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  • Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918

    A Social History of a Multilingual Space

    by Jan Surman ...
    Series series Central European Studies
    Combining history of science and a history of universities with the new imperial history, Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyzes the practice of scholarly migration and its lasting influence on the intellectual output in the Austrian part of the Habsburg Empire.The Habsburg Empire and its successor states were home to ... Read more

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  • The Worlds of Positivism

    A Global Intellectual History, 1770–1930

    Edited by Johannes Feichtinger, Franz L. Fillafer, Jan Surman ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book is the first to trace the origins and significance of positivism on a global scale. Taking their cues from Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill, positivists pioneered a universal, experience-based culture of scientific inquiry for studying nature and society—a new science that would enlighten all of humankind. Positivists envisaged one world united by science, but their efforts spawned ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Language as a Scientific Tool

    Shaping Scientific Language Across Time and National Traditions

    Edited by Miles MacLeod, Rocío G. Sumillera, Jan Surman, Ekaterina Smirnova ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Language is the most essential medium of scientific activity. Many historians, sociologists and science studies scholars have investigated scientific language for this reason, but only few have examined those cases where language itself has become an object of scientific discussion. Over the centuries scientists have sought to control, refine and engineer language for various epistemological, ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Scientific Internationalism in Cold War Central and Eastern Europe

    The Age of Reciprocity

    Edited by Jan Jakub Surman, Tomáš W. Pavlíček ...
    Series Book 8 - New Perspectives on Central and Eastern European Studies
    Focusing on cooperative exchanges between Czechoslovakia and Poland in the 1960s and 70s, this collection explores international science collaborations during the Cold War. During the era of real socialism, the states of Central and Eastern Europe were caught between the "East" and the "West." As members of the Eastern Bloc they had to adhere to Moscow centrism, yet partial autonomy in scientific ... Read more

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  • Rules

    A Short History of What We Live By

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    A panoramic history of rules in the Western worldRules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don’t, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules, ... Read more

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  • Does God Exist

    An Answer For Today

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  • The Physicist and the Philosopher

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