Описание: Based on thousands of letters written by patients and their relatives and on a wide range of other sources, this book provides the first comprehensive account of how early modern people understood, experienced and dealt with common diseases and how they dealt with them on a day-to-day basis.
Описание: Being human while trying to scientifically study human nature confronts us with our most vexing problem. What we need to move forward in our understanding of human agency, this book argues, is a reform in the way we study ourselves and a long overdue break with traditional humanist thinking.
Автор: H.B. Hollinger; M. Zenzen Название: The Nature of Irreversibility ISBN: 9027720800 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789027720801 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27251.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A dominant feature of our ordinary experience of the world is a sense of irreversible change: things lose form, people grow old, energy dissipates.
Автор: B. Donagan; A. Perovich; M. Wedin Название: Human Nature and Natural Knowledge ISBN: 9027719748 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789027719744 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 32144.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: N. Roe Название: The Politics of Nature ISBN: 0333962753 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333962756 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Taking into account recent developments in historical and ecological criticism, and incorporating fresh research into poetry and politics in the 1790s, the second edition of The Politics of Nature enlarges and updates Nicholas Roe`s acclaimed study of Romanticism.
Автор: Humboldt Название: Views of Nature ISBN: 1108037356 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108037358 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7445.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is a selection of Alexander von Humboldt`s favourite essays on natural science. The remarkable breadth of coverage (including geology, geography and biology) is typical of the author, as is the precise and engaging style. This English translation of the third and final German edition (1849) was published in 1850.
Автор: Nicholas Roe Название: The Politics of Nature ISBN: 0333523148 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333523148 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 21661.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Written over a period of six years, this book comprises a series of lectures, both for the Charles Lamb Society and at Lancaster and Leicester Universities, and an independent study. Writers such as John Augustus Bonney, Wordsworth, George Dyer and Southey are examined.
Автор: Sivasundaram Название: Nature and the Godly Empire ISBN: 0521188881 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521188883 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A study of the relations between nineteenth-century science and Christianity, focusing on London Missionary Society members who became residents in the Pacific. It argues that Britain`s providential empire found support from popular views of nature as much as elite science. It will be of interest to cultural historians and anthropologists.
Описание: Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing, foraging, and timber cutting in the newly created parks. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these "crimes" and provides a rich portrait of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Автор: Tamar Sharon Название: Human Nature in an Age of Biotechnology ISBN: 9400775539 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400775534 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The potential of biotechnology to alter and enhance the human body challenges the very notion of what a human being is. This accessible, critical guide to the main approaches in the debate on `posthumanism` argues for a more integrated ethical approach.
Автор: M. Biagioli; J. Riskin Название: Nature Engaged ISBN: 1349287172 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349287178 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume gathers essays that focus on the worldliness of science, its inseparable engagement in the major institutional bases of social life: law, market, church, school, and nation.
Автор: Amit Goswami Название: The Physicists` View of Nature Part 2 ISBN: 1461351189 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781461351184 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Quantum Revolution discusses how quantum theory overthrew the objective, materialist and determinist worldviews of classical physics. The text emphasizes how quantum physics may reestablish consciousness as a causal agent in science by delving into quantum non-locality and its implications to society.
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