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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 748

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Covers topics in philosophy, psychology, and scientific methods. Vols. 31- include "A Bibliography of philosophy," 1933-

Author: Caribbean Agricultural Extension Project
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Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Publisher: Altova, Inc.
ISBN: 193321029X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Banking and Currency Committee
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Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Author: Maria Ågren
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190240636
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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What do people do all day? What did women and men do to make a living in early modern Europe, and what did their work mean? As this book shows, the meanings depended both on the worker and on the context. With an innovative analytic method that is yoked to a specially-built database of source materials, this book revises many received opinions about the history of gender and work in Europe. The applied verb-oriented method finds the 'work verbs' that appear incidentally in a wide variety of early modern sources and then analyzes the context in which they appear. By tying information technologies and computer-assisted analysis to the analytic powers--both quantitative and qualitative--of professional historians, the method gets much closer to a participatory observation of the micro-patterns of early modern life than was once believed possible. This book directly addresses a number of broad problems often debated by historians of gender and early modern Europe. First, it discusses the problem of assessing more accurately the incidence, character and division of work. Second, it analyzes the configurations of work and human difference. Third, it deals with the extent to which work practices created notions of difference--gender difference but also other forms of difference--and, conversely, to what extent work practices contributed to notions of sameness and gender convergence. Finally, it studies the impact of processes of change. Drawing on sources from Sweden, the authors show the importance of multiple employment, the openness of early modern households, the significance of marriage and marital status, the gendered nature of specific tasks, and the ways in which state formation and commercialization were entangled in people's everyday lives.

Author: Nathan Sivin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387789561
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 663

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China’s most sophisticated system of computational astronomy was created for a Mongol emperor who could neither read nor write Chinese, to celebrate victory over China after forty years of devastating war. This book explains how and why, and reconstructs the observatory and the science that made it possible. For two thousand years, a fundamental ritual of government was the emperor’s “granting the seasons” to his people at the New Year by issuing an almanac containing an accurate lunisolar calendar. The high point of this tradition was the “Season-granting system” (Shou-shih li, 1280). Its treatise records detailed instructions for computing eclipses of the sun and moon and motions of the planets, based on a rich archive of observations, some ancient and some new. Sivin, the West’s leading scholar of the Chinese sciences, not only recreates the project’s cultural, political, bureaucratic, and personal dimensions, but translates the extensive treatise and explains every procedure in minimally technical language. The book contains many tables, illustrations, and aids to reference. It is clearly written for anyone who wants to understand the fundamental role of science in Chinese history. There is no comparable study of state science in any other early civilization.

Author: Norman Robert Campbell
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Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1350

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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 798

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Reproductions of reports, some declassified, of research done at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory during World War II. The order of reports does not represent when they were chronologically issued. Reference to the original version of each report is included.

Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674765269
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Resources, Values and Development contains many of Amartya Sen's path-breaking contributions to development economics, including papers on resource allocation in nonwage systems, shadow pricing, employment policy, welfare economics, poverty assessment, gender-based inequality, and hunger and famines.