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Crime thriller starring John Cusack, Rebecca Da Costa and Robert De
Niro. Assassin Jack (Cusack) is given a new assignment by his
ruthless boss Dragna (De Niro): he must collect a bag without
looking inside it and stay at a motel until Dragna arrives. At the
motel there are many suspicious characters who all seem to want to
get their hands on the bag and the murder count rises as Jack
protects its contents. He meets prostitute Rivka (Da Costa), who is
hiding out in his room, and is unsure whether he can trust her but
allows her to stay because she knows too much. When Dragna
eventually comes to the motel Jack learns that there is more to the
mission than he first realised...
Now in its fourth edition, this excellent text continues its
trademark approach with contributions from scholars committed to
thinking differently. Each chapter is written by topic specialists
who explore key issues in an effective, thought-provoking way.
Exploring the divisions and associated debates, the title adopts a
selective and critical approach to established organizational
behaviour topics while thoroughly engaging students in the subject.
Between the French revolution and the 'Chemists' War' (1914-1918)
science became culturally and economically crucial. David Knight
explores how science was disseminated in this period, moving from
its relative unimportance in the late 18th century to the start of
the 20th century where it was seen as a vital tool.
The travels and publications of Joseph Hooker, author of the
"Himalayan Journals," are inextricably tied to British colonialism
and Empire-building. Travelling in his role as director of the Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, he collected about 7,000 species in India
and Nepal, added 25 new rhododendron species to Kew (creating a
rhododendron craze among British gardeners), and brought over
samples of both rubber and quinine from the Amazon. Hooker
dedicated these " Journals "to his close friend Charles Darwin.
Contents of this work--reprinted here in two parts--include many
pictures and foldout maps of the areas covered by his travels.
The travels and publications of Joseph Hooker, author of the
"Himalayan Journals," are inextricably tied to British colonialism
and Empire-building. Travelling in his role as director of the Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, he collected about 7,000 species in India
and Nepal, added 25 new rhododendron species to Kew (creating a
rhododendron craze among British gardeners), and brought over
samples of both rubber and quinine from the Amazon. Hooker
dedicated these " Journals "to his close friend Charles Darwin.
Contents of this work--reprinted here in two parts--include many
pictures and foldout maps of the areas covered by his travels.
John White was Surgeon General on Captain Arthur Phillip's ship,
leading the First Fleet in 1788. White's journal describes and
illustrates the many new plants he discovered in New South Wales,
and provides valuable ethnographic information, making this one of
the first descriptions of the environment and indigenous people at
the time of Britain's colonization of Australia. The volume is
richly illustrated with sixty-five plates of plants, birds, and
animals and will be useful to researchers interested in
biodiversity as well as scientific travel.
Described by Charles Darwin as "the greatest scientific traveller
who ever lived," Alexander von Humboldt helped to transform western
science in the nineteenth century. Naturalist, botanist, zoologist,
author, cartographer, artist, and sociologist, he is widely
respected as the founder of physical geography (and climatalogy),
and his influence on all branches of natural science still persists
today.
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Bates lived and studied in Amazonian South America for a total of
eleven years, and is still regarded as one of the world's
pioneering naturalists and entomologists. This classic two-volume
work elucidates his concept of mimetic resemblance--known to this
day as "Batesian mimicry"--and displays his significant
contribution to the early development of the theory of natural
selection.
This is a reprint of the Bates family copy, the exclusive property
of the Natural History Museum, and includes a family tree of the
Leicester branch of Bates family. The volumes are richly
illustrated with numerous plates and a foldout map of Bates'
journey along the Amazon.
"The Malay Archipelago" is perhaps the most celebrated of all
writings on Indonesia. Attracting huge public interest at the time
of publication, this two-part work ranks with the nineteenth
century's most important travel writing and Wallace's name
continues to be inextricably linked to the area.
Wallace was best known for his discovery and description of the
faunal discontinuity that now bears his name, "Wallace's Line,"
extending between the islands of Bali and Lombok and Borneo and
Sulawesi, described here in "The Malay Archipelago." This led to
his theory of natural selection, which was presented to the
Linnaean Society in 1858.
"The Malay Archipelago" is perhaps the most celebrated of all
writings on Indonesia. Attracting huge public interest at the time
of publication, this two-part work ranks with the nineteenth
century's most important travel writing and Wallace's name
continues to be inextricably linked to the area.
Wallace was best known for his discovery and description of the
faunal discontinuity that now bears his name, "Wallace's Line,"
extending between the islands of Bali and Lombok and Borneo and
Sulawesi, described here in "The Malay Archipelago." This led to
his theory of natural selection, which was presented to the
Linnaean Society in 1858.
First published in 1989, this dictionary of the whole field of the
physical sciences is an invaluable guide through the changing
terminology and practices of scientific research. Arranged
alphabetically, it traces how the meaning of scientific terms have
changed over time. It covers a wide range of topics including
voyages, observations, magnetism and pendulums, and central
subjects such as atom, valency and energy. There are also entries
on more abstract terms such as hypothesis, theory, induction,
deduction, falsification and paradigm, emphasizing that while
science is more than ‘organized common sense’ it is not
completely different from other activities. Science’s lack of
innocence is also recognized in headings like pollution and
weapons. This book will be a useful resource to students interested
in the history of science.
This book has a clear concern to offer a distinctive way of
studying leadership so that it might be practiced differently. It
is distinctive in focusing on contemporary concerns about gender
and ethics. More precisely, it examines the masculinity of
leadership and how, through an embodied form of reasoning, it might
be challenged or disrupted. A central argument of the book is that
masculine leadership elevates rationality in ways that marginalize
the body and feelings and often has the effect of sanctioning
unethical behavior. In exploring this thesis, Leadership, Gender
and Ethics: Embodied Reason in Challenging Masculinities provides
an analysis of the comparatively neglected issues of
identity/anxiety, power/resistance, diversity/gender, and the
body/masculinities surrounding the concept and practice of
leadership. It also illustrates the arguments of the book by
examining leadership through an empirical examination of academic
life, organization change and innovation, and the global financial
crisis of 2008. In a postscript, it analyses some examples of
masculine leadership in the global pandemic of 2020. This book will
be of interest generally to researchers, academics and students in
the field of leadership and management and will be of special
interest to those who seek to understand the intersections between
leadership and gender, ethics and embodied approaches. It will also
appeal to those who seek to develop new ways of thinking and
theorizing about leadership in terms of identities and
insecurities, power and masculinity, ethics and the body. Its
insights might not only change studies but also practices of
leadership.
This book has a clear concern to offer a distinctive way of
studying leadership so that it might be practiced differently. It
is distinctive in focusing on contemporary concerns about gender
and ethics. More precisely, it examines the masculinity of
leadership and how, through an embodied form of reasoning, it might
be challenged or disrupted. A central argument of the book is that
masculine leadership elevates rationality in ways that marginalize
the body and feelings and often has the effect of sanctioning
unethical behavior. In exploring this thesis, Leadership, Gender
and Ethics: Embodied Reason in Challenging Masculinities provides
an analysis of the comparatively neglected issues of
identity/anxiety, power/resistance, diversity/gender, and the
body/masculinities surrounding the concept and practice of
leadership. It also illustrates the arguments of the book by
examining leadership through an empirical examination of academic
life, organization change and innovation, and the global financial
crisis of 2008. In a postscript, it analyses some examples of
masculine leadership in the global pandemic of 2020. This book will
be of interest generally to researchers, academics and students in
the field of leadership and management and will be of special
interest to those who seek to understand the intersections between
leadership and gender, ethics and embodied approaches. It will also
appeal to those who seek to develop new ways of thinking and
theorizing about leadership in terms of identities and
insecurities, power and masculinity, ethics and the body. Its
insights might not only change studies but also practices of
leadership.
First published in 1998. The Romantic Era was a time when society,
religion and other beliefs, and science were all in flux. The idea
that the universe was a great clock, and that men were little
clocks, all built by a divine watchmaker, was giving way to a more
dynamic and pantheistic way of thinking. A new language was
invented for chemistry, replacing metaphor with algebra; and
scientific illustration came to play the role of a visual language,
deeply involved with theory. A scientific community came gradually
into being as the 19th century wore on. The papers which compose
this book have appeared in a wide range of books and journals;
together with the new introduction they illuminate science and its
context in the Romantic Era and follow its effects in the 19th
century.
This book explores the place of nationalism in the modern world. It
looks at the relationships between nationalism, politics and
states, explores the rise of minority national movements and the
problems they cause, and discusses the problems of national
integration in particular countries. It analyses the problems in a
general and thematic way and includes a number of important case
studies.
First published in 1989, this dictionary of the whole field of the
physical sciences is an invaluable guide through the changing
terminology and practices of scientific research. Arranged
alphabetically, it traces how the meaning of scientific terms have
changed over time. It covers a wide range of topics including
voyages, observations, magnetism and pendulums, and central
subjects such as atom, valency and energy. There are also entries
on more abstract terms such as hypothesis, theory, induction,
deduction, falsification and paradigm, emphasizing that while
science is more than 'organized common sense' it is not completely
different from other activities. Science's lack of innocence is
also recognized in headings like pollution and weapons. This book
will be a useful resource to students interested in the history of
science.
This synthesis of landscape change and human occupation in the
Trent Valley is based on more than twenty years of research and
includes much previously unpublished material. Each chapter focuses
on a different period from the Pleistocene landscape, Mesolithic
hunter-gatherers, Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age, Late Bronze
Age and Iron Age, to the Roman and medieval periods. Subjects such
as changes in the local vegetation and fauna, geomorphology,
agriculture, burials, domestic settlements and industries are
discussed with examples taken from archaeological investigations in
the valley.
Until the end of the eighteenth century, almost everyone believed that the empirical world of science could produce evidence for a wise and loving God. By the twenty-first century this comforting certainty has almost vanished. What caused such a cataclysmic change in attitudes to science and to the world? Science and Spirituality offers a new history of the interaction between Western science and faith, which explores the volatile connection and challenges the myth of their being locked in inevitable conflict. Journeying from the French Revolution to the present day, and taking in such figures as Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Charles Darwin, Immanuel Kant, Albert Einstein, Mary Shelley and Stephen Hawking, David Knight shows how science evolved from medieval and Renaissance forms of natural theology into the empirical discipline we know today. Focusing on the overthrow of Church and State in revolutionary France, and on the crucial nineteenth century period when a newly emerging scientific community rendered science culturally accessible, Science and Spirituality shows how scientific disenchantment has provided some of our most flexible and powerful metaphors for God, such as the hidden puppet-master and the blind watchmaker, and illustrates how questions of moral and spiritual value continue to intervene in the scientific endeavour.
Until the end of the eighteenth century, almost everyone believed that the empirical world of science could produce evidence for a wise and loving God. By the twenty-first century this comforting certainty has almost vanished. What caused such a cataclysmic change in attitudes to science and to the world? Science and Spirituality offers a new history of the interaction between Western science and faith, which explores the volatile connection and challenges the myth of their being locked in inevitable conflict. Journeying from the French Revolution to the present day, and taking in such figures as Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Charles Darwin, Immanuel Kant, Albert Einstein, Mary Shelley and Stephen Hawking, David Knight shows how science evolved from medieval and Renaissance forms of natural theology into the empirical discipline we know today. Focusing on the overthrow of Church and State in revolutionary France, and on the crucial nineteenth century period when a newly emerging scientific community rendered science culturally accessible, Science and Spirituality shows how scientific disenchantment has provided some of our most flexible and powerful metaphors for God, such as the hidden puppet-master and the blind watchmaker, and illustrates how questions of moral and spiritual value continue to intervene in the scientific endeavour.
First published in 1998. The Romantic Era was a time when society,
religion and other beliefs, and science were all in flux. The idea
that the universe was a great clock, and that men were little
clocks, all built by a divine watchmaker, was giving way to a more
dynamic and pantheistic way of thinking. A new language was
invented for chemistry, replacing metaphor with algebra; and
scientific illustration came to play the role of a visual language,
deeply involved with theory. A scientific community came gradually
into being as the 19th century wore on. The papers which compose
this book have appeared in a wide range of books and journals;
together with the new introduction they illuminate science and its
context in the Romantic Era and follow its effects in the 19th
century.
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This collection will bring together a selection of works by
travellers studying natural philosophy as well as natural history.
The set will cover a wide geographical spread, including accounts
from Australia, Asia, Africa and South America. The style of
writing and subject matter are also diverse. Some offer more
reflective writing, mingling scientific observation with romantic
musing and high style, others have a more specific focus - such as
Bates description of Mimicry in butterflies in Bali. The first
volume includes a general introduction to the collection and each
succeeding volume also includes a new introduction by the editor,
which places each work in its historical and intellectual context.
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