American literature and science / / Robert J. Scholnick, editor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/356 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
Literature and science - United States Science in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-8131-9341-9
0-8131-4943-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Permeable Boundaries: Literature and Science in America; 2 ""This Brazen Serpent Is a Doctors Shop"": Edward Taylor's Medical Vision; 3 Benjamin Franklin: The Fusion of Science and Letters; 4 Thomas Jefferson; 5 An Intrinsic Luminosity: Poe's Use of Platonic and Newtonian Optics; 6 Fields of Investigation: Emerson and Natural History; 7 Thoreau and Science; 8 (Pseudo-) Scientific Humor; 9 Traveling in Time with Mark Twain; 10 Hart Crane and John Dos Passos; 11 Fields of Spacetime and the ""I"" in Charles Olson's The Maximus Poems
12 ""Unfurrowing the Mind's Plowshare"": Fiction in a Cybernetic Age13 Turbulence in Literature and Science: Questions of Influence; Bibliography: American Literature and Science through 1989; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460295703321 |
Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American literature and science / / Robert J. Scholnick, editor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/356 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
Literature and science - United States Science in literature |
ISBN |
0-8131-9341-9
0-8131-4943-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Permeable Boundaries: Literature and Science in America; 2 ""This Brazen Serpent Is a Doctors Shop"": Edward Taylor's Medical Vision; 3 Benjamin Franklin: The Fusion of Science and Letters; 4 Thomas Jefferson; 5 An Intrinsic Luminosity: Poe's Use of Platonic and Newtonian Optics; 6 Fields of Investigation: Emerson and Natural History; 7 Thoreau and Science; 8 (Pseudo-) Scientific Humor; 9 Traveling in Time with Mark Twain; 10 Hart Crane and John Dos Passos; 11 Fields of Spacetime and the ""I"" in Charles Olson's The Maximus Poems
12 ""Unfurrowing the Mind's Plowshare"": Fiction in a Cybernetic Age13 Turbulence in Literature and Science: Questions of Influence; Bibliography: American Literature and Science through 1989; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787224203321 |
Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American literature and science / / Robert J. Scholnick, editor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/356 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
Literature and science - United States Science in literature |
ISBN |
0-8131-9341-9
0-8131-4943-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Permeable Boundaries: Literature and Science in America; 2 ""This Brazen Serpent Is a Doctors Shop"": Edward Taylor's Medical Vision; 3 Benjamin Franklin: The Fusion of Science and Letters; 4 Thomas Jefferson; 5 An Intrinsic Luminosity: Poe's Use of Platonic and Newtonian Optics; 6 Fields of Investigation: Emerson and Natural History; 7 Thoreau and Science; 8 (Pseudo-) Scientific Humor; 9 Traveling in Time with Mark Twain; 10 Hart Crane and John Dos Passos; 11 Fields of Spacetime and the ""I"" in Charles Olson's The Maximus Poems
12 ""Unfurrowing the Mind's Plowshare"": Fiction in a Cybernetic Age13 Turbulence in Literature and Science: Questions of Influence; Bibliography: American Literature and Science through 1989; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816141903321 |
Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The best Australian science writing 2012 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Elizabeth Finkel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Sydney, : NewSouth Pub., 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (245 p.) |
Disciplina |
500
808 |
Altri autori (Persone) | FinkelElizabeth |
Collana | A NewSouth book |
Soggetto topico |
Technical writing - Australia
Communication in science - Australia Science in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-74224-619-2
1-74224-129-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""Shortlist""; ""Judges ""; ""Advisory panel""; ""Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""GATEWAY TO HEAVEN: Wilson da Silva""; ""NEUTRINOS AND THE SPEED OF LIGHT...NOT SO FAST: Jonathan Carroll""; ""BLANK CANVAS: Corey Butler""; ""UNDER THE HOOD OF THE UNIVERSE: Margaret Wertheim""; ""THE ILL-EFFECTS OF QUACKERY V SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE: Cassandra Wilkinson""; ""A HERO'S LEGEND AND A STOLEN SKULL RUSTLE UP A DNA DRAMA: Christine Kenneally""; ""THE RISE AND FALL OF INFANT REFLUX: Pamela Douglas""; ""EARTHQUAKES: WHEN THE WORLD MOVES: Emma Young""
""SEVEN BILLION REASONS TO BE A FEMINIST: Rob Brooks""""BALANCING ACT: Adrian Hyland""; ""UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Frank Bowden""; ""WHY CLEVER PEOPLE BELIEVE IN SILLY THINGS: Craig Cormick""; ""PAINTING THE RAINFORESTS REDD: William Laurance""; ""THE EVOLUTION OF THE INADEQUATE MODERN MALE: Peter McAllister""; ""A WEE SOLUTION: Lachlan Bolton""; ""DIAMOND PLANETS, CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD: Matthew Bailes""; ""STORM FRONT: Jo Chandler""; ""I WANT TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES WHEN I GROW UP (AND SO SHOULD YOU): Michael Kasumovic""; ""LICENCE TO HEAL: lNick Miller"" ""SECRET LIFE OF ENCELADUS: Richard A. Lovett""""THE ROACH'S SECRET: Wendy Zukerman""; ""AUSTRALIA IN 2050: Julian Cribb""; ""DOCTOR'S ORDERS: DEBUNKING HOMEOPATHY ONCE AND FOR ALL: Ian Musgrave""; ""THE AUSSIE MOZZIE POSSE: Ashley Hay""; ""LIFE IN LAKE VOSTOK? THE LINK BETWEEN ANTARCTICA AND EXTRA-TERRESTRIALS: Helen Maynard-Casely""; ""THE DOCTOR IS IN: Ranjana Srivastava""; ""A dream of goldfinchesVanessa Mickan""; ""Acknowledgments"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910479871703321 |
Sydney, : NewSouth Pub., 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The best Australian science writing 2012 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Elizabeth Finkel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Sydney, : NewSouth Pub., 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (245 p.) |
Disciplina |
500
808 |
Altri autori (Persone) | FinkelElizabeth |
Collana | A NewSouth book |
Soggetto topico |
Technical writing - Australia
Communication in science - Australia Science in literature |
ISBN |
1-74224-619-2
1-74224-129-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""Shortlist""; ""Judges ""; ""Advisory panel""; ""Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""GATEWAY TO HEAVEN: Wilson da Silva""; ""NEUTRINOS AND THE SPEED OF LIGHT...NOT SO FAST: Jonathan Carroll""; ""BLANK CANVAS: Corey Butler""; ""UNDER THE HOOD OF THE UNIVERSE: Margaret Wertheim""; ""THE ILL-EFFECTS OF QUACKERY V SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE: Cassandra Wilkinson""; ""A HERO'S LEGEND AND A STOLEN SKULL RUSTLE UP A DNA DRAMA: Christine Kenneally""; ""THE RISE AND FALL OF INFANT REFLUX: Pamela Douglas""; ""EARTHQUAKES: WHEN THE WORLD MOVES: Emma Young""
""SEVEN BILLION REASONS TO BE A FEMINIST: Rob Brooks""""BALANCING ACT: Adrian Hyland""; ""UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Frank Bowden""; ""WHY CLEVER PEOPLE BELIEVE IN SILLY THINGS: Craig Cormick""; ""PAINTING THE RAINFORESTS REDD: William Laurance""; ""THE EVOLUTION OF THE INADEQUATE MODERN MALE: Peter McAllister""; ""A WEE SOLUTION: Lachlan Bolton""; ""DIAMOND PLANETS, CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD: Matthew Bailes""; ""STORM FRONT: Jo Chandler""; ""I WANT TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES WHEN I GROW UP (AND SO SHOULD YOU): Michael Kasumovic""; ""LICENCE TO HEAL: lNick Miller"" ""SECRET LIFE OF ENCELADUS: Richard A. Lovett""""THE ROACH'S SECRET: Wendy Zukerman""; ""AUSTRALIA IN 2050: Julian Cribb""; ""DOCTOR'S ORDERS: DEBUNKING HOMEOPATHY ONCE AND FOR ALL: Ian Musgrave""; ""THE AUSSIE MOZZIE POSSE: Ashley Hay""; ""LIFE IN LAKE VOSTOK? THE LINK BETWEEN ANTARCTICA AND EXTRA-TERRESTRIALS: Helen Maynard-Casely""; ""THE DOCTOR IS IN: Ranjana Srivastava""; ""A dream of goldfinchesVanessa Mickan""; ""Acknowledgments"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910660307503321 |
Sydney, : NewSouth Pub., 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The best Australian science writing 2013 / / edited by Jane McCredie and Natasha Mitchell |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Sydney : , : NewSouth, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
Disciplina | 600 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
McCredieJane
MitchellNatasha |
Soggetto topico |
Communication in science - Australia
Science in literature Technical writing - Australia |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-74224-165-4
1-74224-666-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; About the Authors; Dedication and Copyright; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD: Not a Nobel laureate; INTRODUCTION: An intimate dissection; The weather of who we are; It's time to become gonads; The last laughing death; The perils of evolution; Darwin's modest discovery; Earthmasters: Playing God with the climate; Science is more than freaks and circuses; Animals on drugs; Dreamtime cave; Heart dissection; Reaching one thousand; Higgs boson; Here come the übernerds: Planets, Pluto and Prague; Many-worlds quantum mechanics vs earth-based grease monkeys; The vagina dialogues
Big Data can tell by your tweets if you're a psychopath:That's only the beginning ...With body in mind (after Vesalius); How a donor is done; Nest: The art of birds; My father's body; Sentinel chickens; The science of shark fishing; On flatulence; Radioactive cigarettes: X-ray inhale; Martyrs to Gondwanaland: The cost of scientific exploration; Mr Jevons and his paradox; Alimentary thinking; The carnivore's (ongoing) dilemma; Beyond the shock machine; Australia's endangered future; Alive as a dodo; Probably a sacrifice; Fire on the mountain: A walk on Mt Stromlo; ADVISORY PANEL; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing 2013 Shortlist |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480317703321 |
Sydney : , : NewSouth, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The best Australian science writing 2013 / / edited by Jane McCredie and Natasha Mitchell |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Sydney : , : NewSouth, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
Disciplina | 600 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
McCredieJane
MitchellNatasha |
Soggetto topico |
Communication in science - Australia
Science in literature Technical writing - Australia |
ISBN |
1-74224-165-4
1-74224-666-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; About the Authors; Dedication and Copyright; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD: Not a Nobel laureate; INTRODUCTION: An intimate dissection; The weather of who we are; It's time to become gonads; The last laughing death; The perils of evolution; Darwin's modest discovery; Earthmasters: Playing God with the climate; Science is more than freaks and circuses; Animals on drugs; Dreamtime cave; Heart dissection; Reaching one thousand; Higgs boson; Here come the übernerds: Planets, Pluto and Prague; Many-worlds quantum mechanics vs earth-based grease monkeys; The vagina dialogues
Big Data can tell by your tweets if you're a psychopath:That's only the beginning ...With body in mind (after Vesalius); How a donor is done; Nest: The art of birds; My father's body; Sentinel chickens; The science of shark fishing; On flatulence; Radioactive cigarettes: X-ray inhale; Martyrs to Gondwanaland: The cost of scientific exploration; Mr Jevons and his paradox; Alimentary thinking; The carnivore's (ongoing) dilemma; Beyond the shock machine; Australia's endangered future; Alive as a dodo; Probably a sacrifice; Fire on the mountain: A walk on Mt Stromlo; ADVISORY PANEL; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing 2013 Shortlist |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910666757603321 |
Sydney : , : NewSouth, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The best Australian science writing 2014 / / edited by Ashley Hay |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Sydney, New South Wales : , : Newsouth, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
Disciplina | 500 |
Soggetto topico |
Technical writing - Australia
Communication in science - Australia Science in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-74224-188-3
1-74224-713-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; A short walk in the Australian bush; Survival in the City; Planet of the Vines; Is There Room for Organics?; This. Here. Now. The climate catastrophe; Weather and mind games; Weathering the storm; Firefront; Antarctic ice: Going, going ...; They're taking over! The jellyfish move in; From Alzheimer's to zebrafish; Joseph Jukes' epiphanies; Popular mechanics: A short story; The CAVE artists; High-tech treasure hunt; The carnivorous platypus; The eye in the sand; The now delusion; Reached by committee, nineteen eighty-three
Material of the future: Sticky tape, honey and graphenePitch fever; Uniquely human; The pet-keeping species; Penis size may be driven by women (Oh, and it matters...); Eleven grams of trouble; TB and me: A medical souvenir; Massimo's genes: Medicine at the genetic frontier; Life, the universe and Boolardy; Liner notes, Voyager Golden Record; Beyond the 'Morning Star'; The oldest known star; The quantum spinmeister: Professor Andrea Morello; Here be dragons; ADVISORY PANEL; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459838403321 |
Sydney, New South Wales : , : Newsouth, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The best Australian science writing 2014 / / edited by Ashley Hay |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Sydney, New South Wales : , : Newsouth, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
Disciplina | 500 |
Soggetto topico |
Technical writing - Australia
Communication in science - Australia Science in literature |
ISBN |
1-74224-188-3
1-74224-713-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; A short walk in the Australian bush; Survival in the City; Planet of the Vines; Is There Room for Organics?; This. Here. Now. The climate catastrophe; Weather and mind games; Weathering the storm; Firefront; Antarctic ice: Going, going ...; They're taking over! The jellyfish move in; From Alzheimer's to zebrafish; Joseph Jukes' epiphanies; Popular mechanics: A short story; The CAVE artists; High-tech treasure hunt; The carnivorous platypus; The eye in the sand; The now delusion; Reached by committee, nineteen eighty-three
Material of the future: Sticky tape, honey and graphenePitch fever; Uniquely human; The pet-keeping species; Penis size may be driven by women (Oh, and it matters...); Eleven grams of trouble; TB and me: A medical souvenir; Massimo's genes: Medicine at the genetic frontier; Life, the universe and Boolardy; Liner notes, Voyager Golden Record; Beyond the 'Morning Star'; The oldest known star; The quantum spinmeister: Professor Andrea Morello; Here be dragons; ADVISORY PANEL; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910658105803321 |
Sydney, New South Wales : , : Newsouth, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The best Australian science writing 2016 / / foreword by Professor Fiona Stanley AC ; edited by Jo Chandler |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Sydney NSW : , : NewSouth, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 pages) |
Disciplina | 500 |
Soggetto topico |
Technical writing - Australia
Communication in science - Australia Science in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-74224-805-5
1-74224-260-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910136596803321 |
Sydney NSW : , : NewSouth, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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