Author: Eugène Straub
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Languages : en
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Lettre de Eugène Straub à Madame Mendl, de Berlin, 23 octobre 1922
Author: Eugène Straub
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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The Verge
Author: Susan Glaspell
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Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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A Cultural History of Heredity
Author: Staffan Müller-Wille
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226545709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Heredity: knowledge and power -- Generation, reproduction, evolution -- Heredity in separate domains -- First syntheses -- Heredity, race, and eugenics -- Disciplining heredity -- Heredity and molecular biology -- Gene technology, genomics, postgenomics: attempt at an outlook.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226545709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Heredity: knowledge and power -- Generation, reproduction, evolution -- Heredity in separate domains -- First syntheses -- Heredity, race, and eugenics -- Disciplining heredity -- Heredity and molecular biology -- Gene technology, genomics, postgenomics: attempt at an outlook.
Radium and the Secret of Life
Author: Luis A. Campos
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022641874X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Long before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicists, botanists, and geneticists were excited thinking that radium held the key to the secret of life. Luis Campos examines the many and varied connections between early radioactivity research and understandings of vitality, both scientific and popular, in the first half of the twentieth century. As some physicists and chemists early on described the wondrous new element and its radioactive brethren in lifelike terms ( decay, half-life, and frequent reference to the natural selection and evolution of the elements), many biologists of the period eagerly sought to bring radium into the biological fold. They did so with experiments aimed at elucidating some of the most basic phenomena of life, including metabolism and mutation, and often saw in these phenomena properties that in turn reminded them of the new element. These initially provocative links between radium and life proved remarkably productive in experimental terms and ultimately led to key biological insights into the origin of life, the nature of mutation, and the structure of the gene. "Radium and the Secret of Life" traces the half-life of this connection between the living and the radioactive, while also exploring the approach to history that emerges when one follows a trail of associations that, asymptotically, never quite disappears."
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022641874X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Long before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicists, botanists, and geneticists were excited thinking that radium held the key to the secret of life. Luis Campos examines the many and varied connections between early radioactivity research and understandings of vitality, both scientific and popular, in the first half of the twentieth century. As some physicists and chemists early on described the wondrous new element and its radioactive brethren in lifelike terms ( decay, half-life, and frequent reference to the natural selection and evolution of the elements), many biologists of the period eagerly sought to bring radium into the biological fold. They did so with experiments aimed at elucidating some of the most basic phenomena of life, including metabolism and mutation, and often saw in these phenomena properties that in turn reminded them of the new element. These initially provocative links between radium and life proved remarkably productive in experimental terms and ultimately led to key biological insights into the origin of life, the nature of mutation, and the structure of the gene. "Radium and the Secret of Life" traces the half-life of this connection between the living and the radioactive, while also exploring the approach to history that emerges when one follows a trail of associations that, asymptotically, never quite disappears."
I Think You're Totally Wrong
Author: David Shields
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804169810
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life; his former professor David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he overcommitted to art. The stay-at-home dad (three young girls) and the workaholic writer (eighteen books) head to the woods to spend four days together in a cabin, arguing life vs. art. I Think You’re Totally Wrong is an impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate. Shields and Powell talk about everything—marriage, family, sports, sex, happiness, drugs, death, betrayal, and (of course) writers and writing—in the name of exploring and debating their central question: the lived life versus the examined life. There are no teachers or students here, no interviewers or interviewees, no masters of the universe—only a chasm of uncertainty, in a dialogue that remains dazzlingly provocative and entertaining from start to finish. James Franco’s film adaptation of I Think You’re Totally Wrong, starring the authors, premiered in 2015.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804169810
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life; his former professor David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he overcommitted to art. The stay-at-home dad (three young girls) and the workaholic writer (eighteen books) head to the woods to spend four days together in a cabin, arguing life vs. art. I Think You’re Totally Wrong is an impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate. Shields and Powell talk about everything—marriage, family, sports, sex, happiness, drugs, death, betrayal, and (of course) writers and writing—in the name of exploring and debating their central question: the lived life versus the examined life. There are no teachers or students here, no interviewers or interviewees, no masters of the universe—only a chasm of uncertainty, in a dialogue that remains dazzlingly provocative and entertaining from start to finish. James Franco’s film adaptation of I Think You’re Totally Wrong, starring the authors, premiered in 2015.
Materials for the Study of Variation
Author: William Bateson
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Category : Evolution (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Category : Evolution (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Re-Emerging: the Jews of Nigeria
Author: Jeff L. Lieberman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780368937163
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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A book of stunning photographs, detailing the daily lives of the Igbo Jewish community of Nigeria, highlighting their prayer, practice, ritual and belief. Journey through the many synagogue communities in Nigeria as the Igbo celebrate Shabbat, holidays, and the first visit of an American rabbi. This is a companion book to the acclaimed documentary film, "Re-Emerging: The Jews of Nigeria".
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ISBN: 9780368937163
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A book of stunning photographs, detailing the daily lives of the Igbo Jewish community of Nigeria, highlighting their prayer, practice, ritual and belief. Journey through the many synagogue communities in Nigeria as the Igbo celebrate Shabbat, holidays, and the first visit of an American rabbi. This is a companion book to the acclaimed documentary film, "Re-Emerging: The Jews of Nigeria".
Mendel's Principles of Heredity
Author: William Bateson
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Bateson named the science "genetics" in 1905-1906. This is the first textbook in English on the subject of genetics.
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Bateson named the science "genetics" in 1905-1906. This is the first textbook in English on the subject of genetics.
Studies in the Sociology of Sex
Author: James M. Henslin
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Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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The Eclipse of Darwinism
Author: Peter J. Bowler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780801829321
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In this pioneering study of the first major challenges to Darwinism, Peter J. Bowler examines the competing theories of evolution, identifies their intellectual origins, and describes the process by which the modern concept of evolution emerged. Describing the variety of influences that drove scientists to challenge Darwin's conclusions, Bowler reevaluates the influence of social forces on the scientific community and explores the broad philosophical, ideological, and social implications of scientific theories.
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ISBN: 9780801829321
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In this pioneering study of the first major challenges to Darwinism, Peter J. Bowler examines the competing theories of evolution, identifies their intellectual origins, and describes the process by which the modern concept of evolution emerged. Describing the variety of influences that drove scientists to challenge Darwin's conclusions, Bowler reevaluates the influence of social forces on the scientific community and explores the broad philosophical, ideological, and social implications of scientific theories.