This groundbreaking volume gathers an international team of historians to present the practice of translation as part of cultural history. Although translation is central to the transmission of ideas, the history of translation has generally been neglected by historians, who have left it to specialists in literature and language. This book seeks ...
The 1990s has become the era of the soundbite and the sharp suit, where presentational style and performance in the media are as important as the message being conveyed. Duncan Watts explores the relationship between politicians and the media in this new study of modern political communications.
Life in Rome was relentlessly public, and oratory was at its heart. Orations were dramatic spectacles in which the speaker deployed an arsenal of rhetorical tricks and strategies aimed at arousing the emotions of the audience, and spectators responded vigorously and vocally with massed chants of praise or condemnation. Unfortunately, many aspects ...
"An essential perspective for those seeking a serious introduction to early geological science and a fundamental point of departure for future research. . . . No other book has this scope and conceptual focus."-Kenneth L. Taylor, University of Oklahoma In the years between 1665 and 1750, geology was a new kind of science, combining physical law ...
Travels have without doubt been a perennial source of attraction to scholars in different fields. Yet historians of science have seldom looked at travels within the European space. "Travels of Learning" will help to fill this gap. It offers a reappraisal of the topic of scientific and technological travelling and takes the viewpoint of the ...
Recent scholarship has revealed that pioneering Victorian scientists endeavored through voluminous writing to raise public interest in science and its implications. But it has generally been assumed that once science became a profession around the turn of the twentieth century, this new generation of scientists turned its collective back on public ...
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