Science History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 6

Scott Ritter

Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika

Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika is the definitive history of the implementation of the INF Treaty signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in all its complexities, and the lengths both sides w…

Brandon M Terry

Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope

The romantic vision of the civil rights movement is exhausted, and its inverse, Afropessimism, offers a self-defeating irony. To resolve this impasse, Brandon Terry transforms the standard story of Americ…

Ralph Young

American Patriots

A concise history that proves that dissent is patrioticThe history of America is a history of dissent. Protests against the British Parliament's taxation policies led to the American Revolution and the cr…

Elena Bruni, Lianne M Lefsrud

Organized Science Denial

Science denialism - fuelled by mis/disinformation - is a global existential crisis that erodes social cohesion and our collective capacity to confront crises like climate change, transform energy systems,…

Tristan G Brown

Laws of the Land

"A groundbreaking history of Fengshui's roles in public life and law during China's last imperial dynastyToday the term Fengshui, which literally means "wind and water," is recognized aroun…

Andy McPhee

Doctors' Riot of 1788

Throughout the seventeenth century, medical lecturers demonstrated human anatomy by dissecting a cadaver while surrounded by students. After the Revolutionary War, though, instructors realized that they n…

Electrical Language: Independent British Synth Pop 1978 - 1984

Seth C Rasmussen

The Origins and Early History of Conjugated Organic Polymers

Using a range of examples of conducting polymers from the early 19th century onwards, this book shows that the history of conjugated organic polymers begins before the late 1970s, thus rethinking the acce…

Mark Paterson

Affective Touching

At the end of the twentieth century the discovery of 'slow', affective touch nerves in humans known as C Tactile (CT) afferents, which are entirely separate from the faster pathways for touching objects, …

Ted Widmer

The Living Declaration: A Biography of America's Founding Text

INSIDE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: A historian and former presidential speechwriter traces the origins and legacy of the words and ideas that made America.Illustrations and close readings of 60 origi…

Austrian Identity and Modernity

Bringing together an interdisciplinary cast of scholars, this volume explores national and nationalist identification(s) in Austria, as they were represented through culture and design, in response to the…

Marius Turda

Race and National Character in Modern Hungary, 1880s-1940s

Scientific Racism in Hungary, 1920-1945examines racially informed debates on society and nation in interwar Hungary, their ideological frameworks and methodological affinities to debates on race and eugen…

Rafael Sánchez,

Reconocimientos

"In Caracas, Rafael Sánchez witnessed a transformative scene that led to his groundbreaking theory of the state. This stunning memoir of the intersection of politics and personal life narrates his re…

Dance and Science in the Long Nineteenth Century

"This collection reveals how the fields of dance and science informed each other's development and engaged with dominant European worldviews during a time of unprecedented colonial expansion"--

Benjamin Wilson

Strange Stability

An eye-opening reconsideration of the Cold War arms control movement, showing how scientists who presented themselves as independent-minded opponents of the arms race in fact functioned as agents of the m…

David Singerman

Unrefined

"Just what is sugar? This question tormented nineteenth-century planters, scientists, and governments. Sugar was powerful: It colonized and enslaved people, held consumers in thrall, spurred new tech…

Michael Freeden

Concealed Silences and Inaudible Voices in Political Thinking

Concealed Silences and Inaudible Voices in Political Thinking investigates silence as a normal, ubiquitous, and indispensable element of political thinking, theory, and language. It explores the diverse d…

Greedy Science

On the transformative role of greed in global science and technology during the 1980s. In the 1980s, a transformative era emerged where profit-driven motives and an entrepreneurial spirit dominated scient…

Greg Jackson

Been There, Done That

Professor Greg Jackson, podcast host of History That Doesn't Suck , proves that while today's political climate may be dark, these aren't as unprecedented times as we may think. Our nation's past is full …