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Understanding Genes by Kostas Kampourakis
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €13.08What are genes? What do genes do? These questions are not simple and straightforward to answer; at the same time, simplistic answers are quite prevalent and are taken for granted. This book aims to... -
Understanding Genes by Kostas Kampourakis 9781108835473
Booksplease Price: €74.52What are genes? What do genes do? These questions are not simple and straightforward to answer; at the same time, simplistic answers are quite prevalent and are taken for granted. This book aims to... -
Philosophy of Science for Biologists by Kostas Kampourakis 9781108491839
RRP: €91.63Booksplease Price: €88.12Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Making Sense of Genes by Kostas Kampourakis 9781107567498
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €31.26Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ancestry Reimagined: Dismantling the Myth of Genetic Ethnicities by Kostas Kampourakis
RRP: €35.09Booksplease Price: €32.24Recent social and political psychological research indicates that increased access to ancestry testing has strengthened the notion of genetic essentialism among some groups, or the idea that our... -
Uncertainty: How It Makes Science Advance by Kostas Kampourakis 9780190871666
RRP: €36.88Booksplease Price: €35.22Scientific knowledge is the most solid and robust kind of knowledge that humans have because of the self-correcting character inherent in its own processes. Nevertheless, anti-evolutionists, climate... -
Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods by Kostas Kampourakis 9781009375702
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €87.06Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Trusting Science: Why We Need to Reconsider School Science Teaching Kontas Kampourakis 9780197787106
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €28.26In today's world of social media and information overload, certain science topics related to policy decisions, such as vaccination, ignite controversy. Beyond the usual explanations of science denial... -
Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles by Kevin McCain
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27There are arguably moral, legal, and prudential constraints on behavior. But are there epistemic constraints on belief? Are there any requirements arising from intellectual considerations alone? This... -
Mutation-Driven Evolution by Masatoshi Nei 9780198724100
Booksplease Price: €79.67The purpose of this book is to present a new mechanistic theory of mutation-driven evolution based on recent advances in genomics and evolutionary developmental biology. The theory asserts, perhaps... -
Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science by Ronald L. Numbers
RRP: €42.78Booksplease Price: €36.01A falling apple inspired Isaac Newton's insight into the law of gravity-or so the story goes. Is it true? Perhaps not. But the more intriguing question is why such stories endure as explanations of... -
Superstition and Science: Mystics, sceptics, truth-seekers and charlatans by Derek Wilson
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02'A dazzling chronicle, a bracing challenge to modernity's smug assumptions' - Bryce Christensen, Booklist'O what a world of profit and delightOf power, of honour and omnipotenceIs promised to the... -
The Shortest History of Eugenics: From Science to Atrocity - How a Dangerous Movement Shaped the World, and Why It Persists by Erik Peterson 9781891011887
RRP: €11.31Booksplease Price: €11.19For the last two centuries, groups of influential men have, in the professed interest of fiscal responsibility, crime reduction, and outright racism, attempted to control who was allowed to bear... -
Towards a Theory of Development by Alessandro Minelli 9780199671434
Booksplease Price: €92.42Is it possible to explain and predict the development of living things? What is development? Articulate answers to these seemingly innocuous questions are far from straightforward. To date, no... -
The Black Box of Biology: A History of the Molecular Revolution by Michel Morange
Booksplease Price: €52.42In this masterful account, a historian of science surveys the molecular biology revolution, its origin and continuing impact.Since the 1930s, a molecular vision has been transforming biology. Michel... -
The New Biology: A Battle between Mechanism and Organicism by Michael J. Reiss
RRP: €45.16Booksplease Price: €35.88In this accessible analysis, a philosopher and a science educator look at biological theory and society through a synthesis of mechanistic and organicist points of view to best understand the... -
Darwinism, Democracy, and Race: American Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology in the Twentieth Century by John P Jackson 9780367358587
RRP: €55.92Booksplease Price: €52.29Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary biology in twentieth-century America. In its fully... -
Superstition and Science: Mystics, sceptics, truth-seekers and charlatans Mr Derek Wilson 9781472135926
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50'A dazzling chronicle, a bracing challenge to modernity's smug assumptions' - Bryce Christensen, Booklist'O what a world of profit and delightOf power, of honour and omnipotenceIs promised to the... -
Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science by Ronald L. Numbers 9780674241565
RRP: €21.36Booksplease Price: €18.73A Guardian "Favourite Reads-as Chosen by Scientists" Selection"Tackles some of science's most enduring misconceptions."-DiscoverA falling apple inspired Isaac Newton's insight into the law of... -
Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology by Gregory Radick 9780226822723
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €33.92A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics. In 1900, almost no one had heard of Gregor Mendel. Ten years later, he was famous as the father of a new science of... -
Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should) by John L. Rudolph 9780192867193
RRP: €29.14Booksplease Price: €27.26Few people question the importance of science education in American schooling. The public readily accepts that it is the key to economic growth through innovation, develops the ability to reason more... -
Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology by Gregory Radick 9780226822709
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €115.67A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics. In 1900, almost no one had heard of Gregor Mendel. Ten years later, he was famous as the father of a new science of...