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Dams, Parks and Politics Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780813154459
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Description:
This book is a chronicle of the myopia and gamesmanship that dominated Americans' understanding of their environment on the eve of the nation's ecology crisis. Based almost entirely on primary sources, Elmo Richardson's study examines the interplay between the national policies and programs for development and preservation of natural resources in the centralist Truman administration and the localist, enterprise-oriented Eisenhower administration. He shows that the decade examined brought about very little change in the values held by federal policy makers.
Astronomy in India, 1784-1876 Cover Astronomy in India, 1784-1876 Cover
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Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780822945000
Pub Date: 01 Jul 2014
Pages: 282
ISBN: 9780822966470
Pub Date: 28 Jun 2021
Description:
Indian scientific achievements in the early twentieth century are well known, with a number of heralded individuals making globally recognized strides in the field of astrophysics. Covering the period from the foundation of the Asiatick Society in 1784 to the establishment of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in 1876, Sen explores the relationship between Indian astronomers and the colonial British. He shows that from the mid-nineteenth century, Indians were not passive receivers of European knowledge, but active participants in modern scientific observational astronomy.
Childhood Asthma Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781907593000
Pub Date: 10 Jun 2014
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
Peter Greally first encountered asthma as a young boy when he would wake in the middle of the night, gasping for air. He was brought to an eminent professor of pediatrics, who proclaimed that his symptoms were due to anxiety. Eventually, one morning after such an episode, a young, enlightened family doctor saw him and diagnosed asthma.
Is the Health Service for Healing Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9781905483150
Pub Date: 10 Jun 2014
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
This candid examination by campaigner, Irish Heart Foundation founder and former St Vincent's consultant cardiologist Risteárd Mulcahy looks back and forward at the Irish health system and its evolution, current difficulties and probable future state. Is The Health Service for Healing? is an honest and often critical examination of the way the Irish health system has evolved and the difficulties it finds itself in now.
Toxic Airs Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780822962908
Pub Date: 23 Mar 2014
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Toxic Airs brings together historians of medicine, environmental historians, historians of science and technology, and interdisciplinary scholars to address atmospheric issues on a spectrum of scales from body to place to planet. The chapters analyze airborne and atmospheric threats posed to humans, and contributors demonstrate how conceptions of toxicity have evolved and how humans have both created and mitigated toxins in the air. Specific topics discussed include medieval beliefs in the pestilent breath of witches, malarial theory in India, domestic and military use of tear gas, Gulf War Syndrome, Los Angeles smog, automotive emissions control, the epidemiological effects of air pollution, transboundary air pollution, ozone depletion, the contributions of contemporary artists to climate awareness, and the toxic history of carbon “die”-oxide.
Medicine, Healing and Performance Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781782971580
Pub Date: 13 Feb 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: B/w illustrations
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Whether it is the binding of shattered bones or the creation of herbal remedies, human agency is a central feature of the healing process. Both archaeological and anthropological research has contributed much to our understanding of the performative aspects of medicine. The papers contained in this volume, based on a session conducted at the 2010 Theoretical Archaeology Conference, take a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, addressing such issues as the cultural conception of disease; the impact of gender roles on healing strategies; the possibilities afforded by syncretism; the relationship between material culture and the body; and the role played by the active agency of the sick.
Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice, The Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780822962779
Pub Date: 07 Feb 2014
Description:
In The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice, philosophers, sociologists, and historians of science offer a multidisciplinary view of the complex interrelationships of values in science and society in both contemporary and historic contexts. They analyze the impact of commercialization and politicization on epistemic aspirations, and, conversely, the ethical dilemmas raised by \u201cpractically relevant\u201d science in today's society. For example, much scientific research over the past quarter century has been guided by the financing that supports it.
Shifting Standards Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9780822944300
Pub Date: 20 Dec 2013
Description:
In Shifting Standards, Allan Franklin provides an overview of notable experiments in particle physics. Using papers published in Physical Review, the journal of the American Physical Society, as his basis, Franklin details the experiments themselves, their data collection, the events witnessed, and the interpretation of results. From these papers, he distills the dramatic changes to particle physics experimentation from 1894 through 2009.
Modelling archaeology and palaeoenvironments in wetlands Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9781782971740
Pub Date: 19 Dec 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and col. illus
Description:
The measurement and analysis of space is central to archaeological study, such as through the recording of site plans and sections and the interpretation of spatial relationships between artefacts and features. Modelling Hidden Landscapes details a different approach to the study of past patterns of environmental change within the broader framework of landscape archaeology. It utilizes a range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies and GIS modelling to investigate spatial and temporal patterns of Holocene landscape change for two raised mires in south Yorkshire: Hatfield and Thorne Moors.
RRP: £30.00
Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9781782971894
Pub Date: 01 Nov 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
The analysis of animal bone assemblages from archaeological sites provides much valuable data concerning economic and husbandry practices in the past, as well as insights into cultural and symbolic or ritual activity. Animal palaeopathology can identify diseases in archaeozoological assemblages but little interest has been expressed in investigating and understanding the cultural aspects of the diseases identified. Such assemblages represent the cumulative effects of human attitudes, decisions and influences regarding the keeping, care, treatment, neglect and exploitation of animals which result in a range of conditions, non-infectious diseases and injuries that can be recognised on ancient skeletal material.
Shell Energy Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781842177655
Pub Date: 08 Oct 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w & col. illus
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Shell middens are ubiquitous archaeological features on coastlines throughout the world that have been variously analysed and interpreted as mounds of food, burial places, or simply as convenient receptacles for the preservation of stratified remains. This volume brings together information about little known, or recently discovered, concentrations of shell mounds in areas including Africa, the near East, South-east Asia and the Americas as well as new work on mounds in the classic areas including Denmark, the Pacific NW coast and Japan. Discussions are presented on new approaches to interpretation involving the use of ethnographic studies, analysis of molluscs, the use of shell as a raw material for making artefacts and in construction, and the variable formation processes associated with mound formation.
RRP: £60.00
Chimes of Time Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9789088900945
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2013
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
This book is an ambitious project uniting various fields in a multidisciplinary venture drawing on academics and clinicians from medicine, psychology and educational sciences. The interdisciplinary approach has assembled medical, educational and health specialists - many of whom are a rare assemble of outstanding academics and clinicians - with scholarly contributions from many different countries and institutes. It provides a plethora of essays and reviews by clinicians and academics, many contributions self-confessional, disclosing details of their own personal pain and suffering with critical life events including either physical or psychological illnesses, and a description of their own resources and strengths.
On Leibniz Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
ISBN: 9780822962182
Pub Date: 28 Jun 2013
Description:
Contemporary philosopher John Searle has characterized Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) as \u201cthe most intelligent human being who has ever lived.\u201d The German philosopher, mathematician, and logician invented calculus (independently of Sir Isaac Newton), topology, determinants, binary arithmetic, symbolic logic, rational mechanics, and much more. His metaphysics bequeathed a set of problems and approaches that have influenced the course of Western philosophy from Kant in the eighteenth century until the present day.
Scientific Models in Philosophy of Science Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780822962731
Pub Date: 07 Jun 2013
Description:
Scientists have used models for hundreds of years as a means of describing phenomena and as a basis for further analogy. In Scientific Models in Philosophy of Science, Daniela Bailer-Jones assembles an original and comprehensive philosophical analysis of how models have been used and interpreted in both historical and contemporary contexts.Bailer-Jones delineates the many forms models can take (ranging from equations to animals; from physical objects to theoretical constructs), and how they are put to use.
The Historic Landscape of Devon Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781905119387
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2013
Imprint: Windgather Press
Illustrations: col illus
Description:
This book discusses the 19th-century historic landscape of Devon though the creation, manipulation and querying of a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) database to examine physical evidence of change and development through field and settlement patterns. Making use of tithe surveys, the relationship between field and settlement morphologies and patterns of landholding is discussed for three case-study areas in Devon, developing the idea of landscape pays and the identification of regional differences in the study of the historic landscape.
RRP: £38.00
Ecology and Enclosure Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781905119448
Pub Date: 07 Feb 2013
Imprint: Windgather Press
Description:
South Cambridgeshire has some of the richest arable land in England and has been cultivated for millennia. By the turn of the nineteenth century industrialisation and massive population growth had resulted in an enormous increase in the demand for food, which in turn led to enclosure. But this desire to plough every available piece of land resulted in the destruction of many valuable and distinctive habitats that had existed for centuries.