The Collected Letters of Humphry Davy, Fulford Tim, Ruston Sharon
Автор: Greenwood, Davydd (professor Emeritus, Cornell University) Название: Taming of evolution ISBN: 1501719882 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501719882 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2126.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of human beings, evolutionary and preevolutionary views continue to coexist in a state of perpetual tension. The Taming of Evolution addresses the questions of how and why this is so. Davydd Greenwood offers a sustained critique of the nature/nurture debate, revealing the complexity of the relationship between science and ideology. He maintains that popular contemporary theories, most notably E. O. Wilson’s human sociobiology and Marvin Harris’s cultural materialism, represent pre-Darwinian notions overlaid by elaborate evolutionary terminology. Greenwood first details the humoral-environmental and Great Chain of Being theories that dominated Western thinking before Darwin. He systematically compares these ideas with those later influenced by Darwin’s theories, illuminating the surprising continuities between them. Greenwood suggests that it would be neither difficult nor socially dangerous to develop a genuinely evolutionary understanding of human beings, so long as we realized that we could not derive political and moral standards from the study of biological processes.
Автор: Davy Название: Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy ISBN: 1108038506 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108038508 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7286.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was a hugely influential chemist, inventor, and public lecturer who is recognised as one of the first professional scientists. This 1836 memoir by his brother John Davy makes use of family and personal papers to convey Sir Humphry`s character as well as his scientific achievements.
Автор: Davy Название: Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy ISBN: 1108038514 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108038515 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6018.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was a hugely influential chemist, inventor, and public lecturer who is recognised as one of the first professional scientists. This 1836 memoir by his brother John Davy makes use of family letters and personal papers to convey Sir Humphry`s character as well as scientific achievements.
Автор: Davy Название: Consolations in Travel ISBN: 1108064248 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108064248 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4434.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Published posthumously in 1830, this collection of poetry, autobiographical sketches, descriptions of dreams, philosophical musings on the afterlife and, in the view of one contemporary review, `some [matter] almost bordering on the absurd` proved a poignant and controversial postscript to the illustrious life of perhaps the first celebrity scientist.
Автор: Morris, William Название: Collected letters of william morris, volume ii, part a ISBN: 0691632987 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691632988 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 23760.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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These volumes continue the only complete edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834- 1896), a protean figure who exerted a major influence as poet, craftsman, master printer, and designer. Covering the years 1881 through 1888, they treat the most dramatic period in another facet of Morris's career: his work as a political activist.
Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Описание: An architect and teacher of architecture, Christopher Davy (c.1803-49) also took an interest in steam engines and railway construction. In this work, published in 1839, he discusses the geology of England and Wales, the practicalities of pile driving, the use of concrete and the properties of limestone.
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