Joanne Goodman Lectures – serie
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15 produkter
Lovers and Livers
Disease Concepts in History
Häftad, 2005
455 kr
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Can a disease be an idea? A theory? Does disease exist without a patient to suffer from it? In Lovers and Livers, Jacalyn Duffin provides a lively overview of the ideas around disease. She introduces philosophical theories of disease and delves into the history of two distinct afflictions – one …
Honour Among Men and Nations
Transformations of an Idea
Häftad, 1982
209 kr
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To no group subject to sociological and political analysis has honour seemed to matter more than to the military. Their idea of it has commonly been accepted as the most superior, open to emulation to the limited extent that different circumstances and purposes in non-military life permit.The …
Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada
The 1982 Joanne Goodman Lectures
Av Carl Berger
Häftad, 1983
200 kr
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Professor Berger aims in this book to ‘explore the rise, expression, and relative decline of the idea of natural history’ in Canada, during the age of Victoria. Science, particularly natural science, was then accessible to the general public in a way scarcely imaginable today. Natural history …
Past Futures
The Impossible Necessity of History
Av Ged Martin
Häftad, 2004
439 kr
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By nature, human beings seek to make sense of their past. Paradoxically, true historical explanation is ultimately impossible. Historians never have complete evidence from the past, nor is their methodology rigorous enough to prove causal links. Although it cannot be proven that 'A caused B,' by …
Past Futures
The Impossible Necessity of History
Av Ged Martin
E-bok, 2004
504 kr
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By nature, human beings seek to make sense of their past. Paradoxically, true historical explanation is ultimately impossible. Historians never have complete evidence from the past, nor is their methodology rigorous enough to prove causal links. Although it cannot be proven that 'A caused B,' by …
Fields of Fire
The Canadians in Normandy: Second Edition
Av Terry Copp
Häftad, 2014
455 kr
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With Fields of Fire, Terry Copp challenges the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a “failure” – that the allies won only through the use of brute force, and that the Canadian soldiers and commanding officers were essentially incompetent. His detailed and …
Lovers and Livers
Disease Concepts in History
E-bok, 2005
603 kr
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Can a disease be an idea? A theory? Does disease exist without a patient to suffer from it? In Lovers and Livers, Jacalyn Duffin provides a lively overview of the ideas around disease. She introduces philosophical theories of disease and delves into the history of two distinct afflictions – one …
Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada
The 1982 Joanne Goodman Lectures
Av Carl Berger
E-bok, 1983
277 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Professor Berger aims in this book to ‘explore the rise, expression, and relative decline of the idea of natural history’ in Canada, during the age of Victoria. Science, particularly natural science, was then accessible to the general public in a way scarcely imaginable today. Natural history …
Honour Among Men and Nations
Transformations of an Idea
E-bok, 1982
302 kr
Lägg i varukorg
To no group subject to sociological and political analysis has honour seemed to matter more than to the military. Their idea of it has commonly been accepted as the most superior, open to emulation to the limited extent that different circumstances and purposes in non-military life permit.The …
Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada
The 1982 Joanne Goodman Lectures
Av Carl Berger
E-bok, 1983
214 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Professor Berger aims in this book to ‘explore the rise, expression, and relative decline of the idea of natural history’ in Canada, during the age of Victoria. Science, particularly natural science, was then accessible to the general public in a way scarcely imaginable today. Natural history …
Honour Among Men and Nations
Transformations of an Idea
E-bok, 1982
228 kr
Lägg i varukorg
To no group subject to sociological and political analysis has honour seemed to matter more than to the military. Their idea of it has commonly been accepted as the most superior, open to emulation to the limited extent that different circumstances and purposes in non-military life permit.The …
Lovers and Livers
Disease Concepts in History
E-bok, 2005
603 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Can a disease be an idea? A theory? Does disease exist without a patient to suffer from it? In Lovers and Livers, Jacalyn Duffin provides a lively overview of the ideas around disease. She introduces philosophical theories of disease and delves into the history of two distinct afflictions – one …
Past Futures
The Impossible Necessity of History
Av Ged Martin
E-bok, 2004
571 kr
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By nature, human beings seek to make sense of their past. Paradoxically, true historical explanation is ultimately impossible. Historians never have complete evidence from the past, nor is their methodology rigorous enough to prove causal links. Although it cannot be proven that 'A caused B,' by …
Should We Worry About Family Change?
Av Jane Lewis
E-bok, 2003
799 kr
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Over the past quarter-century, the pace of family change in most Western countries has been extremely rapid; we have witnessed the substantial erosion of the traditional male-breadwinner, two-parent family form. This change inherently makes obsolete those laws and policies that assume the …
Birth of a New South Africa
E-bok, 1998
655 kr
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In these lectures, Davenport explores what he calls 'one of the most remarkable turnabouts in history,' the recent dramatic events in South Africa. He begins by looking at the changes that set the stage for the demise of apartheid, and then at the challenges facing the new administration of Nelson …
