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21 produkter
Intelligibility of Nature
How Science Makes Sense of the World
Av Peter Dear
Häftad, 2008
386 kr
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Throughout the history of the Western world, science has possessed an extraordinary amount of authority and prestige. Despite numerous evolutions and revolutions, it maintains its distinction as the knowing endeavor that explains how the natural world works and offers insight into the meaning of …
Scientific Revolution
Häftad, 2018
204 kr
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“There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold vibrant exploration of early modern science. In this classic of science history, Shapin takes into account the culture – the …
Putting Science in Its Place
Geographies of Scientific Knowledge
Häftad, 2013
212 kr
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We are accustomed to thinking of science and its findings as universal. After all, one atom of carbon plus two of oxygen yields carbon dioxide in Amazonia as well as in Alaska; a scientist in Bombay can use the same materials and techniques to challenge the work of a scientist in New York; and of …
Making Marie Curie
Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information
Inbunden, 2015
906 kr
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In many ways, Marie Curie represents modern science. Her considerable lifetime achievements - the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the only woman to be awarded the Prize in two fields, and the only person to be awarded Nobel Prizes in multiple sciences - are studied by schoolchildren across …
Everyday Technology
Machines and the Making of India's Modernity
Av David Arnold
Häftad, 2015
219 kr
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Everyday Technology is a pioneering account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather than investigate "big" technologies such as railways and irrigation …
Catastrophic Thinking
Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene
Inbunden, 2020
342 kr
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We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded--by scientists, by the media, by popular culture--of the looming threat of mass extinction. We're told that human activity is currently producing a sixth mass extinction, perhaps of even greater magnitude than the five previous geological …
Human-Built World
How to Think about Technology and Culture
Häftad, 2005
263 kr
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In Human-Built World, Thomas P. Hughes restores to technology the richness and depth it deserves by writing its intellectual history. Chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western thinkers who not only understood its multifaceted character but who also explored its …
Shoddy
From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags
Inbunden, 2020
280 kr
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You know shoddy: an adjective meaning cheap and likely poorly made. But did you know that before it became a popular descriptor, shoddy was first coined as a noun? In the early nineteenth century, shoddy was the name given to a new textile material made from reclaimed wool. Shoddy was, in fact, one …
Making Marie Curie
Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information
Häftad, 2016
212 kr
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In many ways, Marie Curie represents modern science. Her considerable lifetime achievements the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the only woman to be awarded the Prize in two fields, and the only person to be awarded Nobel Prizes in multiple sciences are studied by schoolchildren across the …
Performance All the Way Down
Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference
Inbunden, 2023
879 kr
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An award-winning biologist and writer applies queer feminist theory to developmental genetics, arguing that individuals are not essentially male or female. The idea that gender is a performance—a tenet of queer feminist theory since the nineties—has spread from college classrooms to popular …
Catastrophic Thinking
Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene
Häftad, 2023
254 kr
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A history of scientific ideas about extinction that explains why we learned to value diversity as a precious resource at the same time as we learned to “think catastrophically” about extinction.We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded—by scientists, by the media, by popular culture—of …
Performance All the Way Down
Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference
Häftad, 2023
205 kr
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An award-winning biologist and writer applies queer feminist theory to developmental genetics, arguing that individuals are not essentially male or female. The idea that gender is a performance—a tenet of queer feminist theory since the nineties—has spread from college classrooms to popular …
Green Lands for White Men
Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid
Inbunden, 2024
1020 kr
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How an audacious environmental engineering plan fanned white settlers’ visions for South Africa, stoked mistrust in scientific experts, and gave rise to the Apartheid state. In 1918, South Africa’s climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed that rainfall was dwindling, while …
Green Lands for White Men
Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid
Häftad, 2024
293 kr
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How an audacious environmental engineering plan fanned white settlers’ visions for South Africa, stoked mistrust in scientific experts, and gave rise to the Apartheid state. In 1918, South Africa’s climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed that rainfall was dwindling, while …
Stars of Mauna Kea
Building Giant Telescopes on Hawai‘i’s Most Revered Mountain
Inbunden, 2026
990 kr
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The inside account of how astronomers were able to build the world’s largest observatories on Hawai‘i’s most revered mountain.In July 2019, a demonstration erupted on Hawai‘i Island to prevent the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope, which, if built, would be one of the largest and most …
Stars of Mauna Kea
Building Giant Telescopes on Hawai‘i's Most Revered Mountain
Häftad, 2026
242 kr
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The inside account of how astronomers were able to build the world’s largest observatories on Hawai‘i’s most revered mountain.In July 2019, a demonstration erupted on Hawai‘i Island to prevent the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope, which, if built, would be one of the largest and most …
Orchard in the Ruins
Cloning Oranges and Cultivating Whiteness in America and the Global South
Inbunden, 2026
1020 kr
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Ingeniously connects the history of citrus cultivation to the production and maintenance of whiteness in sites around the world.In The Orchard in the Ruins, acclaimed historian Tiago Saraiva illuminates the global impact of cloning Californian oranges, a practice that emerged in the aftermath of …
Orchard in the Ruins
Cloning Oranges and Cultivating Whiteness in America and the Global South
Häftad, 2026
271 kr
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Ingeniously connects the history of citrus cultivation to the production and maintenance of whiteness in sites around the world.In The Orchard in the Ruins, acclaimed historian Tiago Saraiva illuminates the global impact of cloning Californian oranges, a practice that emerged in the aftermath of …
Finding the Beautiful Commons
Confessions of a Bourgeois Environmentalist
Av Cathy Gere
Inbunden, 2027
225 kr
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A call to pleasurable and sustainable action that centers our shared stewardship of shared spaces.Environmentally-conscious decision-making can seem like an exercise in self-denial: don’t fly, don’t drive, don’t eat meat. But bringing our tote bags to the grocery store will never be enough to solve …
Everyday Technology
Machines and the Making of India's Modernity
Av David Arnold
Inbunden, 2013
879 kr
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In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swaraj, laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization. Despite his protestations, Western technology …
Gaia Hypothesis
Science on a Pagan Planet
Av Michael Ruse
Inbunden, 2013
246 kr
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In 1965 English scientist James Lovelock had a flash of insight: the Earth is not just teeming with life; the Earth, in some sense, is life. He mulled this revolutionary idea over for several years, first with his close friend the novelist William Golding, and then in an extensive collaboration …
