Hot Flushes, Cold Science. A History Of The Modern Menopause, Paperback - Louise Foxcroft

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Exploring the relationship between cities and their cinematic portrayals in over a century of film, this book shows how notions of society inform a...

Reducere. A surprising look at the role of menopause in human history-and why we should change the ways we think about it Are the ways we look at menopause a...

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In an accessible and timely work of scholarship, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman tells the story of the factory and examines how it has refl...

Contributor(s): Author: Betty S. AndersonA History of the Modern Middle East offers a comprehensive assessment of the region, stretching from the f...

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Reducere. French doctoral student, Louis Bachelier, successfully defended his thesis Th orie de la Sp culation at the Sorbonne. This book provides a new tran...

Reducere. The task of condensing the History of the Church within a few hundred pages is a delicate one. We have undertaken it in the hope that our efforts w...

Reducere. The task of condensing the History of the Church within a few hundred pages is a delicate one. We have undertaken it in the hope that our efforts w...

From Harvard's legendary humor publication comes an outrageous, uproariously funny parody of Game of Thrones, in the tradition of their previous be...

Taking readers from the rainforests of Paraguay to the streets of Tokyo, Mattern draws on historical, scientific, and cultural research to reveal h...

How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of eco...

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This is the story of an ordinary cold war fighter pilot, with campaigns from an air viewpoint, showing detail of how we lost parts of our Empire.Pu...

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DescriptionHow our understanding of calculus has evolved over more than three centuries, how this has shaped the way it is taught in the classroom,...

Michel Morange updates the history of molecular biology at a moment when scientists are making big strides in genetic engineering and exploring new...

Publisher: SAGE Publications IncAuthor(s): David LuddenNumber of pages: 488Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 218 x 281 x 19Cover type: Paperback / ...

Reducere. "In Hot Talk, Cold Science, Fred Singer looks at the issue of climate change the way a physicist should. He asks probing questions and offers reaso...

One of the most controversial, cutting-edge ideas in cosmology-the possibility that there exist multiple parallel universes-in fact has a long hist...

A history of the feminist movement that changed how we see women's work forever

In the 19th century, when gender roles were more confining, the dominant forms of psychosomatic illness were paralysis and hysteria. Today, when pe...

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A comprehensive account of knowledge of the natural world in Europe, c.1500-1700. Articles by leading specialists describe how new ideas, discoveri...

Reducere. No metropolis in America has more pure baseball spirit than St. Louis, Missouri. It's a love affair that began in 1874, when a band of local booste...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Scientific Revolution, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Scie...

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Reducere. This is a landmark in science writing that resurrects from the vaults of neglect the polymath Jerome Cardano, a Milanese of the sixteenth century. ...

A timely, empowering and empathetic collection of stories that cuts through the embarrassment, myths and silence that have surrounded women's under...

Reducere. Noboru Hirota has produced a major historical analysis of how the field of chemistry has evolved over centuries. Spanning more than eight hundred p...

Reducere. This is a detailed history of one of the most important and dramatic episodes in modern science, recounted from the novel vantage point of the dawn...

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