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  • Laura Dassow Walls

    The Passage to Cosmos Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America Laura Dassow Walls...9780226871820 9780226871844 The Passage to Cosmos Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America...Darwin. With Cosmos, the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of humans and nature as integrated...it, Humboldt espoused the idea that, while the universe of nature exists apart from human purpose, its beauty and order, the...

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  • Roberta J. M. Olson and Jay M. Pasachoff

    Reaktion Books Cosmos The Art and Science of the Universe Roberta J. M. Olson and Jay M. Pasachoff...9781789140545 Distributed for Reaktion Books Cosmos The Art and Science of the Universe...universe beyond in sumptuous illustrations. Cosmos: The Art and Science of the Universe charts the human love...cultural history. With thrilling and seductive illustrations, Cosmos recounts in ten lively chapters the fascinating history of...

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  • Paul Murdin

    Secrets of the Universe How We Discovered the Cosmos Paul Murdin 9780226551432...9780226551432 Secrets of the Universe How We Discovered the Cosmos Paul Murdin...in seventy episodes what humankind has learned about the cosmos—and what scientists around the world are poised to learn...narrative throughout that explains how the earliest ideas of the cosmos evolved into the cutting-edge astronomy we know today. Along...

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  • Joseph Cropsey

    Plato’s World Man’s Place in the Cosmos Joseph Cropsey 9780226121222...9780226121222 Plato’s World Man’s Place in the Cosmos Joseph Cropsey...the crucial relationship between Plato’s conception of the nature of the universe and his moral and political thought....consecutiveness and thus as a conceptual and dramatic whole. The cosmos depicted by Plato in these dialogues, Cropsey argues, is...

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  • Paul Davies

    scientific advances with storytelling skills unmatched in the cosmos, an award-winning astrophysicist and popular writer leads...author Paul Davies lucidly explains what we know about the cosmos and its enigmas, exploring the tantalizing—and sometimes...pages. Each chapter is short—less than ten pages—but jargon-free and full of information. Davies uses a conversational tone...the possibility of other universes, black holes and the nature of time—all in around 150 accessible and beautifully written...

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  • David Schmid

    Natural Born Celebrities Serial Killers in American Culture David Schmid...9780226738697 9780226738703 Natural Born Celebrities Serial Killers in American Culture...these figures when we really want to look away? Natural Born Celebrities considers how serial killers have become lionized...compelling examination of the media phenomenon of the ’celebrity criminal’ in American culture. It is highly readable as...

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  • Frédérique Aït-Touati

    Fictions of the Cosmos Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century Frédérique Aït-Touati...9780226011226 9780226011240 Fictions of the Cosmos Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century...however, the two fields were not so distinct. Just as the natural philosophers of the era were discovering in and adopting...so too were poets and storytellers finding inspiration in natural philosophy, particularly in astronomy....

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  • Edited by Eduardo Terrazas

    Hirmer Publishers Eduardo Terrazas Cosmos Edited by Eduardo Terrazas...Distributed for Hirmer Publishers Eduardo Terrazas Cosmos Edited by Eduardo Terrazas...A dialogue between geometry and the order of our cosmos, an artistic exploration of the boundaries of the infinite...Structure.” This highly colorful and playful series—of which “Cosmos” is a subseries—has been an ongoing project since 1974 and...

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  • Edited by Michael Schultz

    Hirmer Publishers SEO Personal Cosmos Edited by Michael Schultz...Distributed for Hirmer Publishers SEO Personal Cosmos Edited by Michael Schultz...Art and the Guggenheim. SEO: Personal Cosmos provides an illustrated overview of her body of work as well...thought-provoking and creatively brilliant explorations of the forces of nature, and this book brings her work deservedly to the forefront...

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  • Beckian Fritz Goldberg

    generation’s premiere voices and its fiercest proponent of a free imagination. From the beginning of her career and in all of...conversational intensity her new poems extend her vision of an earthly cosmos that resurrects itself daily. 215 pages | 7 x 9 3/4 | ©...

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