wyszukanych pozycji: 14
A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
ISBN: 9780198794981 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 2018 marks the centenary not only of the Armistice but also of women gaining the vote. A Lab of One's Own commemorates both anniversaries by exploring how the War gave female scientists, doctors, and engineers unprecedented opportunities to undertake endeavours normally reserved for men.
2018 marks the centenary not only of the Armistice but also of women gaining the vote. A Lab of One's Own commemorates both anniversaries by exploring...
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130,68 zł |
Science: A Four Thousand Year History
ISBN: 9780199580279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In Science, Patricia Fara rewrites science's past to provide new ways of understanding and questioning our modern technological society. Sweeping through the centuries from ancient Babylon right up to the latest hi-tech experiments in genetics and particle physics, Fara's book also ranges internationally, challenging notions of European superiority by emphasizing the importance of scientific projects based around the world, including revealing discussions of China and the Islamic Empire alongside the more familiar stories about Copernicus's sun-centered astronomy, Newton's gravity, and...
In Science, Patricia Fara rewrites science's past to provide new ways of understanding and questioning our modern technological society. Sweeping thro...
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87,52 zł |
Newton: The Making of Genius
ISBN: 9780231128070 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Isaac Newton has become an intellectual avatar for our modern age, the man who, as even children know, was inspired to codify nature's laws by watching an apple fall from a tree. Yet Newton devoted much of his energy to deciphering the mysteries of alchemy, theology, and ancient chronology. How did a man who was at first obscure to all but a few esoteric natural philosophers and Cambridge scholars, was preoccupied with investigations of millennial prophecies, and spent decades as Master of the London Mint become famous as the world's first great scientist? Patricia Fara demonstrates that...
Isaac Newton has become an intellectual avatar for our modern age, the man who, as even children know, was inspired to codify nature's laws by watchin...
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213,72 zł |
Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science, and Serendipity
ISBN: 9780198848547 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A tour of the late eighteenth century English Enlightenment in the company of Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles, who (aside from his poetry and other scientific endeavours) was expounding theories of evolution years before the birth of his more famous grandson.
A tour of the late eighteenth century English Enlightenment in the company of Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles, who (aside from his poetry and o...
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89,95 zł |
An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment
ISBN: 9780231131483 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An Entertainment for Angels, rather than for Men, one observer called electricity, and it proved to be the most significant scientific discovery of the Enlightenment. Lecturers attracted huge audiences who marveled at sparkling fountains, flaming drinks, pirouetting dancers, and electrified boys. Flamboyant experimenters made chains of soldiers leap into the air, while wealthy women titillated their admirers with a sensational electric kiss. Optimists predicted that this strange power of nature would cure illnesses, improve crop production, even bring the dead back to life. An...
An Entertainment for Angels, rather than for Men, one observer called electricity, and it proved to be the most significant scientific discovery of th...
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136,49 zł |
Sympathetic Attractions: Magnetic Practices, Beliefs, and Symbolism in Eighteenth-Century England
ISBN: 9780691634913 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this interdisciplinary study of eighteenth-century England, Patricia Fara explores how natural philosophers constructed magnetism as a science, appropriating the skills and knowledge of experienced navigators. For people of this period, magnetic phenomena reverberated with the symbolism of occult mystery, sexual attraction, and universal sympathies; in this maritime nation, magnetic instruments such as navigational compasses heralded imperial expansion, commercial gain, and scientific progress. By analyzing such multiple associations, Fara reconstructs cultural interactions in the days... In this interdisciplinary study of eighteenth-century England, Patricia Fara explores how natural philosophers constructed magnetism as a science, ... |
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A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
ISBN: 9780198794998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 2018 marked the centenary not only of the Armistice but also of women gaining the vote. A Lab of One's Own commemorates both anniversaries by exploring how the War gave female scientists, doctors, and engineers unprecedented opportunities to undertake endeavours normally reserved for men.
2018 marked the centenary not only of the Armistice but also of women gaining the vote. A Lab of One's Own commemorates both anniversaries by explorin...
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69,68 zł |
Pandora's Breeches
ISBN: 9781845952457 / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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92,95 zł |
Sympathetic Attractions: Magnetic Practices, Beliefs, and Symbolism in Eighteenth-Century England
ISBN: 9780691606071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this interdisciplinary study of eighteenth-century England, Patricia Fara explores how natural philosophers constructed magnetism as a science, appropriating the skills and knowledge of experienced navigators. For people of this period, magnetic phenomena reverberated with the symbolism of occult mystery, sexual attraction, and universal sympathies; in this maritime nation, magnetic instruments such as navigational compasses heralded imperial expansion, commercial gain, and scientific progress. By analyzing such multiple associations, Fara reconstructs cultural interactions in the days... In this interdisciplinary study of eighteenth-century England, Patricia Fara explores how natural philosophers constructed magnetism as a science, ... |
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423,07 zł |
Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks
ISBN: 9780231134262 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Enlightenment botany was replete with sexual symbolism--to the extent that many botanical textbooks were widely considered pornographic. Carl Linnaeus's controversial new system for classifying plants based on their sexual characteristics, as well as his use of language resonating with erotic allusions, provoked intense public debate over the morality of botanical study. And the renowned Tahitian exploits of Joseph Banks--whose trousers were reportedly stolen while he was inside the tent of Queen Oberea of Tahiti--reinforced scandalous associations with the field. Yet Linnaeus and Banks...
Enlightenment botany was replete with sexual symbolism--to the extent that many botanical textbooks were widely considered pornographic. Carl Linnaeus...
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120,35 zł |
Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career
ISBN: 9780198841029 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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161,34 zł |
The Changing World
ISBN: 9780521283281 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Recent extraordinary and far-reaching events have transformed our world. The disintegration of the Communist Bloc has reconfigured international relationships, while the ending of apartheid symbolizes human commitment to unity. AIDS ravages developing countries, and it also has reshaped scientific research and cultural attitudes towards sexuality. The revolution in genetic medicine has coincided with increased rights for minorities and women. A growing awareness of our environment may cause millennial celebrations to be overshadowed by forecasts of ecological catastrophe. In this...
Recent extraordinary and far-reaching events have transformed our world. The disintegration of the Communist Bloc has reconfigured international relat...
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134,77 zł |
Memory
ISBN: 9780521572101 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Memory is both a private, personal phenomenon and a collective interpretation of history by society. The concept of memory has long intrigued scientists, philosophers, and scholars alike. This fascinating volume explores some of the many ways that individuals and societies remember, forget, and commemorate events of the past. The collection of eight essays, representing some of the most engaging contemporary voices in the arts and sciences, takes a unique interdisciplinary approach to address the relationships between individual experience and collective memory. Many would expect scientists...
Memory is both a private, personal phenomenon and a collective interpretation of history by society. The concept of memory has long intrigued scientis...
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Memory
ISBN: 9780521032186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Memory is both a private, personal phenomenon and a collective interpretation of history by society. The concept of memory has long intrigued scientists, philosophers, and scholars alike. This fascinating volume explores some of the many ways that individuals and societies remember, forget, and commemorate events of the past. The collection of eight essays, representing some of the most engaging contemporary voices in the arts and sciences, takes a unique interdisciplinary approach to address the relationships between individual experience and collective memory. Many would expect scientists...
Memory is both a private, personal phenomenon and a collective interpretation of history by society. The concept of memory has long intrigued scientis...
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134,77 zł |