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UNINA9910458880103321 |
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Drake Stillman |
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Galileo : a very short introduction / / Stillman Drake |
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Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2001 |
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0-19-154051-X |
1-283-09771-0 |
9786613097712 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations, facsimilies, portraits |
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Collana |
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A very short introduction ; ; 44 |
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Soggetti |
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Astronomers - Italy |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1980, in series: Past masters. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical referencesand index. |
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Cover -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 The background -- 2 Galileo's early years -- 3 Conflicts with philosophers -- 4 Conflicts with astronomers and theologians -- 5 The Dialogue and the Inquisition -- 6 The final years -- Further reading -- Index. |
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In a startling reinterpretation of the evidence, Stillman Drake here advances the hypothesis that Galileo's trial and condemnation by the Inquisition was not caused by his defiance of the Church, but by the hostility of other philosophers. |
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UNINA9910964633903321 |
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Titolo |
Alien encounters : popular culture in Asian America / / Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, editors |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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NguyenMimi Thi <1974-> |
TuThuy Linh N |
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Asian Americans - Intellectual life |
Asian Americans - Ethnic identity |
Asian Americans - Social life and customs |
Asian Americans - Study and teaching |
Popular culture - United States |
United States Intellectual life |
United States Social life and customs |
United States Ethnic relations |
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Formato |
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 (p. [335]-353) and index. |
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Rapping and repping Asian : race, authenticity, and the Asian American MC / Oliver Wang -- Silenced but not silent : Asian Americans and jazz / Kevin Fellezs -- Homicidal tendencies : violence and the global economy in Asian American pulp fiction / Christopher A. Shinn -- Visual reconnaissance / Joan Kee -- Chinese restaurant drive-thru / Indigo Som -- The guru and the cultural politics of placelessness / Sukhdev Sandhu -- Cooking up the senses : a critical embodied approach to the study of food and Asian American television audiences / Martin F. Manalansan -- Performing culture in diaspora : assimilation and hybridity in Paris by night videos and Vietnamese American niche media / Nhi T. Lieu -- Indo-Chic : late capitalist orientalism and imperial culture / Sunaina Maira -- Asian American auto/biographies : |
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the gendered limits of consumer citizenship in import subcultures / Robyn Magalit Rodriguez and Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez -- Bruce Lee I love you : discourses of race and masculinity in the queer superstardom of JJ Chinois / Mimi Thi Nguyen -- Race and software / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun. |
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A collection of essays that examine the production and consumption of Asian American popular culture, from musical expression to television cooking shows. |
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