The First World War is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting in trenches, aided by brutal machinery that cost the lives of many. But behind all of this a scientific war was also being fought between engineers, chemists, physicists, doctors, mathematicians and intelligence gatherers. This hidden war was to make a positive and lasting contribution to how war was conducted on land, at sea and in the air, and most importantly life at home. Secret Warriors provides...
In the first half of the twentieth century, supporters of the eugenics movement offered an image of a racially transformed America by curtailing the reproduction of "unfit" members of society. Through institutionalization, compulsory sterilization, the restriction of immigration and marriages, and other methods, eugenicists promised to improve the population - a policy agenda that was embraced by many leading intellectuals and public figures. But Catholic activists and thinkers across the United...
Die Jesuiten sind aus der Geschichte der europaischen Kartographie nicht wegzudenken. Haufig waren sie die ersten Europaer, die Karten bestimmter Regionen in Asien, im Pazifik oder in Amerika zeichneten und einem breiten Publikum in Europa zuganglich machten. Dies traf auch auf den oberen Amazonas zu, wo sich jesuitische Missionare im Auftrag der spanischen Krone ab 1638 niederliessen. Viele Missionare verbrachten Jahre oder Jahrzehnte am Amazonas. Irina Saladin untersucht die Zusammenhange von...
Замечательная эпоха в истории русских фин
by В.Т. Судейкин
Rapport Historique Sur Les Progr S Des Sciences Naturelles Depuis 1789, Et Sur Leur Tat Actuel
by Georges Baron Cuvier
Судебник государя царя и великого князя Иl
by В. Н. Татищев
Geschichte intellektuell
Geschichte intellektuell, das heisst: Geschichte in ihrer Relevanz fur unsere Gegenwart und das politische Handeln zu denken. 28 Autorinnen und Autoren aus den Geschichts-, Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften denken uber dieses Wechsel- und Spannungsverhaltnis in diesem Band neu nach: uber Grundfragen der Geschichtstheorie und ihren Standort als Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler heute. Sie portratieren Geschichtsdenker und Geschichtsintellektuelle wie Jacob Burckhardt, Max Weber, Eric Hobsba...
The Epochal Event (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
by Zoltan Boldizsar Simon
This book is a unique attempt to capture the growing societal experience of living in an age unlike anything the world has ever seen. Fueled by the perception of acquiring unprecedented powers through technologies that entangle the human and the natural worlds, human beings have become agents of a new kind of transformative event. The ongoing sixth mass extinction of species, the prospect of a technological singularity, and the potential crossing of planetary boundaries are expected to trigger t...
Popular science readers embrace epics the sweeping stories that claim to tell the history of all the universe, from the cosmological to the biological to the social. And the appeal is understandable: in writing these works, authors such as E. O. Wilson or Steven Weinberg deliberately seek to move beyond particular disciplines, to create a compelling story weaving together natural historical events, scientific endeavor, human discovery, and contemporary existential concerns. In A Final Story, Nas...
Through films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation as one of the most significant filmmakers working today. Her 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is widely regarded as the most important feminist film of that decade. In Nothing Happens, Ivone Margulies presents the first comprehensive study of this influential avant-garde Belgia...
Reflections on the Practice of Physics (History and Philosophy of Technoscience)
by Giora Hon and Bernard R. Goldstein
This monograph examines James Clerk Maxwell’s contributions to electromagnetism to gain insight into the practice of science by focusing on scientific methodology as applied by scientists. First and foremost, this study is concerned with practices that are reflected in scientific texts and the ways scientists frame their research. The book is therefore about means and not ends.
Il Fascino Oscuro Dell'inflazione (i blu: Pagine de Scienza)
by Pietro Fre
E dalla piu remota antichita che l'uomo si interroga sulla struttura dell'Universo e sulle leggi che lo governano. Ma il progresso compiuto all'inizio del XX secolo non ha paragoni rispetto a quello di tutti i secoli precedenti: nel 1915 venne formulata la relativita generale, indispensabile per inquadrare i fenomeni cosmici e astrofisici; tra il 1920 e il 1930 furono determinate le reali dimensioni dell'Universo visibile e fu scoperta la sua costante espansione. La cosmologia ha poi fatto un gr...
Путевые заметки о Севере России и Норвегиl
by В.В. Суслов
In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helix structure of DNA. The discovery was a profound, Nobel Prize-winning moment in the history of genetics, but it did not decipher the messages on the twisted, ladderlike strands within our cells. No one knew what the human genome sequence actually was. No one had cracked the code of life. Now, at the beginning of a new millennium, that code has been cracked. Kevin Davies, founding editor of the leading journal in the field, "Natur...
Logique Et Philosophie Des Sciences (Histoire Des Sciences - Etudes)
by Francois Gregoire
О наместниках, воеводах и губернаторах
by И. Е. Андреевский
Собранные песни
by П. В. Киреевский