Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850
ISBN: 9781349454969 / Angielski / Miękka / 361 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blending global scope with local depth, this book throws new light on important themes. Spanning four centuries and vast space, it combines the history of ideas with particular histories of encounters between European voyagers and Indigenous people in Oceania (Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands).
Blending global scope with local depth, this book throws new light on important themes. Spanning four centuries and vast space, it combines the histor...
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214,47 zł |
Martyrs in the Making: Political Martyrdom in Late Medieval England
ISBN: 9781349354702 / Angielski / Miękka / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the late medieval English cults which evolved around 'political martyrs'. By examining these cults the richness of political culture is revealed, and insights offered into the ways in which belief, worship, social and civic identities, and political language and practice were continuously constructed and re-constructed.
This book explores the late medieval English cults which evolved around 'political martyrs'. By examining these cults the richness of political cultur...
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194,97 zł |
Soviet Space Culture: Cosmic Enthusiasm in Socialist Societies
ISBN: 9781349324378 / Angielski / Miękka / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Starting with the first man-made satellite 'Sputnik' in 1957 and culminating four years later with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, space became a new utopian horizon. This book explores the profound repercussions of the Soviet space exploration program on culture and everyday life in Eastern Europe, especially in the Soviet Union itself.
Starting with the first man-made satellite 'Sputnik' in 1957 and culminating four years later with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, space becam...
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506,99 zł |
Cultural Studies' Affective Voices
ISBN: 9781349547562 / Angielski / Miękka / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a series of encounters with key figures in the field of cultural studies, this book draws together interest in affect theory and contemporary politics to describe the mobilising effects of individual scholarly voices in cultural studies' history, emphasising the ongoing importance of engaged, public intellectualism throughout.
In a series of encounters with key figures in the field of cultural studies, this book draws together interest in affect theory and contemporary polit...
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194,97 zł |
Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty: Moral Right and State Authority in Early Modern Political Thought
ISBN: 9781349428090 / Angielski / Miękka / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty new research by leading international scholars is brought to bear on a single crucial issue: the role of early modern natural law doctrines in reconstructing the relations between moral right and civil authority in the face of profound religious and political conflict. In addition to providing fresh insights into the hard-fought struggle to legitimate a desacralised civil order, the book also shows the degree to which the legitimacy of the modern secular state remains dependent on this decisive set of developments.
In Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty new research by leading international scholars is brought to bear on a single crucial issue: the role of early mo...
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194,97 zł |
History of Astronomy
ISBN: 9781534718616 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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49,60 zł |
Byrhtferth's Enchiridion
ISBN: 9780197224168 / Angielski / Twarda / 620 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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150,89 zł |
Monism: Science, Philosophy, Religion, and the History of a Worldview
ISBN: 9781349295487 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first survey in the English language of the history of naturalistic monism in the works of Haeckel, Spinoza, and others. Contributors demonstrate that, to a greater extent than previously shown, monism provided an essential epistemological framework for numerous religious, political and cultural movements between the 1840s and 1940s.
The first survey in the English language of the history of naturalistic monism in the works of Haeckel, Spinoza, and others. Contributors demonstrate ...
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194,97 zł |
Religious Life and English Culture in the Reformation
ISBN: 9781349429059 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marjo Kaartinen has brought the world of monks, friars, and nuns freshly alive in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Their monastic vows - obedience, poverty, chastity, and stability - still made a difference to them and to the laypeople around them, even when they failed to live up to them. Much of Kaartinen's story is told through the words of the religious themselves, from self-defence to self-criticism, and this makes the reading all the better. Religious Life and English Culture in the Reformation helps us understand why some forms of Catholic sensibility lasted so long and...
Marjo Kaartinen has brought the world of monks, friars, and nuns freshly alive in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Their monastic vows ...
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194,97 zł |
Merz Telescopes: A Global Heritage Worth Preserving
ISBN: 9783319414850 / Angielski / Twarda / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book comprisesa fascinating collection of contributions on the Merz telescopes in Italy that collectivelyoffer the first survey on historical large refracting telescopes in the country,drawing on original documents and photographs.
This book comprisesa fascinating collection of contributions on the Merz telescopes in Italy that collectivelyoffer the first survey on historical lar...
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428,99 zł |
Gösta Mittag-Leffler: A Man of Conviction
ISBN: 9783662501764 / Angielski / Miękka / 733 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gosta Mittag-Leffler (1846-1927) played a significant role as both a scientist and entrepreneur. Regarded as the father of Swedish mathematics, his influence extended far beyond his chosen field because of his extensive network of international contacts in science, business, and the arts. He was instrumental in seeing to it that Marie Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize twice. One of Mittag-Leffler's major accomplishments was the founding of the journal Acta Mathematica, published by Institut Mittag-Leffler and Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences. Arild Stubhaug's research for this monumental...
Gosta Mittag-Leffler (1846-1927) played a significant role as both a scientist and entrepreneur. Regarded as the father of Swedish mathematics, his in...
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194,97 zł |
If I Am to Be Remembered: Correspondence of Julian Huxley
ISBN: 9789810211424 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a foreword by S Zuckerman
The First Julian Huxley Memorial Lecture by J Needham Sir Julian Huxley was especially noted for his versatility — great biologist, first Director-General of UNESCO, Director of the London Zoo, bird watcher, skilled popular writer of science and a tireless champion of wildlife conservation. This book is a biographical account of Huxley as revealed through his own correspondence and the correspondence of his great contemporaries. An introductory biographical summary is followed by his and others' letters and a collection of some of his... With a foreword by S Zuckerman
The First Julian Huxley Memorial Lecture by J Needham Sir Julian Huxley was especially noted for his versatilit... |
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401,90 zł |
Encounters in Magnetic Resonances: Selected Papers of Nicolaas Bloembergen (with Commentary)
ISBN: 9789810225056 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text presents a selection of papers on nuclear magnetic resonance, electron paramagnetic and ferromagnetic resonance, written mostly during the first two decades (1945-1965) of the development of these scientific fields of endeavour.
This text presents a selection of papers on nuclear magnetic resonance, electron paramagnetic and ferromagnetic resonance, written mostly during the f...
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Euclid Vindicated from Every Blemish: Edited and Annotated by Vincenzo de Risi. Translated by G.B. Halsted and L. Allegri
ISBN: 9783319377919 / Angielski / Miękka / 381 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first complete English language edition of Euclides vindicatus presents a corrected and revised edition of the classical English translation of Saccheri's text by G.B. Halsted. It is complemented with a historical introduction on the geometrical environment of the time and a detailed commentary that helps to understand the aims and subtleties of the work. Euclides vindicatus, written by the Jesuit mathematician Gerolamo Saccheri, was published in Milan in 1733. In it, Saccheri attempted to reform elementary geometry in two important directions: a... This first complete English language edition of Euclides vindicatus presents a corrected and revised edition of the classical English transl... |
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John Buridan, Quaestiones super octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis (secundum ultimam lecturam): Libri III - IV
ISBN: 9789004131873 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Buridan (d. ca. 1360) was one of the most talented and influential philosophers of the later Middle Ages. He spent his career as a master in the Arts Faculty at the University of Paris, producing commentaries and independent treatises on logic, metaphysics, natural philosophy, and ethics. His Questions Commentary on the eight books of Aristotle's Physics is the most important witness to Buridan's teachings in the field of natural philosophy. The commentary was widely read during the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This volume presents the first critical edition of books III and IV...
John Buridan (d. ca. 1360) was one of the most talented and influential philosophers of the later Middle Ages. He spent his career as a master in the ...
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671,30 zł |
The Deep Metaphysics of Space: An Alternative History and Ontology Beyond Substantivalism and Relationism
ISBN: 9783319448671 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores the inadequacies of the two standard conceptions of space and time, and in the process, proposes a new historical interpretation of these physical theories. This book also examines and develops alternative ontological conceptions of space, and explores additional historical elements of seventeenth century theories and other metaphysical themes. The authors first discuss the two main opposing theories of space and time. One, known as substantivalism, proposes space to be an entity that can exist independently. The other, relationism, contends that space is a... This volume explores the inadequacies of the two standard conceptions of space and time, and in the process, proposes a new historical interpretati... |
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A Vision of Modern Science: John Tyndall and the Role of the Scientist in Victorian Culture
ISBN: 9781349292974 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination of a pivotal moment in the history of science through the career and cultural impact of the historically neglected Victorian physicist John Tyndall, establishing him as an important figure of the period, whose scientific discoveries and philosophy of science in society are still relevant today.
An examination of a pivotal moment in the history of science through the career and cultural impact of the historically neglected Victorian physicist ...
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Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye
ISBN: 9781250119636 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Collected essays from bestselling author Michael Shermer's celebrated columns in Scientific American For fifteen years, bestselling author Michael Shermer has written a column in Scientific American magazine that synthesizes scientific concepts and theory for a general audience. His trademark combination of deep scientific understanding and entertaining writing style has thrilled his huge and devoted audience for years. Now, in Skeptic, seventy-five of these columns are available together for the first time; a welcome addition for his fans and a... Collected essays from bestselling author Michael Shermer's celebrated columns in Scientific American For fifteen years, bestsel... |
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85,85 zł |
Fields of Force: The Development of a World View from Faraday to Einstein.
ISBN: 9781138991002 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes the picture of reality given by Newton, and the development of the later picture of reality given by field theory. In telling this story, the author explains what problem each scientist faced, and how the process of solving them led to new discoveries. By this method he gives unique insight into the understanding of Einstein's special theory of relativity, as he explains exactly what problems led to the invention of the theory, and exactly where Einstein's solution differed from his predecessors'. A similar analysis is given of the discoveries of Faraday, Maxwell, Hertz... This book describes the picture of reality given by Newton, and the development of the later picture of reality given by field theory. In telling t... |
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Heinrich Kaan's Psychopathia Sexualis (1844): A Classic Text in the History of Sexuality
ISBN: 9781501704604 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "With Heinrich Kaan's book we have then what could be called the date of birth, or in any case the date of the emergence, of sexuality and sexual aberrations in the psychiatric field." Michel Foucault, Abnormal: Lectures at the College de France, 1974 1975 Heinrich Kaan s fascinating work part medical treatise, part sexual taxonomy, part activist statement, and part anti-onanist tract takes us back to the origins of sexology. He links the sexual instinct to the imagination for the first time, creating what Foucault called a unified field of sexual abnormality. Kaan s taxonomy... "With Heinrich Kaan's book we have then what could be called the date of birth, or in any case the date of the emergence, of sexuality and sexual a... |
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590,12 zł |