About the book This Encyclopedia examines all aspects of the history of science in the United States, with a special emphasis placed on the historiography of science in America. It can be used by students, general readers, scientists, or anyone interested in the facts relating to the ...
“It’s about the period of American history between Abraham Lincoln’s election and the beginning of the American Civil War. (Note that in the UK, the book’s subtitle is: ‘Abraham Lincoln and America’s Road to Civil War’: this is not a story we are as familiar with on this side...
2023-24: Libby O’Neil (Yale University), ‘Thinking in Systems: Problems of Organization at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Society for General Systems Research, 1950-1957’; Alfred Freeborn (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), ‘Testing Psychiatri...
By 1845, when the new reforms were up and running and his Oneida community first beginning to flourish, Noyes had developed a theory of sexuality that drew on the early science of electricity, culminating in a theory of “electric sex.” The gist is that human beings are endowed with a li...
When leaders call COVID-19 the “China virus,” it harkens back to decades of state-sanctioned discrimination against Asian Americans.
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: John Parascandola suggests that Sex, Sin, and Science can provide the general reader with an introduction to the history of syphilis and public health policy in America. Although he believes the book will offer materials of in...
North America was the most favorable field on the globe for the spread of a society so large, uniform, and isolated as to answer the purposes of science. There a single homogeneous society could easily attain proportions of three or four hundred million persons, under conditions of undisturbed ...
scienceC.moneyD.societyA . It teaches them to think of themselves.B . It helps them to become better students.C. It helps them to understand the society.D. It teaches them to respect each other.A. Government spending on History educationshould be reduced.B . T he benefits of History ...
例1:In science, a theory is a reasonable explanation of observed events. 例2:Possible solutions to the problem are formulated. 系动词 本身有词义,但不能单独用作谓语,后边必须跟表语,构成系表结构说明主语的状况、性质、特征等情况。 例1:That is air wrung dry of moisture. 例2:There seem to ha...