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Lunar Men(2003) UGLOW, JENNYLed by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Hippocrates, Volume I(2022) HIPPOCRATESVolume I of the Loeb Hippocrates presents an exemplary selection of works by or attributed to the “Father of Medicine” that illustrate his fundamental contributions to the theory, philosophy, and practice of medicine. Included are Ancient Medicine; Airs,Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Victims of Fashion(2021) COWIE, HELEN LOUISE (UNIVERSITY OF YORK)Helen Cowie examines the role of animal commodities in Victorian Britain. Focusing on six animal products – feathers, sealskin, ivory, alpaca wool, animal perfumes and exotic pets – she traces their rise and fall in popularity and assesses the humanitariaVezava: Trda68,43 € -
Killer Instinct(2021) WEIDMAN, NADINEIn the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question—whether humans are innately aggressive or cooperative—eventually receded, but the oppositional nature–nurture binary created in the course of the debVezava: Trda60,02 € -
Generations of Reason(2022) RICHARDS, JOAN L.An intimate, accessible history of British intellectual development across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the story of one familyVezava: Trda66,53 € -
Unexplained Deaths(2021) GOLDFARB, BRUCEThe unlikely tale of Frances Glessner Lee and her revolutionary work in forensic science through the creation of the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, a series of dollhouse-sized crime scene dioramas that she used to teach homicide investigators.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Ignaz Semmelweis and the Vienna School of Medicine(2020) KADAR, NICHOLASBased on newly available documents and others translated for the first time, Nicholas Kadar sheds important new light on the thinking of the celebrated Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis at the Vienna School of Medicine, where he discovered the cause and pVezava: Trda150,48 € -
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Bald Eagle(2022) DAVIS, JACK E. (UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA)From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in AmericaVezava: Trda39,90 € -
Liquid - The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives(2019) MARK MIODOWNIKVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Bodies Complexioned(2022) DAWSON, MARKSkin-tones mattered in early modern England. Indexing health, social status, religious affiliation and national allegiance, they helped explain (away) poverty, colonialism, war and slavery. Drawing physical distinctions as a means to power has a complex hVezava: Mehka46,33 € -
A Longing for Wide and Unknown Things: The Life of Alexander von Humboldt(2017) MAREN MEINHARDTVezava: Trda49,90 € -
Shoot for the Moon(2019) DONOVAN, JAMESThe Apollo 11 mission and lunar-landing is one of the most iconic moments in history, and a landmark of technological and social achievement throughout the world. Bestselling author James Donovan brings to life the epic story and the astronauts, flight coVezava: Mehka28,04 € -
How Great Is Our God(2019) GIGLIO, LOUIEA follow-up to his bestselling children's devotional, Indescribable, pastor Louie Giglio's How Great Is Our God offers 100 incredible new facts and devotions about God and science to stir your child's amazement for the Creator.Vezava: Trda18,21 € -
Dutch Light(2021) ALDERSEY-WILLIAMS, HUGHHugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age – a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation – in this histo-biography of Christiaan Huygens, one of Europe's leading, yet unsung, thinkers.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
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Spices, Scents and Silk(2021) HANCOCK, JAMES (MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, USA)This book describes the central role that these exotic luxuries - spices, scents and silks - played in the lives of the ancients, traces the development of the great international trade networks that delivered them, and explores how the demand for such luVezava: Mehka60,15 €
