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  • The Scientific Revolution

    de Steven Shapin ...
    This scholarly and accessible study presents "a provocative new reading" of the late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century advances in scientific inquiry ( Kirkus Reviews).In The Scientific Revolution, historian Steven Shapin challenges the very idea that any such a "revolution" ever took place. Rejecting the narrative that a new and unifying paradigm suddenly took hold, he demonstrates how the ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Social History of Truth

    Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England

    de Steven Shapin ...
    How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another?In A Social History of Truth, Shapin engages these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in seventeenth ... Leer más

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  • Eating and Being

    A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves

    de Steven Shapin ...
    What we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two.Eating and Being is a history of Western thinking about food, eating, knowledge, and ourselves. In modern thought, eating is about what is good for you, not about what is good. Eating is about health, not about virtue. Yet this has not always been the case. For a great span of the past—from antiquity through about the middle of the ... Leer más

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  • Leviathan and the Air-Pump

    Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life

    de Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump. The issues at stake in their ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD

  • Never Pure

    Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority

    de Steven Shapin ...
    Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure. To be human is to err, and we understand science better when we recognize it as the laborious achievement of fallible, imperfect, and historically situated human beings.Shapin’s essays collected here ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Social Life of Books

    Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

    de Abigail Williams ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    "A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books."—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book ReviewTwo centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Colonial Wars, 1689–1762

    de Howard H. Peckham ...
    Series series The Chicago History of American Civilization
    A fascinating look at over seventy years of fighting in the American colonies—as France, England, and Spain tried to stake their claims in the New World.Although the colonial wars consisted of almost continuous raids and skirmishes between the English and French colonists and their Indian allies and enemies, they can be separated into four major conflicts, corresponding to four European wars of ... Leer más

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  • A History of Religious Ideas: Volume 3

    From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms

    de Mircea Eliade ...
    Traducido por Alf Hiltebeitel, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona ...
    Series Libro 3 - A History of Religious Ideas
    The conclusion of the three-volume history "rendered with the talent of one who is not only an academic writer but a novelist of considerable distinction" (David J. Levy, Times Higher Education Supplement).In A History of Religious Ideas. Mircea Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and ... Leer más

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  • The Book-Makers

    A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives

    de Adam Smyth ...
    An Economist Book of the YearA five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them.**“Almost every page—almost every paragraph—fizzes with facts, allusions, speculations, tidbits of etymology and gems of historical interest.” —**Wall Street JournalBooks have transformed humankind, yet we know little about the individuals who brought... ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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  • Muv

    The Story of the Mitford Girls' Mother

    de Rachel Trethewey ...
    The story of the "seventh Mitford woman," a long-overlooked figure in the Mitford canon—told in full for the first time.Everyone knows about the six flamboyant Mitford girls but in fact there were seven remarkable women in the famous family—the seventh was "Muv," Lady Sydney Redesdale, the mother of the notorious sisters. Too often portrayed as different from them and outside the girl gang, she ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • More and More and More

    An All-Consuming History of Energy

    de Jean-Baptiste Fressoz ...
    The radical, paradigm-shifting international bestseller that destroys our delusions about energy consumption and will change the way we talk about climate change.We have long been taught that humanity’s relationship with energy is one of progress, with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear—until at some future point everything will be replaced by “green” energy. But the long-held ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red

    The Curious Origins of Everyday Sayings and Fun Phrases

    de Andrew Thompson ...
    Discover hundreds of intriguing, entertaining & often hilarious origins to the English language's most curious phrases in this trivia book from a bestselling author.English is filled with interesting phrases. This book reveals the surprising, captivating and even hilarious origins behind 400 of them, including:• Read between the Lines• Cat Got Your Tongue?• Put a Sock in It• Close, but No Cigar• ... Leer más

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