Following on from The Shortcut, Nello Cristianini has authored another brilliant book, explaining the ideas behind a technology destined to change the world. If the worst fear is that of the unknown, the cure is knowledge...Lasīt vairāk
Plague in the Early Modern World now in a second edition, presents a broad range of primary source materials from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, China, India, and North America that explore the nature and impact of plague and disease in the...Lasīt vairāk
Flattening the Medieval Earth explores the origin of the flat error, i.e. the false accusation that ancient and medieval Christians believed in a flat Earth, and what this implies in terms of a conflict between science and Christianity....Lasīt vairāk
This book examines the global history of allegedly scientific mechanical cures commonly used to combat internal and chronic diseases and explores how and why the professional demarcation between orthodox and irregular medicine evolved....Lasīt vairāk
Split into two volumes, volume 2 is a cultural history of technology that provides new insights into the international history of nuclear energy by examining the perspectives of six nuclear power plants host communities in Britain and Germany from t...Lasīt vairāk
Volume 4 examines the British diet from its colonial and global perspectives. Colonialism, combined with rapidly improving global transport networks, introduced the British introduced to a plethora of unfamiliar foods from overseas....Lasīt vairāk
In the long nineteenth century, significant developments occurred in science, technology and medicine which transformed food production and consumption. This volume explores the foods that were eaten in nineteenth-century Britain....Lasīt vairāk
Around the 1860s, publishers began printing books dedicated to specific meals. The sources reprinted in this volume were produced in response to the changing social dynamics that accompanied industrialisation, urbanisation and socio-economic moderni...Lasīt vairāk
This book proposes a comparative reading between formal, or non-formal, structures of learning and individual agency abilities, highlighting influences and entanglements in different geographies from multiple spheres of knowledge and practices....Lasīt vairāk
How was a billiards table lit in 1763, or the stage of the Red Bull playhouse in 1673? How did the early U.S. settlers light their homes, and how did this compare with the homes of Sumeria 4500 years ago. The answers to all these questions and many...Lasīt vairāk
Ten Follies: A Journey Around the World in Ten Forms of Madness focuses on a critical question in the history of psychiatry: to what extent does psychopathology describe phenomena that exist before or beyond their description?...Lasīt vairāk
Throughout its early history, photographys authenticity was contested and challenged: how true a representation of reality can a photograph provide? Does the reproduction of a photograph affect its value as authentic or not?...Lasīt vairāk
Tracing the history of sports medicine from the ancient world through to the present day, this book shines new light on the embedded relationship between physicians, performance enhancement and doping in elite sport....Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1966, in Human Robots in Myth and Science, the author traces the idea of the robot from antiquity until the present day (1960s) and sketches the lines of its likely development in the future....Lasīt vairāk
The first of its kind, this book presents a wide range of passages exploring many aspects of the Greco-Roman watery world: physics, philosophy, weather, medicine, marine biology, religion and mythology, infrastructure, sailing, and mercantile activi...Lasīt vairāk
The book illuminate the processes by which religious myths and institutions were largely substituted by stories of progress in science and technology which often contributed to nationalistic ideologies....Lasīt vairāk
Contributors investigate the motivation behind scientifically-embedded contemporary art practices as well as art-based scientific research and engagement that attempt to shape society....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the vital role language plays in shaping how we understand and discuss medicines, making for a more detailed study of pharmaceutical and pharmacological language to more clearly understand the intersection of language, health, and...Lasīt vairāk
