moves far away from his memories to disc...
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    13,75 €

  • 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 €

  • A Brief History of Mathematics for Curious Minds
    Krzysztof R Apt
    This book offers a short and accessible account of the history of mathematics, written for the intelligent layman to gain a better appreciation of its beauty, relevance, and place in history. It traces the development of the subject throughout the centuries, starting with the so-called Lebombo bone, the oldest known mathematical object that was estimated to be at least 43,000 y...
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    83,06 €

  • A Brief History of Mathematics for Curious Minds
    Krzysztof R Apt
    This book offers a short and accessible account of the history of mathematics, written for the intelligent layman to gain a better appreciation of its beauty, relevance, and place in history. It traces the development of the subject throughout the centuries, starting with the so-called Lebombo bone, the oldest known mathematical object that was estimated to be at least 43,000 y...
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    47,53 €

  • 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 €

  • The Sky Is for Everyone
    An inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing women astronomers from around the globeThe Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical essays by women who broke down barriers and changed the face of modern astronomy. Virginia Trimble and David Weintraub vividly describe how, before 1900, a woman who wanted to study the stars had to have a...
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    25,56 €

  • 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 €


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