Author: Barbara A. Holmes
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781563383779
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Argues that theoretical physics and cosmology can provide a key to overcoming race-related problems, explaining how they enable a means for discussing individual and communal quests for fulfillment beyond racial, ethnic, class, and sexual barriers. Original.
Race and the Cosmos
Author: Barbara A. Holmes
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781563383779
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Argues that theoretical physics and cosmology can provide a key to overcoming race-related problems, explaining how they enable a means for discussing individual and communal quests for fulfillment beyond racial, ethnic, class, and sexual barriers. Original.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781563383779
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Argues that theoretical physics and cosmology can provide a key to overcoming race-related problems, explaining how they enable a means for discussing individual and communal quests for fulfillment beyond racial, ethnic, class, and sexual barriers. Original.
Race and the Cosmos
Author: Barbara Holmes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781623050504
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781623050504
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Into the Cosmos
Author: James T. Andrews
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 082297746X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The launch of the Sputnik satellite in October 1957 changed the course of human history. In the span of a few years, Soviets sent the first animal into space, the first man, and the first woman. These events were a direct challenge to the United States and the capitalist model that claimed ownership of scientific aspiration and achievement. Into the Cosmos shows us the fascinating interplay of Soviet politics, science, and culture during the Khrushchev era, and how the space program became a binding force between these elements.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 082297746X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The launch of the Sputnik satellite in October 1957 changed the course of human history. In the span of a few years, Soviets sent the first animal into space, the first man, and the first woman. These events were a direct challenge to the United States and the capitalist model that claimed ownership of scientific aspiration and achievement. Into the Cosmos shows us the fascinating interplay of Soviet politics, science, and culture during the Khrushchev era, and how the space program became a binding force between these elements.
Parallax
Author: Alan W. Hirshfeld
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486490939
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This lively and entertaining history of the long struggle to measure the distance to the stars will appeal to general readers as well as to amateur and professional astronomers. Readers will encounter fascinating historical characters, from ancient Greeks to 19th-century scientists. Well illustrated, with contemporary pictures plus extensive notes on further reading. 2002 edition.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486490939
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This lively and entertaining history of the long struggle to measure the distance to the stars will appeal to general readers as well as to amateur and professional astronomers. Readers will encounter fascinating historical characters, from ancient Greeks to 19th-century scientists. Well illustrated, with contemporary pictures plus extensive notes on further reading. 2002 edition.
The Disordered Cosmos
Author: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1541724690
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and a call for a more liberatory practice of science. Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology A Finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A Smithsonian Magazine Best Science Book of 2021 A Symmetry Magazine Top 10 Physics Book of 2021 An Entropy Magazine Best Nonfiction Book of 2020-2021 A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A Booklist Top 10 Sci-Tech Book of the Year In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter—along with a perspective informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek. One of the leading physicists of her generation, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is also one of fewer than one hundred Black American women to earn a PhD from a department of physics. Her vision of the cosmos is vibrant, buoyantly nontraditional, and grounded in Black and queer feminist lineages. Dr. Prescod-Weinstein urges us to recognize how science, like most fields, is rife with racism, misogyny, and other forms of oppression. She lays out a bold new approach to science and society, beginning with the belief that we all have a fundamental right to know and love the night sky. The Disordered Cosmos dreams into existence a world that allows everyone to experience and understand the wonders of the universe.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1541724690
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and a call for a more liberatory practice of science. Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology A Finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A Smithsonian Magazine Best Science Book of 2021 A Symmetry Magazine Top 10 Physics Book of 2021 An Entropy Magazine Best Nonfiction Book of 2020-2021 A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A Booklist Top 10 Sci-Tech Book of the Year In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter—along with a perspective informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek. One of the leading physicists of her generation, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is also one of fewer than one hundred Black American women to earn a PhD from a department of physics. Her vision of the cosmos is vibrant, buoyantly nontraditional, and grounded in Black and queer feminist lineages. Dr. Prescod-Weinstein urges us to recognize how science, like most fields, is rife with racism, misogyny, and other forms of oppression. She lays out a bold new approach to science and society, beginning with the belief that we all have a fundamental right to know and love the night sky. The Disordered Cosmos dreams into existence a world that allows everyone to experience and understand the wonders of the universe.
Crisis Contemplation
Author: Barbara Holmes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781623050559
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781623050559
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Picturing the Cosmos
Author: Iina Kohonen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783207435
Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Picturing the Cosmos elucidates the complex relationship between visual propaganda and censorship in the Soviet Union in the Cold War period, focusing on the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing from a comprehensive corpus of rarely seen photographs and other visual phenomena narrating the Soviet Union's 1957 victory in the 'Race for Space', the author illustrates the media's role in cementing the way for Communism whilst retaining top-secret information. Each photo is examined as a deliberate, functioning part of a specific political, ideological and historical situation that helped to anchor the otherwise abstract political and intellectual concepts of the future and modernization.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783207435
Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Picturing the Cosmos elucidates the complex relationship between visual propaganda and censorship in the Soviet Union in the Cold War period, focusing on the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing from a comprehensive corpus of rarely seen photographs and other visual phenomena narrating the Soviet Union's 1957 victory in the 'Race for Space', the author illustrates the media's role in cementing the way for Communism whilst retaining top-secret information. Each photo is examined as a deliberate, functioning part of a specific political, ideological and historical situation that helped to anchor the otherwise abstract political and intellectual concepts of the future and modernization.
Liberation and the Cosmos
Author: Barbara A. Holmes
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN: 1506488420
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
These imagined dialogues between the elders on freedom, liberation, and more offer rich reflection and a unique vantage point for understanding the luminaries of liberation through the generations. An important resource for the contemporary task of Black liberation.
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN: 1506488420
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
These imagined dialogues between the elders on freedom, liberation, and more offer rich reflection and a unique vantage point for understanding the luminaries of liberation through the generations. An important resource for the contemporary task of Black liberation.
The Runaway Universe
Author: Donald Goldsmith
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The incredible story of two rival groups of brilliant astronomers seeking the mysterious number that will determine the future of the universe
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The incredible story of two rival groups of brilliant astronomers seeking the mysterious number that will determine the future of the universe
Understanding the properties and behavior of the COSMOS
Author: Don Hainesworth
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463300719
Category : Cosmology
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463300719
Category : Cosmology
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description