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The question of gender in science and technology is pursued by scholars from different disciplines and perspectives: historians study the lives of women scientists within the context of institutions that for centuries held women at arm s length; sociologists uncover women s access to the means of scientific production; biologists scrutinize how science has studied female and male bodies; cultural critics explore normative understandings of femininity and masculinity; philosophers and historians of science analyse how gender has influenced the content and methods of science and...

Das neue Worterbuch sucht ein wichtiges Desiderat der Forschung zu erfullen, namlich die vollstandige Erfassung und Darstellung des Wortschatzes der Glossen. In zwolf Banden werden mehr als 258.000 Belege in fast 30.000 Wortartikeln dargestellt, samtliche Belege wurden im Mikrofilm und/oder durch Autopsie gepruft, in morphologischer und semantischer Hinsicht eingehend untersucht und moglichst genau bestimmt. Die Glossierungen betreffen die verschiedensten Auktoren aus dem Lateinischen, dem Spatlateinischen, der Karolingerzeit, bis gegen 1300 und teilweise daruber hinaus. Zusatzliche...

The 40th edition of this established reference work offers a wealth of information on the worldwide publishing landscape. It includes more than 1,100,000 publishers' ISBN prefixes from 221 countries and territories. The Geographical Section (volumes 1-5) provides the names of more than 1,000,000 active publishing houses, arranged alphabetically by country, and within country by name. Entries contain the full address including email and URL particulars as well as ISBN prefixes. Publishers can be identified via their ISBN prefixes through the Numerical ISBN Section (volumes...

Paintings in Museums presents a systematic index of the entire holdings of works, both on display and in deposits, owned by over645 museums in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This edition, recording some 36,000 paintings, 8,600 artists and 100 museums more than its predecessor, is also the first one to incorporate museumsin Austria and Switzerland. New details on numerous artists and paintings have been added. The addresses of all museums have been updated. Where available, the e-mail and internet addresses have been included for the first time. Paintings in Museums...

History and Philosophy of Science reprints a distinguished selection of important texts published in this field over the last century. This set presents a unique opportunity to gain comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the history and philosophy of science. It covers all major fields of scientific thought throughout history from Physics, Biology, and Cosmology to ESP and Alchemy. It includes texts on all the great historical scientific figures including Darwin, Copernicus, Archimedes and Hooker and covers all main themes in science taking in creation, evolution, the...

Fully revised and updated, the second edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, first published in 2001, offers a source of social and behavioral sciences reference material that is broader and deeper than any other. Available in both print and online editions, it comprises over 3,900 articles, commissioned by 71 Section Editors, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.

• Provides authoritative, foundational, interdisciplinary knowledge across the wide range of behavioral and...