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The Making of Modern Physics in Colonial India
ISBN: 9781472465535 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historians of science have often wondered how physicists in colonial India were able to contribute so significantly to the emerging quantum mechanics in Western Europe during the 1920s. This book addresses this question by focussing on a group of bhadrolok physicists in the period before Indian independence. The term bhadralok refers to the then emerging group of native intelligentsia, who were identified by academic pursuits and manners and effectively transcended the existing class and caste barriers of the colonial society. The work and social interactions of three scientists is explored...
Historians of science have often wondered how physicists in colonial India were able to contribute so significantly to the emerging quantum mechanics ...
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The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction Volume 52
ISBN: 9781517900854 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1905, a young Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg founded an electrical supply shop in New York. This inventor, writer, and publisher Hugo Gernsback would later become famous for launching the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926. But while science fiction s annual Hugo Awards were named in his honor, there has been surprisingly little understanding of how the genre began among a community of tinkerers all drawn to Gernsback s vision of comprehending the future of media through making. In The Perversity of Things, Grant Wythoff makes available texts by... In 1905, a young Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg founded an electrical supply shop in New York. This inventor, writer, and publisher Hugo Gernsbac... |
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The Microbes Fight Back: Antibiotic Resistance
ISBN: 9781782621676 / Angielski / Miękka / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Antibiotics are familiar drugs to us all, so familiar that we may take them for granted. They allow us to survive life-threatening infections, and allow us to protect the animals we farm for food. Many antibiotics have now become ineffective against common diseases, and there are few alternative treatments to replace them. In this topical book, Laura Bowater, Professor of Microbiology Education and Engagement at Norwich Medical School, considers the past, present and uncertain future of antibiotics. This book begins by looking back at how infectious diseases, such as smallpox and The Plague,...
Antibiotics are familiar drugs to us all, so familiar that we may take them for granted. They allow us to survive life-threatening infections, and all...
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The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World
ISBN: 9780691173191 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history and shaped the world as we know it today. A testament to the enduring power of ideas, The Shape of the New offers unforgettable portraits of Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx--heirs of the Enlightenment who embodied its highest ideals about progress--and shows how their thoughts, over time and in the hands of their followers and opponents, transformed the... This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverb... |
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Models as Make-Believe: Imagination, Fiction and Scientific Representation
ISBN: 9781349336876 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scientists often try to understand the world by building simplified and idealised models of it. Adam Toon develops a new approach to scientific models by comparing them to the dolls and toy trucks of children's imaginative games, and offers a unified framework to solve difficult metaphysical problems and help to make sense of scientific practice.
Scientists often try to understand the world by building simplified and idealised models of it. Adam Toon develops a new approach to scientific models...
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Bourdieu, Language and the Media
ISBN: 9781349307623 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This bookengages with key theoretical and analytical issues in the field of media, communication and cultural studies.Using case studies of radio, internet, text messaging and photojournalism, itdeploys Bourdieu's ideas to reveal how language in the media is implicated in broader social patterns of 'symbolic violence'."
This bookengages with key theoretical and analytical issues in the field of media, communication and cultural studies.Using case studies of radio, int...
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On the Metaphysics of Experimental Physics
ISBN: 9781349522927 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This provocative and critical work addresses the question of why scientific realists and positivists consider experimental physics to be a natural and empirical science. Taking insights from contemporary science studies, continental philosophy, and the history of physics, this book describes and analyses the metaphysical presuppositions that underwrite the technological use of experimental apparatus and instruments to explore, model, and understand nature. By revealing this metaphysical foundation, the author questions whether experimental physics is a natural and empirical science at all.
This provocative and critical work addresses the question of why scientific realists and positivists consider experimental physics to be a natural and...
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Cancer Patients, Cancer Pathways: Historical and Sociological Perspectives
ISBN: 9781349444809 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eleven essays by historians and sociologists examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and North America. These are not stories of inevitable medical progress and obstacles overcome, but of historical contingencies, cultural differences, hope, and often disappointed expectations.
Eleven essays by historians and sociologists examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and North America. These ar...
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The Politics of Addiction: Medical Conflict and Drug Dependence in England Since the 1960s
ISBN: 9781349306886 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Politics of Addiction examines power and policy-making in the context of a bitter conflict between private and publicly employed doctors treating addiction. Regulation was used by both the profession and the state to shape the treatment of addiction and who could provide it, with the media feeding into the process.
The Politics of Addiction examines power and policy-making in the context of a bitter conflict between private and publicly employed doctors treating ...
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Medicine and the Market in England and Its Colonies, C.1450- C.1850
ISBN: 9781349352937 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What was the medical marketplace? This book provides the first critical examination of medicine and the market in pre-modern England, colonial North America and British India. Chapters explore the most important themes in the social history of medicine and offer a fresh understanding of healthcare in this time of social and economic transformation.
What was the medical marketplace? This book provides the first critical examination of medicine and the market in pre-modern England, colonial North A...
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Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800: Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description
ISBN: 9781349431854 / Angielski / Miękka / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800 offers a powerful revisionist account of the intellectual significance of landscape descriptions during the 'long' Eighteenth-century. Landscape has long been a major arena for debate about the nature of Eighteenth-century English culture; this book surveys those debates and offers a provocative new account. Mayhew shows that describing landscape was a religiously contested practice, and that different theological positions led differing authors to different descriptive approaches. Landscape description, then, shows English...
Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800 offers a powerful revisionist account of the intellectual significance of landscape des...
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Linde: History of a Technology Corporation, 1879-2004
ISBN: 9781349514571 / Angielski / Miękka / 369 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1877, university Professor Carl von Linde obtained a patent for his refrigerator from the Imperial Patent Office - a patent for something that was not merely an invention, but the result of serious research in the basic laws of physics. Linde went on to found the Linde Company, one of the biggest German Gas and Engineering companies which became one of the models for science based industries. Today, the Linde Group, headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, is a global technology company dedicated to gas and engineering, material handling and refrigeration. This book examines the history of...
In 1877, university Professor Carl von Linde obtained a patent for his refrigerator from the Imperial Patent Office - a patent for something that was ...
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Richard Hoggart and Cultural Studies
ISBN: 9781349360956 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this new collection of essays, a range ofestablished and emergingcultural critics re-evaluate Richard Hoggart's contribution to the history of ideas and to the discipline of Cultural Studies. They examine Hoggart's legacy, identifying his widespread influence, tracing continuities and complexities, and affirming his importance."
In this new collection of essays, a range ofestablished and emergingcultural critics re-evaluate Richard Hoggart's contribution to the history of idea...
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Racial Science and British Society, 1930-62
ISBN: 9781349284351 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From 1930-62 the idea of race was studied across a range of academic disciplines. This book explores expert thinkings on race in the period and explains the relationship between scientific racial research, social policy and attitudes regarding immigration, ultimately offering new insight into the evolving understanding of the idea of race.
From 1930-62 the idea of race was studied across a range of academic disciplines. This book explores expert thinkings on race in the period and explai...
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Operations Without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain
ISBN: 9781349517183 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between modern medicine and earlier practices. This book uses new information from John Snow's casebooks and London hospital archives to revise many of the existing historical assumptions about the early history of surgical anaesthesia. By examining complex patterns of innovation, reversals, debate and geographical difference, Stephanie Snow shows how anaesthesia became established as a routine part of British medicine.
The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between modern medicine and earlier practices. This book uses new inform...
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Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9781349470037 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In early modern English medicine, the balance of fluids in the body was seen as key to health. Menstruation was widely believed to regulate blood levels in the body and so was extensively discussed in medical texts. Sara Read examines all forms of literature, from plays and poems, to life-writing, and compares these texts with the medical theories.
In early modern English medicine, the balance of fluids in the body was seen as key to health. Menstruation was widely believed to regulate blood leve...
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Religion and the Cold War
ISBN: 9781349432219 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although seen widely as the twentieth-century's great religious war, as a conflict between the god-fearing and the godless, the religious dimension of the Cold War has never been subjected to a scholarly critique. This unique study shows why religion is a key Cold War variable. A specially commissioned collection of new scholarship, it provides fresh insights into the complex nature of the Cold War. It has profound resonance today with the resurgence of religion as a political force in global society.
Although seen widely as the twentieth-century's great religious war, as a conflict between the god-fearing and the godless, the religious dimension of...
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Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace: The British Ship Revolution and Japanese Industrialization
ISBN: 9781349518975 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The technological revolution in shipbuilding in the early twentieth century had a great impact on the military, industrial, commercial worlds. Matsumoto focuses on the relationship between this revolution and the structure and function of 'technology gatekeepers' during the transfer of marine science and technology from Britain to Japan.
The technological revolution in shipbuilding in the early twentieth century had a great impact on the military, industrial, commercial worlds. Matsumo...
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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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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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