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Western Perceptions Of Soviet Goals: Is Trust Possible? by Klaus Gottstein 9780367216191
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €48.72This study investigates Western views on the potential future developments in the U.S.S.R. It traces the facts, figures, fears and ideological prejudices that have contributed to the mutual mistrust... -
Hidden Powers: Lise Meitner's Call to Science Jeannine Atkins 9781665902519
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07From the acclaimed author of Finding Wonders and Grasping Mysteries comes a gorgeously written biography in "deliberate, delicate verse" (Kirkus Reviews) about the pioneering Jewish woman physicist... -
Closed Loop Neuroscience by Ahmed El Hady 9780128024522
RRP: €103.53Booksplease Price: €94.50Closed Loop Neuroscience addresses the technical aspects of closed loop neurophysiology, presenting the implementation of these approaches spanning several domains of neuroscience, from cellular and... -
The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas by Charles Coulston Gillispie 9780691172521
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.89Originally published in 1960, The Edge of Objectivity helped to establish the history of science as a full-fledged academic discipline. In the mid-1950s, a young professor at Princeton named Charles... -
Interstellar Magnetic Fields: Observation and Theory Proceedings of a Workshop, Held at Scholss Ringberg, Tegernsee, September 8-12, 1986 by Rainer Beck 9783642726231
Booksplease Price: €55.07The subject of interstellar magnetic fields is of increasing interest to both observational and theoretical astronomers. Consequently, it was opportune for both groups to convene and discuss the... -
Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science by Jimena Canales
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.47How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities-demons-to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible Science may be known for... -
Chimpanzee Culture Wars: Rethinking Human Nature alongside Japanese, European, and American Cultural Primatologists by Nicolas Langlitz
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €28.19The first ethnographic exploration of the contentious debate over whether nonhuman primates are capable of cultureIn the 1950s, Japanese zoologists took note when a number of macaques invented and... -
The European Foundation: A New Legal Approach by Klaus J. Hopt 9780521863339
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €55.44The European Commission is already preparing the future framework of not-for-profit organizations which will be available to Europeans. The aim of the European Foundation Project is to develop the... -
Chimpanzee Culture Wars: Rethinking Human Nature alongside Japanese, European, and American Cultural Primatologists by Nicolas Langlitz 9780691204277
RRP: €130.90Booksplease Price: €102.49The first ethnographic exploration of the contentious debate over whether nonhuman primates are capable of cultureIn the 1950s, Japanese zoologists took note when a number of macaques invented and... -
Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science by Jimena Canales 9780691241685
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €22.46How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities-demons-to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible Science may be known for... -
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time by Jimena Canales 9780691173177
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.82On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with... -
Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric: The Love Letters by Albert Einstein
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.29In 1903, despite the vehement objections of his parents, Albert Einstein married Mileva Maric, the companion, colleague, and confidante whose influence on his most creative years has given rise to... -
Ptolemy's Philosophy: Mathematics as a Way of Life by Jacqueline Feke 9780691210391
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.00A stimulating intellectual history of Ptolemy's philosophy and his conception of a world in which mathematics reigns supremeThe Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most... -
Regulating the Closed Corporation by Gregor Bachmann 9783110286434
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €77.11The renowned authors of this ECFR special volume systematically develop legal standards and regulatory frameworks for closed corporations in Europe (including of course the Societas Privata... -
The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India by Peter van der Veer
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €28.19The Modern Spirit of Asia challenges the notion that modernity in China and India are derivative imitations of the West, arguing that these societies have transformed their ancient traditions in... -
Innovators: 16 Visionary Scientists and Their Struggle for Recognition—From Galileo to Barbara McClintock and Rachel Carson by Donald R. Kirsch 9781956763393
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €18.45Scientific breakthroughs that changed the way we understand the world-and the fascinating stories of the scientists behind them Some of the most significant breakthroughs in science don't receive... -
Einstein's German World: New Edition by Fritz Stern 9780691171302
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.47The French political philosopher Raymond Aron once observed that the twentieth century "could have been Germany's century." In 1900, the country was Europe's preeminent power, its material strength... -
Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century by Helge Kragh
Booksplease Price: €74.04At the end of the nineteenth century, some physicists believed that the basic principles underlying their subject were already known, and that physics in the future would only consist of filling in... -
Enforcement of Patents on Geographically Divisible Inventions: An Inquiry into the Standard of Substantive Patent Law Infringement in Cross-Border Constellations by Agnieszka Kupzok 9783631655573
RRP: €95.32Booksplease Price: €84.82This work investigates the challenges of enforcement of patent rights in geographically divisible inventions. It considers aspects of technological progress which pose challenges to the established... -
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge by Abraham Flexner 9780691174761
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.70A short, provocative book about why "useless" science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughs A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that... -
Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb by Albert Einstein 9780691160207
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.65The most famous scientist of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein was also one of the century's most outspoken political activists. Deeply engaged with the events of his tumultuous times, from the... -
Multi-Wavelength Studies of Pulsars and Their Companions by John Antoniadis 9783319098968
Booksplease Price: €107.77The focus of his prize-winning thesis is on observations and modeling of binary millisecond pulsars. But in addition, John Antoniadis covers a wide range of observational measurements of binary... -
Encounters with Einstein: And Other Essays on People, Places, and Particles by Werner Heisenberg
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.90In nine essays and lectures composed in the last years of his life, Werner Heisenberg offers a bold appraisal of the scientific method in the twentieth century--and relates its philosophical impact... -
Surface and Interfacial Forces by Hans-Jurgen Butt 9783527341658
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €76.96A general introduction to surface and interfacial forces, perfectly combining theoretical concepts, experimental techniques and practical applications. In this completely updated edition all the... -
Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Organic Solvents: Synthesis, Formation, Assembly and Application by M. Niederberger 9781447125099
RRP: €154.69Booksplease Price: €133.42Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Organic Solvents discusses recent advances in the chemistry involved for the controlled synthesis and assembly of metal oxide nanoparticles, the characterizations... -
Multi-Wavelength Studies of Pulsars and Their Companions by John Antoniadis 9783319384955
Booksplease Price: €109.80The focus of his prize-winning thesis is on observations and modeling of binary millisecond pulsars. But in addition, John Antoniadis covers a wide range of observational measurements of binary... -
Einstein in Bohemia by Professor Michael D. Gordin 9780691177373
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.82A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in PragueIn the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a... -
The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Albert Einstein
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.83This is the definitive edition of the hugely popular collection of Einstein quotations that has sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide and been translated into twenty-five languages. The... -
The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Albert Einstein 9780691138176
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.65Here is the definitive new edition of the hugely popular collection of Einstein quotations that has sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide and been translated into twenty-five languages. The... -
Einstein Before Israel: Zionist Icon or Iconoclast? by Ze'ev Rosenkranz 9780691144122
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.95Albert Einstein was initially skeptical and even disdainful of the Zionist movement, yet he affiliated himself with this controversial political ideology and today is widely seen as an outspoken... -
The Borderlands of South Sudan: Authority and Identity in Contemporary and Historical Perspectives by C. Vaughan 9781349464982
Booksplease Price: €55.07Moving beyond the current fixation on "state construction," the interdisciplinary work gathered here explores regulatory authority in South Sudan's borderlands from both contemporary and historical... -
Einstein on Einstein: Autobiographical and Scientific Reflections by Jurgen Renn 9780691183602
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €39.41New perspectives on the iconic physicist's scientific and philosophical formationAt the end of World War II, Albert Einstein was invited to write his intellectual autobiography for the Library of... -
Heisenberg's 1958 Weltformel and the Roots of Post-Empirical Physics by Alexander S. Blum 9783030206444
Booksplease Price: €61.01This book presents the first detailed account of Werner Heisenberg's failed attempt to find a theory of everything in the autumn of his career. It further investigates what we can learn from his... -
Einstein in Bohemia by Professor Michael D. Gordin
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.46A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in PragueIn the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a... -
Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian by A. Douglas Stone 9780691168562
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €18.52Einstein and the Quantum reveals for the first time the full significance of Albert Einstein's contributions to quantum theory. Einstein famously rejected quantum mechanics, observing that God does... -
Partial Differential Operators and Mathematical Physics: International Conference in Holzhau, Germany, July 3-9, 1994 by Michael Demuth 9783034899031
Booksplease Price: €108.12This volume contains the proceedings of the International Conference on "Par- tial Differential Equations" held in HolzhaujErzgebirge, Germany, July 3~9, 1994. The conference was sponsored by the... -
Integrative Biological Psychiatry by Hinderk M. Emrich 9783642771705
Booksplease Price: €55.07Professor Detlev Ploog On March 19-21, 1989, a symposium entitled "Integrative Biological Psychiatry" was held at the Ringberg Castle (Bavaria) to honor the scientific work of Detlev Ploog,... -
The Seven Measures of the World Piero Martin 9780300280111
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.92The fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical world "Entertaining popular science and a literate tale of why things are as they are... -
Arithmetic and Geometry by Luis V. Dieulefait 9781107462540
RRP: €91.63Booksplease Price: €88.12The 'Arithmetic and Geometry' trimester, held at the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, focussed on recent work on Serre's conjecture and on rational points on algebraic varieties... -
Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment by Giuliano Pancaldi 9780691122267
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.95Giuliano Pancaldi sets us within the cosmopolitan cultures of Enlightenment Europe to tell the story of Alessandro Volta--the brilliant man whose name is forever attached to electromotive force...