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The Mirror and the Mind: A History of Self-Recognition in the Human Sciences

The Mirror and the Mind: A History of Self-Recognition in the Human Sciences

Finalist for the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of Ameri...
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€31.40
Kepler

Kepler

A towering figure in intellectual history and one of the fathers of modern astronomy, the great...
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€21.40
The Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star

The Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star

On the surface of the Sun, spots appear and fade in a predictable cycle, like a great clock in the s...
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Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist

Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist

Though Tesla’s inventions transformed our world, his true originality is shown in the visionary ambi...
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€29.40
The Secret Formula: How a Mathematical Duel Inflamed Renaissance Italy and Uncovered the Cubic Equation

The Secret Formula: How a Mathematical Duel Inflamed Renaissance Italy and Uncovered the Cubic Equation

The Secret Formula tells the story of two Renaissance mathematicians whose jealousies, intrigues, an...
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His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine

His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine

When the R101 first took to the skies, she was the largest aircraft ever to fly. What followed was a...
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€15.00
Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep

Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep

‘Fascinating, magisterially researched, and brilliantly written.’ Steve Silberman, author of Neurotr...
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€14.80
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe

Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe

What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific que...
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€23.00
Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway

Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway

A mathematician unlike any other, John Horton Conway (1937–2020) possessed a rock star’s charisma, a...
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€31.40
Alexander von Humboldt: A Concise Biography

Alexander von Humboldt: A Concise Biography

In this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct and novel interpretation of the life and oeu...
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Chain Reactions: A Hopeful History of Uranium

Chain Reactions: A Hopeful History of Uranium

Tracing uranium's past, and how it intersects with our understanding of other radioactive elements,...
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€25.00
Pi: A Biography of the World's Most Mysterious Number

Pi: A Biography of the World's Most Mysterious Number

We all learned that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is called pi and that...
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€21.40
Serendipity: The Unexpected in Science

Serendipity: The Unexpected in Science

From the bestselling author of Imperfection, a theory of uncertainty as the very core of the scienti...
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€32.70
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure

Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure

From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its a...
€24.80
This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World

This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World

‘A dazzling tale, brilliantly told’ Peter Frankopan‘A wonderful book’ Sunday Telegraph, 5*‘Triumphan...
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€27.70

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