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  • Has Feminism Changed Science?

    de Londa Schiebinger ...
    Do women do science differently? And how about feminists--male or female? The answer to this fraught question, carefully set out in this provocative book, will startle and enlighten every faction in the "science wars."Has Feminism Changed Science? is at once a history of women in science and a frank assessment of the role of gender in shaping scientific knowledge. Science is both a profession and ... Leer más

    $27.89 USD

  • The Mind Has No Sex?

    Women in the Origins of Modern Science

    de Londa Schiebinger ...
    As part of his attempt to secure a place for women in scientific culture, the Cartesian François Poullain de la Barre asserted as long ago as 1673 that “the mind has no sex.” In this rich and comprehensive history of women’s contributions to the development of early modern science, Londa Schiebinger examines the shifting fortunes of male and female equality in the sphere of the intellect. ... Leer más

    $46.79 USD

  • Ignorance Unmasked

    Essays in the New Science of Agnotology

    Edición de Robert N. Proctor, Londa Schiebinger ...
    We live in an age of ignorance. This book offers a guide to how we got here—and how we might escape.From obfuscations of climate science to the myriad deceptions inhering in language, Ignorance Unmasked explores how agnotology—the study of ignorance—can help us better grasp: Why don't we know what we don't know? What are the obstacles to knowledge, and how might those be overcome?Ignorance has ... Leer más

    $21.39 USD

  • Secret Cures of Slaves

    People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

    de Londa Schiebinger ...
    In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. The history of medicine bristles with attempts to find new and miraculous remedies, to work with and against nature to restore humans to health and well-being. In this book, Londa Schiebinger examines medicine and human experimentation in the Atlantic World, exploring the circulation of people, disease, plants, and knowledge between Europe ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Colonial Botany

    Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World

    Edición de Londa Schiebinger, Claudia Swan ...
    In the early modern world, botany was big science and big business, critical to Europe's national and trade ambitions. Tracing the dynamic relationships among plants, peoples, states, and economies over the course of three centuries, this collection of essays offers a lively challenge to a historiography that has emphasized the rise of modern botany as a story of taxonomies and "pure" systems of ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Plants and Empire

    Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World

    de Londa Schiebinger ...
    Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eighteenth century, epic scientific voyages were sponsored by European imperial powers to explore the natural riches of the New World, and uncover the botanical secrets of its people. Bioprospectors brought back medicines, luxuries, and staples for their king ... Leer más

    $39.59 USD

  • Colonial Botany

    Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World

    Edición de Londa Schiebinger, Claudia Swan ...
    In the early modern world, botany was big science and big business, critical to Europe's national and trade ambitions. Tracing the dynamic relationships among plants, peoples, states, and economies over the course of three centuries, this collection of essays offers a lively challenge to a historiography that has emphasized the rise of modern botany as a story of taxonomies and "pure" systems of ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

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  • 1491 (Second Edition)

    New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

    de Charles C. Mann ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492—from “a remarkably engaging writer” (The New York Times Book Review).Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge ... Leer más

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  • 1493

    Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

    de Charles C. Mann ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply engaging history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world—from the highly acclaimed author of 1491. • "Fascinating...Lively...A convincing explanation of why our world is the way it is." —The New York Times Book ReviewPresenting the latest research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the ... Leer más

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  • Ecological Imperialism

    The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900

    de Alfred W. Crosby ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But as Alfred W. Crosby maintains in this highly original and fascinating book, the Europeans' displacement and replacement ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • A Cold Welcome

    The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America

    de Sam White ...
    Cundill History Prize FinalistLongman–History Today Prize Finalist“Meticulous environmental-historical detective work.”—Times Literary SupplementWhen Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold new world. The average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia. The effects of this climactic upheaval were stark and unpredictable: blizzards and deep freezes, droughts ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination

    New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination

    de Joyce Appleby ...
    An engrossing history of the voyages of exploration that ignited curiosity about nature and gave birth to modern science.When Columbus first returned to Spain from the Caribbean, he dazzled King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with exotic parrots, tropical flowers, and bits of gold. Inspired by the promise of riches, countless seafarers poured out of the Iberian Peninsula and wider Europe in search ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD