wyszukanych pozycji: 6
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Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect
ISBN: 9780822326632 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Drawing on a wide array of literary, scientific, and popular works of the period, this book focuses on the importance of scientific knowledge and its impact on Victorian culture. It presents a social, cultural, and literary history of this knowledge industry and traces its relationships within nineteenth-century literature.
Drawing on a wide array of literary, scientific, and popular works of the period, this book focuses on the importance of scientific knowledge and its ...
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475,09 |
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Dolphin
ISBN: 9781780230894 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) From Flipper to SeaWorld, dolphins have long captured our hearts. We love these friendly, intelligent mammals, and they seem to return our feelings--they enjoy interacting with swimmers and have been known to encircle people under attack by sharks. Despite our familiarity with dolphins, though, we remain ill-informed about how they evolved, how they function, and how they have interacted with humans for millennia. Dolphin dives into the dolphin's zoology, as well as its social and cultural history, to offer a comprehensive view of these delightful creatures. Drawing on his years...
From Flipper to SeaWorld, dolphins have long captured our hearts. We love these friendly, intelligent mammals, and they seem to return our feel...
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75,06 |
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Sloth
ISBN: 9781789147995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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75,06 |
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Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect
ISBN: 9780822326687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Nineteenth-century England witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of publications and institutions devoted to the creation and the dissemination of knowledge: encyclopedias, scientific periodicals, instruction manuals, scientific societies, children's literature, mechanics' institutes, museums of natural history, and lending libraries. In "Useful Knowledge" Alan Rauch presents a social, cultural, and literary history of this new knowledge industry and traces its relationships within nineteenth-century literature, ending with its eventual confrontation with Charles Darwin's "Origin...
Nineteenth-century England witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of publications and institutions devoted to the creation and the dissemin...
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135,69 |
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One Culture : Essays in Science and Literature
ISBN: 9780299113001 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In this volume, the first in the series Science and Literature, editor George Levin has brought together the contributions of historians, critics, and philosophers of science to explore these relationships.
From the preface: -The interaction between science and literature has been a subject of growing concern in criticism; the languages of science have increasingly found their way into literature and into discussions of it. And the traditional assumptions that literary people care nothing about science, scientists care nothing about literature have been belied throughout the twentieth... In this volume, the first in the series Science and Literature, editor George Levin has brought together the contributions of historians, critics, and...
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184,22 |
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England in 1815: A Critical Edition of the Journal of Joseph Ballard
ISBN: 9781349370801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913 as: England in 1815 as seen by a young Boston merchant.
Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913 as: England in 1815 as seen by a young Boston merchant.
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200,77 |