exploring the universe essays on science and technology

The Cambridge Companion to Brecht

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Thomson, Peter / Sacks, Glendyr, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This Companion offers students crucial guidance on Brecht's ong>theong>atrical career from beginning to end, bringing togeong>theong>r ong>theong> contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners to offer a provocative overview. ong>Theong> nineteen newly-commissioned ong>essaysong> place Brecht's creative work in its historical and biographical context, with separate ong>essaysong> on seven major plays, on ong>theong> poetry, ong>theong> ong>theong>atrical ong>theong>ories, ong>theong> use of music, ong>theong> innovations in stage design, ong>theong> ways of working with actors and his hugely influential career with ong>theong> Berliner Ensemble.

Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Numbers, Ronald L., PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press, If we want nonscientists and opinion-makers in ong>theong> press, ong>theong> lab, and ong>theong> pulpit to take a fresh look at ong>theong> relationship between science and religion, Ronald Numbers suggests that we must first dispense with ong>theong> hoary myths that have masqueraded too long as historical truths. Until about ong>theong> s, ong>theong> dominant narrative in ong>theong> history of science had long been that of science triumphant, and science at war with religion. But a new generation of historians both of science and of ong>theong> church began to examine episodes in ong>theong> history of science and religion through ong>theong> values and knowledge of ong>theong> actors ong>theong>mselves. Now Ronald Numbers has recruited ong>theong> leading scholars in this new history of science to -puncture ong>theong> myths, from Galileo's incarceration to Darwin's deathbed conversion to Einstein's belief in a personal God who "didn't play dice with ong>theong> ong>universeong>." ong>Theong> picture of science and religion at each oong>theong>r's throats persists in mainstream media and scholarly journals, but each chapter in "Galileo Goes to Jail" shows how much we have to gain by seeing beyond ong>theong> myths.

The Genie in the Bottle: 68 All New Commentaries on the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Schwarcz, Joe, PUBLISHER: ECW Press, "ong>Theong> Genie in ong>theong> Bottle" makes science downright fun. Dr. Joe Schwarcz blends quirky anecdotes about everyday chemistry with engaging tales from ong>theong> history of science. Get a different twist on licorice and travel to ong>theong> dark side of ong>theong> sun. Control stinky feet and bend spoons and minds. Learn about ong>theong> latest on chocolate research, flax, ginkgo biloba, magnesium, and blueberries. Read about ong>theong> ups of helium and ong>theong> downs of drain cleaners. Find out why bug juice is used to color ice cream, how spies used secret inks, and how acetone changed ong>theong> course of history. It's all ong>theong>re "Dr. Joe" also solves ong>theong> mystery of ong>theong> exploding shrimp and, finally, he lets us in on ong>theong> secret of ong>theong> genie in ong>theong> bottle.

Renaissance Essays

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wiener, Philip P. / Kristeller, Paul Oskar, PUBLISHER: University of Rochester Press, ong>Theong> Journal of ong>theong> History of Ideashas, over ong>theong> years, published many important articles on ong>theong> Renaissance; this selection provides a significant index of American scholarship in ong>theong> field in ong>theong> first twenty-five years of ong>theong> journal's publication. Apart from ong>theong> quality of ong>theong> papers, ong>theong> main criterion of selection has been ong>theong>ir diversity. ong>Theong> editors aimed to present a broad cross-section of ong>theong> intellectual history of ong>theong> Renaissance, and have on ong>theong> whole preferred comprehensive raong>theong>r than monographic studies. ong>Theong> so-called problem of ong>theong> Renaissance is represented by FERGUSON; ong>theong> historical thought of ong>theong> period by WEISINGER, BARON, and REYNOLDS; its social, moral and religious thought by ADAMS, RICE and TRINKAUS; humanism by GRAY; philsophy and science by CASSIRER, RANDALL and BOUWSMA; literature by TUVE; ong>theong> visual arts by SCHAPIRO; and music by LOWINSKY. First published .

New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sundquist, Eric J. / Elliott, Emory, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Increased interest in ong>theong> role of women and minorities in establishing ong>theong> canon of American literature has led to renewed interest in Uncle Tom's Cabin. ong>Theong> ong>essaysong> in this volume set out to provide contemporary readers with a critical and historical interpretation of ong>theong> novel that reflects ong>theong> best of recent scholarship. In his introduction Eric J. Sundquist attempts to show that Uncle Tom's Cabin boldly takes issue with both proslavery arguments and prevailing prejudices among abolitionists, employing ong>theong> forms of popular melodrama and heated rhetoric to carry its complex argument. ong>Theong> individual ong>essaysong> examine ong>theong> influence of Stowe's novel on ong>theong> characterization of women in ong>theong> American novel and on later women writers, ong>theong> role of women in ong>theong> antislavery movement, ong>theong> literary exchanges between Stowe and her contemporaries; Uncle Tom's Cabin and ong>theong> tradition of ong>theong> Gothic novel, and ong>theong> characterizations of blacks in this novel and in later works.

Political Science: The Science of Politics

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Weisberg, Herbert F., PUBLISHER: Agathon Press, Twelve ong>essaysong> adapted from papers originally given at ong>theong> Lasswell Symposium at ong>theong> annual meeting of ong>theong> American Political Association.

Critical Essays on Daniel Defoe: Daniel Defoe

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lund, Roger D. / Bartels Emily, C., PUBLISHER: Twayne Publishers, ong>Theong> full range of literary traditions comes to life in ong>theong> Twayne Critical ong>Essaysong> Series. Volume editors have carefully selected critical ong>essaysong> that represent ong>theong> full spectrum of controversies, trends and methodologies relating to each author's work. ong>Essaysong> include writings from ong>theong> author's native country and abroad, with interpretations from ong>theong> time ong>theong>y were writing, through ong>theong> present day. Each volume includes: -- An introduction providing ong>theong> reader with a lucid overview of criticism from its beginnings -- illuminating controversies, evaluating approaches and sorting out ong>theong> schools of thought -- ong>Theong> most influential reviews and ong>theong> best reprinted scholarly ong>essaysong> -- A section devoted exclusively to reviews and reactions by ong>theong> subject's contemporaries -- Original ong>essaysong>, new translations and revisions commissioned especially for ong>theong> series -- Previously unpublished materials such as interviews, lost letters and manuscript fragments -- A bibliography of ong>theong> subject's writings and interviews -- A name and subject index

Living Words: Language, Lexicography, and the Knowledge

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McArthur, Tom, PUBLISHER: University of Exeter Press, In this unique and entertaining collection of articles, a noted scholar and compiler of key works of reference reflects on ong>theong> nature of language, ong>theong> art of lexicography, and ong>theong> breathtaking developments in communication, ong>theong> media, and information technology in ong>theong> late twentieth century. Living Words ranges over three main subjects: language at large, and in particular English, ong>theong> most widely used language in ong>theong> history of ong>theong> world; ong>theong> art and study of dictionaries and reference science, embracing all past, present, and potential reference materials from ong>theong> Oxford English Dictionary to ong>theong> Yellow Pages; and ong>theong> processes through which communication, information, and knowledge have evolved -- from cave art to ong>theong> personal computer.

Selected Essays of Wilson Harris: The Unfinished Genesis of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Harris, Wilson / Bundy, Andrew / Bundy, A. F. M., PUBLISHER: Routledge, Wilson Harris is one of ong>theong> outstanding literary innovators of ong>theong> century. His novels date from ong>Theong> Palace of ong>theong> Peacock to Jonestown. This long-awaited volume matches Harris's career with his critical writings, from to ong>theong> present day. Selected ong>Essaysong> of Wilson Harris brings togeong>theong>r twenty-one lectures, addresses and ong>essaysong> to make available Harris's full range of writings on subjects including: * ong>theong> literate imagination * traditions of myth and fable in Central and South America * ong>theong> North American literary imagination, from Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville and Ralph Ellison, to William Faulkner and Jean Rhys * inheritances and legacies of writers of ong>theong> postcolonial diaspora This comprehensive collection also comes complete with: * an extensive editorial introduction, providing valuable historical and ong>theong>oretical context for ong>theong> ong>essaysong> * a map of Guyana * bibliographies of Harris's fiction and non-fiction * appendices on ong>theong> legends of El Dorado and ong>theong> Holy Grail.

Tales from the Eternal Archives #1: Legends

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Weis, Margaret, PUBLISHER: Daw Books, In ong>theong> perfect memory of Eternity, stored deep within ong>theong> very essence of ong>theong> ong>universeong>, are ong>theong> history and legends of Earth. But ong>theong>re are also alternate tales of heroes and villains, and everything in-between. This first volume includes stories from such authors of ong>theong> fantastic as Dennis L. McKiernan, Josepha Sherman, Margaret Weis and Don Perrin, and Mickey Zucker Reichert, ong>exploringong> ong>theong> legendary figures who shaped and changed ong>theong> destiny of mankind.

Varieties of Southern History: New Essays on a Region and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Salmond, John A. / Clayton, Bruce / Salmond, John, PUBLISHER: Praeger, This is a unique collection of ong>essaysong> by some of ong>theong> world's leading historians of ong>theong> South, togeong>theong>r with work by younger scholars. All contributors, however, are working at ong>theong> cutting edge of ong>theong>ir particular methodological approaches. ong>Theong> book, for example, includes both an essay by Pulitzer Prize winner Rhys Isaac, and one by Rutgers University graduate student Beth Hale. Yet, both have a common concern to explore ong>theong> reaches of ong>theong> Souong>theong>rn past through ong>theong> dimension of ethnography. ong>Theong> ong>essaysong> in ong>theong> book are grouped according to ong>theong>me. ong>Theong> largest section, ong>theong> social sciences and Souong>theong>rn history, includes ong>essaysong> drawing heavily on ong>theong> insights of anthropology of ethnography and of statistical analysis. Each essay in ong>theong> second section is designed to illustrate how life history can be used to illuminate much larger histoical ong>theong>mes and processes. ong>Theong> ong>essaysong> in ong>theong> last section on labor in ong>theong> "new" South all illustrate, among oong>theong>r things, ong>theong> importance of drawing on ong>theong> insights of historians of women in order to redress ong>theong> masculinist presuppositons of labor historians. All ong>theong> ong>essaysong> in ong>theong> book, in fact, reflect current concerns with gender and race in ong>theong> re-interpretation of ong>theong> Souong>theong>rn past.

Prinicples of Environmental Engineering and Science

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Davis, MacKenzie L. / Masten, Susan J., PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, Principles of Environmental Engineering and Science by Mackenzie Davis and Susan Masten is intended for a course in introductory environmental engineering for sophomore- or junior-level students. ong>Theong> emphasis of this new text is on engineering principles raong>theong>r than on engineering design. ong>Theong> concept of mass balance is carried throughout ong>theong> text as a tool for problem solving, and ong>theong> text boasts extensive coverage of chemistry, biology, and hydrology than oong>theong>r books have. ong>Theong> chemistry review in Chapter 2 and coverage of ethics will aid students in better understanding ong>theong> engineering topics presented in ong>theong> book.

The Sociology of Juvenile Delinquency

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Berger, Ronald J., PUBLISHER: Wadsworth Publishing Company, This ethnic and racially diverse text traces ong>theong> growth and development of ong>theong> juvenile delinquent field, with historical ong>essaysong> and contemporary research that show how a sociological perspective can be insightful, interesting, and relevant. ong>Theong> material has been selected from a wide range of sources using a variety of approaches: from social science surveys to ethnographic and gripping journalistic accounts that portray ong>theong> day-to-day life experiences of delinquent youths and ong>theong> gritty realities of life on ong>theong> streets. ong>Theong> reader will come away with a thorough understanding of ong>theong> contributions of sociology to ong>theong> sutdy of juvenile delinquency, and a firm grounding in ong>theong> essential issues of ong>theong> field.

More Science Adventures with Children's Literature: Reading

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fredericks, Anthony D., PUBLISHER: Teacher Ideas Press(NH), ong>Theong>se dynamic literature-based activities will help teachers and school librarians energize ong>theong> entire science curriculum and implement national standards. Fredericks presents hundreds of hands-on, minds-on projects that actively engage students in positive learning experiences. Each of ong>theong> units offers book summaries, science topic areas, critical thinking questions, classroom resources, reproducible pages, and lots of easy-to-do activities including science experiments for every grade level. Chapters cover: Life Science, Space Science, Earth Science, Physical Science, and ong>theong> Human Body for students in grades K-4. ong>Theong> author also provides practical guidance for teaching science through inquiry, for collaborative ventures with school librarians, for integrating literature across ong>theong> curriculum, and an up-to-date section of annotated bibliographies of ong>theong> best in children's science literature. All titles are new to this volume and linked to national science standards. An entire chapter on ong>theong> advantage of collaboration between ong>theong> classroom teacher and ong>theong> school librarian is included. Each individual unit includes a section on one or more collaborative classroom/library projects. An added plus is a section of related Readers ong>Theong>atre scripts keyed to ong>theong> science topics and standards. Grades K-4.

No More Dodos: How Zoos Help Endangered Wildlife

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Nirgiotis, Nicholas / Nirgiotis, ong>Theong>odore, PUBLISHER: Lerner Publications, Uncover ong>theong> intriguing, and often mysterious, world of science in Lerner's Discovery series. From late-breaking hot topics to conundrums whose answers have been concealed for centuries, books in this series provide in-depth coverage of science topics that young readers everywhere will find fascinating Supports ong>theong> national science education standards Unifying Concepts and Processes: Systems, Order, and Organization; Unifying Concepts and Processes: Constancy, Change, and Measurement; Unifying Concepts and Processes: Evolution and Equilibrium; Life Science; and Science in Personal and Social Perspectives as outlined by ong>theong> National Academics of Science and endorsed by ong>theong> National Science Teachers Association.

Papers on the Archaeology of Black Mesa, Arizona, Volume II

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Plog, Stephen / Powell, Shirley, PUBLISHER: Souong>theong>rn Illinois University Press, ong>Theong>se ong>essaysong> deal with methodological and ong>theong>oretical issues addressed by ong>theong> Black Mesa Archaeological Project, . Introductory and concluding chapters by Stephen Plog and Shirley Powell dis-cuss ong>theong> history of archaeological re-search on Black Mesa. ong>Theong> rest of ong>theong> book centers on four general topics. Papers by Alan T. Synenki and by Powell and Anthony L. Klesert consider ong>theong> measurement of relationships be-tween surface and subsurface deposits. ong>Essaysong> by Kathy Bagley Baumgartner, Shereen Lerner, and Powell discuss func-tional interpretations of material re-mains. Analyses of ong>theong> environment of ong>theong> study area and ong>theong> procurement of food are presented by Richard I. Ford, Michele Seme, and David Eckles. Trade relationships between groups on north-ern Black Mesa and groups in surround-ing regions are explored by Margerie Green and Katharine W. Fernstrom.

Human Body II

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Levy, Michael / Rafferty, John / Hosch, William L., PUBLISHER: Encyclopaedia Britannica, ong>Theong> Human Body II, is one book in ong>theong> Britannica Illustrated Science Library Series that is correlated to ong>theong> science curriculum in grades 5-8. ong>Theong> Britannica Illustrated Science Library is a visually compelling series that covers earth science, life science, and physical science in 16 titles. Created for ages 10 and up, each title provides an overview on a subject and thoroughly explains it through detailed and powerful graphics-more than per volume-that turn complex subjects into information that students can grasp. Each title contains a glossary with full definitions for vocabulary help and an index.

Aquinas's Summa Theologiae: Critical Essays

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Davies, Brian, PUBLISHER: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Thomas Aquinas () was first and foremost a Christian ong>theong>ologian. Yet he was also one of ong>theong> greatest philosophers of ong>theong> Middle Ages. Drawing on classical authors, and incorporating ideas from Jewish and Arab sources, he came to offer a rounded and lasting account of ong>theong> origin of ong>theong> ong>universeong> and of ong>theong> things to be found within it, especially human beings. Aquinas wrote many works, but his greatest achievement is undoubtedly ong>theong> Summa ong>Theong>ologiae. This presents his most mature thinking and is ong>theong> best introduction to his philosophical (and ong>theong>ological) ideas. Few secondary books on Aquinas focus solely on ong>theong> Summa, but ong>theong> present volume does just that. Including work by some of ong>theong> best Aquinas scholars of ong>theong> last half decade, it provides a solid introduction to one of ong>theong> landmarks of western thinking.

The Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debates

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ruse, Michael / Wilson, Edward Osborne, PUBLISHER: ABC-CLIO, A thought-provoking series that chronicles ong>theong> discussions, disputes, and debates that have divided scientists and advanced science through ong>theong> ages. ong>Theong> origins of humanity? ong>Theong> causes of homosexuality? Experimentation on humans and animals? In both ong>theong>ory and practice, science is riven by controversy. Always has been, always will be. Controversies in Science reveals ong>theong> history of humanity's disputatious pursuit of truth-ong>theong> passions, ong>theong> polemics, and ong>theong> partisanship. ABC-CLIO's Controversies in Science series examines some of ong>theong> greatest debates in ong>theong> history of science's quest for truth. Edited by top scientists, philosophers, and historians, ong>theong> titles explore fields as diverse as cosmology, genetics, evolution, psychiatry, and ong>theong> fascinating and speculative study of extraterrestrial biology. Who are we? Where do we come from? And what limits should we place on ong>theong> pursuit of answers to ong>theong>se questions? ong>Theong> truth is out ong>theong>re. But what routes have we taken? What routes should we take? Controversies in Science offers a road map.

The Atlantic in Global History:

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Canizares-Esguerra, Jorge / Seeman, Erik R., PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, This reader, composed of original ong>essaysong> by leading authors, expands ong>theong> category of ong>theong> Atlantic chronologically, spatially, and methodologically. It firmly places ong>theong> Atlantic within global history and ong>theong> coverage expands into ong>theong> nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ong>Theong> ong>essaysong> present events that formed ong>theong> nations and cultures of ong>theong> Atlantic region and show ong>theong>ir global roots and how ong>theong>y intertwine with non-Atlantic communities of ong>theong> world.

The Science of UFOs: An Astronomer Examines the Technology

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Alschuler, William R., PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, What if UFOs are real? Where could ong>theong>y be from, and how could ong>theong>y have traveled here? What advanced technology must ong>theong>y possess to execute ong>theong> fantastic maneuvers ong>theong>y are routinely reported to make? Astronomer William R. Alshuler takes a fascinating look at ong>theong> reported attributes of UFOs through ong>theong> lens of known science and explains how ong>theong>y might be doing ong>theong> weird and incredible things ong>theong>y are known to do. Along ong>theong> way, he examines ong>theong> possibilities and problems of traveling faster than light, interdimensionally, and via teleportation, as well as ong>theong> veracity of UFO reports, insights into potential alien motives, and alien biochemistry.

Glorious Grasses: The Grains

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hughes, Meredith Sayles, PUBLISHER: Lerner Publications, *Spotlighted in Booklist as an "established series that continue s] to turn out titles of high quality and appeal." This lively science series serves up a cornucopia of information on a variety of edible plants. Explore topics ranging from where ong>theong> plants originated; how ong>theong>y were first cultivated; how ong>theong>y're currently grown, processed, and sold; to how ong>theong>y're eaten around ong>theong> world and what ong>theong>ir scientific applications are. Each book includes cross-sectional diagrams of ong>theong> focus plants, literary quotes, nutritional information, sidebars, recipes, and activities. Supports ong>theong> national science education standards Unifying Concepts and Processes: Systems, Order, and Organization; Unifying Concepts and Processes: Evolution and Equilibrium; Unifying Concepts and Processes: Form and Function; and Life Science as outlined by ong>theong> National Academics of Science and endorsed by ong>theong> National Science Teachers Association.

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Albania...in Pictures

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lerner Publishing Group / Geography Department / Lerner Geography Department, PUBLISHER: Lerner Publishing Group, Supports ong>theong> national curriculum standards Culture; Time, Continuity, and Change; People, Places, and Environments; individual Development and Identity; Individuals, Groups, and Institutions; Power, Authority, and Governance; Production, Distribution, and Consumption; Science, Technology, and Society; and Global Connections as outlined by ong>theong> National Council for ong>theong> Social Studies.

Principles of the Constitutional Order

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Utley, Robert L., PUBLISHER: University Press of America, ong>Theong> ong>essaysong> in this volume consider ong>theong> writings of those who drafted ong>theong> Constitution, as well as ong>theong> arguments pro and con presented during ong>theong> ratification debates. ong>Theong> first of ong>theong>se ong>essaysong> examine ong>theong> founding principles from historical, political and philosophical perspectives. ong>Theong> second group outlines ong>theong> main Anti-Federalist arguments. A discussion of ong>theong> nature and implications of ong>theong> doctrine of separated powers follows and ong>theong> volume closes with psycho-historical portraits of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. ong>Theong> volume focuses attention on ong>theong> Founding period so that ong>theong> original character and principles of our political order may be seen clearly, in spite of ong>theong> glory and veneration with which age and custom have draped our constitution.

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