Название:Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography
Автор:John A. Hall
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Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN:1844676021
Издатель:Verso
Страниц:400
Описание: The first and monumental biography of the life and thought of the groundbreaking historian and writer on nationalism. Ernest Gellner (1925–95) was a multilingual polymath and a public intellectual who set the agenda in the study of nationalism and the sociology of Islam.
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Название:The Many Faces of Philosophy: Reflections from Plato to Arendt
Автор:
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Год выпуска: 2004
ISBN:0195176553
Издатель:
Страниц:514
Описание: Book DescriptionPhilosophy is a dangerous profession, risking censorship, prison, even death. And no wonder: philosophers have questioned traditional pieties and threatened the established political order. Some claimed to know
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Описание: Raised by an illiterate, impoverished mother, Albert Camus became one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century and a symbol of the opposite to blind allegiance to Communist ideology. Less than three years after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, at the age of forty-four, he died in an automobile accident.
Название:No Time to be Brief: A scientific biography of Wolfgang Pauli
Автор:Charles P. Enz
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Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN:0199588155
Издатель:Oxford University Press
Страниц:584
Описание: This book retraces the life of the physicist Wolfgang Pauli, analyses his scientific work, and describes the evolution of his thinking. Pauli spent 30 years as a professor at the Federal Insti
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Описание: Book Description1913. Philosopher, martyr, mystic 1548-1600. Bruno lived and died the apostle of the ever new and ever old religion, that of spiritual insight. Throughout his writings, the student will see that his love of the good is identified with thehighest kind of speculative philos
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Название:Edison's Electric Light: The Art of Invention
Автор:Robert Friedel, Paul B. Israel
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Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN:0801894824
Издатель:The Johns Hopkins University Press
Страниц:248
Описание: In September 1878, Thomas Alva Edison brashly -- and prematurely -- proclaimed his breakthrough invention of a workable electric light. That announcement was followed by many months of intense experimentation that
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Название:The Life and Letters of Faraday: 2 Volume Paperback Set
Автор:Bence Jones, Michael Faraday
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Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN:1108014615
Издатель:Cambridge University Press
Страниц:910
Описание: This two-volume account, first published in 1870, uses writings and correspondence by Michael Faraday to create a narrative of his life. Faraday's foundational work in physics and chemistry cha
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Описание: The origin of even the humblest families can be traced back by persevering search - through the ancient parochial registers. Thus the name of Pasteur is to be found written at the beginning of the seventeenth century in the old registers of the Priory of Mauthe, in th
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Название:English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture (Classic Reprint)
Автор:Sir Francis Galton
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Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN:1451003048
Издатель:Forgotten Books
Страниц:290
Описание: Object of Book-Definition of Man of Science-Data-Nature and Nurture-Race and Birthplace-Occupation of Parents and Position in Life-Physical Peculiarities of Parents-Primogeniture, F
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Описание: Book DescriptionBy 1915, pioneer aviator Art Smith was as celebrated as any movie star might be today. He thrilled audiences with his barnstorming feats, doing "death spirals," sky writing, "loop-the-loops," and night flights using phosphorus fireworks.He was a consummate showman and had he not died in 1926, h
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