The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution

Reducere. This is the publication of the influential Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow. Its thesis was that "the intellectual life of...

DescriptionAlchemy can't be science--common sense tells us as much. But perhaps common sense is not the best measure of what science is, or was. In...

Inspired by women s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows ho...

Models of Nature studies the early and turbulent years of the Soviet conservation movement from the October Revolution to the mid-1930s--Lenin's ru...

Publisher: North Atlantic Books, U.S.Author(s): Philip Ashley FanningNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 228 x 153 x 18Cover type...

In this fascinating look at the European scientific advances of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, historian Lisa Jardine demonstrates...

Description"There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it." With this provocative and apparently paradoxical cl...

Seasoned and renowned BBC war correspondent Martin Bell provides a personal account of war and offers an impassioned call for a return to substanti...

In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to discuss Soc...

This book tells the story of how the "servile arts" turned into the "mechanical arts, " which in turn developed into a kind of philosophical appara...

Reducere. How do species interact with each other and their environment? How do ecosystems change? What is biodiversity and can we afford to damage it? Throu...

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

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Scientific Revolution, then keep reading...Ancient cultures have been looking up at the star...

Publisher: Crossway BooksAuthor(s): Francis A. SchaefferNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 215 x 16Cover type: Paperback /...

DescriptionThe Myth of Capitalism tells the story of how America has gone from an open, competitive marketplace to an economy where a few very powe...

The first textbook covering the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution. Providing students of all backgrounds with the...

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the "Scientific ...

Reducere. Nicolaus Copernicus gave the world perhaps the most important scientific insight of the modern age, the theory that the earth and the other planets...

Reducere. The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement-unprecedented in human history. Yet in the decades that have fo...

Reducere. Educate and empower yourself Dr. Hannah Sivak earned her PhD in Biological Sciences and has worked as a scientist for over 45 years. She brings all...

A prismatic examination of the evolution of medicine, from a trade to a science, through the exemplary lives of ten men and women.Publisher: Pegasu...

Reducere. "An impressive, meticulously reported postmortem. . . . The Wizard of Lies is the definitive book on what Madoff did and how he did it." --Bloomber...

Reducere. Where is The Cure for Cancer? Have you ever wondered why in the past 100 years a cure for cancer has not been found? You're not alone We've all los...

This is a perspective on the cultural turmoil of the radical sixties and its impact on today's world, as reflected in the art of the time. It descr...

Reducere. A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin's Ghosts--a groundbreaking examination of the greatest e...

Publisher: The Crowood Press LtdAuthor(s): Marian GreenIllustration(s): 12 Line drawings, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2022Dime...

Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino set out to destroy the Mafia. In 1992, aware that the magistrates didn't have the support of the Italian gove...

Reducere. "Read The Economic Singularity if you want to think intelligently about the future."Aubrey de GreyArtificial intelligence (AI) is overtaking our hu...

Publisher: Rudolf Steiner PressAuthor(s): Rudolf SteinerIllustration(s): IllustrationsTranslator: M. BartonNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 20...

Reducere. Winner, 2020 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize A fascinating reinterpretation of the radical and socialist origins of ecology Twenty years ...

The heroism of the females of the American Revolution has gone from memory with the generation that witnessed it, and nothing, absolutely nothing, ...

What is the meaning of life? In today's secular, post-religious scientific world, this question has become a serious preoccupation. But it also has...

This volume, the tenth of Hippocrates' invaluable texts on the practice of medicine in antiquity, provides essential information about human reprod...

If you could fit our culture of convenience into a petri dish, what would it look like? Movement Matters is a series of essays in which biomechanis...

This volume will look into some macro factors that have an impact on gender conceptualizations in China. First, China is a highly-centralized state...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Sebastien Penmellen BoretNumber of pages: 222Collection: Japan Anthropology Workshop SeriesPublication da...