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21 produkter
Marknaden : kapital, stater och tankar om en fri värld
Av David Abulafia, Ali Ansari m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
199 kr
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Från det romerska torget till digitala valutor – hur har marknaden utvecklats under historiens gång och hur kan den komma att se ut i framtiden? Denna antologi gör en djupdykning i marknadsutvecklingen och tittar närmare på marknaders avgörande roll i att utforma samtiden men tar också upp den …
The market : money, states and ideas for a free world
Money, States and Ideas for a Free World
Av Linda Yueh, David Wootton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
224 kr
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Från det romerska torget till digitala valutor hur har marknaden utvecklats under historiens gång och hur kan den komma att se ut i framtiden? Denna antologi gör en djupdykning i marknadsutvecklingen och tittar närmare på marknaders avgörande roll i att utforma samtiden men tar också upp den …
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
Häftad, 2016
300 kr
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Invention of Science
A New History of the Scientific Revolution
Häftad, 2016
219 kr
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We live in a world made by science. How and when did this happen? This book tells the story of the extraordinary intellectual and cultural revolution that gave birth to modern science, and mounts a major challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy of its history.Before 1492 it was assumed that all …
Invention of Science
A New History of the Scientific Revolution
E-bok, 2015
113 kr
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This "fantastic revisionist history . . . captures the excitement of the scientific revolution and makes a point of celebrating the advances it ushered in" (Financial Times).We live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. In The Invention of Science, historian David Wootton reveals why the …
Invention of Science
A New History of the Scientific Revolution
E-bok, 2015
125 kr
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We live in a world made by science. How and when did this happen? This book tells the story of the extraordinary intellectual and cultural revolution that gave birth to modern science, and mounts a major challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy of its history.Before 1492 it was assumed that all …
Bad Medicine
Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
E-bok, 2006
151 kr
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Just how much good has medicine done over the years? And how much damage does it continue to do?The history of medicine begins with Hippocrates in the fifth century BC. Yet until the invention of antibiotics in the 1930s doctors, in general, did their patients more harm than good.In this …
Bad Medicine
Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
E-bok, 2007
151 kr
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Just how much good has medicine done over the years? And how much damage does it continue to do?The history of medicine begins with Hippocrates in the fifth century BC. Yet until the invention of antibiotics in the 1930s doctors, in general, did their patients more harm than good.In this …
Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment
Av Micheal Hunter, Michael Hunter m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
3727 kr
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The rise of atheism and unbelief is a key feature in the development of the modern world, yet it is a topic which has been little explored by historians. This book presents a series of studies of irreligious ideas in various parts of Europe during the two centuries following the Reformation.Atheism …
Bad Medicine
Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
Häftad, 2007
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
203 kr
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Just how much good has medicine done over the years? And how much damage does it continue to do? The history of medicine begins with Hippocrates in the fifth century BC. Yet until the invention of antibiotics in the 1930s doctors, in general, did their patients more harm than good. In this …
Galileo
Watcher of the Skies
E-bok, 2010
169 kr
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"Demonstrates an awesome command of the vast Galileo literature . . . [Wootton] excels in boldly speculating about Galileo''s motives" (The New York Times Book Review). Tackling Galileo as astronomer, engineer, and author, David Wootton places him at the center of Renaissance culture. He traces …
Galileo
Watcher of the Skies
Häftad, 2013
221 kr
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A provocative and penetrating new life of Galileo, placing the man, his achievements, and his failures in the broader history of the Scientific RevolutionGalileo (1564–1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its …
Paolo Sarpi
Between Renaissance and Enlightenment
Häftad, 2002
569 kr
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Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623) is remembered as the defender of Venice against the Papal Interdict of 1606 and as the first, and greatest, historian of the Counter-Reformation. The sources of his undoubted hostility to clerical authority have always been a matter of controversy; many contemporaries …
Power, Pleasure, and Profit
Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison
Inbunden, 2018
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
349 kr
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A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents.We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning—cost-benefit analysis—to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way …
Republicanism, Liberty, and Commercial Society, 1649-1776
Inbunden, 1994
1116 kr
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This book examines republicanism in an Anglo-American and European context from the execution Charles I to the publication of Tom Paine's Common Sense. t gives weight not only to the thought of the theorists of republicanism but also the practical experience of republican governments in England, …
Divine Right and Democracy
An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England
Häftad, 2003
259 kr
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The seventeenth century was England’s century of revolution, an era in which the nation witnessed protracted civil wars, the execution of a king, and the declaration of a short-lived republic. During this period of revolutionary crisis, political writers of all persuasions hoped to shape the …
Divine Right and Democracy
An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England
Inbunden, 2003
523 kr
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The seventeenth century was England's century of revolution, an era in which the nation witnessed protracted civil wars, the execution of a king, and the declaration of a short-lived republic. During this period of revolutionary crisis, political writers of all persuasions hoped to shape the …
Doctor Faustus
With The English Faust Book
Av Christopher Marlowe, David Wootton
Häftad, 2005
206 kr
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This edition of Doctor Faustus features annotated versions, with modernized spelling and punctuation, of the 1604 A-text and the 1592 text of Marlowe's source, the English Faust Book--a translation of the best-selling Historia von Johann Fausten published in Frankfurt in 1587, which recounts the …
Peter Cameron
Artists Convictions
Inbunden, 2025
388 kr
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Peter Cameron (b. 1947) took up art while serving a prison sentence, and later described his incarceration as a career move. On his release in 1992, he received the support of the Koestler Trust and was able to evolve from post-prison survivor to celebrated artist with a substantial body of work. …
The Invention of Science A New History of the Scientifi c Revolution
E-bok, 2018
132 kr
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Kniga Dehvida Vuttona — istoriya velikoj nauchnoj revolyucii, rezul''tatom kotoroj stalo rozhdenie nauki v sovremennom smysle ehtogo slova. Novaya nauka — ne prosto peredovye otkrytiya ili metody, ehto novoe ponimanie togo, chto takoe znanie. V XVI veke izmenilsya ne tol''ko podhod k nej — vse …
Frankenstein
The 1818 Edition with Related Texts
Av Mary Shelley, David Wootton
Inbunden, 2020, 12-15 år
721 kr
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"In this new edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, David Wootton's Introduction gives the reader both a clear and gripping account of the biographical circumstances that led to the novel’s writing and the most striking and original interpretations of its central themes and of the intellectual and …
