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“simon schneider”

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  • Alexander von Humboldt

    Multiperspective Approaches

    Edited by Gregor C. Falk, Manfred R. Strecker, Simon Schneider ...
    This book aims to view and to understand Alexander von Humboldt from different perspectives and in varying disciplinary contexts. His contributions addressed numerous topics in the earth but also life sciences—spanning from geo-botany, climatology, paleontology, oceanography, mineralogy, resources, and hydrogeology to links between the environmental impact of humans, erosion, and climate change. ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

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  • The Invention of Nature

    Alexander von Humboldt's New World

    by Andrea Wulf ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A biography of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism. • From the acclaimed author of Magnificent Rebels."Vivid and exciting.... Wulf’s pulsating account brings this dazzling figure back into a dazzling, much-deserved focus.” —The Boston Globe**Alexander ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • The Dodo and the Solitaire

    A Natural History

    by Jolyon C. Parish ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    This account of two extinct bird species offers "an amazing amount of history, references, facts, maps, and illustrations" ( Library Journal).The Dodo and the Solitaire is the most comprehensive book to date about these two famously extinct birds. It contains all the known contemporary accounts and illustrations of the dodo and solitaire, covering their history after extinction and discussing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Marvelous Clouds

    Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media

    by John Durham Peters ...
    "An ambitious re-writing—a re-synthesis, even—of concepts of media and culture . . . It is nothing less than an attempt at a history of Being." — Los Angeles Review of BooksWhen we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the ... Read more

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  • The Tragic Sense of Life

    Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought

    by Robert J. Richards ...
    Prior to the First World War, more people learned of evolutionary theory from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwin's foremost champion in Germany, Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), than from any other source, including the writings of Darwin himself. But, with detractors ranging from paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to modern-day creationists and advocates of intelligent design, Haeckel is better ... Read more

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  • Environing Media

    Edited by Adam Wickberg, Johan Gärdebo ...
    This edited volume interrogates the role of media technologies in the formation of environments, understood both as physical spaces and as epistemological constructs about them. Using the concept of ‘environing media’, the book advances a deeper understanding of how media processes – defined here as the storage, process, and transmission of data – influence human-Earth relations.Virtually all ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Earthquake Observers

    Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter

    by Deborah R. Coen ...
    Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet’s hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recordings of seismographs but also on the observations of eyewitnesses to destruction. During the nineteenth century, a scientific description of an earthquake was built of stories—stories from as many people in as many situations as possible. Sometimes ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Franz Boas Enigma

    Inuit, Arctic, and Sciences

    by Ludger Müller-Wille ...
    Addressing, for the first time, the enigma of how Franz Boas came to be the central founder of anthropology and a driving force in the acceptance of science as part of societal life in North America, this exploration breaks through the linguistic and cultural barriers that have prevented scholars from grasping the importance of Boas's personal background and academic activities as a German Jew. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ethnomusicology

    History, Definitions, and Scope: A Core Collection of Scholarly Articles

    Edited by Kay Kaufman Shelemay ...
    This anthology of 25 scholarly articles offers a broad historical overview of the history, definition, and scope of ethnomusicology. The essays range from early summaries of the field's subject matter and state of research to later, comprehensive discussions spanning the discipline at large, its intellectual history, and future prospects. Ethnomusicology surveys the field, its methods, philosophy, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Fluid Envelope of our Planet

    How the Study of Ocean Currents Became a Science

    by Eric L. Mills ...
    Oceans have had a mysterious allure for centuries, inspiring fears, myths, and poetic imaginations. By the early twentieth century, however, scientists began to see oceans as physical phenomena that could be understood through mathematical geophysics. The Fluid Envelope of Our Planet explores the scientific developments from the early middle ages to the twentieth century that illuminated the once ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Aesthetics, Industry & Science

    Hermann von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society

    by M. Norton Wise ...
    On January 5, 1845, the Prussian cultural minister received a request by a group of six young men to form a new Physical Society in Berlin. In fields from thermodynamics, mechanics, and electromagnetism to animal electricity, ophthalmology, and psychophysics, members of this small but growing group—which soon included Emil Du Bois-Reymond, Ernst Brücke, Werner Siemens, and Hermann von Helmholtz ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stations in the Field

    A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870-1930

    by Raf De Bont ...
    When we think of sites of animal research that symbolize modernity, the first places that come to mind are grand research institutes in cities and near universities that house the latest in equipment and technologies, not the surroundings of the bird’s nest, the octopus’s garden in the sea, or the parts of inland lakes in which freshwater plankton reside. Yet during the late nineteenth and early ... Read more

    $30.99 USD