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  • Working Knowledge

    A Simon Schaffer Reader

    by Simon Schaffer ...
    Collects key articles by Simon Schaffer, one of the most important historians of science working today.Working Knowledge is the first English-language collection of essays by Simon Schaffer, coauthor of Leviathan and the Air-Pump, a landmark text in the history of science. Though the latter may be his most famous book, Schaffer is also renowned for seminal articles on Isaac Newton and the cultures ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • The Board of Longitude

    Science, Innovation and Empire

    by Alexi Baker, Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt, Simon Schaffer, Sophie Waring ...
    In the first book-length history of the Board of Longitude, a distinguished team of historians of science bring to life one of Georgian Britain's most important scientific institutions. Having developed in the eighteenth century following legislation offering rewards for methods to determine longitude at sea, the Board came to support the work of navigators, instrument makers, clockmakers and ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Applying Neuro-Cognitive Framing to Personal Selling

    by Simon Schäffer ...
    Intermediate Examination Paper from the year 2018 in the subject Communications - Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, grade: 1,0, University of Cooperative Education Loerrach, language: English, abstract: In this thesis, I would like to connect Neuro-Cognitive Framing with established marketing frameworks to find out whether Framing may become an integral part of future ... Read more

    $33.34 USD

  • Leviathan and the Air-Pump

    Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life

    by Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump. The issues at stake in their ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences

    by Adriana Craciun ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
    In this book the eighteenth century Enlightenment receives an important reassessment, using an astonishing range of materials and objects drawn from Europe and beyond, including artefacts from India and China, West Africa and Polynesia. A series of authoritative essays written by experts in the field explores the full range of material culture in the long eighteenth century, raising crucial ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge

    Edited by Simon Schaffer, Pasquale Gagliardi, John Tresch ...
    Born out of a major international dialogue held at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy, this collection of essays presents innovative and provocative arguments about the claims of universal knowledge schemes and the different aesthetic and material forms in which such claims have been made and executed. Contributors take a close look at everything from religious pilgrimages, museums, and ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Science Stories

    The complete BBC Radio 4 popular science series

    by Naomi Alderman, Kevin Fong, Tracey Logan, Simon Schaffer ...
    Narrated by Naomi Alderman, Philip Ball ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 32 min

    In these ten absorbing series, award-winning authors Naomi Alderman and Philip Ball and guest presenters Tracey Logan, Kevin Fong, Simon Schaffer and Lindsey Fitzharris take a look at the many amazing events and characters from science's long history. In this collection, which runs close to 23 hours in total, they throw light on the revolutionary visionaries who defined how we see the world, from ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

    by John Brockman ...
    Series series Edge Question Series
    Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • Michael Faraday

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Frank A.J.L James ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Michael Faraday is one of the best known scientific figures of all time. Known as the discoverer of electro-magnetic induction, the principle behind the electric generator and transformer, he has frequently been portrayed as the 'father' of electrical engineering from whence much of his popular fame derives. This Very Short Introduction dispels the myth that Faraday was an experimental genius ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Making of Modern Science

    Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity: 1789 - 1914

    by David Knight ...
    Series series History of Science
    Of all the inventions of the nineteenth century, the scientist is one of the most striking. In revolutionary France the science student, taught by men active in research, was born; and a generation later, the graduate student doing a PhD emerged in Germany. In 1833 the word 'scientist' was coined; forty years later science (increasingly specialised) was a becoming a profession. Men of science ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • Public Understanding of Science

    A History of Communicating Scientific Ideas

    by David Knight ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    Answering questions such as whether the interesting parts of science be conveyed in sermons, poems, pictures and journalism, Knight explores the history of science to show how the successes and failures of our ancestors can help us understand the position science comes to occupy now. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Robert Hooke

    Tercentennial Studies

    by Michael Hunter ...
    Robert Hooke (1635-1703) was a genius whose wide-ranging achievements are at last receiving the recognition that they deserve. Long overshadowed by such eminent contemporaries as Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Christopher Wren, Hooke's own seminal contributions to science, architecture and technology are now being acclaimed in their own right. Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society when it was ... Read more

    $61.99 USD