The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth, Hoare, Michael Rand
Автор: Dolnick Edward Название: The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to Da Vinci, from Sharks` Teeth to Frogs` Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Co ISBN: 0465082955 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780465082957 Издательство: Little Brown Цена: 58240.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Why cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakes Throughout most of human history, babies were surprises. People knew the basics: men and women had sex, and sometimes babies followed. But beyond that the origins of life were a colossal mystery. The Seeds of Life is the remarkable and rollicking story of how a series of blundering geniuses and brilliant amateurs struggled for two centuries to discover where, exactly, babies come from. Taking a page from investigative thrillers, acclaimed science writer Edward Dolnick looks to these early scientists as if they were detectives hot on the trail of a bedeviling and urgent mystery. These strange searchers included an Italian surgeon using shark teeth to prove that female reproductive organs were not 'failed' male genitalia, and a Catholic priest who designed ingenious miniature pants to prove that frogs required semen to fertilize their eggs. A witty and rousing history of science, The Seeds of Life presents our greatest scientists struggling-against their perceptions, their religious beliefs, and their deep-seated prejudices-to uncover how and where we come from.
Автор: Hoare, Michael Rand Название: The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth ISBN: 0754650200 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754650201 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 137810.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Sabine Название: An Account of Experiments to Determine the Figure of the Earth by Means of the Pendulum Vibrating Seconds in Different Latitudes ISBN: 1108062075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108062077 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 57010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: By the early nineteenth century, it was widely accepted that gravity varied at different points across the Earth`s surface, and that the Earth could not be perfectly spherical. This 1825 work documents the groundbreaking experiments of Edward Sabine (1788-1883), the first physicist to produce accurate measurements of this ellipticity.
Автор: Marshall Michael Название: The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth ISBN: 022671523X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226715230 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 24290.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: From the primordial soup to meteorite impact zones, the Manhattan Project to the latest research, this book is the first full history of the scientists who strive to explain the genesis of life. How did life begin? Why are we here? These are some of the most profound questions we can ask. For almost a century, a small band of eccentric scientists has struggled to answer these questions and explain one of the greatest mysteries of all: how and why life began on Earth. There are many different proposals, and each idea has attracted passionate believers who promote it with an almost religious fervor, as well as detractors who reject it with equal passion. But the quest to unravel life's genesis is not just a story of big ideas. It is also a compelling human story, rich in personalities, conflicts, and surprising twists and turns. Along the way, the journey takes in some of the greatest discoveries in modern biology, from evolution and cells to DNA and life's family tree. It is also a search whose end may finally be in sight. In The Genesis Quest, Michael Marshall shows how the quest to understand life's beginning is also a journey to discover the true nature of life, and by extension our place in the universe.
Автор: Hillis, Faith Название: Utopia`s Discontents ISBN: 0190066334 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190066338 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 29560.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Utopia`s Discontents provides the first synthetic treatment of the Russian revolutionary emigration before the Revolution. It argues that neighborhoods created by Russian exiles became sites of revolutionary experimentation that offered their residents a taste of their anticipated utopian future.
Автор: O`Hara Kieran Название: Brief History of Geology ISBN: 1107176182 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107176188 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 28510.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book provides a brief, accessible account of the major events in the history of geology over the last 200 years. It will appeal to students and researchers of Earth science wishing to learn more about the history of their subject, and general readers interested in the history of science.
Автор: Rengenier Rittersma Название: Mytho-poetics at Work: A Study of the Figure of Egmont, the Dutch Revolt and its Influence in Europe ISBN: 9004270833 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004270831 Издательство: Brill Цена: 220490.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In Mytho-poetics at Work Rengenier Rittersma offers an account of the posthumous fame of the Count of Egmont (1522-1568), whose public decapitation triggered the Dutch revolt. Drawing from numerous European sources – pamphlets, chronicles, and literature – this monograph tries to unravel why and how the alleged freedom fighter became an icon in European thought. It demonstrates that Egmont unfurled an evocative power over several centuries and cultural regions, as his name could be deliberately instrumentalized by different groups of people in order to corroborate their own confessional and political programs. In addition, this book offers the very first systematic study of the phenomenon of mytho-genesis and provides a conceptual model that can be applied to analogous historical myths.
Автор: Thurber B. a. Название: Skates Made of Bone: A History ISBN: 147667390X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476673905 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 46200.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Ice skates made from animal bones were used in Europe for millennia before metal-bladed skates were invented. Bronze Age archaeological sites have yielded thousands of examples. Today, bone skates help us understand migrations and interactions among ancient peoples. This book explains how to make and use them and chronicles their history.
Автор: Wyness M. Anne Название: The Larder of the Wise: The Story of Vancouver`s James Inglis Reid Ltd. ISBN: 1773271180 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781773271187 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 27580.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The Larder of the Wise: The Story of Vancouver's James Inglis Reid Ltd. traces the history of the iconic store whose traditional Scottish fare and well-remembered hallmarks of "We hae meat that ye can eat" and "Value always" earned the following of devoted customers from inside and outside of the city for almost eighty years. Founded in 1908 and situated for most of its history at 559 Granville Street, Reid's was a fixture in Vancouver's downtown shopping district. Customers were drawn by the store's cured and smoked hams and bacons, expertly prepared sausages and haggis, freshly baked meat pies and scones, and many other favorite items--almost all made on premises using recipes and artisanal techniques passed down for decades. When it closed in 1986 to make way for the Pacific Centre development, many thought an important part of Vancouver heritage was forever lost. But thanks to a treasure-trove of business records, letters, photos and objects preserved from the store, and drawing on her own personal memories and knowledge of the business as the granddaughter of company founder James Reid and the daughter of Gordon Wyness, who succeeded Reid as manager, author M. Anne Wyness brings this special store alive once again. Richly illustrated and engagingly told, this story of a unique family business is also a story of Vancouver itself. Through economic booms and declines, two world wars, shifts in consumer habits, the rise of the suburbs and the changing fortunes of the downtown Granville Street area, Reid's enjoyed prosperity and endured challenges in step with a changing city.
Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913.
In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea that was first presented in 1871. Shaw would also have been familiar with the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed. Shaw's play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the 1938 film Pygmalion, the 1956 musical My Fair Lady and its 1964 film version.
Shaw mentioned that the character of Professor Henry Higgins was inspired by several British professors of phonetics: Alexander Melville Bell, Alexander J. Ellis, Tito Pagliardini, but above all, the cantankerous Henry Sweet.
Автор: Librett Jeffrey S. Название: Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew ISBN: 082326291X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780823262915 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 90370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew proposes a new way of understanding modern Orientalism. Tracing a path of modern Orientalist thought in German across crucial writings from the late eighteenth to the mid–twentieth centuries, Librett argues that Orientalism and anti-Judaism are inextricably entangled. Librett suggests, further, that the Western assertion of “material” power, in terms of which Orientalism is often read, is overdetermined by a “spiritual” weakness: an anxiety about the absence of absolute foundations and values that coincides with Western modernity itself. The modern West, he shows, posits an Oriental origin as a fetish to fill the absent place of lacking foundations. This fetish is appropriated as Western through a quasi-secularized application of Christian typology. Further, the Western appropriation of the “good” Orient always leaves behind the remainder of the “bad,” inassimilable Orient. The book traces variations on this theme through historicist and idealist texts of the nineteenth century and then shows how high modernists like Buber, Kafka, Mann, and Freud place this historicist narrative in question. The book concludes with the outlines of a cultural historiography that would distance itself from the metaphysics of historicism, confronting instead its underlying anxieties.
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