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The Works of Charles Darwin (SET) (Hardcover): Paul H. Barrett The Works of Charles Darwin (SET) (Hardcover)
Paul H. Barrett
R61,667 Discovery Miles 616 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A 29-volume set which contains all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. His work remains a central subject of study in the history of ideas, the history of science, zoology, botany, geology and evolution.

The Works of Charles Darwin: v. 21-29 (Hardcover): Paul H. Barrett The Works of Charles Darwin: v. 21-29 (Hardcover)
Paul H. Barrett
R19,887 Discovery Miles 198 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Volumes 21 to 29 in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century whose work remains a central subject of study in the history of ideas, the history of science, zoology, botany, geology and evolution.

Companion to the History of Modern Science (Hardcover): G.N Cantor, J.R.R. Christie, M.J.S. Hodge, R. Colby Companion to the History of Modern Science (Hardcover)
G.N Cantor, J.R.R. Christie, M.J.S. Hodge, R. Colby
R11,177 Discovery Miles 111 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Focusing on traditions of scientific investigation which began in Europe in the 16th century and spread rapidly across the globe, "Companion to the History of Modern Science" is a new reference source that provides an authoritative and analytical guide to the development of Western science. The "Companion" covers all relevant major developments from 1500 right on up to the present day, examining modern science as a truly interdisciplinary field.
Divided into two major parts, the "Companion" contains a thorough index that makes sought-after information readily accessible. Part One examines the relationship between science and history, describing the methods and problems of research in the history of science, the available systems of historical interpretation, and the philosophical problems concerning questions of discovery and reality. Part Two applies these methods to a wide range of fields, from the work of Newton to the topics of relativity and genetic engineering.

America's First Vaccination - The Controversy of 1721-22 (Hardcover): Barbara Heifferon America's First Vaccination - The Controversy of 1721-22 (Hardcover)
Barbara Heifferon
R3,760 Discovery Miles 37 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores the response to a new scientific advance in medicine three hundred years ago to understand how this discourse revealed religious, racial, anti-intellectual, and other ideologies the first time documented vaccinations were introduced in America. This text serves as a case study that examines the historic discourses surrounding the implementation of a new prevention technique, smallpox inoculation, to prevent the devastating epidemics of smallpox that had visited the new colonies since their start on the American continent. Using this detailed analysis of the arguments surrounding the project in early America, the author examines the various arguments that circulated in the 1720s regarding the project. When compared to today's pandemic, this study argues that Americans over-react and complicate scientific applications not with logical scientific perspectives or even with ethical views, but instead bring exaggerated claims founded on uniquely American historical, religious, racial, territorial, and political ideologies. America's First Vaccination will be of interest to anyone interested in American history, the history of medicine, cultural studies, and a comparison to current pandemic events.

The Experiential Turn in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy (Paperback): Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, Karin de Boer The Experiential Turn in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy (Paperback)
Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, Karin de Boer
R1,228 Discovery Miles 12 280 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This collection of essays challenges the prevailing assumption that eighteenth-century German philosophy prior to Kant was largely defined by post-Leibnizian rationalism and, accordingly, a low esteem of the cognitive function of the senses. It does so by highlighting the various ways in which eighteenth-century German philosophers reconceived the notion and role of experience in their efforts to identify, defend, and contest the contribution of sensibility to disciplines such as metaphysics, theology, the natural sciences, psychology, and aesthetics. Engaging in depth with Tschirnhaus, Wolff, the Wolffians, eclecticism, Popularphilosophie, the Berlin Academy, Tetens, and Kant, its thirteen chapters present a more nuanced understanding of the German reception of British and French ideas and dismiss the prevailing view that German philosophy was largely isolated from European debates. Moreover, the book introduces a number of relatively unknown, but highly relevant philosophers and developments to non-specialized scholars and contributes to a better understanding of the richness and complexity of the German Enlightenment.

Models of the Mind - How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain (Paperback): Grace... Models of the Mind - How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain (Paperback)
Grace Lindsay
R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The human brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. For more than a century, a diverse array of researchers searched for a language that could be used to capture the essence of what these neurons do and how they communicate. The language they were looking for was mathematics, and we would not be able to understand the brain as we do today without it. In Models of the Mind, author and computational neuroscientist Grace Lindsay explains how mathematical models have allowed scientists to understand and describe many of the brain's processes. She introduces readers to the most important concepts in modern neuroscience, and highlights the tensions that arise when the abstract world of mathematical modelling collides with the messy details of biology. Each chapter of Models of the Mind focuses on mathematical tools that have been applied in a particular area of neuroscience, progressing from the simplest building block of the brain - the individual neuron - through to circuits of interacting neurons, whole brain areas and even the behaviours that brains command. Grace examines the history of the field, starting with experiments done on frog legs in the late eighteenth century and building to the large models of artificial neural networks that form the basis of modern artificial intelligence. Throughout, she reveals the value of using the elegant language of mathematics to describe the machinery of neuroscience.

The Works of Charles Darwin: v. 11-20 (Hardcover): Paul H. Barrett The Works of Charles Darwin: v. 11-20 (Hardcover)
Paul H. Barrett
R22,086 Discovery Miles 220 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Volumes 11 to 20 in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century whose work remains a central subject of study in the history of ideas, the history of science, zoology, botany, geology and evolution.

Life as Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal (Paperback): Juan Jose Millas, Juan Luis Arsuaga Life as Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal (Paperback)
Juan Jose Millas, Juan Luis Arsuaga; Translated by Thomas Bunstead, Daniel Hahn
R461 R380 Discovery Miles 3 800 Save R81 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Alan Turing's Manchester (Paperback): Jonathan Swinton Alan Turing's Manchester (Paperback)
Jonathan Swinton
R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Alan Turing is a patron saint of Manchester, remembered as the Mancunian who won the war, invented the computer, and was all but put to death for being gay. Each myth is related to a historical story. This is not a book about the first of those stories, of Turing at Bletchley Park. But it is about the second two, which each unfolded here in Manchester, of Turing's involvement in the world's first computer and of his refusal to be cowed about his sexuality. Manchester can be proud of Turing, but can we be proud of the city he encountered?

Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil - The Historia Naturalis Brasiliae Reconsidered (Hardcover): Mariana De... Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil - The Historia Naturalis Brasiliae Reconsidered (Hardcover)
Mariana De Campos Francozo
R3,758 Discovery Miles 37 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume presents the first extensive census of the surviving copies of the treatise Historia Naturalis Brasiliae in libraries worldwide and examines it from a variety of interdisciplinary viewpoints. The chapters in this volume are written by scholars from different fields of knowledge, including anthropology, botany, linguistics, literature, book history, medieval and early modern history, and art history. The chapters contextualize the treatise vis-a-vis its predecessors and contemporaneous works of natural history and examine its botanical, zoological, and linguistic accuracy and usefulness in the present day. Put together, the seven chapters of this volume present a kaleidoscope of possibilities of how to re-interpret Piso and Marcgraf's work within the dynamic context of knowledge-production about the 'New' Word in the early modern era, while also suggesting approaches to continue profiting from its subject matter in the present day. Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil offers essential reading on the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, natural history and Latin American history.

Seeing Further - The Story of Science and the Royal Society (Paperback): Bill Bryson Seeing Further - The Story of Science and the Royal Society (Paperback)
Bill Bryson 1
R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated book tells the story of science and the Royal Society, from 1660 to the present. Since its inception in 1660, the Royal Society has pioneered scientific discovery and exploration. The oldest scientific academy in existence, its backbone is its Fellowship of the most eminent scientists in history including Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. Today, its Fellows are the most influential men and women in science, many of whom have contributed to this ground-breaking volume alongside some of the world's most celebrated novelists, essayists and historians. This book celebrates the Royal Society's vast achievements in its illustrious past as well as its huge contribution to the development of modern science. With unrestricted access to the Society's archives and photographs, Seeing Further shows that the history of scientific endeavour and discovery is a continuous thread running through the history of the world and of society - and is one that continues to shape the world we live in today.

Reconsidering Extinction in Terms of the History of Global Bioethics (Paperback): Stan Booth, Chris Mounsey Reconsidering Extinction in Terms of the History of Global Bioethics (Paperback)
Stan Booth, Chris Mounsey
R1,182 Discovery Miles 11 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Reconsidering Extinction in Terms of the History of Global Bioethics continues the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by exploring approaches to the bioethics of extinction from disparate disciplines, from literature, to social sciences, to history, to sustainability studies, to linguistics. Van Rensselaer Potter coined the phrase "Global Bioethics" to define human relationships with their contexts. This and subsequent volumes return to Potter's founding vision from historical perspectives, and asks, how did we get here from then? Extinction can be understood in terms of an everlasting termination of shape, form, and function; however, until now life has gone on. Where would we humans be if the dinosaurs had not become extinct? And we still manage to communicate, only not in proto-Indo-European, but in a myriad of languages, some more common than others. The answer is simple, after extinction events, evolution continues. But will it always be so? Has the human race set planet earth on a collision course with nothingness? This volume explores areas of bioethical interpretation in relation to the complex concept of extinction.

Quantum Theory: A Two-Time Success Story - Yakir Aharonov Festschrift (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Daniele C. Struppa, Jeffrey M.... Quantum Theory: A Two-Time Success Story - Yakir Aharonov Festschrift (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Daniele C. Struppa, Jeffrey M. Tollaksen
R6,338 R5,526 Discovery Miles 55 260 Save R812 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Yakir Aharonov is one of the leading figures in the foundations of quantum physics. His contributions range from the celebrated Aharonov-Bohm effect (1959), to the more recent theory of weak measurements (whose experimental confirmations were recently ranked as the two most important results of physics in 2011). This volume will contain 27 original articles, contributed by the most important names in quantum physics, in honor of Aharonov's 80-th birthday.

Sections include "Quantum mechanics and reality," with contributions from Nobel Laureates David Gross and Sir Anthony Leggett and Yakir Aharonov, S. Popescu and J. Tollaksen; "Building blocks of Nature" with contributions from Francois Englert (co-proposer of the scalar boson along with Peter Higgs); "Time and Cosmology" with contributions from Leonard Susskind, P.C.W. Davies and James Hartle; "Universe as a Wavefunction," with contributions from Phil Pearle, Sean Carroll and David Albert; "Nonlocality," with contributions from Nicolas Gisin, Daniel Rohrlich, Ray Chiao and Lev Vaidman; and finishing with multiple sections on weak values with contributions from A. Jordan, A. Botero, A.D. Parks, L. Johansen, F. Colombo, I. Sabadini, D.C. Struppa, M.V. Berry, B. Reznik, N. Turok, G.A.D. Briggs, Y. Gefen, P. Kwiat, and A. Pines, among others."

Evidence Contestation - Dealing with Dissent in Knowledge Societies (Hardcover): Karin Zachmann, Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio,... Evidence Contestation - Dealing with Dissent in Knowledge Societies (Hardcover)
Karin Zachmann, Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, Saana Jukola, Olga Sparschuh
R3,765 Discovery Miles 37 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the practices of contesting evidence in democratically constituted knowledge societies. It provides a multifaceted view of the processes and conditions of evidence criticism and how they determine the dynamics of de- and re-stabilization of evidence.

A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (Hardcover, New edition): Duane W Roller A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (Hardcover, New edition)
Duane W Roller
R3,371 R3,099 Discovery Miles 30 990 Save R272 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the first thorough English commentary on the geographical books of Pliny the Elder, written in the AD 70s. Pliny's account is the longest in Latin, and represents the geographical knowledge of that era, when the Roman Empire was the dominant force in the Mediterranean world. The work serves both cultural and ideological functions: much of it is topographical, but it also demonstrates the political need to express a geographical basis for the importance of the Roman state. In five books, Pliny covers the entire world as it was known in his era and includes some of the first information on the extremities of the inhabited region, including Scandinavia and the Baltic, eastern Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. The commentary provides a detailed analysis of all the points Pliny raises: his sources, toponyms, and understanding of the place of the earth in the cosmos.

Vagina Obscura - An Anatomical Voyage (Paperback): Rachel E. Gross Vagina Obscura - An Anatomical Voyage (Paperback)
Rachel E. Gross
R504 R417 Discovery Miles 4 170 Save R87 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a warped lens, one focused narrowly on her capacity for reproduction. As a result, there exists a vast knowledge gap when it comes to what we know about half of the bodies on the planet. That is finally changing. Today, a new generation of researchers is turning its gaze to the organs traditionally bound up in baby-making-the uterus, ovaries and vagina-and illuminating them as part of a dynamic, resilient and ever-changing whole. Welcome to Vagina Obscura, an odyssey into a woman's body from a fresh perspective, ushering in a whole new cast of characters. In Boston, a pair of biologists are growing artificial ovaries to counter the cascading health effects of menopause. In Melbourne, a urologist remaps the clitoris to fill in crucial gaps in female sexual anatomy. Given unparalleled access to labs and the latest research, journalist Rachel E. Gross takes readers on a scientific journey to the centre of a wonderous world where the uterus regrows itself, ovaries pump out fresh eggs and the clitoris pulses beneath the surface like a shimmering pyramid of nerves. This paradigm shift is made possible by the growing understanding that sex and gender are not binary; we all share the same universal body plan and origin in the womb. That's why insights into the vaginal microbiome, ovarian stem cells and the biology of menstruation don't mean only a better understanding of female bodies, but a better understanding of male, non-binary, transgender and intersex bodies-in other words, all bodies. By turns funny, lyrical, incisive and shocking, Vagina Obscura is a powerful testament to how the landscape of human knowledge can be rewritten to better serve everyone.

Urban Ecology and Intervention in the 21st Century Americas - Verticality, Catastrophe, and the Mediated City (Paperback):... Urban Ecology and Intervention in the 21st Century Americas - Verticality, Catastrophe, and the Mediated City (Paperback)
Allison M. Schifani
R1,142 Discovery Miles 11 420 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book takes a hemispheric approach to contemporary urban intervention, examining urban ecologies, communication technologies, and cultural practices in the twenty-first century. It argues that governmental and social regimes of control and forms of political resistance converge in speculation on disaster and that this convergence has formed a vision of urban environments in the Americas in which forms of play and imaginations of catastrophe intersect in the vertical field. Schifani explores a diverse range of resistant urban interventions, imagining the city as on the verge of or enmeshed in catastrophe. She also presents a model of ecocriticism that addresses aesthetic practices and forms of play in the urban environment. Tracing the historical roots of such tactics as well as mapping their hopes for the future will help the reader to locate the impacts of climate change not only on the physical space of the city, but also on the epistemological and aesthetic strategies that cities can help to engender. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Urban Studies, Media Studies, American Studies, Global Studies, and the broad and interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities.

Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science (Paperback): David Ludwig, Inkeri Koskinen, Zinhle Mncube, Luana Poliseli,... Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science (Paperback)
David Ludwig, Inkeri Koskinen, Zinhle Mncube, Luana Poliseli, Luis Reyes-Galindo
R1,224 Discovery Miles 12 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In bringing together a global community of philosophers, Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science develops novel perspectives on epistemology and philosophy of science by demonstrating how frameworks from academic philosophy (e.g. standpoint theory, social epistemology, feminist philosophy of science) and related fields (e.g. decolonial studies, transdisciplinarity, global history of science) can contribute to critical engagement with global dimensions of knowledge and science. Global challenges such as climate change, food production, and infectious diseases raise complex questions about scientific knowledge production and its interactions with local knowledge systems and social realities. As academic philosophy provides relatively little reflection on global negotiations of knowledge, many pressing scientific and societal issues remain disconnected from core debates in epistemology and philosophy of science. This book is an invitation to broaden agendas of academic philosophy by presenting epistemology and philosophy of science as globally engaged fields that address heterogeneous forms of knowledge production and their interactions with local livelihoods, practices, and worldviews. This integrative ambition makes the book equally relevant for philosophers and interdisciplinary scholars who are concerned with methodological and political challenges at the intersection of science and society.

The Soviet Union and Global Environmental Change - Modifying the Biosphere and Conceptualizing Society-Nature Interaction... The Soviet Union and Global Environmental Change - Modifying the Biosphere and Conceptualizing Society-Nature Interaction (Paperback)
Jonathan D Oldfield
R1,196 Discovery Miles 11 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book argues that the Soviet Union was a highly influential actor in furthering understandings of society-nature interaction on the international stage and played a key role in helping to shape, conceptualize and assess the relationship between humankind and the Earth system. It considers how humankind's capacity to affect physical and biological systems at a global scale was acknowledged and studied by Soviet scientists, discusses how the interaction between Soviet and Western scientists stimulated the development of new technologies and insights, which simultaneously facilitated a more profound understanding of the Earth's physical and biological systems, and explores how Soviet scientists drew upon pre-revolutionary intellectual traditions in order to make sense of society-nature interaction and did so in collaboration with a range of international initiatives. Overall, the book provides a deep analysis of how Soviet scientists conceptualized society-nature interaction and influenced the understanding of global physical and biological systems. Furthermore, it is argued that this intellectual legacy remains of importance today with respect to the activities of Russian science and contemporary global environmental challenges.

Desperate Remedies - Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness (Paperback): Andrew Scull Desperate Remedies - Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness (Paperback)
Andrew Scull
R380 R297 Discovery Miles 2 970 Save R83 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A riveting chronicle of faulty science, false promises, arrogance, greed, and shocking disregard for the wellbeing of patients suffering from mental disorders. An eloquent, meticulously documented, clear-eyed call for change' Dirk Wittenborn In this masterful work, Andrew Scull, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry, sheds light on its troubled history For more than two hundred years, disturbances of reason, cognition and emotion - the sort of things that were once called 'madness' - have been described and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, it is said, is an illness like any other - a disorder that can treated by doctors, whose suffering can be eased, and from which patients can return. And yet serious mental illness remains a profound mystery that is in some ways no closer to being solved than it was at the start of the twentieth century. In this clear-sighted and provocative exploration of psychiatry, acclaimed sociologist Andrew Scull traces the history of its attempts to understand and mitigate mental illness: from the age of the asylum and surgical and chemical interventions, through the rise and fall of Freud and the talking cure, and on to our own time of drug companies and antidepressants. Through it all, Scull argues, the often vain and rash attempts to come to terms with the enigma of mental disorder have frequently resulted in dire consequences for the patient. Deeply researched and lucidly conveyed, Desperate Remedies masterfully illustrates the assumptions and theory behind the therapy, providing a definitive new account of psychiatry's and society's battle with mental illness.

A History of Radioecology (Hardcover): Patrick C. Kangas A History of Radioecology (Hardcover)
Patrick C. Kangas
R3,772 Discovery Miles 37 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

presents a history of radioecology, from World War II through to the critical years of the Cold War reviews, synthesizes and discusses the implications of the ecological research supported by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) of the United States government, from World War II to the early 1970s. will be of great interest to students and scholars of radioecology, environmental pollution, environmental technology, bioscience and environmental history.

Thinking on Earthquakes in Early Modern Europe - Firm Beliefs on Shaky Ground (Paperback): Rienk Vermij Thinking on Earthquakes in Early Modern Europe - Firm Beliefs on Shaky Ground (Paperback)
Rienk Vermij
R1,162 Discovery Miles 11 620 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book is the first extensive study of ideas on earthquakes before the Lisbon earthquake in 1755. The earthquake had a deep impact on European culture, and the reactions to it stood in a long tradition that, before this study, had yet to be explored in detail. Thinking on Earthquakes investigates both scholarly theories and views that were propagated among the early modern European population. Through a chronological approach, Vermij reveals that in contrast to the Ancient and medieval philosophers who suggested rational explanations for earthquakes, supernatural ideas made a powerful comeback in the sixteenth century. By analysing a variety of sources such as pamphlets, sermons, and treatises, this study shows how changes in the ideas on earthquakes were a result of social and political demands as well as from improvements in the means of communication, rather than from scientific methods. Thus, Vermij presents an illuminating case for the production of knowledge in early modern Europe. A range of events are explored, including the Ferrara earthquake in 1570 and the Vienna earthquake in 1590, making this study an invaluable source for students and scholars of the history of science and the history of ideas in early modern Europe.

Horizons - A Global History of Science (Paperback): James Poskett Horizons - A Global History of Science (Paperback)
James Poskett
R350 R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Save R70 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A radical retelling of the history of science that challenges the Eurocentric narrative. We are told that modern science was invented in Europe, the product of great minds like Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. But this is wrong. The history of science is not, and has never been, a uniquely European endeavour. Copernicus relied on mathematical techniques borrowed from Arabic and Persian texts. When Newton set out the laws of motion, he relied on astronomical observations made in India and Africa. When Darwin was writing On the Origin of Species, he consulted a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopaedia. And when Einstein was studying quantum mechanics, he was inspired by the young Bengali physicist, Satyendra Nath Bose. Horizons pushes the history of science beyond Europe, exploring the ways in which scientists from Africa, America, Asia and the Pacific fit into this global story. Scientists today are quick to recognise the international nature of their work. In this ambitious and revisionist history, James Poskett reveals that this tradition goes back much further than we think. Perfect reading for fans of Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads and Bettany Hughes's Istanbul.

Voices from the Pandemic - Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience (Paperback): Eli Saslow Voices from the Pandemic - Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience (Paperback)
Eli Saslow
R476 Discovery Miles 4 760 Out of stock
Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities - On the Index Thomisticus Project 1954-67 (Hardcover): Julianne... Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities - On the Index Thomisticus Project 1954-67 (Hardcover)
Julianne Nyhan
R3,774 Discovery Miles 37 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities examines the data-driven labour that underpinned the Index Thomisticus-a preeminent project of the incunabular digital humanities-and advanced the data-foundations of computing in the Humanities. Through oral history and archival research, Nyhan reveals a hidden history of the entanglements of gender in the intellectual and technical work of the early digital humanities. Setting feminized keypunching in its historical contexts-from the history of concordance making, to the feminization of the office and humanities computing-this book delivers new insight into the categories of work deemed meritorious of acknowledgement and attribution and, thus, how knowledge and expertise was defined in and by this field. Focalizing the overlooked yet significant data-driven labour of lesser-known individuals, this book challenges exclusionary readings of the history of computing in the Humanities. Contributing to ongoing conversations about the need for alternative genealogies of computing, this book is also relevant to current debates about diversity and representation in the Academy and the wider computing sector. Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities will be of interest to researchers and students studying digital humanities, library and information science, the history of computing, oral history, the history of the humanities, and the sociology of knowledge and science.

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