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Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress Image
ISBN: 9780300270624 / Angielski / Inna / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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163,80 zł |
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Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
ISBN: 9780226332734 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty--"Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal " Paleontologists such as Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen were heralded as scientific virtuosos, sometimes even veritable wizards, capable of resurrecting the denizens of an ancient past from a mere glance at a fragmentary bone. Such extraordinary feats of predictive reasoning relied on the law of correlation, which proposed that each element of an animal corresponds mutually...
Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with i...
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240,24 zł |
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Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability
ISBN: 9780521872492 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The success of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories in mid-nineteenth-century Britain has long been attributed, in part, to his own adherence to strict standards of Victorian respectability, especially in regard to sex. Gowan Dawson contends that the fashioning of such respectability was by no means straightforward or unproblematic, with Darwin and his principal supporters facing surprisingly numerous and enduring accusations of encouraging sexual impropriety. Integrating contextual approaches to the history of science with work in literary studies, Dawson sheds light on the well-known...
The success of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories in mid-nineteenth-century Britain has long been attributed, in part, to his own adherence to str...
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448,56 zł |
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Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability
ISBN: 9780521128858 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The success of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories in mid-nineteenth-century Britain has long been attributed, in part, to his own adherence to strict standards of Victorian respectability, especially in regard to sex. Gowan Dawson contends that the fashioning of such respectability was by no means straightforward or unproblematic, with Darwin and his principal supporters facing surprisingly numerous and enduring accusations of encouraging sexual impropriety. Integrating contextual approaches to the history of science with work in literary studies, Dawson sheds light on the well-known...
The success of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories in mid-nineteenth-century Britain has long been attributed, in part, to his own adherence to str...
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216,69 zł |
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Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity
ISBN: 9780226109503 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Victorian Scientific Naturalism" examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of "The Origin of Species," wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite. These scientific naturalistsled by biologists, physicists, and mathematicians such as William Kingdon Clifford, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, and John Tyndallsought to persuade both the state and the public that scientists, not theologians, should be granted cultural authority, since their expertise gave them...
"Victorian Scientific Naturalism" examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of "The Origin of Species," wrested ...
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229,32 zł |
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The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume I: The Correspondence, May 1840-August 1843
ISBN: 9780822944706 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The 230 letters in this inaugural volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall chart Tyndall s emergence into early adulthood, spanning from his arrival in Youghal in May 1840 as a civil assistant with just a year s experience working on the Irish Ordnance Survey to his pseudonymous authorship of an open letter to the prime minister, Robert Peel, protesting the pay and conditions on the English Survey in August 1843. The letters, which include Tyndall s earliest extant correspondence, encompass some of the most significant events of the early 1840s. Tyndall s correspondents also discuss their...
The 230 letters in this inaugural volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall chart Tyndall s emergence into early adulthood, spanning from his arriv...
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819,60 zł |
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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II
ISBN: 9781848930926 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 1904 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component - what might be called 'the literature of science' - and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scien...
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1945,13 zł |
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Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media
ISBN: 9781138251731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging across the spectrum of periodical titles, the six sections comprise: 'Women, Children, and Gender', 'Religious Audiences', 'Naturalizing the Supernatural', 'Contesting New Technologies', 'Professionalization and Journalism', and 'Evolution, Psychology, and Culture'. The essays offer some of the first 'samplings and...
Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing...
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238,55 zł |
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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II Vol 6
ISBN: 9781138765849 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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778,05 zł |
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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II Vol 7
ISBN: 9781138765856 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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778,05 zł |
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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II Vol 8
ISBN: 9781138765863 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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228,18 zł |
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Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media
ISBN: 9780754635741 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The 22 essays that comprise this volume are some of the first to explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationship between science and culture throughout the period of the 19th-century. Scholars from a number of different disciplines contributed to this study.
The 22 essays that comprise this volume are some of the first to explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationship between science and culture...
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674,31 zł |
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Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Constructing Scientific Communities
ISBN: 9780226676517 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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262,08 zł |
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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II Vol 5
ISBN: 9781138765832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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228,18 zł |
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Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 3
ISBN: 9781138765818 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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228,18 zł |
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Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 2
ISBN: 9781138765801 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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803,99 zł |
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Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 4
ISBN: 9781138765825 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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778,05 zł |
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Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 1
ISBN: 9781138765795 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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228,18 zł |
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