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  • Joe Pawsey and the Founding of Australian Radio Astronomy

    Early Discoveries, from the Sun to the Cosmos

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This open access book is a biography of Joseph L. Pawsey. It examines not only his life but the birth and growth of the field of radio astronomy and the state of science itself in twentieth century Australia. The book explains how an isolated continent with limited resources grew to be one of the leaders in the study of radio astronomy and the design of instruments to do so.Pawsey made a name for ... Leer más

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  • Contagion

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    In the age of HIV, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the Ebola Virus and BSE, metaphors and experience of contagion are a central concern of government, biomedicine and popular culture.Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also investigates the use of 'contagion' as a concept in postmodern ... Leer más

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  • The Ultimate Western Collection

    This collection of world's greatest western novels and stories include rip roarin' cowboy adventures, tales of the famous outcasts, the heroes of the Wild West, conniving villains and intriguing sagas: - Andy Adams - Ann S. Stephens - B. M. Bower - Bret Harte - Charles Alden Seltzer - Charles King - Charles Siringo - Dane Coolidge - Emerson Hough - Forrestine C. Hooker - Frank H. Spearman - ... Leer más

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  • The Philosophical Breakfast Club

    Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World

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