The Social Origins of Modern Science
The Social Origins of Modern Science

Author: P. Zilsel

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 9401141428

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Here, for the first time, is a single volume in English that contains all the important historical essays Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) published during WWII on the emergence of modern science. It also contains one previously unpublished essay and an extended version of an essay published earlier. This volume is unique in its well-articulated social perspective on the origins of modern science and is of major interest to students in early modern social history/history of science, professional philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science.

Borrowing from Our Foremothers
Borrowing from Our Foremothers

Author: Amy Helene Forss

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2021-12

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 149621336X

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Amy Helene Forss explores the suffragist and feminist movements’ distinct public attributes and action strategies to establish connections between the generations of women’s rights activists.

The Story of the Olympic Torch
The Story of the Olympic Torch

Author: Philip Barker

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2012-04-15

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1445610280

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Traces the development of the run, the lighting of the cauldron and other symbolic elements of the Olympic Games

Reading Pop : Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music
Reading Pop : Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music

Author: Richard Middleton

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2000-06-08

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 0191588210

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Reading Pop collects together key essays on the interpretation of pop songs previously published in the journal Popular Music. In sixteen varied studies by many of the best-known scholars, all the most influential approaches are represented. An introduction by leading pop academic Richard Middleton puts them into context and outlines the main debates. A select bibliography of other writings on pop music analysis adds to the usefulness of the book, which will become a central text in popular music studies. - ;Reading Pop collects together key essays on the interpretation of pop songs previously published in the journal Popular Music. In sixteen varied studies by many of the best-known scholars, all the most influential approaches are represented. An introduction by leading pop academic Richard Middleton puts them into context and outlines the main debates. A select bibliography of other writings on pop music analysis adds to the usefulness of the book, which will become a central text in popular music studies. - ;extensive introduction is particularly valuable ... the paperback price is worth it for the introduction, and the Bjornberg and Tagg essays, alone. - Allan More, British Journal of Music Education

Onward to the Olympics
Onward to the Olympics

Author: Gerald P. Schaus

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2009-08-02

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 1554587794

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The Olympic Games have had two lives—the first lasted for a millennium with celebrations every four years at Olympia to honour the god Zeus. The second has blossomed over the past century, from a simple start in Athens in 1896 to a dazzling return to Greece in 2004. Onward to the Olympics provides both an overview and an array of insights into aspects of the Games’ history. Leading North American archaeologists and historians of sport explore the origins of the Games, compare the ancient and the modern, discuss the organization and financing of such massive athletic festivals, and examine the participation ,or the troubling lack of it, by women. Onward to the Olympics bridges the historical divide between the ancient and the modern and concludes with a thought-provoking final essay that attempts to predict the future of the Olympics over the twenty-first century.