Adapting to Climate Change
Adapting to Climate Change

Author: W. Neil Adger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-06-25

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 0521764858

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This book presents the latest science and social science research on whether the world can adapt to climate change.

The Concept of Water
The Concept of Water

Author: Rupert D. V. Glasgow

Publisher: R.D.V. Glasgow

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 0956159508

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Water is commonly taken for granted and treated with contempt, yet it is the very foundation of human existence. Assuming countless forms, it is deeply associated both with life and death, body and soul, purity and pollution, creation and destruction. "The Concept of Water" seeks to bring together the various aspects of our deeply ambiguous relationship with water, providing a systematic account of its symbolic and philosophical significance. This involves looking at how water has been conceived and the role it has played in everyday thought, mythology, literature, religion, philosophy, politics and science, both across cultures and through history. R. D. V. Glasgow was born in Sheffield and currently lives in Zaragoza. His previous books are "Madness, Masks and Laughter" (1995), "Split Down the Sides" (1997), and "The Comedy of Mind" (1999).

Virchow's Eulogies
Virchow's Eulogies

Author: Brian L. D. Coghlan

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-11-05

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 3764388803

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Rudolph Virchow (1821-1902) was a leading figure in the medical, political and intellectual life of Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century. His most famous work was "Cellular Pathology". Virchow wrote many books and edited several journals, including ‘Virchow’s Archive’ and was a member of numerous professional societies. This book is a compilation of Virchow's memorial addresses on nineteen of his teachers –especially Johannes Müller and Johann Lukas Schönlein – colleagues and students as well as one concerning Morgagni. There is an introduction to the man and his times, and copious editors' notes to explain allusions and events mentioned in the text with which some modern readers may be unfamiliar. There is also an extensive bibliography incorporating German sources, with English translations of all titles. The book gives a fascinating multi-dimensional view of scientists and their lives in nineteenth century Germany.

Natural Images in Economic Thought
Natural Images in Economic Thought

Author: Philip Mirowski

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-07-29

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 9780521478847

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This 1994 book was the first collection devoted to impact of natural sciences on content and form of economics in history.

Jewish Frontiers
Jewish Frontiers

Author: S. Gilman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-07-10

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1403973601

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In this collection of new essays, Sander Gilman muses on Jewish memory and representation throughout the twentieth-century. Bringing together the worlds of literature, medicine, and popular culture in his characteristic ways, Gilman looks at new, post-diasporic ways of understanding the limits of Jewish identity. Topics include the development of the genre of Holocaust comedy, the imagination of the relationship of the body, disease, and identity, and the place of Jews in today's multicultural society.