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De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period The Authors of the Commentaries

This book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take ...

Deep Space Probes

This second edition includes an entirely new chapter on holographic message plaques for future interstellar probes – a ...

Der junge Carnap in historischem Kontext: 1918–1935 / Young Carnap in an Historical Context: 1918–1935

This volume is based on the 'Early Carnap in Context’ workshop that took place in Konstanz in 2017 and looks at Rudolf ...

Developmental State Building : The Politics of Emerging Economies

This book modifies and revitalizes the concept of the ‘developmental state’ to understand the politics of emerging economy ...

Developments in Demographic Forecasting

This book presents new developments in the field of demographic forecasting, covering both mortality, fertility and migration. ...

Diagrid structures : systems, connections, details / Terri Meyer Boake

Diagrids are load-bearing structures made of steel diagonal grids. They were first used in the great buildings of the turn ...

Dignity in the 21st Century

Dignity in the 21st Century - Middle East and West is unique and insightful for a range of reasons. First, the book is co-authored ...

Discrete Thoughts : Essays on Mathematics, Science, and Philosophy

This is a volume of essays and reviews that delightfully explore mathematics in all its moods — from the light and the ...

Dissecting the Criminal Corpse : Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England

Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. ...

Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science

This is the first volume of a series of edited books whose aim is to collect contributed papers in a framework that can serve ...

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics

offers an integrated historical and philosophical examination of the origin of genetics. The author contends that an integrated ...

Doors : History, Repair and Conservation / Michael Tutton, James W.P. Campbell

Guides you through the function, history, development, care, repair and conservation of doors by chapter authors who are ...

Drawing Imagining Building : Embodiment in Architectural Design Practices / Paul Emmons

Drawing Imagining Building focuses on the history of hand-drawing practices to capture some of the most crucial and overlooked ...

Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

the book investigates the reasons why Victorians and Edwardians consumed alcohol in the ways that they did and explores the ...

Drones and the Creative Industry

This open access, interdisciplinary book presents innovative strategies in the use of civil drones in the cultural and creative ...

Dynamics of Japan’s Trade and Industrial Policy in the Post Rapid Growth Era (1980–2000)

This book provides an in-depth examination of Japan's policy responses to the economic challenges of the 1980s and '90s. ...

Early Islamic Art, 650-1100: Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Volume I : Variorum Collected Studies / Oleg Grabar

Represent major contributions to the understanding of the formative centuries of Islamic art, focusing on the Umayyad (661-750) ...

Early Modern Humans at the Moravian Gate

The Upper Paleolithic fossils of the Mladec caves, South Moravia, excavated at the end of the 19th century, hold a key position ...

Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere

This Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, ...

Education and Development in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa Policies, Paradigms, and Entanglements, 1890s–1980s

This book offers an analysis of the entangled histories of education and development in twentieth-century Africa. It deals ...

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