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Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History by Lynn Gamwell 9780691165288
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £49.44This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understand the physical world they see before them and the... -
The Early Writings of Bronislaw Malinowski by Robert J. Thornton
Booksplease Price: £32.12Bronislaw Malinowski, born and educated in Poland, helped to establish British social anthropology. His classic monographs on the Trobriand Islanders were published between 1922 and 1935, when he was... -
Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: Problems, Perspectives, and Case Studies by Friedrich Stadler 9783319532578
Booksplease Price: £81.46This book features papers on the history and philosophy of science. It also includes related reviews of recent research literature on Rudolf Carnap, Eino Kaila, Ernst Mach, and Otto Neurath. The... -
![The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity", Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein's Masterpiece by Hanoch Gutfreund 9780691162539](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2086665/2086122/9780691162539__29504.1708751173.jpg?c=1 "The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity", Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein's Masterpiece by Hanoch Gutfreund 9780691162539")
The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity", Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein's Masterpiece by Hanoch Gutfreund 9780691162539
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.60This richly annotated facsimile edition of "The Foundation of General Relativity" introduces a new generation of readers to Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation. Written in 1915, this remarkable... -
The Early Writings of Bronislaw Malinowski by Robert J. Thornton 9780521383004
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.44Bronislaw Malinowski, born and educated in Poland, helped to establish British social anthropology. His classic monographs on the Trobriand Islanders were published between 1922 and 1935, when he was... -
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 15 (Translation Supplement): The Berlin Years: Writings & Correspondence, June 1925-May 1927 by Albert Einstein 9780691178820
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.95A translation of selected non-English texts included in Volume 15 is available in paperback. Since this supplementary paperback includes only select portions of Volume 15, it is not recommended for... -
![The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity", Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein's Masterpiece by Hanoch Gutfreund 9780691175812](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2188838/2188190/9780691175812__10143.1709437822.jpg?c=1 "The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity", Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein's Masterpiece by Hanoch Gutfreund 9780691175812")
The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity", Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein's Masterpiece by Hanoch Gutfreund 9780691175812
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.87This richly annotated facsimile edition of "The Foundation of General Relativity" introduces a new generation of readers to Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation. Written in 1915, this remarkable... -
Josef Schächter's Philosophical Writings and Documents in the Context of the Vienna Circle: During and After the Second World War Esther Heinrich-Ramharter 9783031701726
Booksplease Price: £112.12This book contains a selection of texts written by the Rabbi and Vienna Circle member Josef Schachter after his emigration to Palestine/Israel. These are the most relevant of those texts dealing with... -
Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture by Peter L. Galison 9780691177908
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32More than fifty years after his death, Albert Einstein's vital engagement with the world continues to inspire others, spurring conversations, projects, and research, in the sciences as well as the... -
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 5 (English): The Swiss Years: Correspondence, 1902-1914. (English translation supplement) by Albert Einstein 9780691000992
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.45Every document in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein appears in the language in which it was written, and supplementary paperback volumes present the English translations if all non-English... -
The Vienna Circle in Czechoslovakia by Radek Schuster 9783030363857
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book explores the remarkable interconnections of the Czechoslovak environment and the work and legacy of the Vienna Circle on the philosophical, scientific and artistic level. The Czech lands... -
The Wreckage of Philosophy: Carlo Michelstaedter and the Limits of Bourgeois Thought by Mimmo Cangiano 9781487504649
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.50The work of Carlo Michelstaedter (1887-1910) was the first to analyze modernist philosophy in strict connection with social changes in mass society. Revealing how Michelstaedter was able to unveil... -
Imitation of Rigor: An Alternative History of Analytic Philosophy by Mark Wilson 9780192896469
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.92J.L. Austin has written of "the blinding veil of ease and obviousness that hides the mechanisms of the natural successful act". By revisiting a classic "small metaphysics" puzzle drawn from physics... -
Essays in History & Philosophy of Science by Roger Ariew 9780872203082
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Here, for the first time in English, are the philosophical essays-including the first statement of the "Duhem Thesis"-that formed the basis for Aim and Structure of Physical Theory, together with new... -
Selected Papers on Language and the Brain by N. Geschwind 9789027702630
Booksplease Price: £91.68Philosophers of science work not only with the methods of the sciences but with their contents as well. Substantive issues concerning the relation between mind and matter, between the material basis... -
Frontiers of Physics: 1900-1911: Selected Essays by Miller 9780817632038
Booksplease Price: £46.28P. W. Bridgman and the Special Theory oj Relativity Ey W. Bridgman wrote A S,phi,ticati< him" (1962) for the reader "who feels the need to stand back a little for a critical scrutiny of what he has... -
Selected Papers on Language and the Brain by N. Geschwind 9789027702623
Booksplease Price: £92.96Philosophers of science work not only with the methods of the sciences but with their contents as well. Substantive issues concerning the relation between mind and matter, between the material basis... -
Quantum Theory and Reality by M. Bunge 9783642880285
Booksplease Price: £90.56The Tum of the Tide During centuries physicists were supposed to be studying the physical world. Since the turn of the century this assumption has often been challenged as naive: it was proclaimed... -
The Law of Causality and Its Limits by Philipp Frank 9789401063234
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £80.72The Law of Causality and its Limits was the principal philosophical work of the physicist turned philosopher, Philipp Frank. Born in Vienna on March 20, 1884, Frank died in Cambridge, Massachusetts... -
The Law of Causality and Its Limits by Philipp Frank 9780792345510
Booksplease Price: £90.86The Law of Causality and its Limits was the principal philosophical work of the physicist turned philosopher, Philipp Frank. Born in Vienna on March 20, 1884, Frank died in Cambridge, Massachusetts... -
Radical Behaviorism and Cultural Analysis by Kester Carrara 9783319743004
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book shows how the three-term contingency paradigm created by B.F. Skinner can be applied to describe and explain cultural practices phenomena produced by complex relations between behavior and... -
On the Riddle of Life: A Historico-Logical Study of Vitalism by Bohang Chen 9783031706899
Booksplease Price: £111.03This book presents a historico-logical study of vitalism. It begins by uncovering previously unknown doctrines of vitalism from the history of science-encompassing biological, physical, and social... -
Radical Behaviorism and Cultural Analysis by Kester Carrara 9783030089597
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book shows how the three-term contingency paradigm created by B.F. Skinner can be applied to describe and explain cultural practices phenomena produced by complex relations between behavior and... -
Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics by Lawrence Sklar
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.06Although now replaced by more modern theories, classical mechanics remains a core foundational element of physical theory. From its inception, the theory of dynamics has been riddled with conceptual... -
Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics by Lawrence Sklar 9780521888196
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93Although now replaced by more modern theories, classical mechanics remains a core foundational element of physical theory. From its inception, the theory of dynamics has been riddled with conceptual... -
Early German Positivism Frederick C. Beiser 9780198927259
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £74.25In Early German Positivism, Frederick C. Beiser explores a much neglected or forgotten period of the history of philosophy: the history of German positivism from 1860 to 1907. Almost all studies of... -
Engendering Migration Journey: Identity, Ethnicity and Gender of Thai Migrant Women in Hong Kong by Herbary Cheung 9783031159770
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20Drawing on ethnographic research conducted with the Thai migrant community in Hong Kong between 2016 and 2020, this book provides original insights into the complexity and diversity of identity... -
The Vienna Circle in Czechoslovakia by Radek Schuster 9783030363826
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book explores the remarkable interconnections of the Czechoslovak environment and the work and legacy of the Vienna Circle on the philosophical, scientific and artistic level. The Czech lands... -
ISCS 2013: Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems by Ali Sanayei 9783642454370
Booksplease Price: £90.86The book you hold in your hands is the outcome of the "ISCS 2013: Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems" held at the historical capital of Bohemia as a continuation of our series... -
Women and Violence in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 1100-1500 Lidia L. Zanetti Domingues 9780367565763
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This pioneering work explores the theme of women and violence in the late medieval Mediterranean, bringing together medievalists of different specialties and methodologies to offer readers an updated... -
The Disappearance of the Soul and the Turn against Metaphysics: Austrian Philosophy 1874-1918 by Mark Textor 9780198769828
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.08In the twentieth century English-language philosophy came to be science- and logic-oriented, and was suspicious of metaphysics. The Disappearance of the Soul and the Turn against Metaphysics traces... -
Plasma Gasification and Pyrolysis by Milan Hrabovsky 9780367562304
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51Currently, the most widely used treatment of waste is thermal processing, such as incineration. However, thermal plasma technologies offer alternative, cutting-edge, and environmentally friendly... -
The Vienna Circle in the Nordic Countries.: Networks and Transformations of Logical Empiricism by Juha Manninen 9789400730625
Booksplease Price: £92.92The rise of scientific (analytic) philosophy since the turn of the twentieth century is linked to the philosophical interaction between, on the one hand, Ernst Mach, the Vienna Circle around Moritz... -
Computational Multiscale Modeling of Fluids and Solids: Theory and Applications by Martin Steinhauser 9783642094408
Booksplease Price: £102.50Devastatingly simple, yet hugely effective, the concept of this timely text is to provide a comprehensive overview of computational physics methods and techniques used for materials modeling on... -
Mary B. Hesse (1924 - 2016): Metaphors, Models, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge Pietro Gori 9783031951541
Booksplease Price: £111.03This volume explores the work of Mary B. Hesse (1924-2016), a pivotal figure in twentieth-century philosophy of science. At a time when the foundations of an integrated approach to the history and... -
Patterns of Change: Linguistic Innovations in the Development of Classical Mathematics by Ladislav Kvasz 9783764388393
Booksplease Price: £90.86Kvasz's book is a contribution to the history and philosophy of mat- matics, or, as one might say, the historical approach to the philosophy of mathematics. This approach is for mathematics what the... -
Ether and Modernity: The recalcitrance of an epistemic object in the early twentieth century by Jaume Navarro 9780198797258
Booksplease Price: £108.22Ether and Modernity offers a snapshot of the status of an epistemic object, the "ether" (or "aether"), in the early twentieth century. The contributed papers show that the ether was often regarded as... -
Logischer Empirismus, Lebensreform und die Deutsche Jugendbewegung: Logical Empiricism, Life Reform, and the German Youth Movement by Christian Damboeck 9783030848866
Booksplease Price: £46.28This open-access book is the first to investigate the roots of Logical Empiricism in the context of the Life Reform and the German Youth Movements. Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach are the key... -
The Vienna Circle in the Nordic Countries.: Networks and Transformations of Logical Empiricism by Jutta Manninen 9789048136827
Booksplease Price: £90.86The rise of scientific (analytic) philosophy since the turn of the twentieth century is linked to the philosophical interaction between, on the one hand, Ernst Mach, the Vienna Circle around Moritz... -
History, Philosophy and Science Teaching: New Perspectives by Michael R. Matthews 9783319626147
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.42This anthology opens new perspectives in the domain of history, philosophy, and science teaching research. Its four sections are: first, science, culture and education; second, the teaching and...