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Plant Physiology: Theory and Applications
This edition provides a comprehensive overview of the rapidly advancing field of plant physiology, supplemented with experimental exercises.
Matter Out of Place
Anthropologists often use ‘pollution’ to refer to social and individual challenges to a cultural idea of purity, which may be seen in terms of religious practice, foodstuffs and social differentiation. It has been used as a trope to explore ideas of dirt and place, moral inversion and reinforcement, disgust and taboo. The book is an invitation to consider the continued relevance of Mary Douglas’ conceptualization of pollution and dirt as ‘matter out of place’ in relation to contemporary circumstances. Its ethnographic and theoretical contributions cover diverse contexts, ranging from Europe to Africa, the Caribbean, India and Outer Space.
Clandestine Marriage
Romanticism was a cultural and intellectual movement characterized by discovery, revolution, and the poetic as well as by the philosophical relationship between people and nature. Botany sits at the intersection where romantic scientific and literary discourses meet. Clandestine Marriage explores the meaning and methods of how plants were represented and reproduced in scientific, literary, artistic, and material cultures of the period. Theresa M. Kelley synthesizes romantic debates about taxonomy and morphology, the contemporary interest in books and magazines devoted to plant study and images, and writings by such authors as Mary Wollstonecraft and Anna Letitia Barbauld. Period botanical pa...
The Technical Image
In science and technology, the images used to depict ideas, data, and reactions can be as striking and explosive as the concepts and processes they embody—both works of art and generative forces in their own right. Drawing on a close dialogue between the histories of art, science, and technology, The Technical Image explores these images not as mere illustrations or examples, but as productive agents and distinctive, multilayered elements of the process of generating knowledge. Using beautifully reproduced visuals, this book not only reveals how scientific images play a constructive role in shaping the findings and insights they illustrate, but also—however mechanical or detached from in...
Natural Human Rights
This timely book focuses on the history, application and significance of human rights in the West and in China.
Flora's Fieldworkers
When Catharine Parr Traill came to Upper Canada in 1832 as a settler from England, she brought along with her ties to British botanical culture. Nonetheless, when she arrived she encountered a new natural landscape and, like other women chronicled in this book, set out to advance the botanical knowledge of the time from the Canadian field. Flora’s Fieldworkers employs biography, botanical data, herbaria specimens, archival sources, letters, institutional records, book history, and abundant artwork to reconstruct the ways in which women studied and understood plants in the nineteenth century. It features figures ranging from elite women involved in imperial botanical projects in British Nor...
The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume II
This volume reproduces key historical texts concerning `colonial knowledges’. The use of the adjective 'colonial' indicates that knowledge is shaped by power relationships, while the use of the plural form, ’knowledges’ indicates the emphasis in this collection is on an interplay between different, often competing, cognitive systems. George Balandier’s notion of the colonial situation is an organising principle that runs throughout the volume, and there are four sub-themes: language and texts, categorical knowledge, the circulation of knowledge and indigenous knowledge. The volume is designed to introduce students to a range of important interventions which speak to each other today, even if they were not intended to do so when first published. An introductory essay links the themes together and explains the significance of the individual articles.
태양을 먹다
‘햇빛의 광합성 작용’을 통한 생명의 이해, 지구의 작동 원리와 핵 실험에 이르는 방대한 과학 서사! 인간과 지구에 숨겨진 생명의 고리를 찾다. 교과서에서 배웠던 ‘광합성(photosynthesis)’이라는 주제, 얼핏 단순해 보이는 과학 현상 하나로 어떻게 이처럼 방대한 저작물이 탄생했을까? 올리버 색스(Oliver Sacks)는 『태양을 먹다(Eating the Sun)』에 대해 “생명 과정을 바라보는 새로운 인식이며 지적 모험으로 스릴 넘치는 역사서”라고 말했고, 매트 리들리(Matt Ridley)는 “다루는 폭과 장대함에 숨이 멎는 문학이고 과학 작품”이...
