This new 2-volume set aims to share and preserve ethnic and traditional knowledge of herbal medicine and treatments, while also emphasizing the link between biodiversity, human nutrition, and food security.
A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries covers the period from 1650 to 1800,a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses.
This extended new edition offers a multifaceted insight into a period of intellectual history in the West in which the balance between speculative theories and experiential science was reset.
New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it aboutIn the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos.
What if the true nature of reality were like an onion, made up of layer upon layer that, when peeled back, would reveal a creative, self-regenerating, weblike core?
The event tourism business has become more and more essential to community development in countries around the world, helping to increase the appeal of specific destinations and generating huge economic benefits for the communities of the destinations, impacting local economies.
Although it is customary to credit Freud's self-analysis, it may be more accurate, Alexander Welsh argues, to say that psychoanalysis began when The Interpretation of Dreams was published in the last weeks of the nineteenth century.
Fließende Übergänge, verschwimmende Körper, sich auflösende Substanzen, verflüssigte Sprache – Fluide Mediale rücken eine bisher wenig akzentuierte Genealogie in den Fokus.
This edited book of proceedings is a collection of seventeen selected and peer-reviewed contributions from the Virtual Conference on Chemistry and its Applications (VCCA-2022).
Las revolucionarias teorías científicas de principios del siglo XX (las teorías de la relatividad de Einstein y la mecánica cuántica) contribuyeron de forma decisiva a la eclosión de la filosofía de la ciencia, que se ha convertido desde entonces en una de las ramas centrales de la disciplina.
The third edition of this magisterial account of medicine in the Greek and Roman worlds, written by the foremost expert on the subject, has been updated to incorporate the many new discoveries made in the field over the past decade.
A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era covers the period from 500 to 1400, ranging across northern and central Europe to the Mediterranean, and from the Byzantine and Arabic Empires to the Persian World, India, and China.
Japan is a place where powerful earthquakes have occurred more frequently and have caused more harm in the modern era than they have in all but a handful of other locations on the planet.
This book consists of stories of struggles in science education presented by a network of science educators working in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Britain, and the United States.
This book provides undergraduate physics majors and students of related sciences with a sound understanding of basic electronics and how it is used in the physical sciences.
This new book provides a wealth of information on plants in the Lamiaceae family, noted for their essential oils and bioactives and pharmacological properties.
This book discusses advanced knowledge about the synthesis and application of materials in the medical field for diagnostic and therapeutic conditions.
Japan is a place where powerful earthquakes have occurred more frequently and have caused more harm in the modern era than they have in all but a handful of other locations on the planet.
This extended new edition offers a multifaceted insight into a period of intellectual history in the West in which the balance between speculative theories and experiential science was reset.
This multidisciplinary work celebrates Wayne Orchiston's career and accomplishments in historical and cultural astronomy on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
This book consists of stories of struggles in science education presented by a network of science educators working in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Britain, and the United States.
Using an innovative multidisciplinary approach which is deeply invested in posthumanist thought, this book demonstrates how reading science fiction shapes the way we engage with lived environments.
Volume 2 of Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance investigates performances that illuminate the hidden recesses and inscrutable mysteries of the natural and human-made worlds.
Ob nun die Angst vor Schlangen, die Abscheu vor Geiern oder der Ekel vor Spinnen – das menschliche Verhältnis zu vielen Tieren ist von tiefer Ablehnung geprägt.
Como premisa fundamental para la consolidación de relaciones multisectoriales alrededor del proceso científico, las sociedades del conocimiento han asumido retos y alternativas frente a las dinámicas de ciencia, tecnología e innovación, para involucrar a los distintos actores comprometidos en la construcción del desarrollo tecnológico.
