著者:Mary Anne Andrei
出版社: The University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2022年12月22日
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
The classic case for why government must support scienceーwith a new essay by physicist and former congressman Rush Holt on what democracy needs from science today
Science, the Endless Frontier is r……続きを見る
Most early modern scholars know that Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) is important, but may be rather vague as to where his importance lies. This new collection of essays analyses the impact of the logician……続きを見る
著者:Marianne Sommer
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2016年05月27日
Personal genomics services such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com now offer what once was science fiction: the ability to sequence and analyze an individual’s entire genetic codeーpromising, in some cases……続きを見る
著者:Annette Imhausen
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2016年02月16日
A survey of ancient Egyptian mathematics across three thousand years
Mathematics in Ancient Egypt traces the development of Egyptian mathematics, from the end of the fourth millennium BCーand the ea……続きを見る
著者:Jeannette Brown
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2012年01月07日
Dr. Marie Maynard Daly received her PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University in 1947. Although she was hardly the first of her race and gender to engage in the field, she was the first African Amer……続きを見る
著者:Jeannette Brown
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2011年11月16日
Dr. Marie Maynard Daly received her PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University in 1947. Although she was hardly the first of her race and gender to engage in the field, she was the first African Amer……続きを見る
Robida est un de nos plus grands dessinateurs-illustrateurs, mais il est aussi un considérable auteur d’anticipations. On est en 1895, le XXe siècle de toutes les promesses, le siècle de l’électrici……続きを見る
The role of aerial photography in the evolution of the concept of social space”and its impact on French urban planning in the mid-twentieth century.
In mid-twentieth century France, the term “social……続きを見る
That rosy tomato perched on your plate in December is at the end of a great journeyーnot just over land and sea, but across a vast and varied cultural history. This is the territory charted in Fresh……続きを見る
Einsatzfertige Lerneinheiten vermitteln fundamentale mathematische Techniken, die weit über die Unterstufe hinaus von Bedeutung sind. Die Lerninhalte eignen sich auch zur gezielten Vorbereitung auf ……続きを見る
Inge Lehmann, 1888-1993, var geofysiker og var med til at grundlægge seismologien, en helt ny videnskab, i 1930’erne og årtierne derefter. En lidenskabelig trang til at blive til noget, havde fået h……続きを見る
Einsatzfertige Lerneinheiten vermitteln fundamentale mathematische Techniken, die weit über die Mittelstufe hinaus von Bedeutung sind. Die Lerninhalte eignen sich auch zur gezielten Vorbereitung auf……続きを見る
This volume is a comprehensive study of George Wilson, a leading advocate for evangelical science and for the role of biology in technology – it examines his work to develop a unitary vision of Vict……続きを見る
Hispanic Ecocriticism finds a rich soil in the main topics of environmental concern in the literature of Latin America and Spain, not only as a source for renewing critical analysis and hermeneutics……続きを見る
Au XXe siècle, l’écologie est devenue, en France comme en Allemagne, un sujet social et politique de premier ordre. Quelle place occupent les divers acteurs, leurs idées et leurs modes d’engagement ……続きを見る
How herbaria illuminate the past and future of plant science
Collections of preserved plant specimens, known as herbaria, have existed for nearly five centuries. These pressed and labeled plants hav……続きを見る
Islands are special because they promote unique forms of life, and large proportions of the species they hold are found nowhere else on Earth. The mammals of the South-west Pacific are no exception,……続きを見る
One of the most important drivers of the Anthropocene was a radical shift in what and how people eat. Industrial agriculture and meat production, new ways of processing, packaging, and distributing ……続きを見る
Le contenu de ce livre décrit comment, voilà 2000 ans, l'Église catholique a réussi à inventer une religion d'hommes pour les hommes, afin d'asservir ses fidèles en leur faisant croire qu'il n'y ava……続きを見る
This book proposes a taxonomy of jurisprudence and legal practice, based on the discourse theory of Jacques Lacan. In the anglophone academy, the positivist jurisprudence of H.L.A. Hart provides the……続きを見る
The story of nineteenth-century science often tells a tale of a masculinized professionalizing domain. Scientific man increasingly pushed women out, marginalized them and constructed them as natural……続きを見る
The book deals mainly with direct mass determination by means of a conventional balances. It covers the history of the balance from the beginnings in Egypt earlier than 3000 BC to recent development……続きを見る
Numericon tells the stories of the numbers, mathematical discoveries, oddities and personalities that have shaped the way we understand the world around us. Funny, bizarre, tragic and dramatic, thes……続きを見る
著者:Suzanne Bourgeois
出版社: University of California Press
発売日: 2013年09月20日
This work is a personal account of the origins and early years of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Bourgeois crafts an engaging study that draws on her involvement with the Institute and o……続きを見る
The 110 star clusters, nebulae and galaxies of Messier's catalog are among the most popular of all the deep sky objects and are beautiful targets for amateur observers of all abilities. This stunnin……続きを見る
Why is the number seven lucky--even holy--in almost every culture? Why do we speak of the four corners of the earth? Why do cats have nine lives (except in Iran, where they have seven)? From literat……続きを見る
Why is the number seven lucky--even holy--in almost every culture? Why do we speak of the four corners of the earth? Why do cats have nine lives (except in Iran, where they have seven)? From literat……続きを見る
The red kangaroo is at the heart of Australia’s ecological identity. It is Australia’s largest terrestrial land mammal, the largest extant marsupial, and the only kangaroo truly restricted to Austra……続きを見る
著者:David F. Channell
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2018年07月12日
The 18th and 19th centuries saw the emergence of new intermediary types of knowledge in areas such as applied mechanics, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, which came to be labeled as engineering s……続きを見る