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When Judaism Meets Science (Hardcover): Roger L. Price When Judaism Meets Science (Hardcover)
Roger L. Price
R1,683 R1,375 Discovery Miles 13 750 Save R308 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
History of Psychology in Latin America - A Cultural Approach (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Julio Cesar Ossa, Gonzalo Salas, Hernan... History of Psychology in Latin America - A Cultural Approach (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Julio Cesar Ossa, Gonzalo Salas, Hernan Scholten
R4,128 Discovery Miles 41 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a cultural history of psychology that analyzes the diverse contexts in which psychological knowledge and practices have developed in Latin America. The book aims to contribute to the growing effort to develop a theoretical knowledge that complements the biographical perspective centered on the great figures, with a polycentric history that emphasizes the different cultural, social, economic and political phenomena that accompanied the emergence of psychology. The different chapters of this volume show the production of historians of psychology in Latin America who are part of the Ibero-American Network of Researchers in History of Psychology (RIPeHP, in the Portuguese acronym for "Rede Iberoamericana de Pesquisadores em Historia da Psicologia"). They present a significant sample of the research carried out in a field that has experienced a strong development in the region in the last decades. The volume is divided into two parts. The first presents comparative chapters that address cross-cutting issues in the different countries of the region. The second part analyzes particular aspects of the development of psychology in seven countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay and Peru. Throughout these chapters the reader will find how psychology made its way through dictatorial governments, phenomena of violence and internal armed conflict, among others. Dimensions that include rigorous analysis ranging from ancestral practices to current geopolitical knowledge of the Latin American region. History of Psychology in Latin America - A Cultural Approach is an invaluable resource for historians of psychology, anywhere in the world, interested in a polycentric and critical approach. Since its content is part of the "cultural turn in psychology" it is also of interest to readers interested in the social and human sciences in general. Finally, the thoroughly international perspective provided through its chapters make the book a key resource for both undergraduate and graduate teaching and education on the past and current state of psychology.

Cosmos - a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe; 1 (Hardcover): Alexander Von 1769-1859 Humboldt Cosmos - a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe; 1 (Hardcover)
Alexander Von 1769-1859 Humboldt; Created by E C (Elise C ) Otte, B H (Benjamin Horatio) Paul
R976 Discovery Miles 9 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
New York State Museum Bulletin; no. 189 1916 (Hardcover): New York State Museum New York State Museum Bulletin; no. 189 1916 (Hardcover)
New York State Museum
R937 Discovery Miles 9 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Dinosaur Obstruction (Hardcover): Brother Robert Dinosaur Obstruction (Hardcover)
Brother Robert
R1,193 Discovery Miles 11 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
One Hundred Years of Gauge Theory - Past, Present and Future Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Silvia De Bianchi, Claus... One Hundred Years of Gauge Theory - Past, Present and Future Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Silvia De Bianchi, Claus Kiefer
R3,159 Discovery Miles 31 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a multidisciplinary guide to gauge theory and gravity, with chapters by the world's leading theoretical physicists, mathematicians, historians and philosophers of science. The contributions from theoretical physics explore e.g. the consistency of the unification of gravitation and quantum theory, the underpinnings of experimental tests of gauge theory and its role in shedding light on the relationship between mathematics and physics. In turn, historians and philosophers of science assess the impact of Weyl's view on the philosophy of science. Graduate students, lecturers and researchers in the fields of history of science, theoretical physics and philosophy of science will benefit from this book by learning about the role played by Weyl's Raum-Zeit-Materie in shaping several modern research fields, and by gaining insights into the future prospects of gauge theory in both theoretical and experimental physics. Furthermore, the book facilitates interdisciplinary exchange and conceptual innovation in tackling fundamental questions about our deepest theories of physics. Chapter "Weyl's Raum-Zeit-Materie and the Philosophy of Science" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com

Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences; v. 54 no. 9-21 July 2003 (Hardcover): California Academy Of Sciences Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences; v. 54 no. 9-21 July 2003 (Hardcover)
California Academy Of Sciences
R897 Discovery Miles 8 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Psychopharmacology in British Literature and Culture, 1780-1900 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Natalie Roxburgh, Jennifer S. Henke Psychopharmacology in British Literature and Culture, 1780-1900 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Natalie Roxburgh, Jennifer S. Henke
R3,896 Discovery Miles 38 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection of essays examines the way psychoactive substances are described and discussed within late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literary and cultural texts. Covering several genres, such as novels, poetry, autobiography and non-fiction, individual essays provide insights on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century understandings of drug effects of opium, alcohol and many other plant-based substances. Contributors consider both contemporary and recent medical knowledge in order to contextualise and illuminate understandings of how drugs were utilised as stimulants, as relaxants, for pleasure, as pain relievers and for other purposes. Chapters also examine the novelty of experimentations of drugs in conversation with the way literary texts incorporate them, highlighting the importance of literary and cultural texts for addressing ethical questions.

Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections; v.87 (1934) (Hardcover): Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections; v.87 (1934) (Hardcover)
Smithsonian Institution
R1,074 Discovery Miles 10 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature - 1450-1750 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Wolfgang Lefevre Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature - 1450-1750 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Wolfgang Lefevre
R3,371 Discovery Miles 33 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers a comprehensive study and account of the co-evolution of technological and scientific literature in the early modern period (1450-1750). It examines the various relationships of these literatures in six areas of knowledge - Architecture, Chemistry, Gunnery, Mechanical Engineering, Mining, and Practical Mathematics - which represent the main types of advanced technological and scientific knowledge of the era. These six fields of technologically advanced knowledge and their interrelations and interactions with learned knowledge are investigated and discussed through a specific lens: by focusing on the technological literature. Among present-day historians of science, it hardly remains controversial that contact and exchange between educated and practical knowledge played a significant role in the development of the natural sciences and technology in early modern Europe. Several paths for such exchange arose from the late Middle Ages onward due to the formation of an economy of knowledge that fostered contacts and exchange between the two worlds. How can this development be adequately described and how, on the basis of such a description, can the significance of this process for the early modern history of knowledge in the West be assessed? These are the overarching questions this book tries to answer. There exists a considerable amount of literature concerning several stations and events in the course of this long development process as well as its various aspects. As meritorious and indispensable as many of these studies are, none of them tried to portray this process as a whole with its most essential branches. What is more, many of them implicitly or explicitly took physics as a model of science, and thus highlighted mechanics and mechanical engineering as the model of all interrelations of practical and learned knowledge. By contrast, this book aims at a more complete portrait of the early modern interrelations and interactions between learned and practical knowledge. It tries to convey a new idea of the variety and disunity of these relations by discussing and comparing altogether six widely different fields of knowledge and practice. The targeted audience of this book is first of all the historians of science and technology. As one of the peer reviewers suggested - the book could very well become a textbook used for teaching the history of science and technology at universities. Furthermore, since the book addresses fundamental aspects of the significance emergence and development of modern science has for the self-image of the West, it can be expected that it will attract the attention and interest of a wider readership than professional historians.

Initiation Ii - (The Black-And-White Edition) (Hardcover): Victor Dmetrius Warren Initiation Ii - (The Black-And-White Edition) (Hardcover)
Victor Dmetrius Warren
R757 R673 Discovery Miles 6 730 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Brief History of Colour Theory - Foundations of Colour Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): George Pavlidis A Brief History of Colour Theory - Foundations of Colour Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
George Pavlidis
R3,543 Discovery Miles 35 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book offers a comprehensive introduction in to the various theories of colour and how they developed over the centuries and millennia. As colour is the perception of light by our brains, the book captures not only the physical phenomena but also psychological and philosophical aspects of colours. It starts with ancient studies of Greek philosophers and their insights into light and mirrors, then reviews the theory of colors in the middle ages in Europe and Middle East. The last big part of the book explains the theories of colours by modern scientists and philosophers, starting with Isaac Newton and ending colour schemes of modern digital pictures.

The Globular Star Clusters of the Andromeda Galaxy (Hardcover): Charli M Sakari The Globular Star Clusters of the Andromeda Galaxy (Hardcover)
Charli M Sakari
R1,865 Discovery Miles 18 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a brief compilation of results from nearly a century of research on the globular star clusters in the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). It explores the techniques and limitations of the observations, the successes and challenges of the models, and the paradigm for the formation of M31 that has gradually emerged. These results will eventually be superseded by new data, better analysis techniques, and more complex models. However, the emphasis of this book is on the techniques, thought processes, and connections with other studies.

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
R1,300 Discovery Miles 13 000 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences; v. 57 - no. 25-38 (2006) (Hardcover): California Academy Of Sciences Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences; v. 57 - no. 25-38 (2006) (Hardcover)
California Academy Of Sciences
R935 Discovery Miles 9 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
From the Erzgebirge to Potosi - A History of Geology and Mining Since the 1500's (Hardcover): Sean Daly, Georgius Agricola From the Erzgebirge to Potosi - A History of Geology and Mining Since the 1500's (Hardcover)
Sean Daly, Georgius Agricola
R951 Discovery Miles 9 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences; v.28-30 1929-1931 (Hardcover): Southern California Academy of Sciences Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences; v.28-30 1929-1931 (Hardcover)
Southern California Academy of Sciences
R972 Discovery Miles 9 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Scribe's Treasure (Hardcover): Rev Marion H Gwynn Scribe's Treasure (Hardcover)
Rev Marion H Gwynn
R1,113 Discovery Miles 11 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As both chemist and priest your scribe believes that the current gap between science and religion can be bridged largely by revelation. Revelation is a select part of religion, often beyond the ken or competence of qualified science. Types of revelation comprise the manifest supernatural and prophecy, fulfilled prophecy supporting what is yet to be fulfilled. The book offers answers and asks a variety of questions. This book is written in four sections, each with chapter-like and numbered subsections: Section 1 the most scriptural and salvational Section 2 the most prophetic or revelatory Section 3 the most scientific and integrative knowledge Section 4 the most semantic and hypothetic Section 1 Scripture, Old and New Testament, appears to be a rich source of revelation and other reliable spiritual reality. Its integrity distinguishes divine and human reporting, also religion versus irreligion. Jesus' early advent fulfilled dozens of Old Testament prophecies; divine evidence for the reliability of its revelation. Scripture reveals that Jesus of Nazareth walked among us, both man and God. Section 2 Section 2 comprise a commentary upon the Revelation to John. The prophecy concentrated therein is mysterious in part yet relatively ordered and culminating. It helps to organize other prophecy revealed in Scripture. And it serves to guide our on-going participation with the ascended Christ as Lord. Prophecy reveals that God has operated mightily in and on history, that he has revealed essential parts of his plan and care for mankind. Section 3 Without religion, science, particularly inanimate science, tends to support determinism, also a relatively rigid causation or rationalism. Science develops knowledge more than understanding. Section 3 attempts to assemble salient science together with a minor proportion of related hypotheses. Your scribe believes that God's concern and involvement and control of life is more intimate and profound than most science and philosophy has indicated. Section 4 The relatively hypothetic Section 4 comprises much supposition, some semantically treated. Suppositions are offered concerning material or systematic structures for said living sub matter in body, mind and soul. Life after first death is a gift from the soul's Creator. Spirits just and unjust await resurrection in the spirit, not in the flesh, not in reincarnation. Tthe soul is foundational to theology and tends to respond to spiritual reality, to living sub matter, particularly to God and other souls.

The Mendelian Revolution - The Emergence of Hereditarian Concepts in Modern Science and Society (Hardcover): Peter J. Bowler The Mendelian Revolution - The Emergence of Hereditarian Concepts in Modern Science and Society (Hardcover)
Peter J. Bowler
R4,957 Discovery Miles 49 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An introduction to the history of genetics and the rethinking of evolutionism.

Life Histories of North American Birds, From the Parrots to the Grackles [microform] - With Special Reference to Their Breeding... Life Histories of North American Birds, From the Parrots to the Grackles [microform] - With Special Reference to Their Breeding Habits and Eggs (Hardcover)
Charles 1836-1897 Bendire; Created by Smithsonian Institution
R1,147 Discovery Miles 11 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences; v. 70-71 1980-81 (Hardcover): Washington Academy of Sciences (Washi, Washington... Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences; v. 70-71 1980-81 (Hardcover)
Washington Academy of Sciences (Washi, Washington Academy of Sciences Direc
R1,040 Discovery Miles 10 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Voters' List of the Township of North Dorchester 1897 [microform] (Hardcover): North Dorchester (Ont ) Voters' List of the Township of North Dorchester 1897 [microform] (Hardcover)
North Dorchester (Ont )
R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
God and Gravity (Hardcover): Philip Clayton God and Gravity (Hardcover)
Philip Clayton; Edited by Bradford Mccall
R1,726 R1,418 Discovery Miles 14 180 Save R308 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Listening to Your iGod - Beginning the Climb back to Eden. (Hardcover): Tyler James Listening to Your iGod - Beginning the Climb back to Eden. (Hardcover)
Tyler James
R598 R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Listening to Your iGod" revives the discussion of religion and science and the parallels that exist between the two fields of thought.

Author Tyler James presents his thoughts on why these two very different schools of thought may actually complement each other at times. Jesus taught in parables that offered parallels between nature and God's word. Jesus himself was paralleled with nature as well, lending credence to the idea that there is more to spreading God's word than the obvious.

Consideration of the segregation and feud between science and religion points to similar segregation and differences among the world's societies and religions today. James suggests that the world as a whole needs to gain greater maturity in order to get past these differences and live in harmony. Moreover, this connection is even more relevant given the impending apocalypse, which he believes will begin in 2016.

By showing the parallels between science and religion in "Listening to Your iGod," James hopes to lay the groundwork for connection and harmony.

The Jews and Science - The Quest for Knowledge in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover): Isaac Benguigui The Jews and Science - The Quest for Knowledge in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
Isaac Benguigui
R711 Discovery Miles 7 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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