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UNINA9910458870803321 |
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Burchfield Joe D |
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Lord Kelvin and the age of the earth [[electronic resource] /] / Joe D. Burchfield ; with a new afterword |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1990 |
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1-283-05813-8 |
9786613058133 |
0-226-08026-9 |
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[University of Chicago Press ed.] |
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1 online resource (281 p.) |
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SCIENCE / General |
Electronic books. |
Earth Age |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Science History Publications, 1975. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Introduction -- II. Kelvin and the Physics of Time -- III. Kelvin's Influence: The Initial Reception -- IV/ The Triumph of Limited Time -- V. Opposition and Controversy -- VI. Radioactivity and the Age of the Earth -- VII. Conclusion -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Burchfield charts the enormous impact made by Lord Kelvin's application of thermodynamic laws to the question of the earth's age and the heated debate his ideas sparked among British Victorian physicists, astronomers, geologists, and biologists. "Anyone interested in geologic time, and that should include all geologists and a fair smattering of biologists, physicists and chemists, should make Burchfield's commendable and time-tested volume part of their personal library"-Brent Darymple, Quartely Review of Biology |
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UNINA9910136543803321 |
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Autore |
Schick Kate |
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Recognition and global politics : critical encounters between state and world / / edited by Patrick Hayden and Kate Schick |
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Manchester University Press, 2016 |
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Manchester, England : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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1 online resource (264 pages) : digital file(s) |
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Recognition (International law) - Social aspects |
International law - Social aspects |
International relations - Social aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1. Recognition and the international : meanings, limits, manifestations / Patrick Hayden and Kate Schick -- Part 1. Meanings: critical interventions -- 2. Unsettling pedagogy : recognition, vulnerability and the international / Kate Schick -- 3. Ambiguity, existence, cosmopolitanism : Simone de Beauvoir and a global theory of feminist recognition / Monica Mookherjee -- 4. Recognition, multiculturalism and the allure of separatism / Volker M. Heins -- 5. Recognition and accumulation / Tarik Kochi -- Part 2. Limits: recognition’s blind spots -- 6. Lost worlds : evil, genocide and the limits of recognition / Patrick Hayden -- 7. In recognition of the Abyssinian general / Robbie Shilliam -- 8. The recognition of nature in international relations / Emilian Kavalski and Magdalena Zolkos -- Part 3. Manifestations: international orders and disorders -- 9. Paternalistic care and transformative recognition in international politics / Fiona Robinson -- 10. Recognition in the struggle against global injustice / Greta Fowler Snyder -- 11. Recognition in and of world society / Matthew S. Weinert. |
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The notion of recognition, drawing on the philosophy of Hegel, has become increasingly central to international debates in recent years, yet there have been few attempts to critically examine new theoretical |
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positions and empirical analyses of its possible meanings, limits and manifestations. Recognition and global politics examines the potential and limitations of the discourse of recognition as a strategy for reframing justice and injustice within contemporary world affairs. Drawing on resources from social and political theory and international relations theory as well as other areas including feminist theory, postcolonial studies and social psychology, this ambitious collection explores a range of political struggles, social movements and sites of opposition that have shaped certain practices and informed contentious debates in the language of recognition. How have recognition-based claims been deployed in relation to international, transnational and global politics? The contributors speak to central issues in current debates about cosmopolitanism, genocide, human rights, global capitalism, multiculturalism, rebellion and the environment. This innovative volume will push the boundaries of the debate on recognition into new areas, opening up provocative lines of inquiry and critique. |
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