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Maverick Mathematician : The Life and Science of J.E. Moyal
There is currently a recognition of the importance of the stories ofindividual scientists (outside the pantheon of giants and leading disciplinefigures) in building the history of science. Such individuals are uniquemen and women of outstanding ability, drawn from different countriesand backgrounds, some of whose personal trajectories may move outsidethe practices and paradigms o…
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- 1 920942 59 9
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Science and Technology Governance and Ethics
R & D/Technology Policy; Ethics; Food Science; Nanotechnology; Biotechnology
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Research, Ethics and Risk in the Authoritarian Field
research ethics; authoritarian countries; research methodology; research in the authoritarian field; risk and field research; ethics and field research; authoritarianism; advice for field research; research transparency; research methods; mental impact of field research; planning for field research; dangers of field research
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Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once lived. In this way, this book highlights the vulnerability of th…
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- 9781137538277
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a Philosophy of Israel Education
Philosophy of Education; Religion and Society; Philosophy of Religion; Judaism
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Ludwig Prandtl : A personal biography drawn from memories and correspondence
When Ludwig Prandtl took up the Chair of Applied Mechanics at Göttingen University in 1904, the small university town became the cradle of modern fluid mechanics and aerodynamics. Not only did Prandtl found two research institutions of worldwide renown, the Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt (AVA) and the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Strömungsforschung, but with the so-called ‘Göttingen School…
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- 978-3-86395-160-3
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Looking Back : Canadian Women's Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture,…
When we think about women settlers on the Prairies, our notions tend to veer between the nostalgic image of the “cheerful helpmate” and the grim deprivation of the “reluctant immigrant.” In this ground-breaking new study, Leigh Matthews shows how a critical approach to the life-writing of individual prairie women can broaden and deepen our understanding of the settlement era. Reopening …
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- 978-1-55238-595-1
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- The West series
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- 971.202 092 2 MAT l
Lives of the Novelists
Providing a nonpartisan and biographical view of famous authors of his time, Scott published Lives of the Novelists in 1821. The book included names like Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, Oliver Goldsmith and more.
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Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre
As playwright, actor, director, teacher, mentor, theatre administrator, and critic, Sharon Pollock has played an integral role in the shaping of Canada’s national theatre tradition, and she continues to produce new works and to contribute to Canadian theatre as passionately as she has done over the past fifty years. Pollock is nationally and internationally respected for her work and support …
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The Documentary Art of Filmmaker Michael Rubbo
Michael Rubbo’s groundbreaking work has had a deep and enduring impact on documentary filmmaking worldwide, though his name has remained relatively unknown. In The Documentary Art of Michael Rubbo, author D.B. Jones traces Rubbo’s filmmaking from his days as a film student at Stanford, through his twenty years at the National Film Board of Canada, where Rubbo developed his distinct document…
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