Clerics in the Middle Ages were subjected to differing ideals of masculinity, both from within the Church and from lay society. The historians in this volume interrogate the meaning of masculine ide……続きを見る
Anglo-Japanese and American-Japanese connections in chemistry had a major impact on the institutionalization of scientific and technological higher education in Japan from the late nineteenth centur……続きを見る
著者:I. Iqbal
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2010年10月20日
With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological ……続きを見る
著者:Bronwen Douglas
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2014年03月26日
Blending global scope with local depth, this book throws new light on important themes. Spanning four centuries and vast space, it combines the history of ideas with particular histories of encounte……続きを見る
This book explores the world of religious thinking on imprisonment, and how images of imprisonment were used in monastic thought, the cult of saints, the early inquisitions, preaching and hagiograph……続きを見る
著者:J. Franklin
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2016年05月24日
Mathematics is as much a science of the real world as biology is. It is the science of the world's quantitative aspects (such as ratio) and structural or patterned aspects (such as symmetry). The bo……続きを見る
An examination of how bodies and sexualities have been constructed, categorised, represented, diagnosed, experienced and subverted from the fifteenth to the early twenty-first century. It draws atte……続きを見る
Exploring aspects of Irish medical history, from the nature and proposed remedies for various illnesses in eighteenth century Ireland, to the treatment of influenza in twentieth-century Ireland, thi……続きを見る
CERN, the European Laboratory for particle physics, regularly makes the news. What kind of research happens at this international laboratory and how does it impact people's daily lives? Why is the d……続きを見る
著者:William Briggs
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年07月15日
This book presents a philosophical approach to probability and probabilistic thinking, considering the underpinnings of probabilistic reasoning and modeling, which effectively underlie everything in……続きを見る
著者:H. G. Wells
出版社: HarperCollins Publishers
発売日: 2017年01月12日
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
“In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me ba……続きを見る
著者:Colin Burgess
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年07月17日
This book celebrates the final spaceflight in the Mercury series, flown by NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper, who led an adventurous life in the cockpit of airplanes and spacecraft alike, and on his Merc……続きを見る
Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay • F****inalist for the Southern Book Prize
A New York Times Critics’ Best Books of the Year • An NPR Best Book of the Yea……続きを見る
著者:Marcus du Sautoy
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2017年04月11日
**“An engaging voyage into some of the great mysteries and wonders of our world." --Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s Dream and The Accidental Universe
“No one is better at making the recondite ac……続きを見る
著者:Paul H Barrett
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年07月22日
The sixth volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. His work remains a central subject of stud……続きを見る
著者:Paul H Barrett
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年07月22日
The ninth volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. His work remains a central subject of stud……続きを見る
著者:Paul H Barrett
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年07月22日
The tenth volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. His work remains a central subject of stud……続きを見る
Mobile Telecommunications in a High Speed World tells the story of 3G and higher-speed mobile communication technologies. Over ten years have passed since the first third-generation (3G) licences we……続きを見る
著者:Paul H Barrett
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年07月22日
The eighth volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. His work remains a central subject of stu……続きを見る
From quantum physics and genetics to psychology and the social sciences, from the development of atomic weapons to the growing mass media of film and radio, the early 20th century was a period of in……続きを見る
著者:Giorgio, Israel
出版社: Carocci editore S.p.A.
発売日: 2016年07月26日
È sempre più diffusa la convinzione che la matematica sia lo strumento principe per analizzare e prevedere ogni aspetto della realtà, e questa visione è diventata tanto influente per il ruolo centra……続きを見る
Nel volume si ricostruisce la riflessione epistemologica di Einstein e il processo mediante il quale le sue teorie ristrutturano profondamente l’immagine del mondo naturale. Obiettivo del libro è pr……続きを見る
Non lo chiamavano ancora così, “pi greco”, né tantomeno usavano quello che oggi consideriamo un simbolo universale, π; ma Egizi e Sumeri sapevano che il rapporto tra il diametro e la circonferenza d……続きを見る
著者:Randall M. Packard
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2016年09月15日
A sweeping history explores why people living in resource-poor areas lack access to basic health care after billions of dollars have been invested in international-health assistance.
Over the past c……続きを見る
著者:Ittai Weinryb
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2016年04月01日
This book presents the first full length study in English of monumental bronzes in the Middle Ages. Taking as its point of departure the common medieval reception of bronze sculpture as living or an……続きを見る
著者:Graham Farmelo
出版社: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
発売日: 2016年09月03日
Der seltsamste Mensch ist der mit dem Costa-Buchpreis ausgezeichnete Bericht über Paul Dirac, den berühmten Physiker, der manchmal als der englische Einstein bezeichnet wird. Er war einer der führen……続きを見る
The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2017
'Does Einstein proud . . . Eminently readable' Guardian
'No one has covered the topic with such a light touch and joie de vivre . . . a delight' Brian ……続きを見る
Containing 609 encyclopedic articles written by more than 200 prominent scholars, The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science presents an unparalleled history of the field invaluable to an……続きを見る
To many people the idea that 'the body' has its own history might sound faintly ridiculous. The body and its experiences are usually seen as something that we share with people from the past. Like '……続きを見る
著者:Mark Jackson
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年08月05日
The Routledge History of Disease draws on innovative scholarship in the history of medicine toexplore the challenges involved in writing about health and disease throughout the past and across the g……続きを見る