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  • Unsolved Problems in Mathematical Systems and Control Theory

    Edited by Alexandre Megretski, Vincent D. Blondel ...
    This book provides clear presentations of more than sixty important unsolved problems in mathematical systems and control theory. Each of the problems included here is proposed by a leading expert and set forth in an accessible manner. Covering a wide range of areas, the book will be an ideal reference for anyone interested in the latest developments in the field, including specialists in applied ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment

    by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent ...
    Series series Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
    Air-pumps, electrical machines, colliding ivory balls, coloured sparks, mechanical planetariums, magic mirrors, hot-air balloons - these are just a sample of the devices displayed in public demonstrations of science in the eighteenth century. Public and private demonstrations of natural philosophy in Europe then differed vastly from today's unadorned and anonymous laboratory experiments. Science ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

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  • Rules

    A Short History of What We Live By

    by Lorraine Daston ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    A panoramic history of rules in the Western worldRules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don’t, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules, ... Read more

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  • Eyewitnessing

    The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence

    by Peter Burke ...
    Eyewitnessing evaluates the place of images among other kinds of historical evidence. By reviewing the many varieties of images by region, period and medium, and looking at the pragmatic uses of images (e.g. the Bayeux Tapestry, an engraving of a printing press, a reconstruction of a building), Peter Burke sheds light on our assumption that these practical uses are ‘reflections’ of specific ... Read more

    $17.69 CAD

  • Style and Civilization

    Realism

    by Linda Nochlin ...
    Setting Realism in its social and historical context, the author discusses the crucial paradox posed by Realist works of art - notably in the revolutionary paintings of Courbet, the works of Manet, Degas and Monet, of the Pre-Raphaelites and other English, American, German and Italian Realists. ... Read more

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  • Voltaire

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nicholas Cronk ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors -- arguably the defining personality -- of the European Enlightenment. In this Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Cronk explores Voltaire's remarkable career and demonstrates how his thinking is pivotal to our notion and understanding of the Enlightenment. In a fresh and modern examination of his writings, ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • The Restless Clock

    A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick

    by Jessica Riskin ...
    A "wide-ranging, witty, and astonishingly learned" scientific and cultural history of the concept of the capacity to act in nature ( London Review of Books).Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the ... Read more

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  • Decadence

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Weir ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The history of decadent culture runs from ancient Rome to nineteenth-century Paris, Victorian London, fin de siècle Vienna, Weimar Berlin, and beyond. The decline of Rome provides the pattern for both aesthetic and social decadence, a pattern that artists and writers in the nineteenth century imitated, emulated, parodied, and otherwise manipulated for aesthetic gain. What begins as the moral ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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  • Architecture in Words

    Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture

    by Louise Pelletier ...
    What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? This was the assumption of generations of architects at the beginning of modernity.Exploring the role of theatre and fiction in defining character in architecture, Louise ... Read more

    $159.39 CAD

  • Newton

    The Making of Genius

    by Patricia Fara ...
    Isaac Newton is now universally celebrated as a genius of science, renowned for his innovatory work on gravity and optics. Yet Newton did not always enjoy such legendary status. His posthumous reputation has constantly changed and is riddled with contradictions.NEWTON investigates the different ways in which Newton's life and works have been interpreted at different times. It charts his ... Read more

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  • The Smile Revolution

    In Eighteenth-Century Paris

    by Colin Jones CBE ...
    You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might seem, it was only in late eighteenth century France that western civilization discovered the art of the smile. In the 'Old Regime of Teeth' which ... Read more

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  • Pandora's Breeches

    Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment

    by Patricia Fara ...
    'Had God intended Women merely as a finer sort of cattle, he would not have made them reasonable.' Writing in 1673, Bathsua Makin was one of the first women to insist that girls should receive a scientific education. Despite the efforts of Makin and her successors, women were excluded from universities until the end of the nineteenth century, yet they found other ways to participate in scientific ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD