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Author | : Donna J. Haraway |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1136608141 |
Haraway's discussions of how scientists have perceived the sexual nature of female primates opens a new chapter in feminist theory, raising unsettling questions about models of the family and of heterosexuality in primate research.
Author | : Frédéric Bozo |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 085745370X |
Exploring the visions of the end of the Cold War that have been put forth since its inception until its actual ending, this volume brings to the fore the reflections, programmes, and strategies that were intended to call into question the bipolar system and replace it with alternative approaches or concepts. These visions were associated not only with prominent individuals, organized groups and civil societies, but were also connected to specific historical processes or events. They ranged from actual, thoroughly conceived programmes, to more blurred, utopian aspirations — or simply the belief that the Cold War had already, in effect, come to an end. Such visions reveal much about the contexts in which they were developed and shed light on crucial moments and phases of the Cold War.
Author | : Amy Gormley Winton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
A gorgeous combination of photographs, original art, and descriptive text that celebrates the wild and seldom-visited canyonlands of the Texas Plains. Exploring an environment largely unknown to even native Texans, both writer and artist take the reader on an intimate and compelling visit to an unforgetably beautiful corner of Texas.
Author | : Simon J. Bronner |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Advertising, Point-of-sale |
ISBN | : 9780393027099 |
How did the consumer system develop to pervade the whole of American culture? The rise of American mass culture helped to spread consumerism, turning the country into a nation of consumers.
Author | : Michael Riordan |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2015-11-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022630583X |
“A detailed and engaging account of the development of the superconducting supercollider, one of the largest scientific undertakings in the United States.” —Journal of American History Starting in the 1950s, US physicists dominated the search for elementary particles; aided by the association of this research with national security, they held this position for decades. In an effort to maintain their hegemony and track down the elusive Higgs boson, they convinced President Reagan and Congress to support construction of the multibillion-dollar Superconducting Super Collider project in Texas—the largest basic-science project ever attempted. But after the Cold War ended and the estimated SSC cost surpassed ten billion dollars, Congress terminated the project in October 1993. Drawing on extensive archival research, contemporaneous press accounts, and over one hundred interviews with scientists, engineers, government officials, and others involved, Tunnel Visions tells the riveting story of the aborted SSC project. The authors examine the complex, interrelated causes for its demise, including problems of large-project management, continuing cost overruns, and lack of foreign contributions. In doing so, they ask whether Big Science has become too large and expensive, including whether academic scientists and their government overseers can effectively manage such an enormous undertaking. “Focusing on the scientific, technical, and political conflicts that led to delays, ever rising costs, and eventually the SSC’s cancelation by Congress, Tunnel Visions is a true techno-thriller.” —Burton Richter, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics “Most good science stories are tales of discovery and success, but failure can be just as riveting. Here two historians and an archivist describe the greatest particle physics experiment that never was.” —Scientific American
Author | : Michael A. Bryson |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2002-06-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813921724 |
The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing. Yet despite their range of genres—including exploration narratives, technical reports, natural histories, scientific autobiographies, fictional utopias, nature writing, and popular scientific literature—these seven authors produced strikingly connected representations of nature and the practice of science in America from about 1840 to 1970. Michael A. Bryson provides a thoughtful examination of the authors, their work, and the ways in which science and nature unite them. Visions of the Land explores how our environmental attitudes have influenced and been shaped by various scientific perspectives from the time of western expansion and geographic exploration in the mid-nineteenth century to the start of the contemporary environmental movement in the twentieth century. Bryson offers a literary-critical analysis of how writers of different backgrounds, scientific training, and geographic experiences represented nature through various kinds of natural science, from natural history to cartography to resource management to ecology and evolution, and in the process, explored the possibilities and limits of science itself. Visions of the Land examines the varied, sometimes conflicting, but always fascinating ways in which we have defined the relations among science, nature, language, and the human community. Ultimately, it is an extended meditation on the capacity of using science to live well within nature.
Author | : Isaac Asimov |
Publisher | : Starfire |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1991-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780553293562 |
Introduced and edited by Asimov, this illustrated collection offers 12 masterful tales from the most popular authors in the fantasy genre. Anne McCaffrey, Jane Yolen, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Madeleine L'Engle, and others offer stories of witches, unearthly voices, shattered spirits, and humorous fantasies. 22 full-page illustrations.
Author | : Judith Plaskow |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1989-03-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0060613831 |
Key writings in feminist spirituality drawing on the great diversity of women's experience.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Art, American |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Maria Luisa Schultz |
Publisher | : Xulon Press |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2006-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1597819565 |