Buffon


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A biography of a premier French scientist of the Enlightenment and the director of France's Royal Botanical Garden, using Buffon's enormous literary production as the major source of insight into his and his age's beliefs about the natural world. Includes bandw illustrations from his Natural History. First published in 1989 as Buffon, un philosophe au Jardin du Roi, by Librarie Artheme Fayard. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR







Buffon’s Natural History


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Reproduction of the original: Buffon’s Natural History by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon




Buffon and the British


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The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity


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"The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity further suggests that an understanding of ancient attitudes toward other peoples shed light not only on Greco-Roman imperialism and the ideology of enslavement of foreigners in those societies (and on foreigners concomitant integration or non-integration), but also on the disintegration of the Roman Empire and on more recent imperialism as well."--BOOK JACKET.




The Invention of Race


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This edited collection explores the genesis of scientific conceptions of race and their accompanying impact on the taxonomy of human collections internationally as evidenced in ethnographic museums, world fairs, zoological gardens, international colonial exhibitions and ethnic shows. A deep epistemological change took place in Europe in this domain toward the end of the eighteenth century, producing new scientific representations of race and thereby triggering a radical transformation in the visual economy relating to race and racial representation and its inscription in the body. These practices would play defining roles in shaping public consciousness and the representation of “otherness” in modern societies. The Invention of Race provides contextualization that is often lacking in contemporary discussions on diversity, multiculturalism and race.




Geometrical Probability and Biological Structures: Buffon’s 200th Anniversary


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L'etude morphologique des tissus pathologiques en microscopie d' elements: optique comporte schematiquement deux types 1) les cellules, 2) les Fibres conjonctives intercellulaires. Ces Fibres, qui constituent Ie "squelette mou", servent de support aux elements cellwlaires, contribuent a maintenir l'architecture des tissu, et interviennent dans la circulation des liquides intercellu- laires. La quantite, la structure et la repartition de ces Fibres sont etroitement liees a l'activite physiologique des populations cellulaires et a leur pathologie.L'etude de leurs modiFications est tres utile dans Ie diagnostic d'une lesion, mais la complexite et la variete des images de ces reseaux Fibrillaires rend leur description et leur classiFication tres diFFiciles. L'application des methodes morphometriques peut etre un moyen utile pour obtenir des parametres objectiFs susceptibles de preciser ces structures. C'est uniquement l'etude des Fibres conjonctives que nous envisa- gerons pour Ie moment. L'emploi, en pratique courante, des methodes morphometriques comme aide au diagnostic anatomo-pathologique, ne peut se concevoir que si les techniques utilisees sont relativement simples et surtout rapides. Dans ce but, nous avons entrepris, depuis I973, avec les moyens du Laboratoire, la realisation d'un appareil automatique specialement con u pour essayer de repondre aux exigences particulieres de ce type d' e'tudes.







The World through Soccer


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The world’s most popular sport, soccer is a global and cultural phenomenon. The television audience for the 2010 World Cup included nearly half of the world’s population, with viewers in nearly every country. As a reflection of soccer’s significance, the sport impacts countless aspects of the world’s culture, from politics and religion to business and the arts. In The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of a Global Sport, Tamir Bar-On utilizes soccer to provide insights into worldwide politics, religion, ethics, marketing, business, leadership, philosophy, and the arts. Bar-On examines the ways in which soccer influences and reflects these aspects of society, and vice versa. Each chapter features representative players, providing specific examples of how soccer comments on and informs our lives. These players—selected from a wide array of eras, countries, and backgrounds—include Diego Maradona, Pelé, Hugo Sánchez, Cha Bum-Kun, Roger Milla, José Luis Chilavert, Zinedine Zidane, Paolo Maldini, Cristiano Ronaldo, Xavi, Neymar, Clint Dempsey, Mia Hamm, and many others. Employing a unique lens to view a variety of topics, The World through Soccer reveals the sport’s profound cultural impact. Combining philosophical, popular, and academic insights about our world, this book is aimed at both soccer fans and academics, offering readers a new perspective into a sport that affects millions.




The Species Problem


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In this provocative work, David N. Stamos tackles the problem of determining exactly what a biological species is: in short, whether species are real and the nature of their reality. Although many have written on this topic, The Species Problem is the only comprehensive single-authored book on this central concern of biology. Stamos critically considers the evolution of the three major contemporary views of species: species nominalism, species as classes, and species as individuals. Finally, he develops his own solution to the species problem, a solution aimed at providing a universal species concept worthy of the Modern Synthesis. This book will be of interest to philosophers of biology and of science in general, to historians of biology, and to biologists concerned with one of the most significant (and practical) conceptual issues in their field.