Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 132, No. 2, 1988)
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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
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Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9781422370377
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Total Pages: 156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 508
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents the broad outline of NIH organizational structure, theprofessional staff, and their scientific and technical publications covering work done at NIH.
Author: Paul Kennedy
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-07-06
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0307773574
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kennedy's groundbreaking book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers helped to reorder the current priorities of the United States. Now, he synthesizes extensive research on fields ranging from demography to robotics to draw a detailed, persuasive, and often sobering map of the very near future--a bold work that bridges the gap between history, prophecy, and policy.
Author: Robert Cassen
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781412831550
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume presents the latest thinking concerning the effect of population growth on economic development and other areas of global concern. The authors address the complex issues that currently face both developed and developing country governments in all areas of population growth, exploring impacts within their country and internationally.
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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
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Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781422370254
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Barbara L. Solow
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2014-05-27
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 0739192477
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade shows how the West Indian slave/sugar/plantation complex, organized on capitalist principles of private property and profit-seeking, joined the western hemisphere to the international trading system encompassing Europe, Africa, North America, and the Caribbean, and was an important determinant of the timing and pattern of the Industrial Revolution in England. The new industrial economy was no longer dependent on slavery for development, but rested instead on investment and innovation. Solow argues that abolition of the slave trade and emancipation should be understood in this context.
Author: Brad Pasanek
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-08-21
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1317979990
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →‘Liquidity’, or rather lack of it, lies at the heart of the ongoing global financial crisis. In this collection of essays, the metaphor of money as liquidity, and the model of crisis it entails, is deliberated by a range of scholars from economics, history, anthropology, literature, and sociology. This volume offers a rhetorical explanation of the social, cultural, and historical contexts in which metaphors of money are produced, circulate, and fail. These essays, first presented at "After the Crash, Beyond Liquidity," a conference on money and metaphors held at the University of Virginia, USA, in October of 2009, were drafted in the wake of global uncertainty, TARP bailouts, the Great Recession, programs of stimulus and austerity, and recurrent threats of sovereign default in the EU. They question the language of liquidity and flows that is characteristic of everyday business, exposing what metaphors of money hide and explaining why the idea of liquidity has proved so durable. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy.
Author: Stephen W. Hurrell
Publisher: Oneoff Publishing.com
Published: 2020-05-14
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 0952260387
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For more than half a century the theory of continental drift was widely derided. Innovators developing the radical theory were labelled as unscientific by well-known science authorities. But then, in the space of a few years, virtually all opposition dramatically collapsed. Continental drift transformed into plate tectonics and became widely acknowledged as one of the most profound scientific revolutions of the twentieth century. Yet a number of science innovators who had been closely involved with creating this new theory of the Earth continued to research an even more radical theory. They saw evidence that the new geological theory was incomplete, arguing that continental drift was caused by the Earth expanding in size. These science innovators give us a unique insight into their experiences. They relate their personal histories of Earth expansion in 14 original essays. The Hidden History of Earth Expansion presents the unique personal histories of British, American, Australian, German, Polish, Romanian, Indian, Albanian and Jamaican science innovators as they strived to produce a modern theory of the Earth. It includes chapters expressly written for the book by some of the most well-known researchers into Earth expansion: Hugh G. Owen, Cliff Ollier, Karl-Heinz Jacob, James Maxlow, Jan Koziar, Stefan Cwojdziñski, Carl Strutinski, Stephen W. Hurrell, John B. Eichler, William C. Erickson, David Noel, Zahid A. Khan, Ram Chandra Tewari, Vedat Shehu and Richard Guy. In addition to furnishing us with their personal histories of Earth expansion and the seemingly overwhelming evidence for its confirmation, the authors’ highlight areas where further research is required.
Author: Suvobrata Sarkar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-11-29
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1000485005
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume studies the concept and relevance of HISTEM (History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine) in shaping the histories of colonial and postcolonial South Asia. Tracing its evolution from the establishment of the East India Company through to the early decades after the Independence of India, it highlights the ways in which the discipline has changed over the years and examines the various influences that have shaped it. Drawing on extensive case studies, the book offers valuable insights into diverse themes such as the East–West encounter, appropriation of new knowledge, science in translation and communication, electricity and urbanization, the colonial context of engineering education, science of hydrology, oil and imperialism, epidemic and empire, vernacular medicine, gender and medicine, as well as environment and sustainable development in the colonial and postcolonial milieu. An indispensable text on South Asia’s experience of modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian studies, modern Indian history, sociology, history of science, cultural studies, colonialism, as well as studies on Science, Technology, and Society (STS).