The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics, Paperback - Robert P. Crease

Reducere. The Second Creation is a dramatic--and human--chronicle of scientific investigators at the last frontier of knowledge. Robert Crease and Charles Ma...

Reducere. Atelierele stiintifice si lumea. Lectii de la 10 mari ganditori ai lumii despre stiinta si autoritate •Francis Bacon •Galileo Galilei •Rene Descart...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Bedross Der MatossianNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 230 x 151 x 25Cover type:...

O analiza fascinanta a celor mai importanti ganditori care au modelat perceptia publica asupra stiintei si rolul autoritatii de-a lungul istoriei C...

Reducere. While we may be familiar with some of science's greatest equations, we may not know that each and every equation emerged not in "Eureka " moments b...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

Considering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States ...

Reducere. James P. Woodard's history of consumer capitalism in Brazil, today the world's fifth most populous country, is at once magisterial, intimate, and p...

War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians, one that's grown increasingly apparent in recent...

Reducere. In the 1920s, Mexico established rural normales--boarding schools that trained teachers in a new nation-building project. Drawn from campesino rank...

As Robert Fishman writes of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries, Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, they 'hated the c...

An authoritative insider's view of today's Russia - a Russian 'BARBARIANS AT THE GATEPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Chrystia Freelan...

Reducere. The story of how the ancient art of horsemanship has been transformed over the past few decades and its effect on training, riding, tack, medicine,...

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DescriptionA fascinating look at the lives of women who bore the heat of day in Christian mission, but who were often forgotten by history until now.

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Claire ZimmermanNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 256 x 179 x 26Cover type: ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 8 colour & 74 bw illusNumber of pages: 328Collection: Material Culture of Art and DesignPublic...

A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair M...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert LomasEverybody knows that Thomas Edison devised electric light and domestic electricity supplies, that Guglielmo Mar...

Reducere. Groundbreaking, insightful, and compulsively readable, Revolution in Mind goes beyond myth and polemic to give us the story of one of the most cont...

Reducere. Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Richard (Professor of musicology, Professor of musicology, University of California, Berkeley) Tar...

Reducere. Anybody who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. Niels Bohr's dictum bears witness to the bewildering impact of quantum theory, ...

This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early ...

From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world Why a...

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Final volume of the seven-volume Cambridge History of the Book in Britain series, focusing on the twentieth century and beyond. The book is for stu...

A study of Communism and a history of the myth of Communism as perpetuated by its admirers. This book illuminates how the support for Communism and...

Reducere. "Stimulating, encyclopedic, and often downright funny, this is a book worth remembering." --Stephen O'Shea, Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) "A liv...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Aaron Rock-SingerIllustration(s): 1 b-w illustrationNumber of pages: 278Publication date: 2022D...

Examines the history of the mapping sciences in the twentieth century and their relationship to the history of territory

A major new account of poetry in the twentieth century.

Reducere. Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin's trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of th...