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14 produkter
Documenting the World
Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record
Av Gregg Mitman, Kelley Wilder
Inbunden, 2016
341 kr
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Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camps of Auschwitz, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Apollo lunar landing. It would be a history, in other words, of just artists' …
Future Remains
A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene
Av Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1598 kr
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What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene the age of humans? Just as paleontologists look to fossil remains to infer past conditions of life on earth, so might past and present-day objects offer clues to intertwined human and natural …
Future Remains
A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene
Av Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
314 kr
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What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene the age of humans? Just as paleontologists look to fossil remains to infer past conditions of life on earth, so might past and present-day objects offer clues to intertwined human and natural …
State of Nature
Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900-1950
Av Gregg Mitman
Inbunden, 1992
1520 kr
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Although science may claim to be "objective," scientists cannot avoid the influence of their own values on their research. In The State of Nature, Gregg Mitman examines the relationship between issues in early twentieth-century American society and the sciences of evolution and ecology to reveal …
Osiris, Volume 19
Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments
Av Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphy m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
291 kr
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Bringing together historians of science and medicine with environmental historians, and adding more contemporary vantage points from geography, anthropology, and sociology, Osiris Volume 19: Landscapes of Exposure offers an unprecedented interdisciplinary depiction of how, over the nineteenth and …
Thinking with Animals
New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism
Av Lorraine Daston, Gregg Mitman
Inbunden, 2005
1203 kr
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Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin? Scientists and animal researchers routinely warn against "animal stories," and contrast rigorous explanations and observation to facile and even fanciful projections about animals. Yet many of us, scientists and researchers included, continue to see animals as …
Thinking with Animals
New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism
Av Lorraine Daston, Gregg Mitman
Häftad, 2006
297 kr
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Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin? Scientists and animal researchers routinely warn against "animal stories," and contrast rigorous explanations and observation to facile and even fanciful projections about animals. Yet many of us, scientists and researchers included, continue to see animals as …
Thinking with Animals
New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism
Av Lorraine Daston, Gregg Mitman
E-bok, 2005
450 kr
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Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin? Scientists and animal researchers routinely warn against "animal stories," and contrast rigorous explanations and observation to facile and even fanciful projections about animals. Yet many of us, scientists and researchers included, continue to see animals as …
Reel Nature
America''s Romance with Wildlife on Film
Av Gregg Mitman
E-bok, 2012
524 kr
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Winner of the History of Science Society''s Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize in the History of Science. From the early exploits of Teddy Roosevelt in Africa to blockbuster films such as March of the Penguins , Gregg Mitman''s Reel Nature reveals how changing values, scientific developments, …
Reel Nature
America's Romance with Wildlife on Film
Av Gregg Mitman
Häftad, 2009
489 kr
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Winner of the History of Science Society's Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize in the History of Science.From the early exploits of Teddy Roosevelt in Africa to blockbuster films such as March of the Penguins, Gregg Mitman's Reel Nature reveals how changing values, scientific developments, and …
Empire of Rubber
Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
Av Gregg Mitman
Inbunden, 2021
362 kr
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An ambitious and shocking exposé of America’s hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadowIn the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. But only one percent of the world’s rubber …
Empire of Rubber
Firestone''s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
Av Gregg Mitman
E-bok, 2021
221 kr
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An ambitious and shocking exposé of America''s hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadowIn the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world''s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world''s rubber. But only one percent of the world''s …
Empire of Rubber
Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
Av Gregg Mitman
Häftad, 2023
177 kr
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“A well-rendered and -documented tale of exploitation in the developing world” (Kirkus Reviews) with deep resonance in the present dayIn a book Paul Farmer called “a gem of a social history linking two countries stuck in uncomfortable embrace for well over a century,” award-winning author and …
Breathing Space
How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes
Av Gregg Mitman
Häftad, 2008
235 kr
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Why our efforts to eliminate asthma and hay fever have not just failed but have reshaped American life and spurred the dramatic growth of allergic diseasesAllergy is the sixth leading cause of chronic illness in the United States. More than fifty million Americans suffer from allergies, and they …
