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The Lung Block: Tuberculosis and Contested Spaces in Early Twentieth-Century New York (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Public health, housing, poverty, and immigration dominated social and political discourse in early twentieth-century... Læs mere
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A Spaceship for All: NASA, the Space Shuttle, and Public Engagement after Apollo (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The resulting initiative, the space shuttle, would become the centerpiece of NASA human space flight activity for forty years, opening opportunities for the public to engage with and participate in space projects in new ways.
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As Is: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
As Is gathers everyday poems written over time and mostly at the poet’s home in the Ridge and Valley province of northern Appalachia.
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Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The story of the “conflict thesis” between science and religion—the notion of perennial conflict or warfare between the two—is part of our modern self-understanding.
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The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature examines the defining role of plants in cultural expression across Latin America, particularly in literature.
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I Want to Tell You: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In Jesse Lee Kercheval’s sixth collection, I Want to Tell You, her searching, incantatory poems speak directly and forcefully to the reader in a voice that is by turns angry, elegiac, wry, or witty but always sharply alive.
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Small in Real Life: Stories (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Small in Real Life invokes the myth and melancholy of Southern California glamor, of starry-eyed women and men striving for their own Hollywood shimmer and the seamy undersides and luxurious mystique of the Golden State.
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Pittsburgh Rising: From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Pittsburgh Rising traces the lives of individuals and families who lived and worked in this early industrial city, jammed into unhealthy housing in overcrowded neighborhoods near the mills.
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Nature's Registry: Documenting Natural History in Prussia, 1770-1850 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Over the past two decades, natural things—especially those collected, exchanged, studied, and displayed in museums, such as animals, plants, minerals, and rocks—have emerged as fascinating protagonists for historical research.
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William Bartram's Visual Wonders: The Botanical Drawings of an American Naturalist (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
