3,080円 La France " fin-de-siècle " est loin d'être, contrairement à des clichés qui ont la vie dure, joyeuse et insouciante. La Belle époque est celle d'une société qui travaille dur, épargne et vit chichement. C'est le temps de l'inquiétude et du nihilisme. Des anarchistes et des grèves ouvrières. De l...

3,080円 Nombre de progrès les plus spectaculaires enregistrés aujourd'hui dans les sciences de la vie sont les fruits d'une discipline très récente, la biologie moléculaire, née dans les années 1940. C'est l'histoire passionnante –; et trop peu connue –; de cette jeune science que ce livre retrace, en ex...

18,231円 Imre Lakatos (1922-1974) was one of the protagonists in shaping the "new philosophy of science". More than 25 years after his untimely death, it is time for a critical re-evaluation of his ideas. His main theme of locating rationality within the scientific process appears even more compelling tod...

18,231円 Heretical thoughts in an orthodox series on sociology of the sciences? Devils and science between the covers of one book? Games with ambivalence to mask collective uncertainty? We anticipate similar future reactions from readers or reviewers when assessing the way in which this volume has been as...

2,860円 Les histoires classiques de la chimie se partagent en deux périodes bien tranchées : un âge préscientifique, celui des alchimistes aux pratiques occultes et des artisans obscurs, puis un âge scientifique " sérieux ", qui voit la multiplication des lois et des découvertes, à la source d'immenses p...

7,187円 The reception of the periodic system of elements has received little attention among scientists and historians alike. While many historians have studied Mendeleev's discovery of the periodic system, few have analyzed the ways in which the scientific community perceived and employed it. American h...

968円 De la philosophie de l'esprit à l'intelligence artificielle, en passant par les neurosciences ou la nouvelle linguistique, les sciences cognitives forment aujourd'hui une nébuleuse de disciplines qui participent d'un renouvellement radical de nos façons de penser la connaissance et le savoir huma...

42,541円 This book has grown out of eight years of close collaboration among its authors. From the very beginning we decided that its content should come out as the result of a truly common effort. That is, we did not "distribute" parts of the text planned to each one of us. On the contrary, we made a poi...

11,275円 This book seeks to explore how scientists across a number of countries managed to cope with the challenging circumstances created by World War II. No scientist remained unaffected by the outbreak of WWII. As the book shows, there were basically two opposite ways in which the war encroached on the...

9,285円 Disease and Medicine in World History is a concise introduction to diverse ideas about diseases and their treatment throughout the world. Drawing on case studies from ancient Egypt to present-day America, Asia and Europe, this survey discusses concepts of sickness and forms of treatment in many c...

11,772円 Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development demonstrates the importance of one of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics winners Elinor Ostrom's research program. The Bloomington School has become one of the most dynamic, well recognized and productive centers of the New Institutional Theory mo...

18,231円 Among the myriad of changes that took place in Great Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century, many of particular significance to the historian of science and to the social historian are discernible in that small segment of British society drawn together by a shared interest in natural...