Philosophy
Philosophy from Greece and Rome to medieval and modern thought.
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Scientific Bonanzas: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production [Hardback]
Eike-Christian Heine (Editor); Martin Meiske (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9780822946373
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
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The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 12: The Correspondence, March 1871–May 1872 [Hardback]
Anne DeWitt (Editor); Kathleen Sheppard (Editor)
£112.50ISBN: 9780822946892
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: The Correspondence of John Tyndall
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The Creation of Digital Materiality: A Phenomenological Investigation of Augmented Reality and its Effects on Society [Paperback]
Liberati Nicola (Author)
£14.99ISBN: 9788869772795
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Philosophy
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The book aims to analyze how Augmented Reality is perceived by human beings and its effects on us and our society following a phenomenological approach. Augmented Reality has been developed to “merge” the digital and the real world. In order to ac... .... Learn More -
The Forgotten Clones: How Nuclear Transplantation Changed Science and Society [Hardback]
Nathan Crowe (Author)
£43.50ISBN: 9780822946274
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science, Values, and the Public
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Long before scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996, American developmental biologist and aspiring cancer researcher Robert Briggs successfully performed the technique of nuclear transplantation by cloning fro... .... Learn More -
Ingenuity in the Making: Materials and Technique in Early Modern Art and Science [Hardback]
Richard J. Oosterhoff (Editor); José Ramón Marcaida (Editor); Alexander Marr (Editor)
£47.00ISBN: 9780822946885
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
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Ingenuity in the Making explores the myriad ways in which ingenuity shaped the experience, discourse and conceptualization of materials and their manipulation in early modern Europe. Contributions range widely across the arts and sciences, examini... .... Learn More -
Fear and Disruption of Habits During the Pandemic [Paperback]
Marco Piazza (Editor); Corinna Guerra (Editor)
£19.99ISBN: 9788869773297
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Philosophy
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In the year 2020, everything we used to think about our habits has been profoundly disrupted. Lockdown still represents an unprecedented experience for all those who went through it, radically affecting our freedom of movement and all those social... .... Learn More -
The Voice of Science, British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America [Hardback]
Diarmid A. Finnegan (Author)
£43.50ISBN: 9780822946816
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
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For many in the nineteenth century, the spoken word had a vivacity and power that exceeded other modes of communication. This conviction helped to sustain a diverse and dynamic lecture culture that provided a crucial vehicle for shaping and contes... .... Learn More -
Symbols and Things: Mathematics in the Age of Steam [Hardback]
Kevin Lambert (Author)
£39.50ISBN: 9780822946830
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
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In the steam-powered mechanical age of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the work of late Georgian and early Victorian mathematicians came to depend on far more than the properties of number. British mathematicians came to rely on industria... .... Learn More -
Cosmopolitanism as an Answer: Kant’s Philosophy of History [Paperback]
Sandra Zákutná (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9788869770883
Published by : Mimesis International
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The book focuses on Kant’s philosophy of history as a part of his practical philosophy. It deals with Kant’s interpretation of history that leads to political issues and introduces his project of cosmopolitanism as the culmination of his philosoph... .... Learn More -
Ethics and Representation in Feminist Rhetorical Inquiry [Hardback]
Amy Dayton (Editor); Jennie Vaughn (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9780822946731
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture
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The historiography of feminist rhetorical research raises ethical questions about whose stories are told and how. Women and other marginalized people have been excluded historically from many formal institutions, and researchers in this field ofte... .... Learn More
