The Struggles of Albert Woods
Author : William Cooper
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 1952
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Author : William Cooper
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 1952
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Author : John de la Mothe
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 2013-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0292758960
The condition of modernity springs from that tension between science and the humanities that had its roots in the Enlightenment but reached its full flowering with the rise of twentieth-century technology. It manifests itself most notably in the crisis of individuality that is generated by the nexus of science, literature, and politics, one that challenges each of us to find a way of balancing our personal identities between our public and private selves in an otherwise estranging world. This challenge, which can only be expressed as "the struggle of modernity," perhaps finds no better expression than in C. P. Snow. In his career as novelist, scientist, and civil servant, C. P. Snow (1905-1980) attempted to bridge the disparate worlds of modern science and the humanities. While Snow is often regarded as a late-Victorian liberal who has little to say about the modernist period in which he lived and wrote, de la Mothe challenges this judgment, reassessing Snow's place in twentieth-century thought. He argues that Snow's life and writings—most notably his Strangers and Brothers sequence of novels and his provocative thesis in The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution—reflect a persistent struggle with the nature of modernity. They manifest Snow's belief that science and technology were at the center of modern life.
Author : British Academy
Publisher : Proceedings of the British Aca
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 16,23 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780197263204
Volume 124 of the 'Proceedings of the British Academy' contains 19 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy.
Author : John M. Ziman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 1981-10-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521236592
A discussion of the human side of science, originally published in 1981.
Author : John Ziman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 1997-05-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781563960659
This superb collection by the eminent physicist and critic John Ziman, opens with an album of portraits of scientists--Albert Einstein, Freeman Dyson, Lev Landau, Mark Azbel, Andrei Sakharov. Ziman takes readers into the world of the contemporary scientist, showing how discoveries are made and how claims are tested. He then travels into the minds of scientists as they are drawn into competing directions. Here Ziman exposes the path of discovery, which is strewn with complex human needs, governmental restrictions, the desire for profits, and the exercise of technical virtuosity.
Author : Ashok Kumar Sinha
Publisher : Patna : Jnanada Prakashan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 1977
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Author : Merritt Moseley
Publisher : University of Chester
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,45 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1905929382
A collection of the most illuminating commentary written on the English language academic novel during the last forty years, together with new essays especially commissioned for this volume. As well as general thematic essays, there are discussions of a number of individual novelists: Vladimir Nabokov, Randall Jarrell, Mary McCarthy, Kingsley Amis, Alison Lurie, Robertson Davies, David Lodge, Howard Jacobson. Contributors are: Adam Begley, Ian Carter, Benjamin DeMott, Aida Edemariam, Leslie Fiedler, Philip Hobsbaum, J. P. Kenyon, David Lodge, Merritt Moseley, Dale Salwak, Samuel Schuman, J. A. Sutherland, Glyn Turton, Chris Walsh, Susan Watkins, George Watson.
Author : K.D. Knorr-Cetina
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 32,74 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 148328574X
The anthropological approach is the central focus of this study. Laboratories are looked upon with the innocent eye of the traveller in exotic lands, and the societies found in these places are observed with the objective yet compassionate eye of the visitor from a quite other cultural milieu. There are many surprises that await us if we enter a laboratory in this frame of mind... This study is a realistic enterprise, an attempt to truly represent the social order of life in laboratories and institutes of research, just as they are. By bringing the philosophical issues to the surface as matters not of prejudgement but as matters of concern, Karin Knorr-Cetina has developed the first really positive challenge to the philosophy of science since the days of paradigms and internal definitions of meanings
Author : Harold Varmus
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 2010-05-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393073564
A Nobel Prize–winning cancer biologist, leader of major scientific institutions, and scientific adviser to President Obama reflects on his remarkable career. A PhD candidate in English literature at Harvard University, Harold Varmus discovered he was drawn instead to medicine and eventually found himself at the forefront of cancer research at the University of California, San Francisco. In this “timely memoir of a remarkable career” (American Scientist), Varmus considers a life’s work that thus far includes not only the groundbreaking research that won him a Nobel Prize but also six years as the director of the National Institutes of Health; his current position as the president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; and his important, continuing work as scientific adviser to President Obama. From this truly unique perspective, Varmus shares his experiences from the trenches of politicized battlegrounds ranging from budget fights to stem cell research, global health to science publishing.
Author : Briton Hadden
Publisher :
Page : 1468 pages
File Size : 19,61 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN :
Reels for 1973- include Time index, 1973-