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Casualty Reports: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Stylistically innovative, deeply moving, carefully researched, Martha Collins’s eleventh volume of poetry combines her well-known attention to social issues with the elegiac mode of her previous book.
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Encountering US Empire in Socialist Venezuela: The Legacy of Race, Neo-Colonialism, and Democracy Promotion (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Since the end of World War II, the United States has come to dominate the world economically and politically, leading many to describe the United States as an empire.
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Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Popular natural history periodicals in the nineteenth century had an incredible democratizing power.... Læs mere
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The Dynamics of Science: Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Together, they reveal how tools and data from automated textual analysis, or machine “reading,” combined with methods and models from game theory and cultural evolutionary theory, can begin to answer fundamental questions about the nature and history of science.
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The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Baranski argues that Borlaug’s new technologies ultimately privileged wealthier farmers, despite assurances to politicians that these new crops would thrive in diverse geographies and benefit all farmers.
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The Architecture of Evolution: The Science of Form in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In the final decades of the twentieth century, the advent of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) offered a revolutionary new perspective that transformed the classical neo-Darwinian, gene-centered study of evolution.
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Literacies of/from the Pluriversal: Tools for Perseverance and Livable Futures (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The range of topics covered includes American Indian and Indigenous representations, literacies, and rhetorics, critical... Læs mere
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New Energies: A History of Energy Transitions in Europe and North America (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Volume historicizing energy production and consumption which foregrounds the importance of energy for big historical questions.
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Youghiogheny: Appalachian River, Revised Edition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Turbulent rapids and wild shorelines of the Youghiogheny River highlight natural wonders of the Appalachian Mountains, and midway on the stream’s revealing... Læs mere
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The Age of Mammals: International Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
With this book, Manias considers the cultural resonance of mammal paleontology from an international perspective—how reconstructions of the deep past of fossil mammals across the world conditioned new understandings of nature and the current environment.
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Business Power and the State in the Central Andes: Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru in Comparison (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This coauthored monograph examines how business groups have interacted with state authorities in the three central Andean countries from the mid-twentieth century through the early twenty-first.
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The Many Voices of Modern Physics: Written Communication Practices of Key Discoveries (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A Tribute to the Communicative Practices of Physicists in the Twentieth Century
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