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This book presents, for the first time in English, a comprehensive anthology of essays on Christian Wolff's psychology written by leading international scholars. Christian Wolff is one of the towering figures in 18th-century Western thought. In the last decades, the...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-07-16
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This book, within the vision of the study on the image history, clearly manifests the development of Chinese image science and technology of over 2000 years based on compendium, while having briefly sorted out expositions by scientists since ancient times in China,...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-26
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Scientists regularly employ historical narrative as a rhetorical tool in their communication of science, yet there's been little reflection on its effects within scientific communities and beyond. Science Between Myth and History begins to unravel these threads of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-15
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This book provides a broad overview of what peace research is all about by an author who has been involved in the field for more than half a century. Among other things it gives a unique review of how peace research emerged in Sweden as the author was a key actor in the...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-05-28
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This book is a consequence of the international meeting organized in Marseilles in November 2018 devoted to the aftermath of the Great War for mathematical communities. It features selected original research presented at the meeting offering a new perspective on a...
Editeur :
Birkhäuser
Parution :
2021-03-27
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Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was one of the greatest physicists and mathematicians the Netherlands has ever known. Einstein called him "a living work of art, a perfect personality". During his funeral in 1928, the entire Dutch nation mourned. The national telegraph service...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-12
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A Mind Over Matter is a biography of the Nobel-prize winner Philip W. Anderson, a person widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential physicists of the second half of the twentieth century.
Anderson (1923-2020) was a theoretician who specialized in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-08
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BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly viruses. The interviews make sobering reading, a reminder of all the deadly viruses that have threatened global health, and why for the...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2021-01-07
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This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural, literary, and intellectual contexts of the medieval and early modern periods. In the Middle Ages, these experiences were interpreted according to frameworks...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-11
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What is the connection between planet Mars and Iron Man, nickel and the Seven Dwarves, or DNA, walnuts and Jupiter, fuchsine, the fox and Zorro, or even ammoniac and the god Amun?
This book tells the stories behind the naming of the elements, whether they are chemical...
Editeur :
EDP Sciences
Parution :
2020-12-07
Collection :
HORS COLLECTION
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This book investigates the political history of Big Science in Europe in the late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century, characterised by the founding histories of two collaborative, single-sited facilities namely the European Synchrotron Radiation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-31
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To my knowledge...no one...has ever written a comprehensive book dealing with physicians through the ages and recounting their history in a coherent fashion.
So wrote Syrian physician Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah, circa 1243, as he embarked on the first world history of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-25
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To my knowledge...no one...has ever written a comprehensive book dealing with physicians through the ages and recounting their history in a coherent fashion.
So wrote Syrian physician Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah, circa 1243, as he embarked on the first world history of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-25
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Why has the chicken become the meat par excellence, the most plentifully eaten and popular animal protein in the world, consumed from Beijing to Barcelona? As renowned historian Paul Josephson shows, the story of the chicken's rise involves a whole host of factors; from...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-05-19
Collection :
Environmental History
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Trans seems to be everywhere in American culture. Yet there is little understanding of how this came about. Are people aware that there were earlier periods of gender flexibility and contestability in American history? How well known is it that a previous period of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-05-07
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This book provides a perspective on the concepts placebo and placebo effects, which has been missing so far: a detailed analysis of the history of the terms, their current use, suggested alternatives and the implications of the conceptual confusion. Everybody...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-03-24
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This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a critical and comprehensive understanding of how knowledge has been made, moved and used, by whom and for what purpose. To explain how new knowledge emerges, this volume offers a two-fold conceptual move: challenging...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-03-02
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How can nations ensure that buried nuclear waste goes undisturbed for thousands of years? The United States government tried to solve this problem with the help of experts they identified in communication, materials science, and futurism. From the perspective of a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-01-24
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The Evolution of Music by Culture and Science aims to recognise the impact of science on music, why it occurs, how we respond, and even to tentatively see if we can predict future developments. Technology has played an immense role in the development of music as it has...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-25
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What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio in the last eight years, there is no simple answer. Mathematicians, electricians, molecular biologists and mechanics can all transform lives. Some...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2019-11-14
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