Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature
Elizabeth Gansen
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512824568
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
Natural Designs chronicles the life and work of the earliest and most influential Spanish historian of the New World, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478–1557). Through a combination of biography and...
A Field Guide to the City and the Surrounding Delaware Valley
Paul Meyer and Edward Barnard
Contributions by Catriona Bull Briger and William Cullina
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512823905
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Philadelphia Trees is a pocket-sized resource for identifying the native trees, commonly encountered exotics, and popular ornamentals of the Philadelphia metropolitan area and adjacent counties in Pennsylvania,...
Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print
Jessica Rosenberg
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512823332
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Hardcover
376 Pages
During the middle years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, the number of books published with titles that described themselves as flowers, gardens, or forests more than tripled. During those same years,...
John James Audubon's The Birds of America stands as an unparalleled achievement in American art, a huge book that puts nature dramatically on the page. With that work, Audubon became one of the most...
The human right to science, outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and repeated in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, recognizes everyone’s...
In the sixteenth-century Atlantic world, nature and culture swirled in people's minds to produce fantastic images. In the South of France, a cloister's painted wooden panels greeted parishioners with...
After humble beginnings as faltering British colonies, the United States acquired astonishing wealth and power as the result of what we now refer to as modernization. Originating in England and Western...
Edited by Svetozar Y. Minkov and Bernhardt L. Trout
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812249934
Pub Date: April 2018
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
In the early modern period, thinkers began to suggest that philosophy abjure the ideal of dispassionate contemplation of the natural world in favor of a more practically minded project that aimed to...
When natural scientists speak up in public about the material phenomena they have observed, measured, and analyzed in the lab or the field, they embody a distinctive version of political authority....
