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UNINA9910968133503321 |
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Autore |
Winsor Mary P |
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Reading the shape of nature : comparative zoology at the Agassiz Museum / / Mary P. Winsor |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1991 |
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9786613078506 |
9781283078504 |
1283078503 |
9780226902081 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (345 p.) |
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Science and its conceptual foundations |
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Animals - History |
Natural history - Classification - History |
Naturalists - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. "In the Prime of His Admirable Manhood" -- 2. "I Have Been Disappointed in My Collaborators" -- 3. "Our Work Must Be Done with Much More Precision" -- 4. "An Object Worthy of a Life's Devotion" -- 5. "The Many Plans Started by My Father" -- 6. "Shall We Say 'Ignorabimus: or Chase a Phantom?" -- 7. "The Slender Thread Is Practically Severed" -- 8. "Results Unattainable by Museum Study Alone" -- 9. "Collections Never of Use to Anyone" -- 10. "Dependent on the Personal Feelings of the Authors" -- 11. "I Made Up My Mind That Very Day to Be Director" -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Reading the Shape of Nature vividly recounts the turbulent early history of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard and the contrasting careers of its founder Louis Agassiz and his son Alexander. Through the story of this institution and the individuals who formed it, Mary P. Winsor explores the conflicting forces that shaped systematics in the second half of the nineteenth century. Debates over the philosophical |
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foundations of classification, details of taxonomic research, the young institution's financial struggles, and the personalities of the men most deeply involved are all brought to life. In 1859, Louis Agassiz established the Museum of Comparative Zoology to house research on the ideal types that he believed were embodied in all living forms. Agassiz's vision arose from his insistence that the order inherent in the diversity of life reflected divine creation, not organic evolution. But the mortar of the new museum had scarcely dried when Darwin's Origin was published. By Louis Agassiz's death in 1873, even his former students, including his son Alexander, had defected to the evolutionist camp. Alexander, a self-made millionaire, succeeded his father as director and introduced a significantly different agenda for the museum. To trace Louis and Alexander's arguments and the style of science they established at the museum, Winsor uses many fascinating examples that even zoologists may find unfamiliar. The locus of all this activity, the museum building itself, tells its own story through a wonderful series of archival photographs. |
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UNINA9910300549003321 |
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Titolo |
Confocal Raman Microscopy / / edited by Jan Toporski, Thomas Dieing, Olaf Hollricher |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
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[2nd ed. 2018.] |
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1 online resource (603 pages) |
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Springer Series in Surface Sciences, , 0931-5195 ; ; 66 |
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Spectrum analysis |
Microscopy |
Materials—Surfaces |
Thin films |
Microbiology |
Mineralogy |
Surfaces (Physics) |
Interfaces (Physical sciences) |
Spectroscopy and Microscopy |
Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films |
Biological Microscopy |
Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films |
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High-Resolution Optical and Confocal Microscopy -- Introduction to the Fundamentals of Raman Spectroscopy -- Raman Instrumentation for Confocal Raman Microscopy -- Software Requirements and Data Analysis in Confocal Raman Microscopy -- Nanospectroscopy of Individual Carbon Nanotubes and Isolated Graphene Sheets -- Raman Spectroscopy and Confocal Raman Imaging in Mineralogy and Petrography -- Raman Micro-Spectral Imaging of Cells and Intracellular Drug Delivery using Nanocarrier Systems -- Confocal Raman Microscopy in Pharmaceutical Development -- Characterization of Therapeutic Coatings on Medical Devices -- Raman Imaging of Plant Cell Walls -- Confocal Raman Imaging of Polymeric Materials -- Stress Analysis by Means of Raman Microscopy. |
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This second edition provides a cutting-edge overview of physical, technical and scientific aspects related to the widely used analytical method of confocal Raman microscopy. The book includes expanded background information and adds insights into how confocal Raman microscopy, especially 3D Raman imaging, can be integrated with other methods to produce a variety of correlative microscopy combinations. The benefits are then demonstrated and supported by numerous examples from the fields of materials science, 2D materials, the life sciences, pharmaceutical research and development, as well as the geosciences. |
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UNINA9910960622103321 |
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Autore |
Carrier Neil C. M |
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Titolo |
Kenyan khat : the social life of a stimulant / / by Neil C.M. Carrier |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007 |
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1-281-92106-8 |
9786611921064 |
90-474-1914-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (304 p.) |
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African social studies series, , 1568-1203 ; ; v. 15 |
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Khat |
Khat - Kenya |
Drug traffic - Kenya |
Drug control |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [261] - 266) and index. |
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Preliminary Materials / N Carrier -- Introduction / N Carrier -- Chapter One. Cultivating Miraa In The Nyambene Hills / N Carrier -- Chapter Two. From Mutuati To Manchester: Miraa’s Trajectories / N Carrier -- Chapter Three. Transporting Miraa / N Carrier -- Chapter Four. Bargaining Over Bundles / N Carrier -- Chapter Five. Trust, Suspicion And Conflict In Miraa Trade Relations / N Carrier -- Chapter Six. Chewing / N Carrier -- Chapter Seven. Miraa And The War On Drugs / N Carrier -- Conclusion / N Carrier -- Glossary / N Carrier -- Bibliography / N Carrier -- Index / N Carrier. |
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This book provides a richly detailed ethnography of Kenyan khat, tracing some of the many national and transnational trajectories this controversial stimulant takes from its centre of production in the Nyambene Hills to consumers in Kenya and throughout the world. The author, guided by his friend and khat connoisseur M'Mucheke, draws out the full economic, social and cultural significance of the substance, situating this significance within current debates on the legality of khat and the global rhetoric of the 'war on drugs'. The work explores how networks of Kenyan khat bring people of diverse backgrounds together in sometimes uneasy relationships, and highlights the vast cluster of |
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meanings this remarkable commodity has accrued in its 'social life'. |
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