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Springer Where Mathematics Computer Science Linguistics and Biology Meet Essays in honour of Gheorghe Pun
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Springer Botanophilia in EighteenthCentury France
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Johns Hopkins University Press Transforming Computer Technology
Book SynopsisAnd they show how, by the 1990s, the research results had been assimilated into systems both for the military and for civilian society.Trade ReviewSolid and informative... An important contribution to the history of computing. Science An important contribution to both science-policy literature and the history of computing. It will find an appreciative readership in the technology-policy community, in innovation studies, and in computer science. Computing ReviewsTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of Frequently Used AcronymsIntroduction1. Managing for Technologial Innovation2. Sharing Time3. Getting the Picture: The Growth of Interactive Computer Graphics4. Imporving Connections among Researchers: The Development of Packet-Switching Computer Networks5. The Search for Intelligent Systems6. Serving the Department of Defense and the NationAppendix: List of interview SubjectsNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Stronger than a Hundred Men
Book SynopsisSpanning more than 2000 years, Terry Reynolds's account follows the progression of this labor-saving device from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and America-covering the evolution of the water wheel itself, the development of dams and reservoirs, and the applications of water power.Trade ReviewThe most comprehensive and definitive history of the water wheel ever published... Reynolds's study is documented by a staggering number of notes and a vast bibliography, and the text is supplemented by numerous excellent illustrations... An attractive and highly useful source of information. Choice This is an exceptional scholarly work-clearly written, fully documented, and informatively illustrated. Library Journal This lucid, technically precise, and comprehensive study of this key element in the evolution of Western society is a major scholarly contribution. It is also an extremely interesting and readable book that should appeal to anyone with an interest in energy, machinery, or innovation. Science
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Johns Hopkins University Press Inventing the Cotton Gin Machine and Myth in Antebellum America
Book SynopsisFar from being a record of southern failure, Lakwete concludes, the cotton gin-correctly understood-supplies evidence that the slave labor-based antebellum South innovated, industrialized, and modernized.Trade ReviewWith careful use of vivid illustrations and keen analytic skills, Lakwete captures the relationship between technology and human initiative. -- Lester P. Lee, Jr. Times Literary Supplement 2004 Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, which created the Old South and then destroyed it... Lakwete targets this myth in Inventing the Cotton Gin and largely demolishes it. -- John Bezis-Selfa Alabama Review 2005 This study provides students a clear example of how technological choices are not the storybook cases of perfected innovations replacing hopelessly outclassed traditional methods. -- William H. Phillips EH.Net 2004 For those seeking to understand how the interplay of market factors, cultural norms, and personal choices shape-and are shaped by-technology, Inventing the Cotton Gin is an excellent read. -- Don Butts History: Reviews of New Books 2004 Lakwete has written the first scholarly study of the cotton gin in antebellum America... Instead of viewing Eli Whitney's work as a historical watershed, she finds continuity. Choice 2004 Lakwete joins the pantheon of technological historians by demolishing a standard, widely accepted myth with the careful and persuasive analysis of a vast array of evidence... The book is a triumph. -- Barbara Hahn H-South, H-Net Reviews 2004 Few will dispute that this book will change how historians think about the rise of King Cotton and the nature of technological change. -- John Majewski Business History Review 2004 [Lakwete] captures the nuances that distinguish technological success from failure. -- John S. Nader Enterprise and Society 2004 Another myth relating to the South is relegated, shall we say-with apologies to Marx-to the (cotton) dustbin of history... A major work of scholarship. -- Peter A. Coclanis Technology and Culture 2004 Inventing the Cotton Gin is an education in economic and business history as much as a needed revisionist version of the cotton gin myth. -- Kim Long Bloomsbury Review 2004 Bold and path-breaking... Most forcefully, Lakwete impugns the notion that a machine bears the responsibility for the Civil War and its aftermath. -- Mark Finlay South Carolina Historical Magazine 2004 The best and most sophisticated treatment of the gin in the larger context of the antebellum cotton South we are likely to see... The dramatic, great-white man narrative of Eli Whitney yields to a richer, more complex story. -- David L. Carlton Georgia Historical Quarterly 2004 She has done an excellent job of weaving together an amazingly complex series of events in a straightforward and interesting manner. -- Twyla Dell Material Culture 2006 An important addition to the growing list of works on southern industrialization... As with other good history books, it challenges what we think we knew, and sends us searching for more clues. -- Shepherd W. McKinley H-Net Reviews 2007Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Cotton and the Gin to 16002. The Roller Gin in the America, 1607-17903. The Invention of the Saw Gin, 1790-18104. The Transition from the Roller to the Saw Gin, 1796-18305. The Saw Gin Industry, 1830-18656. Saw Gin Innovation, 1820-18607. Old and New Roller Gins, 1820-18708. Machine and MythNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Locating Medical History
Book SynopsisReverby. Wellesley College; David Rosner, Columbia University; Thomas Rutten, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach, University of Greifswald; Christiane Sinding, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche MedicaleTrade ReviewLocating Medical History more than succeeds as, in the editors' words, 'an invitation to explore and reflect on a field-one that can include widely disparate senses of what medical history is, should be, and should do.' The volume contains several specialized and deeply theoretical essays intended for the medical historian, but any physician or researcher interested in the current status of the history of medicine will also enjoy and learn from it. -- Xavier Bosch Science 2005 The volume is exceptionally well edited and introduced and beautifully produced. -- Bill Luckin Medical History 2006 After this collection, there will no longer be any excuse for medical historians to pretend that their historical background is merely the 'doctors' histories' supposed once to have ruled the earth. This collection highlights much more interesting ancestries, making links with great traditions of scholarship since the Enlightenment, and with political traditions of both left and right. It includes many personal accounts and assessments which suggest how our disciplinary work can be related to wider goals within and beyond the academy. All historians of medicine should own a copy. Social History of Medicine 2005 A must read for every historian of nursing and student of nursing history. The essays capture the diversity and dynamism of healthcare in a coherent, engaging manner. Nursing History Review 2006 The volume has been excellently written and edited, while it is offering a wealth of references. Reading it I experienced as exciting, stimulating my imagination, challenging to approval or peevishness, inviting to rereading it in the near future. It is a very 'rich' volume, and most certainly a book that one ought to buy or to be given as a present. It is more than worth its price. Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde [A] virtue of the book, and the reason everyone should buy it, is that it attempts to be international and makes visible the work of several scholars who are not known or read by many English-speaking historians. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2006 A thoughtful and stimulating volume. -- Philip M. Teigen Isis 2006 Contain[s] a number of interesting essays by some of the most creative medical historians of our time. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 2006Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Medical HistoriesPart I: TraditionsChapter 2. To Whom Does Medical History Belong? Johann Moehsen, Kurt Sprengel, and the Problem of Origins in Collective MemoryChapter 3. Charles Daremberg, His Friend Émile Littré, and Positivist Medical HistoryChapter 4. Bildung in a Scientific Age: Julius Pagel, Max Neuburger, and the Cultural History of MedicineChapter 5. Karl Sudhoff and ''the Fall'' of German Medical HistoryChapter 6. Ancient Medicine: From Berlin to BaltimoreChapter 7. Using Medical History to Shape a Profession: The Ideals of William Osler and Henry E. SigeristPart II: A Generation ReviewedChapter 8. ''Beyond the Great Doctors'' Revisited: A Generation of the ''New'' Social History of MedicineChapter 9. The Historiography of Medicine in the United KingdomChapter 10. Social History of Medicine in Germany and France in the Late Twentieth Century: From the History of Medicine toward a History of HealthChapter 11. Trading Zones or Citadels? Professionalization and Intellectual Change in the History of MedicineChapter 12. The Power of Norms: Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault, and the History of MedicineChapter 13. Postcolonial Histories of MedicinePart III: After the Cultural TurnChapter 14. ''Framing'' the End of the Social History of MedicineChapter 15. The Social Construction of Medical KnowledgeChapter 16. Making Meaning from the Margins: The New Cultural History of MedicineChapter 17. Cultural History and Social Activism: Scholarship, Identities, and the Intersex Rights MovementChapter 18. Transcending the Two Cultures in Biomedicine: The History of Medicine and History in MedicineChapter 19. A Hippocratic Triangle: History, Clinician-Historians, and Future DoctorsChapter 20. Medical History for the General ReaderChapter 21. From Analysis to Advocacy: Crossing Boundaries as a Historian of Health PolicyNotes on Contributors Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press When Champagne Became French Wine and the Making of a National Identity 01 The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Book SynopsisThis ability to mask local interests as national concerns convinced government officials of the need, at both national and international levels, to protect champagne as a French patrimony.Trade ReviewExcellent book. -- Harry W. Paul Journal of Modern History 2005 The denouement of Kolleen Guy's fascinating book is the violent explosion known as the 'revolution of Champagne' in 1911. How the revolt occurred is the heart of this skillful study of a region's economy and society and its relationship to the nation state. -- Thomas Brennan Journal of Social History 2004 A strong contribution to our understanding of the processes by which French national identity was constructed. -- James. R. Lehning Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2005 [Guy] convincingly describes how the circumstances surrounding the evolution of this regional beverage explain changes within French society... Students writing research papers in the fields of gastronomy would find this an excellent model of how they should approach similar topics. Massachusetts Beverage Business 2004 Guy's fascinating book... traces in extensive detail the forces at work to transform this formerly regional product into a world-recognized symbol of French patrimony, elitism, and spirit. In lively style, Guy chronicles the history of champagne production in France and, in turn, the history of France itself through eras of industrialization and war. All readers will find this book absorbing: history buffs, novices to the bubbly, and full-fledged experts. -- Janine Sutherlin France Today A fascinating study of champagne in the years before the Great War... Guy makes us consider the current popularity of products which, like champagne, have a strong regional identity and their increasing centrality to contemporary France's sense of identity. Times Literary Supplement A fascinating book... [Guy] demonstrates how a region with few environmental advantages for grape and wine production was able not only to succeed but to become synonymous with grace, style, and joyful gatherings. Choice 2003 Guy's illustrated book is a well-researched look at one of France's proudest achievements. -- Lori D. Kranz Bloomsbury Review 2007Table of ContentsContents: AcknowledgmentsOne IntroductionTwo Consuming the Nation: Champagne Marketing and Bourgeois Rituals, 1789-1914Three Industry meets Terroir: Champagne Producers in the MarneFour Resistance and Identity: Cultivation Methods and the Wine Community, 1789-1890Five Boundaries: The Limits of the "True" Champagne, 1900-1910Six Revolution and Stalemate: The Revolt of 1911Seven Conclusion: Champagne and Modern FranceAppendix Notes Bibliographic Essay Index
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Death in a Small Package
Book SynopsisJones compellingly narrates the biography of this frightfully hardy disease from the ancient world through the present day.Trade ReviewAn excellent resource for understanding the history of anthrax and its relationship to humans... Highly recommended. Choice 2011Table of ContentsForeword, by Charles E. RosenbergPrefaceIntroduction1. Infectivity and Fear: Charbon and the Cursed Fields2. Availability: Understanding the Germ of Anthrax3. Transmission: Anthrax Enters the Factory4. Casualty Effectiveness: War andAnthrax5. Resistance: Anthrax, the Modern Laboratory, and the Environment6. Detection and Verification: The Weapon and the DiseaseEpilogue: Stories about AnthraxAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Black Cat Forensics What Bugs Burns Prints Dna and More
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University of Virginia Press Milieus of Minutiae
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MJ - Ohio University Press Healing the Herds Disease Livestock Economies and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine
Book SynopsisDuring the early 1990s, the ability of dangerous diseases to pass between animals and humans was brought once more to the public consciousness. These concerns continue to raise questions about how livestock diseases have been managed over time and in different social, economic, and political circumstances.Trade Review“The history of veterinary medicine told from anything other than a triumphalist perspective, usually with a nationalist slant, is rare. Essays in this outstanding collection cover rural as well as urban issues in veterinary disease and science from the eighteenth century to the present. The book will attract a wide range of readers from veterinary historians to all those interested in why livestock has been and is important to society.”“This volume represents a compelling call to broaden the territory covered by the history of veterinary medicine and animal health and it is essential reading for those interested in these topics. More broadly, some of its essays should inform studies of colonialism in the modern period, which have too often neglected to examine agriculture, foodways, and notions of environment, health, and disease.” * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *“The essays collected in Healing the Herds are most welcome additions to the existing scholarship on the history of veterinary medicine and livestock disease. The volume should be mandatory reading for specialists in these fields. Those concerned with eighteenth- through twentieth-century colonialism, European state building, and the ecological dynamics of Old World expansion will also find much on offer here.” * H-Environment *“The fine collection compiled by Karen Brown and Daniel Gilfoyle proves that a comparative history of veterinary medicine can be compelling.…By taking the story out of the laboratory and focusing on the political economy of disease and control, they show its significance well beyond animals and vets.” * Journal of Historical Geography *
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University of Pittsburgh Press Investigations of Nature
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University of Pittsburgh Press Investigations of Nature
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University of Pittsburgh Press The The Andean Wonder Drug
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University of Pittsburgh Press The The Life Organic
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Vanderbilt University Press Sex Skulls and Citizens
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Vanderbilt University Press Sex Skulls and Citizens
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University of Tennessee Press Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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American Philosophical Society Press Ancient Egyptian Science Vol. II
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Society of Glass Technology The Art of Glass
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Brill The Aurelian Legacy a History of British Butterflies and their Collectors With contributions by Peter Marren and Basil Harley
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Benjamin Franklin Press Darwins Lost Theory
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Discovery Institute The Deniable Darwin Other Essays
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Discovery Institute Signature of Controversy Responses to Critics of Signature in the Cell
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Discovery Institute Alfred Russel Wallace A Rediscovered Life
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Natural Energy Works The Orgone Accumulator Handbook
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Distant Mirror Bechamp or Pasteur
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Digital Publishing Centre A Demanding and Uncertain Adventure
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Deward Publishing Natural Theology
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Natural Energy Works Manual del Acumulador de Orgon La Energia Vital de Wilhelm Reich Descubrimientos y Herramientas de Curacion Para El Siglo XXI Con Planos Para Su Con
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Natural Energy Works Il Manuale Dellaccumulatore Orgonico Le Scoperte E Gli Strumenti Terapeutici Di Wilhelm Reich Per Il XXI Secolo Basati Sullenergia Vitale Con Gli
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Andrew Leatherbarrow Chernobyl 01
Book SynopsisAt 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl’s fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation of a city, killed thousands and crippled the Soviet Union. The event spawned decades of conflicting, exaggerated and inaccurate stories.This book, the result of five years of research, presents an accessible but comprehensive account of what really happened. From the desperate fight to prevent a burning reactor core from irradiating eastern Europe, to the self-sacrifice of the heroic men who entered fields of radiation so strong that machines wouldn’t work, to the surprising truth about the legendary ‘Chernobyl divers’, all the way through to the USSR’s final show-trial. The historical narrative is interwoven with a story of the author’s own spontaneous journey to Ukraine’s still-abandoned city of Pripyat and the wider Chernobyl Zone.Complete with over 45 pages of photographs of modern-day Pripyat and technical diagrams of the power station,Chernobyl 01:23:40 is a fascinating new account of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
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Gods Thrones Nachash Forgotten Prophecy the Return of the Elohim
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Cambridge University Press The Board of Longitude
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Legare Street Press Bulletin New York State Museum no. 23 1898
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Legare Street Press Summer Cruises in Northern Seas microform
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Legare Street Press A History of Science 3
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Legare Street Press Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections v.145
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Legare Street Press Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 58
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Legare Street Press Extracts From Reports on the District of Ungava Recently Added to the Province of Quebec Under the Name of the Territory of New Quebec 1915
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Legare Street Press Cosmos a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe by Alexander Von Humboldt Cosmos 4
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Legare Street Press Narrative of an Eventful Life microform
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Legare Street Press Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary Philosophical Society ser.4
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Legare Street Press Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia v.19 18941895
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Legare Street Press The American Journal of Science. v.7 1824
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Legare Street Press British Antarctic Expedition 19079 Under the Command of E.H. Shackleton
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