Philosophy
Philosophy from Greece and Rome to medieval and modern thought.
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Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge: Reflections on Objectivist Epistemology [Paperback]
Allan Gotthelf (Editor); James G. Lennox (Editor)
£27.00ISBN: 9780822967019
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Ayn Rand Society Philosophical Studies
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand (1905-1982) is a cultural phenomenon. Her books have sold more than twenty-eight million copies, and countless individuals speak of her writings as having significantly influenced their lives. Despite her popu... .... 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
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 -
Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century [Hardback]
Eike-Christian Heine (Editor); Martin Meiske (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9780822946373
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Beyond the Lab and the Field analyzes infrastructures as intense sites of knowledge production in the Americas, Europe, and Asia since the late nineteenth century. Moving beyond classical places known for yielding scientific knowledge, ch... .... Learn More -
In-Between: Exploring Small Cracks of Everyday Life [Paperback]
Karen Ida Dannesboe (Editor); Jon Dag Rasmussen (Editor); Anne-Lene Sand (Editor)
£23.00ISBN: 9788772191386
Published by : Aarhus University Press
In-Between: Exploring Small Cracks of Everyday Life is an anthology comprising contributions from a group of social scientists all preoccupied with the possibilities and potentials of working ethnographically. The chapters of the book inv... .... Learn More -
Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth Century Visual Culture [Hardback]
Nancy Rose Marshall (Editor)
£43.00ISBN: 9780822946533
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding boundaries between animal, plant, and human, and art and visual culture produced new notions about the place of the human ... .... Learn More -
The “Aging” of Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory: Fifty Years Later [Paperback]
Samir Gandesha (Editor); Johan Hartle (Editor); Stefano Marino (Editor)
£25.99ISBN: 9788869773099
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Aesthetics
Not yet published - available for pre-order
If 2019 was an "Adornian year" because of the 50th anniversary of the untimely death of Theodor W. Adorno in August 1969, also 2020 has been an "Adornian year" because of the 50th anniversary of the posthumous publication of Adorno’s great but unf... .... Learn More -
Creativity from the Periphery: Trading Zones of Scientific Exchange in Colonial India [Hardback]
Deepanwita Dasgupta (Author)
£43.00ISBN: 9780822946564
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Science is usually known by its most successful figures and resource-rich institutions. In stark contrast, Creativity from the Periphery draws our attention to unknown figures in science - those who remain marginalized, even neglected, within its ... .... 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
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 -
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: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
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: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
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
