The Social Life of Coffee
The Social Life of Coffee

Author: Brian Cowan

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0300133502

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What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.

Edith and Florence Stoney, Sisters in Radiology
Edith and Florence Stoney, Sisters in Radiology

Author: Adrian Thomas

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-07-01

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 3030165612

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This book explores the lives and achievements of two Irish sisters, Edith and Florence Stoney, who pioneered the use of new electromedical technologies, especially X-rays but also ultraviolet radiation and diathermy. In addition, the narrative follows several intertwined themes as experienced by the sisters during their lifetimes. Their upbringing, influenced by their liberal-minded scientist father, set the tone for both their lives. Irish independence fractured their family heritage. Their professional experiences, fulfilling for Florence as a qualified doctor but often frustrating for Edith as a Cambridge-educated scientist, mirrored those of other aspiring women during this period, when the suffragist movement expanded and women’s lobby groups were formed. World War I created an environment in which their unusual specialist knowledge was widely needed, and the sisters’ war experiences are carefully examined in the book. But ultimately this is the extraordinary story of two independent but closely bonded sisters and their abiding love and support for one another.

Proceedings of the 2007 National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology
Proceedings of the 2007 National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology

Author: Godfrey Uzochukwu

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-06-12

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 0387884831

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The Third National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology was held in Greensboro, NC, on September 12-14, 2007. This book contains the following topics: pollution prevention, fate and transport of contaminants, bioremediation, bio-processing, innovative environmental technologies, global climate change, and environmental justice.

Critical Library Pedagogy in Practice
Critical Library Pedagogy in Practice

Author: Elizabeth Brookbank

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781911500216

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An edited collection exploring various aspects of critical pedagogy and how it can be applied to information literacy teaching. The chapters are focused on the work and practice of librarians in various countries and fields, both within a classroom context and wider explorations of collection management and critical library liaison, as well as deep dives into the theory of a more critical librarianship praxis. The book is inspired by the success of the Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook (2016) and aims to be a useful guide to exploring critical practice further.