Re:i - History 1

El quinto volumen de la serie Siglo XX Venezolano presenta al lector un recorrido por el desarrollo del sistema científico del país durante la centuria pasada. El conjunto de ensayos, escritos por m……続きを見る

Winner, 2010 Emily Toth Award for Best Book in Women’s Studies, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association The Modern Period examines how and why Americans adopted radically new method……続きを見る

Caros leitores, o livro em questão trata-se de reflexões sobrenaturais, tendo como tema Malba Tahan, pseudônimo criado por Júlio César de Melo e Souza, grande matemático e escritor brasileiro, autos……続きを見る

Fábulas Portuguesas: Memória, História e Literatura na formação do discurso de Ourique investiga como o mito da Batalha de Ourique, ocorrida em julho de 1139, moldou a identidade nacional portuguesa……続きを見る

Quando uma deusa imortal ensina a um mortal a arte da caça, ela acaba descobrindo algo que nem os deuses do Olimpo previram: o amor. Em meio às florestas sagradas do Monte Olimpo, Ártemis, a deusa d……続きを見る

The long history of tiny matter(s) in the sciences, thought, and culture Winner of the Modern Language Association Prize for an Edited Collection From catastrophic weather and steady warming caused ……続きを見る

Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, baggies, toothbrushes, and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with plastic, we’re starting to realize it’s not suc……続きを見る

Depuis des années déjà, on assiste à une montée en puissance de courants religieux qui pronent un retour à ce qu’ils considèrent comme les fondamentaux de leur foi. Pour atteindre cet objectif, la l……続きを見る

From Zero to Infinity is a combination of number lore, number history, and sparkling descriptions of the simply stated but exceedingly difficult problems posed by the most ordinary numbers that firs……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The stories in this book make for a fascinating and remarkably complete pantheon of just about every common despair and every joy related to game development.” ー Rami Ismail, c……続きを見る

Viele Wissenschaften können veranschaulicht werden. In den Naturwissenschaften führen spannende Experimente zu leichterem Verständnis und Aufmerksamkeit. Zu den Gesellschaftswissenschaften können Be……続きを見る

What is the role of the environment, and of the information it provides, in cognition? More specifically, may there be a role for certain artefacts to play in this context? These are questions that ……続きを見る

This volume explores the many different meanings of the notion of the axiomatic method, offering an insightful historical and philosophical discussion about how these notions changed over the millen……続きを見る

Há mais de séculos que as atividades de preparação de alimentos atraem estudiosos da química, da física e da microbiologia como campo de experimentação para comprovar e afirmar a autoridade científi……続きを見る

The emigration of mathematicians from Europe during the Nazi era signaled an irrevocable and important historical shift for the international mathematics world. Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germ……続きを見る

Disasters in World History surveys the development of disaster studies as a discipline as well as presenting historical case studies and theories used by historians to understand disasters. Disaster……続きを見る

Zbiór dwóch dziełek wybitnego polskiego językoznawcy na temat języka złodziejskiego. Bardzo ciekawa- i dziwna książka, polecana dla osób, które interesują się językiem, kryminalistyką, historią lub ……続きを見る

Visit one hundred extraordinary stars that unveil the mysteries of the universe Our own Sunーa source of awe, myth, and mystery for untold generations of sky-gazersーis just one of roughly two hundr……続きを見る

This book describes official statistics as a tool to hold up a mirror to society – but also as an instrument for those who can manipulate this mirror. It addresses the precarious interaction of poli……続きを見る

It may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria of the twentieth century were also among the first to become aware of the devastating effects of carele……続きを見る

"One of the best popular accounts of how Einstein and his followers have been trying to explain the universe for decades" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Physicists have been exploring, debating,……続きを見る

Esta obra contribui para ampliar o repertório de propostas para o ensino da matemática. A obra apresenta reflexões importantes, de diferentes pesquisadores, realizadas dentro de um grupo de pesquisa……続きを見る

In this accessible analysis, a philosopher and a science educator look at biological theory and society through a synthesis of mechanistic and organicist points of view to best understand the comple……続きを見る

Dieser Band der Astrophysik-Aktuell-Reihe beschäftigt sich mit der astronautischen Raumfahrt. Er beginnt mit den ersten Vorstellungen der Menschen über ihren Platz im Kosmos und erzählt die Geschich……続きを見る

Para la monarquía hispánica gobernar era hacer justicia. Bajo este fundamento, la corona de Castilla construyó todo un complejo aparato de tribunales en sus dominios americanos. Esta obra analiza un……続きを見る

Based on the analytical framework of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ernest Becker, Controlling Animals makes use of the notion of the heroic ideal to expose dysfunctional attempts at immortality thro……続きを見る

How Romans coped with the anxieties and risks of childbirth Across the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals to one another, to the highest levels of imperial……続きを見る

This trans-historical collection explores analogue performance technologies from Ancient Greece to pre-Second World War. From ancient mechanical elephants to early modern automata, Enlightenment ele……続きを見る

Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity is possibly the most perfect intellectual achievement in modern physics. Anything that involves gravity, the force that powers everything on the larges……続きを見る

This book presents a new approach to the epistemology of mathematics by viewing mathematics as a human activity whose knowledge is intimately linked with practice. Charting an exciting new direction……続きを見る