1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458880103321

Autore

Drake Stillman

Titolo

Galileo : a very short introduction / / Stillman Drake

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford  : , : Oxford University Press, , 2001

ISBN

0-19-154051-X

1-283-09771-0

9786613097712

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations, facsimilies, portraits

Collana

A very short introduction ; ; 44

Disciplina

520/.92

B

Soggetti

Astronomers - Italy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1980, in series: Past masters.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical referencesand index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964633903321

Titolo

Alien encounters : popular culture in Asian America / / Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007

ISBN

9780822339106

0822339102

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NguyenMimi Thi <1974->

TuThuy Linh N

Disciplina

305.895/073

305.895073

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-353) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 :



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.

Sommario/riassunto

A collection of essays that examine the production and consumption of Asian American popular culture, from musical expression to television cooking shows.