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• City and Cosmos: The Medieval World in Urban Form, Lilley September 2009

  Keith D. Lilley

  Reaktion Books City and Cosmos The Medieval World in Urban Form Keith D. Lilley...9781861894410 Distributed for Reaktion Books City and Cosmos The Medieval World in Urban Form Keith...In City and Cosmos, Keith D. Lilley argues that the medieval mind considered...scaled-down version of the very order and organization of the cosmos. Drawing upon a wide variety of sources, including original...

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• The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D. 1450, Second Edition, Lindberg April 2008

  David C. Lindberg

  developments in cosmology, astronomy, mechanics, optics, alchemy, natural history, and medicine. In addition, he offers an illuminating...to the essential elements of western knowledge about the natural world that will help guide instructors in developing curricula...Science?      Prehistoric Attitudes toward Nature       The Beginnings of Science in Egypt and...Mesopotamia 2. THE GREEKS AND THE COSMOS      The World of Homer and Hesiod...

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• Galaxy: Mapping the Cosmos, Geach December 2019

  James Geach

  Reaktion Books Galaxy Mapping the Cosmos James Geach 9781789141337...Distributed for Reaktion Books Galaxy Mapping the Cosmos James Geach...far beyond the Milky Way to the latest observations of the nature of galaxies and how they have evolved. He also delves into...Galaxy is an illuminating guide to the choreography of the cosmos and how we came to know our place within it, which will appeal...

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• Radical Collections: Re-examining the roots of collections, practices and information professions, Landes, Espley December 2018

  Edited by Jordan Landes

  Available as free PDF download at http://humanities-digital-library.org/index...

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• Magnolias in Art and Cultivation, Gardiner, Oozeerally, Spongberg June 2014

  Barbara Oozeerally, Jim Gardiner, and Stephen A. Spongberg

  Magnolias in Art and Cultivation celebrates our centuries-long love of this plant. The first illustrated...by these beautiful plants. See sample pages from the book (PDF format). 268 pages | 150 color plates | 10...

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• Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos, Chappell February 2002

  Sally A. Kitt Chappell

  Cahokia Mirror of the Cosmos Sally A. Kitt Chappell 9780226101361 Cahokia...Cahokia Mirror of the Cosmos Sally A. Kitt Chappell...The model for this urbane world was nothing less than the cosmos itself. The climax of their ritual center was a four-tiered...Introduction: A Deep Time Study 1. Cahokia in Its Natural Setting: A Special Place within a Special Place...

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• The Traffic in Women’s Work: East European Migration and the Making of Europe, Parvulescu May 2014

  Anca Parvulescu

  European Union under this banner after 1989, they agreed to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and persons. In this...from East to West is the less glamorous subplot of the celebrated European freedom, implying new postcolonial divisions,...gendered labor and the nature of globalization but also fundamental questions about the very nature of the exchange lying...5. Ways Out: Hospitality and Free Love Notes...

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• Picturing the Cosmos: A Visual History of Early Soviet Space Endeavor, Kohonen December 2017

  Iina Kohonen

  Intellect Ltd Picturing the Cosmos A Visual History of Early Soviet Space Endeavor Iina Kohonen...9781783207435 Distributed for Intellect Ltd Picturing the Cosmos A Visual History of Early Soviet Space Endeavor...a narrative of exploration and conquest. In Picturing the Cosmos, drawing on a comprehensive corpus of rarely seen photographs...modernization within the Soviet Union. The USSR mapped and named the cosmos, using new media to stake a claim to this new territory and...

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• Views of Nature, von Humboldt, Jackson, Walls July 2014

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Views of Nature Alexander von Humboldt Edited by Stephen T. Jackson and Laura...9780226923185 9780226923192 Views of Nature Alexander von Humboldt...Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) looms large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far beyond the field notebooks...Frederic Edwin Church. Views of Nature, or Ansichten der Natur, was Humboldt’s best-known and most influential...

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• Headless Males Make Great Lovers: And Other Unusual Natural Histories, Crump, Crump May 2007

  Marty Crump

  Headless Males Make Great Lovers And Other Unusual Natural Histories Marty Crump...Headless Males Make Great Lovers And Other Unusual Natural Histories Marty Crump...The natural world is filled with diverse—not to mention quirky and odd—animal...Headless Males Make Great Lovers and Other Unusual Natural Histories celebrates the extraordinary world of animals with essays...

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