History: theory & methods books

12120 books were found.

Zygmunt Zawirski: His Life and Work: with Selected Writings on Time, Logic and the Methodology of Science

Zygmunt Zawirski: His Life and Work: with Selected Writings...

Author: I. Szumilewicz-Lachman ,  Feliks Lachman
ISBN: 9789401043298
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Among the extraordinary Polish philosophers of the past one hundred years, Zygmunt Zawirski deserves to be given...  Read More >>

Ideas for a Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Natural Sciences

Ideas for a Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Natural...

Author: J.J. Kockelmans
ISBN: 9789401048651
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Presents the basic ontological issues that must be raised with respect to the meaning and function of natural science....  Read More >>

Philosophie asiatique/Asian philosophy

Philosophie asiatique/Asian philosophy

Author: Guttorm Fløistad
ISBN: 9789401051071
Format: Paperback
$580.77

The present publication is a continuation of two earlier series of chronicles, Philosophy in the Mid-Century (Firenze...  Read More >>

The Physicists’ View of Nature, Part 1: From Newton to Einstein

The Physicists’ View of Nature, Part 1: From Newton...

Author: Amit Goswami, Ph.D.
ISBN: 9781461354505
Format: Paperback
$316.77

Special emphasis is given to the development of the objective, materialist, and deterministic worldview of classical...  Read More >>

Making Histories: Studies in history-writing and politics

Making Histories: Studies in history-writing and politics...

Author: CCCS ,  Richard Johnson
ISBN: 9780415649834
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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The Roots of Things: Topics in Quantum Mechanics

The Roots of Things: Topics in Quantum Mechanics

Author: Alan A. Grometstein
ISBN: 9781461372134
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Grometstein explains modern physics with enthusiasm, wit and insight. As he presents the usual milestones in the...  Read More >>

Die Krisis Der Europäischen Wissenschaften Und Die Transzendentale Phänomenologie: Ergänzungsband Texte Aus Dem Nachlass 1934—1937

Die Krisis Der Europäischen Wissenschaften Und Die Transzendentale...

Author: Edmund Husserl ,  Reinhold N. Smid
ISBN: 9789401052139
Format: Paperback
$1979.97

Der vorliegende Band vereinigt Husserls letzte Nachlaßmanuskripte, die im Zusammenhang mit der Arbeit an der Krisis-Abhandlung...  Read More >>

Technology, Pessimism, and Postmodernism

Technology, Pessimism, and Postmodernism

Author: Yaron Ezrahi ,  E. Mendelsohn
ISBN: 9789401043793
Format: Paperback
$448.77

"" Such pessimism, he continued, ""is fed by growing doubts about soci­ ety's ability to rein in the seemingly runaway...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Oral History

The Oxford Handbook of Oral History

Author: Donald A. Ritchie (Senate Historian, Senate Historian, United States Senate)
ISBN: 9780199945061
Format: Paperback
$90.95

The Oxford Handbook of Oral History brings together forty authors on five continents to address the evolution of...  Read More >>

Astronomy Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Astronomy

Astronomy Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western...

Author: Helaine Selin
ISBN: 9789401058209
Format: Paperback
$1187.97

Astronomy Across Cultures: A History of Non-Western Astronomy consists of essays dealing with the astronomical...  Read More >>

The Letters of Dominique Chaix, Botanist-Curé

The Letters of Dominique Chaix, Botanist-Curé

Author: R.L. Williams
ISBN: 9789401063104
Format: Paperback
$145.17

etween 1772 and 1799, Dominique Chaix wrote 170 letters to Dominique Villars. B None of the letters that Vtllars...  Read More >>

Fashioning History: Current Practices and Principles

Fashioning History: Current Practices and Principles...

Author: R. Berkhofer
ISBN: 9781137270283
Format: Paperback
$316.77

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Roots of Brazil

Roots of Brazil

Author: Sérgio Buarque de Holanda ,  G. Harvey Summ
ISBN: 9780268026134
Format: Paperback
$73.92

Roots of Brazil explores the multiple cultural influences that forged twentieth-century Brazil. This classic work...  Read More >>

Telling Tales: Sources and Narration in Late Medieval England

Telling Tales: Sources and Narration in Late Medieval...

Author: Joel T. Rosenthal (Distinguished Professor of History, Stony Brook University)
ISBN: 9780271058481
Format: Paperback
$67.99

In Telling Tales, Joel Rosenthal takes us on a journey through some familiar sources from fourteenth- and fifteenth-century...  Read More >>

Issues and Images in the Philosophy of Science: Scientific and Philosophical Essays in Honour of Azarya Polikarov

Issues and Images in the Philosophy of Science: Scientific...

Author: D. Ginev ,  Robert S. Cohen
ISBN: 9789401064439
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Looking at our Appendix listing his principal publications, we see that Polikarov's public research career, after...  Read More >>

Narrative and Truth: An Ethical and Dynamic Paradigm for the Humanities

Narrative and Truth: An Ethical and Dynamic Paradigm...

Author: Barry Emslie
ISBN: 9781137275448
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation: Science Studies in the German Democratic Republic Papers from a German-American Summer Institute, 1988

World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation: Science...

Author: W.R. Woodward ,  Robert S. Cohen
ISBN: 9789401053952
Format: Paperback
$580.77

The various efforts to develop a Marxist philosophy of science in the one­ time 'socialist' countries were casualties...  Read More >>

Japanese Studies in the Philosophy of Science

Japanese Studies in the Philosophy of Science

Author: F.G. Nagasaka ,  Robert S. Cohen
ISBN: 9789401061766
Format: Paperback
$290.37

The splendid achievements of Japanese mathematics and natural sciences during the second half of our 20th century...  Read More >>

Kant’s Theory of Natural Science

Kant’s Theory of Natural Science

Author: Peter Plaass ,  A.E. Miller
ISBN: 9789401044929
Format: Paperback
$448.77

Plaass's treatise stood at the beginning of a renewed wave of scholarship regarding Kant's Metaphysical Foundations...  Read More >>

Nationalising and Denationalising European Border Regions, 1800–2000: Views from Geography and History

Nationalising and Denationalising European Border Regions,...

Author: Hans Knippenberg ,  J. Markusse
ISBN: 9789401058605
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This process gained strength in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was challenged in the second half...  Read More >>

Descartes on the Human Soul: Philosophy and the Demands of Christian Doctrine

Descartes on the Human Soul: Philosophy and the Demands...

Author: C.F. Fowler
ISBN: 9789401060172
Format: Paperback
$472.56

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Science and Empires: Historical Studies about Scientific Development and European Expansion

Science and Empires: Historical Studies about Scientific...

Author: P. Petitjean ,  Cathérine Jami
ISBN: 9789401051453
Format: Paperback
$580.77

This selection of papers raises some historical and epistemological problems related to the integration between...  Read More >>

Medieval Philosophy and Modern Times

Medieval Philosophy and Modern Times

Author: Ghita Holmström-Hintikka
ISBN: 9789401058353
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Modern tools allow one to penetrate old texts and analyze old problems in new ways, offering interpretations that...  Read More >>

Egypt During the Last Interglacial: The Middle Paleolithic of Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East

Egypt During the Last Interglacial: The Middle Paleolithic...

Author: Angela E. Close ,  Romuald Schild
ISBN: 9781461362616
Format: Paperback
$580.77

there was essentially no change for several hundreds of thousands of years, and it was during the Middle THE MODERN...  Read More >>

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