A Devil's Tale by Michael J. Gutierrez

The Monster in the Machine: Magic, Medicine, and the Marvelous in the Time of the Scientific Revolution (e-Duke books scholarly collection.)

The Monster within the desktop tracks the ways that humans have been outlined unlike supernatural and demonic creatures in the course of the time of the clinical Revolution. Zakiya Hanafi recreates scenes of Italian existence and tradition from the past due 16th to the early eighteenth centuries to teach how monsters have been conceptualized at this actual locale and historic juncture—a interval whilst the sacred was once being supplanted by means of an earthly, decidedly nonmagical method of taking a look at the area.

Het ondiepe (Dutch Edition)

Nicholas Carr buigt zich over over de langetermijneffecten van het net. Gebruikmakend van nieuwe inzichten over de plasticiteit van het brein, de werking van ons geheugen en de manieren waarop we informatie verwerken, toont hij aan dat het web niet alleen nuttig gereedschap is, maar ook bezig is onze identiteit en zelfs de structuur van onze hersenen te veranderen.

Foot Steps of the Ancient Great Glacier of North America: A Long Lost Document of a Revolution in 19th Century Geological Theory

John ok. DeLaski, M. D. practiced medication within the Penobscot Bay zone of Maine and, furthermore, used to be a naturalist with willing powers of commentary. His research of the panorama resulted in the realization thick glacier had overtopped the top hills, flooded all of Penobscot Bay, prolonged a ways to the east and west and possibly used to be a part of a better continental glacier.

Posthumanism: Anthropological Insights

Designed to give an explanation for posthumanism to these outdoor of academia, this short and available e-book makes an unique argument approximately anthropology's legacy as a examine of "more than human. " shrewdpermanent and shrewdpermanent go back to the holism of vintage ethnographies the place farm animals, pigs, yams, and sorcerers have been valuable to the lives that have been narrated by way of anthropologists, yet they expand the dialogue to incorporate modern matters like microbiomes, the Anthropocene, and nano-machines, which take holism past in the community bounded areas.