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Ignorance: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein 9780199828074
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €23.69Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance--not knowledge--that is the true engine of science. Most of us have a false impression of... -
It Could Be Otherwise: Science in the Age of Uncertainty by Stuart Firestein 9781541606739
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €20.68A profound argument for science that embraces uncertainty and promotes possibility, creativity, and the belief that we can shape, if not determine, our future The search for certainty is embedded... -
Failure: Why Science Is so Successful by Stuart Firestein 9780199390106
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €24.66The pursuit of science by professional scientists every day bears less and less resemblance to the perception of science by the general public. It is not the rule-based, methodical system for... -
The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives by John Bickle 9781032170114
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23This volume establishes the conceptual foundation for sustained investigation into tool development in neuroscience. Neuroscience relies on diverse and sophisticated experimental tools, and its... -
Season to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way by Molly Birnbaum 9781846273834
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.02At the age of 22, Molly was an aspiring chef. She was spending her nights reading cookbooks and her days working at a bistro in preparation for training at the prestigious Culinary Institute of... -
Growing People: The Enduring Legacy of John Dewey Natalia Rogach Alexander 9780231221900
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €28.19John Dewey is among history's most celebrated thinkers on democracy and education, yet he has often been underappreciated and misunderstood as a philosopher. This book paints a fresh portrait of... -
Growing People: The Enduring Legacy of John Dewey Natalia Rogach Alexander 9780231221894
RRP: €129.71Booksplease Price: €101.59John Dewey is among history's most celebrated thinkers on democracy and education, yet he has often been underappreciated and misunderstood as a philosopher. This book paints a fresh portrait of... -
Toward a Philosophy of Error in Science Douglas Allchin 9780197827673
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €30.33History is littered with scientific errors: bodily humors, atomic affinities, mislabeled planets... This contrasts sharply with the image of science as "self-correcting" and as providing a systematic... -
Chemosensory Transduction: The Detection of Odors, Tastes, and Other Chemostimuli by Frank Zufall 9780128016947
RRP: €113.04Booksplease Price: €102.84Written by leaders in the field of chemosensation, Chemosensory Transduction provides a comprehensive resource for understanding the molecular mechanisms that allow animals to detect their chemical... -
Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.00Science on Stage is the first full-length study of the phenomenon of "science plays"--theatrical events that weave scientific content into the plot lines of the drama. The book investigates the... -
The Why of Things: Causality in Science, Medicine, and Life by Peter V. Rabins 9780231164733
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.02Why was there a meltdown at the Fukushima power plant? Why do some people get cancer and not others? Why is global warming happening? Why does one person get depressed in the face of life's... -
The Why of Things: Causality in Science, Medicine, and Life by Peter V. Rabins 9780231164726
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €78.94Why was there a meltdown at the Fukushima power plant? Why do some people get cancer and not others? Why is global warming happening? Why does one person get depressed in the face of life's... -
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... -
Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind by A. S. Barwich 9780674278721
RRP: €23.74Booksplease Price: €20.58An NRC Handelsblad Book of the Year"Offers rich discussions of olfactory perception, the conscious and subconscious impacts of smell on behavior and emotion."-ScienceDecades of cognition research...