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Trees and tree products have long been central to human life and
culture, taking on intensified significance during the long
eighteenth century. As basic raw material they were vital economic
resources, objects of international diplomatic and commercial
exchange, and key features in local economies. In an age of ongoing
deforestation, both individuals and public entities grappled with
the complex issues of how and why trees mattered. In this
interdisciplinary volume, contributors build on recent research in
environmental history, literary and material culture, and
postcolonial studies to develop new readings of the ways trees were
valued in the eighteenth century. They trace changes in early
modern theories of resource management and ecology across European
and North American landscapes, and show how different and sometimes
contradictory practices were caught up in shifting conceptions of
nature, social identity, physical health and moral wellbeing. In
its innovative and thought-provoking exploration of man's
relationship with trees, Invaluable trees: cultures of nature, 1660
-1830 argues for new ways of understanding the long eighteenth
century and its values, and helps re-frame the environmental
challenges of our own time.
This book offers the first in-depth investigation into the
relationship between the National Birth Control Association, later
the Family Planning Association, and contraceptive science and
technology in the pre-Pill era. It explores the Association's role
in designing and supporting scientific research, employment of
scientists, engagement with manufacturers and pharmaceutical
companies, and use of its facilities, patients, staff, medical,
scientific, and political networks to standardise and guarantee
contraceptive technology it prescribed and produced. By taking a
micro-history approach to the archives of the Association, this
book highlights the importance of this organisation to the history
of science, technology, and medicine in twentieth-century Britain.
It examines the Association's participation within Western family
planning networks, working particularly closely with its American
counterparts to develop chemical and biological means of testing
contraception for efficacy, quality, and safety.
Transcendental Magic is a classic of occultism, prized for its
wide-ranging wisdom, thorough guidance and revelatory contents.
Written by Eliphas Levi in the mid-19th century, Transcendental
Magic offers seekers of occult knowledge a bounty of guidance and
knowledge. Informed by research spanning many centuries of arcane
arts, the author offers us profound guidance to the ceremonial
rituals one must perform in order to make contact with spirits and
other non-corporeal entities of the universe. In Levi's
explanations we encounter various figures of occult lore. Monad is
synonymous with God; the creator of everything contained in our
physical plane. Derived from the Pythagorean school, through Levi
we learn how Monad interacts with the creation. This discussion is
related to the Kabbalah, which attempts to define the relationship
between what is infinite and what is finite.
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This book uses art photography as a point of departure for learning
about physics, while also using physics as a point of departure for
asking fundamental questions about the nature of photography as an
art. Although not a how-to manual, the topics center around
hands-on applications, sometimes illustrated by photographic
processes that are inexpensive and easily accessible to students
(including a versatile new process developed by the author, and
first described in print in this series). A central theme is the
connection between the physical interaction of light and matter on
the one hand, and the artistry of the photographic processes and
their results on the other. This is the third volume in this
three-part series that uses art photography as a point of departure
for learning about physics, while also using physics as a point of
departure for asking fundamental questions about the nature of
photography as an art. It focuses on the physics and chemistry of
photographic light-sensitive materials, as well as the human
retina. It also considers the fundamental nature of digital
photography and its relationship to the analog photography that
preceded it.
The goal of this book is to introduce a reader to a new philosophy
of teaching and learning physics - Investigative Science Learning
Environment, or ISLE (pronounced as a small island). ISLE is an
example of an "intentional" approach to curriculum design and
learning activities (MacMillan and Garrison 1988 A Logical Theory
of Teaching: Erotetics and Intentionality). Intentionality means
that the process through which the learning occurs is as crucial
for learning as the final outcome or learned content. In ISLE, the
process through which students learn mirrors the practice of
physics.
The modern research university originated in Europe in the second
half of the nineteenth century, largely due to the creation and
expansion of the teaching and research laboratory. The universities
and the sciences underwent a laboratory revolution that
fundamentally changed the nature of both. This revolutionary
development began in chemistry, where Justus Liebig is credited
with systematically employing his students in his ongoing research
during the 1830s. Later, this development spread to other fields,
including the social sciences and the humanities. The consequences
for the universities were colossal. The expansion of the
laboratories demanded extensive new building programs, reshaping
the outlook of the university. The social structure of the
university also diversified because of this laboratory expansion,
while what it meant to be a scientist changed dramatically. This
volume explores the spatial, social, and cultural dimensions of the
rise of the modern research laboratory within universities and
their consequent reshaping.
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