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Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers by Max Planck 9780806530758
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £8.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806530758Author Max PlanckFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint -
Max Planck: Uncovering the World of Matter by Jane Weir 9780743905688
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £8.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743905688Author Jane WeirFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint -
Hierarchies: The Max Planck Society in Gender Trouble by Birgit Kolboske 9783525302590
Booksplease Price: £111.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783525302590Author Birgit KolboskeFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint -
The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science by J.L. Heilbron 9780674004399
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28In this moving and eloquent portrait, John Heilbron describes how the founder of quantum theory rose to the pinnacle of German science. With great understanding, he shows how Max Planck suffered... -
Demographic Research, Volume 10 by Max-Planck-Institute Fur Demograf Fors 9783833469428
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Fundamental Questions: Gender Dimensions in Max Planck Research Projects by Ulla Weber 9783848770960
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £22.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783848770960Author Ulla WeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint -
Mobile Microrobotics Metin Sitti (Director, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) 9780262036436
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £54.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262036436Author Metin SittiFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Economic Anthropology Chris Hann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany) 9780745644837
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. They show that anthropologists have contributed to understanding the three... -
Science and Diplomacy: The Max Planck Society in International Politics (1945-2000) by Carola Sachse 9783525302613
Booksplease Price: £97.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783525302613Author Carola SachseFormat HardbackPage Count 559Imprint -
The Bumpy Road: Max Planck from Radiation Theory to the Quantum (1896-1906) by Massimiliano Badino 9783319200309
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Monks, Money, and Morality: The Balancing Act of Contemporary Buddhism Christoph Brumann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany) 9781350213760
Booksplease Price: £29.16Vibrantly engaging contemporary Buddhist lives, this book focuses on the material and financial relations of contemporary monks, temples, and laypeople. It shows that rather than being peripheral,... -
Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto: Claiming a Right to the Past Christoph Brumann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany) 9780415731270
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.28As the historic capital of the country and the stronghold of the nation's most celebrated traditions, the city of Kyoto holds a unique place in the Japanese imagination. Widely praised for the beauty... -
Architecture, Democracy and Emotions: The Politics of Feeling since 1945 Till Grossmann (International Max Planck Graduate School Moral Economies, Berlin, Germany) 9780815357384
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69After 1945 it was not just Europe's parliamentary buildings that promised to house democracy: hotels in Turkey and Dutch shopping malls proposed new democratic attitudes and feelings. Housing... -
How We Sold Our Future: The Failure to Fight Climate Change by Jens Beckert (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany) 9781509510023
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.53For decades, we have known about the dangers of global warming. Despite this, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain our failure to take the necessary measures to stop... -
Classical and Quantum Mechanical Aspects of Heavy Ion Collisions: Symposium held at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, October 2-5, 1974 by Hanns Ludwig Harney 9783540070252
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The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene by Jurgen Renn 9780691218595
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.99A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human... -
The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene by Jurgen Renn
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.43A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human... -
The Age of Uncertainty: how the greatest minds in physics changed the way we see the world by Tobias Hurter
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.61The epic, page-turning history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades of the twentieth century. Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg,... -
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... -
Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler by Philip Ball 9780226204574
Booksplease Price: £31.01The compelling story of leading physicists in Germany--including -
Tantric Psychophysics: A Structural Map of Altered States and the Dynamics of Consciousness by Shelli Renee Joye 9781644113684
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.64A bold synthesis of ancient sacred science, modern physics, and neuroscience designed to open access to higher consciousness* Explores how esoteric teachings from India and Tibet offer specific... -
One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology by Fredrik Barth
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £78.30One Discipline, Four Ways offers the first book-length introduction to the history of each of the four major traditions in anthropology - British, German, French, and American. The result of lectures... -
One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology by Fredrik Barth 9780226038292
Booksplease Price: £28.55One Discipline, Four Ways offers the first book-length introduction to the history of each of the four major traditions in anthropology - British, German, French, and American. The result of lectures... -
The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought by William R. Everdell
Booksplease Price: £17.99A lively and accessible history of Modernism, The First Moderns is filled with portraits of genius, and intellectual breakthroughs, that richly evoke the fin-de-siecle atmosphere of Paris, Vienna, St... -
Seeing Babies in a New Light: The Life of Hanus Papousek by Otto Koester 9780415651653
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Seeing Babies in a New Light: The Life of Hanus Papousek presents the first in-depth examination of the scientific contributions and life of Hanus Papousek (1922-2000), a leading figure in modern... -
Noncommutative Coordinates for Symplectic Representations by Daniele Alessandrini 9781470471088
RRP: £73.00Booksplease Price: £70.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDaniele Alessandrini, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, Olivier Guichard, Universite de... -
Hidden Powers: Lise Meitner's Call to Science Jeannine Atkins 9781665902519
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78From 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... -
The Quantum World: The disturbing theory at the heart of reality by Scientist New
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Forget everything you thought you knew about reality.The world is a seriously bizarre place. Things can exist in two places at once and travel backwards and forwards in time. Waves and particles are... -
The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas by Charles Coulston Gillispie 9780691172521
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32Originally 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... -
Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science by Jimena Canales
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40How 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: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The 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 Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time by Jimena Canales 9780691173177
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70On 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... -
Weeping for Dido: The Classics in the Medieval Classroom by Marjorie Curry Woods 9780691170800
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Saint Augustine famously "wept for Dido, who killed herself by the sword," and many later medieval schoolboys were taught to respond in similarly emotional ways to the pain of female characters in... -
Chimpanzee Culture Wars: Rethinking Human Nature alongside Japanese, European, and American Cultural Primatologists by Nicolas Langlitz 9780691204277
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £92.98The 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: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.87How 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... -
Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric: The Love Letters by Albert Einstein
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.57In 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21A 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... -
Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century by Helge Kragh
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.89At 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... -
Encounters with Einstein: And Other Essays on People, Places, and Particles by Werner Heisenberg
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40In 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... -
Einstein in Bohemia by Professor Michael D. Gordin 9780691177373
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70A 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...