If the twentieth century saw the rise of “Big Science,” then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett’s new history shows, frugal early modern experimenters transformed their homes into laboratories as they recycled, repurposed, repaired, and reused their material possessions to learn about the natural world. Thrifty Science explo...(展开全部)

Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands--Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand--whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful c...(展开全部)

Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands--Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand--whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful c...(展开全部)

This title is aimed at strength training and fitness enthusiasts. It is a useful reference for strength training professionals, personal trainers and fitness instructors. It provides an introduction to the terminology, principles, equipment, muscle groups, exercises and programmes available in modern strength training. It outlines a wide variety of training techniques and varia...(展开全部)

"The Coming of Materials Science" both covers the discipline of materials science, and draws an impressionistic map of the present state of the subject. The first chapter examines the emergence of the materials science concept, in both academe and industry. The second and third chapters delve back into the prehistory of materials science, examining the growth of such concepts a...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

A History of Nursing explores the history of nursing by investigating the earliest records of the caring profession, how it progressed and what established it along the way to becoming the nursing we

作者简介： 雅克·朗西埃(Jacques Rancière，1940—)，法国当代著名思想家，巴黎第八大学哲学、美学和文艺学教授。其论述主要涉及文学、电影与政治等哲学思考，代表作有《图像的命运》《词语的肉身》《美学中的不适》等。 译者简介： 蓝江，1977年9月出生，湖北荆州人，南京大学哲学系教授、博士生导师，南京大学马克思主义社会理论研究中心研究员，江苏省青年社科英才，主要研究方向为国外马克思主义、当代欧陆激进左翼思想。主要著作有《忠于事件本身：巴迪欧哲学思想导论》《阿甘本五讲》。主要译著有阿兰·巴迪欧的《存在与事件》《哲学宣言》《第二哲学宣言》《元政治学概述》《数学颂》《世纪》等，阿甘本的《语言的圣礼》《宁芙》《王国与荣耀》等。

“The equality of all before the light and the inequality of the little people as the great pass by are both written on the same photographic plate.” With this sentence, Jacques Rancière effectively aligns his conception of aesthetic theory as the always antagonistic distribution of the sensible under the sign of the demand for equality with the invention of photography. It is a...(展开全部)