Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line (Gieryn Thomas F.)(Paperback)

Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line (Gieryn Thomas F.)(Paperback)

Why is science so credible? Usual answers center on scientists' objective methods or their powerful instruments. In his new book, Thomas Gieryn argues that a better explanation for the cultural authority of science lies downstream, when scientific claims leave laboratories and enter courtrooms,

A Woman Killed with Kindness (Heywood Thomas)(Paperback)

The most studied of Thomas Heywood's plays, A Woman Killed With Kindness explores the boundaries of marital punishment and the moral weight of mercy. This major new edition of this startling domestic tragedy offers the standard, depth and range associated with all Arden editions. The on-page

Science of Self-Empowerment - Awakening the New Human Story (Braden Gregg)(Paperback / softback)

New York Times bestselling author Gregg Braden crosses the traditional boundaries of science and spirituality to answer the timeless question at the core of our existence: who are we? Gregg offers concrete solutions to the social issues that are destroying our families and dividing us as people,

Breaking Boundaries - The Science of Our Planet (Rockstroem Johan)(Pevná vazba)

Philosophy through Science Fiction Stories: Exploring the Boundaries of the Possible (Cruz Helen de)(Paperback)

Bringing together short stories by award-winning contemporary science fiction authors and philosophers, this book covers a wide range of philosophical ideas from ethics, philosophy of religion, political philosophy, and metaphysics. Alongside the introductory pieces by the editors that help readers

Wholeness of Nature - Goethe's Way of Science (Bortoft Henri)(Paperback / softback)

Examines the phenomenological and cultural roots of Goethe's approach to science, and argues that Goethe's insights represent the foundation for a future science of

The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science (Cartwright Nancy)(Paperback)

In this book Nancy Cartwright argues against a vision of a uniform world completely ordered under a single elegant theory, and proposes instead a patchwork of laws of nature. Combining classic and newly written essays, The Dappled World offers important methodological lessons for both the natural

The West Country's Last Line of Defence: Taunton Stop Line (Powell-Thomas Andrew)(Paperback)

Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived - The Stories in Our Genes (Rutherford Adam)(Paperback / softback)

A dazzling tour of the latest genetic discoveries which are blurring the boundaries between science and history - 'Brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating' BRIAN COX 'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian Cox This

Science Fiction Double Feature - The Science Fiction Film as Cult Text(Paperback / softback)

Critical discussion of cult cinema has often noted its tendency to straddle or ignore boundaries, to pull together different sets of conventions, narrative formulas, or character types for the almost surreal pleasure to be found in their sudden juxtapositions or narrative combination. With its own

Community Archives: The Shaping of Memory (Bastian Jeannette A.)(Pevná vazba)

How do archives and other cultural institutions such as museums determine the boundaries of a particular community, and of their own institutional reach, in constructing effective strategies and methodologies for selecting and maintaining appropriate material evidence? This book offers guidance on

Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis (Zaretsky Eli)(Paperback)

The fledgling science of psychoanalysis permanently altered the nineteenth-century worldview with its remarkable new insights into human behavior and motivation. It quickly became a benchmark for modernity in the twentieth century--though its durability in the twenty-first may now be in doubt. More

The Age of Empire: 1875-1914 (Hobsbawm Eric)(Paperback)

Erica Hobsbawm discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War. Hobsbawm combines vast erudition with a graceful prose style to re-create the epoch that laid the basis for the twentieth

Rethinking Nature: Challenging Disciplinary Boundaries (Chon Aurlie)(Paperback)

Contemporary ideas of nature were largely shaped by schools of thought from Western cultural history and philosophy until the present-day concerns with environmental change and biodiversity conservation. There are many different ways of conceptualising nature in epistemological terms, reflecting

The Shortest Day: Celebrating the Winter Solstice (Pfeffer Wendy)(Paperback)

The science, history, and cultural significance of the shortest day of the year: The Winter Solstice! The beginning of winter is marked by the solstice, the shortest day of the year. Long ago, people grew afraid when each day had fewer hours of sunshine than the day before. Over time, they realized

Psychiatry: The Science of Lies (Szasz Thomas)(Paperback)

For more than half a century, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his life's work: to portray the integral role of deception in the history and practice of psychiatry. Szasz argues

Spiroglyphics: Music Icons (Pavitte Thomas)(Paperback)

The lines, they are a-changin' . . . into incredible portraits of your favorite musicians. Thomas Pavitte, best-selling author of the 1000 Dot-to-Dot and Querkles series, has created a new type of mind-bending graphic puzzle in Spiroglypics: Music Icons. At first, all you see are simple spirals,

Creating the American West: Boundaries and Borderlands (Everett Derek R.)(Paperback)

Boundaries--lines imposed on the landscape--shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the communities with which we identify. In Creating the American West, historian Derek R. Everett examines the function of these internal lines

Encyclopaedia Logic - Part I of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences with the Zustze (Hegel G. W. F.)(Paperback / softback)

The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains (Laqueur Thomas W.)(Paperback)

The meaning of our concern for mortal remains--from antiquity through the twentieth centuryThe Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the

Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (Cleary Thomas)(Paperback)

Drawn from the records of Chinese Zen masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, this collection may surprise some readers. In contrast to the popular image of Zen as an authoritarian, monastic tradition deeply rooted in Asian culture, these passages portray Zen as remarkably flexible, adaptive to

Veronica Mars: The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line (Thomas Rob)(Paperback)

From Rob Thomas, the creator of the television series and movie phenomenon Veronica Mars, comes the first book in a thrilling mystery series that picks up where the feature film left off. Ten years after graduating from high school in Neptune, California, Veronica Mars is back in the land of sun,

Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation (Laqueur Thomas W.)(Paperback)

A historical account of masturbation as a moral issue and cultural taboo.At a time when almost any victimless sexual practice has its public advocates and almost every sexual act is fit for the front page, the easiest, least harmful, and most universal one is embarrassing, discomforting, and

Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc (Aldersey-Williams Hugh)(Paperback)

In the spirit of A Short History of Nearly Everything comes Periodic Tales. Award-winning science writer Hugh Andersey-Williams offers readers a captivating look at the elements--and the amazing, little-known stories behind their discoveries. Periodic Tales is an energetic and wide-ranging book of