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  • Language as a Scientific Tool

    Shaping Scientific Language Across Time and National Traditions

    Modifié par Miles MacLeod, Rocío G. Sumillera, Jan Surman, Ekaterina Smirnova ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Language is the most essential medium of scientific activity. Many historians, sociologists and science studies scholars have investigated scientific language for this reason, but only few have examined those cases where language itself has become an object of scientific discussion. Over the centuries scientists have sought to control, refine and engineer language for various epistemological, ... En savoir plus

    $92.99 CAD

  • The Worlds of Positivism

    A Global Intellectual History, 1770–1930

    Modifié par Johannes Feichtinger, Franz L. Fillafer, Jan Surman ...
    Collections series History (R0)
    This book is the first to trace the origins and significance of positivism on a global scale. Taking their cues from Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill, positivists pioneered a universal, experience-based culture of scientific inquiry for studying nature and society—a new science that would enlighten all of humankind. Positivists envisaged one world united by science, but their efforts spawned ... En savoir plus

    $153.99 CAD

  • Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918

    A Social History of a Multilingual Space

    par Jan Surman ...
    Collections series Central European Studies
    Combining history of science and a history of universities with the new imperial history, Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyzes the practice of scholarly migration and its lasting influence on the intellectual output in the Austrian part of the Habsburg Empire.The Habsburg Empire and its successor states were home to ... En savoir plus

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  • Rules

    A Short History of What We Live By

    par Lorraine Daston ...
    Collections 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, ... En savoir plus

    $56.09 CAD

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  • Germany: A Nation in Its Time

    Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000

    par Helmut Walser Smith ...
    The first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrative that challenges our traditional perceptions of Germany’s conflicted past.For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history—the first comprehensive volume ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • Does God Exist

    An Answer For Today

    par Hans Kung ...
    Does God exist? The question implies another: Who is God? This book is meant to give an answer to both questions and to give reasons for this answer. Does God exist? Yes or no? Many are at a loss between belief and unbelief; they are undecided, skeptical. They are doubtful about their belief, but they are also doubtful about their doubting. There are still others who are proud of their doubting. ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany

    The New Histories

    Modifié par Nikolaus Wachsmann, Jane Caplan ...
    The notorious concentration camp system was a central pillar of the Third Reich, supporting the Nazi war against political, racial and social outsiders whilst also intimidating the population at large. Established during the first months of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933, several million men, women and children of many nationalities had been incarcerated in the camps by the end of the Second World ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • Believe and Destroy

    Intellectuals in the SS War Machine

    par Christian Ingrao ...
    There were eighty of them. They were young, clever and cultivated; they were barely in their thirties when Adolf Hitler came to power. Their university studies in law, economics, linguistics, philosophy and history marked them out for brilliant careers. They chose to join the repressive bodies of the Third Reich, especially the Security Service (SD) and the Nazi Party’s elite protection unit, the ... En savoir plus

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  • Inventing the Universe

    Why we can't stop talking about science, faith and God

    par Dr Alister E McGrath ...
    We just can't stop talking about the big questions around science and faith. They haven't gone away, as some predicted they might; in fact, we seem to talk about them more than ever. Far from being a spent force, religion continues to grow around the world. Meanwhile, Richard Dawkins and the New Atheists argue that religion is at war with science - and that we have to choose between them.It's time ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Physicist and the Philosopher

    Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time

    par Jimena Canales ...
    The explosive debate that transformed our views about time and scientific truthOn April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time should not be ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Atlantic Realists

    Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States

    par Matthew Specter ...
    In The Atlantic Realists, intellectual historian Matthew Specter offers a boldly revisionist interpretation of "realism," a prevalent stance in post-WWII US foreign policy and public discourse and the dominant international relations theory during the Cold War. Challenging the common view of realism as a set of universally binding truths about international affairs, Specter argues that its major ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Restless Clock

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

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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