This book is invaluable for teachers and students in high school and junior college who struggle to understand the principles of modern physics and incorporate scientific methods in their lessons.
This volume brings together contributions from the 2022 conference of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology, held in Alesund, Norway, to address the many urgent questions raised by the concept of global sustainability.
This book explores narratives of vaccine hesitancy using samples from the UK press, and looks at the ways these have changed between the 1950s and the present.
To enact the book's central theme of automation and human agency, the author designed a Bot trained on her book to support dialogue with the content and facilitate discussions.
To enact the book's central theme of automation and human agency, the author designed a Bot trained on her book to support dialogue with the content and facilitate discussions.
This volume brings together contributions from the 2022 conference of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology, held in Alesund, Norway, to address the many urgent questions raised by the concept of global sustainability.
This book highlights the numerous important contributions that Einstein made to physics-aside from his relativity theories-and places each of his achievements in the corresponding context, referring en route to the original sources.
This book highlights the numerous important contributions that Einstein made to physics-aside from his relativity theories-and places each of his achievements in the corresponding context, referring en route to the original sources.
This collection of Charles Burnett's articles on the transmission of Arabic learning to Europe concentrates on the identity of the Latin translators and the context in which they were working.
Based on a wide variety of previously unstudied sources, these articles explain how science was applied to three aspects of Islamic ritual in the Middle Ages: the regulation of the lunar calendar; the organisation of the times of the five daily prayers; and the determination of the sacred direction (qibla) towards the Kaaba in Mecca.
Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity returns to and reflects on the spatial and architectural experience of childbirth, through both a critical history of maternity spaces and a creative exploration of those we use today.
Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity returns to and reflects on the spatial and architectural experience of childbirth, through both a critical history of maternity spaces and a creative exploration of those we use today.
This book provides a detailed biographical account of the industrious late nineteenth-century astronomer William Frederick Denning who, in later life, rose to be a celebrated public figure and a highly respected amateur astronomer.
This book is invaluable for teachers and students in high school and junior college who struggle to understand the principles of modern physics and incorporate scientific methods in their lessons.
A History of Western Science: The Basics offers a short introduction to the history of Western science that is accessible to all through avoiding technical language and mathematical intricacies.
This book is the first complete biography of George Minchin Minchin (1845-1914), professor of applied mathematics at the Royal Indian Engineering College.
This volume offers a detailed study of Ptolemy of Alexandria's Geographical Guide, whose eight books contain a wealth of geographical information unavailable elsewhere and represent the culmination of the Greco-Roman discipline of geography.
This volume offers a detailed study of Ptolemy of Alexandria's Geographical Guide, whose eight books contain a wealth of geographical information unavailable elsewhere and represent the culmination of the Greco-Roman discipline of geography.
Grand European Expresses (1962) examines the trains de luxe of the International Sleeping Car and European Express Trains Company, from the Orient Express of the 1880s to the car-sleepers of the 1960s.
Grand European Expresses (1962) examines the trains de luxe of the International Sleeping Car and European Express Trains Company, from the Orient Express of the 1880s to the car-sleepers of the 1960s.
This book is the first complete biography of George Minchin Minchin (1845-1914), professor of applied mathematics at the Royal Indian Engineering College.
Grete (Henry-)Hermann war nicht nur eine Philosophin, die mit Physikern wie Werner Heisenberg und anderen Wissenschaftlern auf Augenhöhe über die Interpretation der Quantenphysik diskutierte.
Cruel Habitations (1974) looks at the pre-industrial background in which housing problems are rooted, with the decay of towns and the unsuccessful attempts to better their condition by public health reforms, by charitable agencies and by building societies - and with legislative action in Parliament towards housing reform.
Cruel Habitations (1974) looks at the pre-industrial background in which housing problems are rooted, with the decay of towns and the unsuccessful attempts to better their condition by public health reforms, by charitable agencies and by building societies - and with legislative action in Parliament towards housing reform.
Global Television (1993) looks at how satellites, fibre optics, compressed digital transmission, and interactive and high-definition television have converged with computer technology to revolutionise TV and film production, TV sets and even the smart home in which TV is viewed.
