Author: Luis Marcos Nogales
Publisher: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
ISBN: 8490128235
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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What really sets humankind apart from other species is our fondness of drugs. This vale of tears, full of plants and animals to tame, was the breeding ground for cultures and civilizations with a penchant for developing the noble art of pharmacy. The Neolithic revolution marked the coming into being and development of great states and empires, with the consequential increase in headaches. But that was no big deal, since shamans, witch doctors, physicians, priests, apothecaries, and/or sorcerers sought, and sometimes found, remedies to relieve migraines and a wide range of ailments. After a taste of this Epic History of Pharmacy you'll doubtlessly feel better. You are holding a fully legal dose for a relaxing but at the same time frenzied trip: from the wild prehistoric Garden of Eden to the marmoreal and massive Rome, passing through Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, America, Persia and Greece. And all of it visually administered, in the form of a carefully formulated ointment of literary panacea seasoned with humor-coated pills of compressed cartoons.
Author: Walter Roy Laird
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402059671
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, between different traditions, or between textual traditions and the wider world of practice. Its purpose is to show how the accommodations sometimes made in the course of these conflicts ultimately contributed to the emergence of modern mechanics.
Author: Agamenon R. E. Oliveira
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400777051
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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This book traces the history of the concept of work from its earliest stages and shows that its further formalization leads to equilibrium principle and to the principle of virtual works, and so pointing the way ahead for future research and applications. The idea that something remains constant in a machine operation is very old and has been expressed by many mathematicians and philosophers such as, for instance, Aristotle. Thus, a concept of energy developed. Another important idea in machine operation is Archimedes' lever principle. In modern times the concept of work is analyzed in the context of applied mechanics mainly in Lazare Carnot mechanics and the mechanics of the new generation of polytechnical engineers like Navier, Coriolis and Poncelet. In this context the word "work" is finally adopted. These engineers are also responsible for the incorporation of the concept of work into the discipline of economics when they endeavoured to combine the study of the work of machines and men together.
Author: Michael MacRone
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Languages : en
Pages : 2130
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Author: Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Publisher: First Avenue Editions
ISBN: 1575050676
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Recounts the life of the scientist whose theories of relativity revolutionized the way we look at space and time.
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Category : Literature and science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Author: Victor Domingos
Publisher: Victor Domingos
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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O livro começa com uma misteriosa carta e apresenta-nos a história de um engenheiro que parece ter encontrado na trigonometria e na matemática em geral uma forma muito pessoal de se exprimir e de reflectir sobre a sua própria vida. Esta novela, que venceu em 2002 o Concurso Literário “Ecos da Memória”, começa com uma misteriosa carta e apresenta-nos a história de um engenheiro que parece ter encontrado na trigonometria e na matemática em geral uma forma muito pessoal de se exprimir e de refletir sobre a sua própria vida. A narração traça o seu percurso afetivo, o qual se revela afinal muito mais humano e mais sensível do que o título da obra poderia indiciar... Afinal, sempre ouvimos dizer que a matemática é uma linguagem universal, que pode servir afinal até para falar de emoções e sentimentos. Difícil de definir e de enquadrar nos géneros literários mais convencionais, o livro surpreende entre outros aspetos pela densidade psicológica da personagem principal. Esta inquietante narrativa junta de forma singular o género epistolar com um certo tipo de 'suspense' que normalmente se associa sobretudo à literatura policial. -----------------------------------------------O que disseram outros leitores:----------------------------------------------- "Eh pá! Cortaste-me o fôlego. A tua obra está absolutamente excepcional..." (Hugo R.) "Misto de gênero epistolar (...) expõe, pelo vigor da prosa inquieta, um criador para cuja trajetória vale ficar atento. As dúvidas e constatações do protagonista, um engenheiro, alojadas no curioso título da obra, nos remetem ao dilema da natureza humana, a luta entre a razão e a sensibilidade. Para triunfo da arte, entretanto, aqui, malgrado os esforços do personagem em suas referências matemáticas, a segunda leva vantagem. O que temos é um itinerário afetivo de ocorrências e percepções de um mundo particular que a cada linha o personagem busca construir e nele reencontrar-se. Ou, mais precisamente, a descoberta do universo através da linguagem de que nos fala Sartre em seu 'Diário de uma guerra estranha'." (Antônio Mariano Lima, poeta e escritor)
Author: Linda Hall Library
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Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Author: Ronald William Clark
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Languages : en
Pages : 507
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