Johannesburg was still a brash mining town, better known for the production of wealth than knowledge, and the University of the Witwatersrand a mere ten years old when, in 1932, these ten lectures were delivered under the auspices of the University Philosophical Society.
'A timely, future-oriented and necessary contribution which provides clarity to the multivalent tendencies in this field' - Carole Boyce DaviesThemarginalisation of Black voices from the academy is a problem in the Western world.
Der vorliegende Band versammelt autobiografische Essays von namhaften deutschen Historikerinnen und Historikern, die um 1940 geboren sind und über ein langes Forscherleben hinweg ihre Disziplin maßgeblich prägten.
The Fontana History of Chemistry, which draws on both the author's own original research and that of other scholars, is an unrivalled work of synthesis.
Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated book tells the story of science and the Royal Society, from 1660 to the present.
Miroslav Hroch legt in diesem Band Zeugnis darüber ab, wie er aus Sicht eines Intellektuellen, eines in Prag forschenden und lehrenden Historikers, der weder zur politischen Prominenz noch zu den politisch Verfolgten zählte, sein Leben in der zunächst besetzten, dann sozialistischen Tschechoslowakei wahrgenommen hat.
Kant, Goethe, Schiller and other eighteenth-century German intellectuals loom large in the history of the humanities both in terms of their individual achievements and their collective embodiment of the values that inform modern humanistic inquiry.
Die moderne Demokratie wurde zuerst von Alexis de Tocqueville wegweisend und in einer nach wie vor aktuellen, komplexen, aber zu wenig untersuchten »neuen Wissenschaft der Politik« analysiert.
Johannesburg was still a brash mining town, better known for the production of wealth than knowledge, and the University of the Witwatersrand a mere ten years old when, in 1932, these ten lectures were delivered under the auspices of the University Philosophical Society.
'A timely, future-oriented and necessary contribution which provides clarity to the multivalent tendencies in this field' - Carole Boyce DaviesThemarginalisation of Black voices from the academy is a problem in the Western world.
In diesem Buch blickt Sigrid Metz-Göckel, Frauen- und Geschlechterforscherin der ersten Stunde, Hochschuldidaktikerin und Bildungsforscherin, auf ihren Lebensweg zurück.
'Highly readable, subtle and thought-provoking scientific history' ScotsmanIn this penetrating work, Pyenson and Pyenson identify that major advances in science stem from changes in three distinct areas of society: the social institutions that promote science, the sensibilities of scientists themselves and the goal of the scientific enterprise.
