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Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film
ISBN: 9780295988863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Winner of the History of Science Society's Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize in the History of Science. From the early exploits of Teddy Roosevelt in Africa to blockbuster films such as March of the Penguins, Gregg Mitman's Reel Nature reveals how changing values, scientific developments, and new technologies have come to shape American encounters with wildlife on and off the big screen. Whether crafted to elicit thrills or to educate audiences about the real-life drama of threatened wildlife, nature films then and now have had an enormous impact on how Americans... Winner of the History of Science Society's Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize in the History of Science. From the early exploits of Ted... |
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124,44 zł |
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Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
ISBN: 9781620977965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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71,23 zł |
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Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record
ISBN: 9780226129112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camps of Auschwitz, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Apollo lunar landing. It would be a history, in other words, of just artists' renderings and the spoken and written word. To inhabitants of the twenty-first century, deeply immersed in visual culture, such a history seems insubstantial, imprecise, and even, perhaps, unscientific. Documenting the World is about the material and social life of photographs and...
Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the ...
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169,26 zł |
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Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene
ISBN: 9780226508658 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene--the age of humans? Just as paleontologists look to fossil remains to infer past conditions of life on earth, so might past and present-day objects offer clues to intertwined human and natural histories that shape our planetary futures. In this era of aggressive hydrocarbon extraction, extreme weather, and severe economic disparity, how might certain objects make visible the uneven interplay of economic, material, and social forces that shape relationships among human and nonhuman beings? ...
What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene--the age of humans? Just as paleontologists look ...
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436,80 zł |
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Osiris, Volume 19 : Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments
ISBN: 9780226532516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Bringing together historians of science and medicine with environmental historians, and adding more contemporary vantage points from geography, anthropology, and sociology, Osiris Volume 19: Landscapes of Exposure offers an unprecedented interdisciplinary depiction of how, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, scientists and lay people have generated methods for connecting health and place, disease and ecology, calculation and risk.
Bringing together historians of science and medicine with environmental historians, and adding more contemporary vantage points from geography, anthro...
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136,50 zł |
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Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene
ISBN: 9780226508795 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene--the age of humans? Just as paleontologists look to fossil remains to infer past conditions of life on earth, so might past and present-day objects offer clues to intertwined human and natural histories that shape our planetary futures. In this era of aggressive hydrocarbon extraction, extreme weather, and severe economic disparity, how might certain objects make visible the uneven interplay of economic, material, and social forces that shape relationships among human and nonhuman beings? ...
What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene--the age of humans? Just as paleontologists look ...
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164,72 zł |
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