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Behavioral neuroendocrinologists are interested in the interactions between hormones and behaviors. This unique book tracks the development of behavioral neuroendocrinology from the first recognized paper in the field by Arnold Berthold in 1849 to the major...
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Springer
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2022-11-29
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This book presents an English-language translation of Risala-yi Mu?iniya, or the Mu?iniya Epistle. Risala-yi Mu?iniya is one of the earliest known works of Na?ir al-Din ?usi (1201–1274), an intellectual luminary of the 13th century CE. The work is notable for...
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Springer
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2022-11-18
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This book brings together a selection of papers by George Gerstein, representing his long-term endeavor of making neuroscience into a more rigorous science inspired by physics, where he had his roots. Professor Gerstein was many years ahead of the ?eld, consistently...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-11-10
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Science is remarkably reliable. It puts people on the moon, performs laser eye surgery, tells us about ancient civilizations and species, and predicts the future of our climate. What underwrites this reliability? This book argues that the standard answers--the...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-11-10
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This book surveys Hebrew manuscripts of Aristotelian philosophy and logic. It presents a translation and revision of part of Moritz Steinschneider’s monumental Die Hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher (The Hebrew Translations of the...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-10-17
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This book discusses the changing conceptions about the relationship between geometry and arithmetic within the Euclidean tradition that developed in the British context of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Its focus is on Book II of the Elements and the ways in...
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Springer
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2022-09-12
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„Alternative Wahrheiten“ beeinträchtigen jeden faktenbasierten Diskurs – egal ob im Fernsehen, in Zeitungen oder in den sozialen Medien. Oft werden dafür datengestützte (Schein-)Argumente vorgebracht und es stellt sich ganz automatisch die Frage nach der Qualität dieser...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-07-31
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Bedeutend ist Theophrast von Hohenheim (ca. 1493/4–1541), genannt Paracelsus, vor allem durch sein Aufbegehren gegen die klassischen antiken und arabisch-mittelalterlichen Autoritäten in der Medizin. Grundlage sollen nicht mehr die überlieferten Schriften, sondern...
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Springer VS
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2022-07-29
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
This livelyVery Short Introduction reviews the central events, machines, and people that feature in established accounts of the history of computing, critically examining received perceptions and providing a fresh...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
This livelyVery Short Introduction reviews the central events, machines, and people that feature in established accounts of the history of computing, critically examining received perceptions and providing a fresh...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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Discover a fascinating look into the lives of six historic trailblazers in this World War II-era story of the American women who programmed the world's first modern computer. "Kleiman’s persistence in sleuthing out the story of the ENIAC 6...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2022-07-26
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Through Francesco Bianchini, the 'greatest Italian of his time' this book explores the exciting meeting of science, history, and politics in early modern Europe.
Born in a time where entry into the church granted power, privilege, and access to the most exciting ideas...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-26
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Through Francesco Bianchini, the 'greatest Italian of his time' this book explores the exciting meeting of science, history, and politics in early modern Europe.
Born in a time where entry into the church granted power, privilege, and access to the most exciting ideas...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-26
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Crucial to most research in physics, as well as leading to the development of inventions such as the transistor and the laser, quantum mechanics approaches its centenary with an impressive record. However, the field has also long been the subject of ongoing debates...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-03-07
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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology gives readers a view into this increasingly vital and urgently needed domain of philosophical understanding, offering an in-depth collection of leading and emerging voices in the philosophy of technology.The thirty-two...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-02-01
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Before the discovery of insulin, a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes was a death sentence. One hundred years after a milestone medical discovery, 'Insulin - The Crooked Timber' tells the story of how insulin was transformed from what one clinician called 'thick brown muck'...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-20
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From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them...
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Workman Publishing Company
Parution :
2021-11-16
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This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-01
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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A year after the second edition of his famous translation and commentary on Vitruvius, Daniele Barbaro published The Practice of Perspective, a text he had begun working on many years before. Barbaro was the first to publish a formal treatise entirely dedicated to the...
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Birkhäuser
Parution :
2021-09-06
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Was Amalie Dietrich, eine naturwissenschaftliche Sammlerin des 19. Jahrhunderts, für eine multidisziplinäre Auseinandersetzung heute so interessant macht, ist die besondere Quellenlage: Neben den von ihr präparierten Museumsstücken liegt eine Vielzahl an Publikationen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-09-03
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