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Evolution for the People


Peter J. Bowler


From Darwin's The Origin of Species to the twenty-first century, Peter Bowler reinterprets the long Darwinian Revolution by refocussing our attention on the British and American public. By applying recent historical interest in popular science to evolutionary ideas, he...

Parution : 2024-11-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Darwin Mythology
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Darwin Mythology


Kostas Kampourakis


Many historical ?gures have their lives and works shrouded in myth, both in life and long after their deaths. Charles Darwin (1809–82) is no exception to this phenomenon and his hero-worship has become an accepted narrative. This concise, accessible and engaging...

Parution : 2024-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Land of the Hunger Artists
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The Land of the Hunger Artists


Agustí Nieto-Galan


From the 1880s to the 1920s, hunger artists - professional fasters - lived on the fringes of public spectacle and academic experiment. Agustí Nieto-Galan presents the history of this phenomenon as popular urban spectacle and subject of scientific study, showing how...

Parution : 2023-11-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany
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The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany


Peter Thompson


Exploring the history of the gas mask in Germany from 1915 to the eve of the Second World War, Peter Thompson traces how chemical weapons and protective technologies like the gas mask produced new relationships to danger, risk, management and mastery in the modern age...

Parution : 2023-05-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Underground Mathematics
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Underground Mathematics


Thomas Morel


Thomas Morel tells the story of subterranean geometry, a forgotten discipline that developed in the silver mines of early modern Europe. Mining and metallurgy were of great significance to the rulers of early modern Europe, required for the silver bullion that fuelled...

Parution : 2022-12-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Science for Governing Japan's Population
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Science for Governing Japan's Population


Aya Homei


Twenty-first-century Japan is known for the world's most aged population. Faced with this challenge, Japan has been a pioneer in using science to find ways of managing a declining birth rate. Science for Governing Japan's Population considers the question of why these...

Parution : 2022-11-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Narrative Science
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Narrative Science


Dominic J. Berry , Kim M. Hajek , Mary S. Morgan


Narrative Science examines the use of narrative in scientific research over the last two centuries. It brings together an international group of scholars who have engaged in intense collaboration to find and develop crucial cases of narrative in science. Motivated and...

Parution : 2022-10-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Technological Internationalism and World Order
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Technological Internationalism and World Order


Waqar H. Zaidi


Between 1920 and 1950, British and US internationalists called for aviation and atomic energy to be taken out of the hands of nation-states, and instead used by international organizations such as the League of Nations and the United Nations. An international air force...

Parution : 2021-06-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Origins of Modern Science
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The Origins of Modern Science


Ofer Gal


The Origins of Modern Science is the first synthetic account of the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution in many decades. Providing readers of all backgrounds and students of all disciplines with the tools to study science like a...

Parution : 2021-02-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Physics and Psychics
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Physics and Psychics


Richard Noakes


This is the first systematic exploration of the intriguing connections between Victorian physical sciences and the study of the controversial phenomena broadly classified as psychic, occult and paranormal. These phenomena included animal magnetism, spirit-rapping,...

Parution : 2019-10-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Get Funded: An Insider's Guide to Building An Academic Research Program
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Get Funded: An Insider's Guide to Building An Academic Research Program


Robert J. Trew


Learn all the basic principles involved in initiating an academic career and building an externally funded academic research program with this practical guide. Based on the author's extensive experience as a government funding agency director and successful academic, it...

Parution : 2017-04-13
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