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Autor:
Hennessey, John L.
This open access book demonstrates that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative fiction perform similar work in “making the strange familiar” and “making the familiar strange” by taking their readers on jour
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86908
Autor:
Tucker, William H.
This open access book examines the implications of The Bell Curve for the social, economic, and political developments of the early 21st century. Following a review of the reception of The Bell Curve and its place in the campaign to end affirmative a
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85070
Autor:
Drees, Willem
How to think philosophically about religion? The separation of church and state takes form in the nineteenth century. In public universities in the Netherlands, systematic, church-related theology is replaced by philosophy of religion. As a window on
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85781
Autor:
Ericsson, Martin
It is well known that Sweden once had a state institute for racial biology, as well as that extensive racial research was conducted in Sweden during the first decades of the 20th century. But what actually happened to Swedish race research after the
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/77005
Autor:
Kleemann, Katrin
In 1783, an eruption occurred in Iceland. Soon after, a dry fog descended upon mainland Europe. These two events long went unconnected. "A Mist Connection" documents the Laki eruption and its consequences for Iceland and the wider world. The book com
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63753
Autor:
Hollerbach, Teresa
This open access book offers new insights into the Venetian physician Sanctorius Sanctorius (1561–1636) and into the origins of quantification in medicine. At the turn of the seventeenth century, Sanctorius developed instruments to measure and quan
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63572
Autor:
Theroux, Steven J.
This book is a “big history” of the evidence regarding how we came to be. It briefly explores philosophical thought and how our past might affect our future. The text summarizes different perspectives, including the strengths and weaknesses of ea
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56650
Autor:
Fitsch, Hannah
Seit Jahrhunderten gibt es den Wunsch, das komplexe Gefüge des Gehirns und der Denkprozesse zu formalisieren. Hannah Fitsch geht der Geschichte dieses Wunsches nach, indem sie mit Hilfe des Begriffs der Mathematisierung der Wahrnehmung die Geschicht
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58432
Autor:
Johnson, Benjamin
This Open Access book discusses the progress of science and the transfer of scientific knowledge to technological application. It also identifies the factors necessary to achieve this progress. Based on a case study of the physical chemist Fritz Habe
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54417
Autor:
Petit, Emmanuel
The history of science is littered with the lives of famous scientists, such as Charles Darwin, Marie Curie or Albert Einstein, who have recounted their passion for research and the emotions that contributed to it. Generally speaking, all researchers
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57582