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The Business of Alchemy

Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire

By: Pamela H. Smith

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The Business of Alchemy

Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire

By: Pamela H. Smith

In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and commerce in order to illuminate the cultural history of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In showing how an overriding concern with religious salvation was transformed into a concentration on material increase and economic policies, Smith depicts the rise of modern science and early capitalism. In pursuing this narrative, she focuses on that ideal prey of the cultural historian, an intellectual of the second rank whose career and ideas typify those of a generation. Smith follows the career of Johann Joachim Becher (1635-1682) from university to court, his projects from New World colonies to an old-world Pansophic Panopticon, and his ideas from alchemy to economics. Teasing out the many meanings of alchemy for Becher and his contemporaries, she argues that it provided Becher with not only a direct key to power over nature but also a language by which he could convince his princely patrons that their power too must rest on liquid wealth. Agrarian society regarded merchants with suspicion as the nonproductive exploiters of others' labor; however, territorial princes turned to commerce for revenue as the cost of maintaining the state increased. Placing Becher’s career in its social and intellectual context, Smith shows how he attempted to help his patrons assimilate commercial values into noble court culture and to understand the production of surplus capital as natural and legitimate. With emphasis on the practices of natural philosophy and extensive use of archival materials, Smith brings alive the moment of cultural transformation in which science and the modern state emerged.

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Princeton University Press

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1400883571

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The Body of the Artisan

Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution

By: Pamela H. Smith

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The Body of the Artisan

Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution

By: Pamela H. Smith

Since the time of Aristotle, the making of knowledge and the making of objects have generally been considered separate enterprises. Yet during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the two became linked through a "new" philosophy known as science. In The Body of the Artisan, Pamela H. Smith demonstrates how much early modern science owed to an unlikely source-artists and artisans. From goldsmiths to locksmiths and from carpenters to painters, artists and artisans were much sought after by the new scientists for their intimate, hands-on knowledge of natural materials and the ability to manipulate them. Drawing on a fascinating array of new evidence from northern Europe including artisans' objects and their writings, Smith shows how artisans saw all knowledge as rooted in matter and nature. With nearly two hundred images, The Body of the Artisan provides astonishingly vivid examples of this Renaissance synergy among art, craft, and science, and recovers a forgotten episode of the Scientific Revolution-an episode that forever altered the way we see the natural world.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226764265

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9780226764269

Atheism

The Case Against God

By: George H. Smith

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Atheism

The Case Against God

By: George H. Smith

Does a god exist? This question has undoubtedly been asked, in one form or another, since man has had the ability to communicate. . . Thousands of volumes have been written on the subject of a god, and the vast majority have answered the questions with a resounding 'Yes!' " "You are about to read a minority viewpoint." With this intriguing introduction, George H. Smith sets out to demolish what he considers the most widespread and destructive of all the myths devised by man - the concept of a supreme being. With painstaking scholarship and rigorous arguments, Mr. Smith examines, dissects, and refutes the myriad "proofs" offered by theists - the defenses of sophisticated, professional theologians, as well as the average religious layman. He explores the historical and psychological havoc wrought by religion in general - and concludes that religious belief cannot have any place in the life of modern, rational man. "It is not my purpose to convert people to atheism . . . (but to) demonstrate that the belief in God is irrational to the point of absurdity. If a person wishes to continue believing in a god, that is his prerogative, but he can no longer excuse his belief in the name of reason and moral necessity.

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Prometheus Books

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1615929959

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The Human Lineage

By: Matt Cartmill,Fred H. Smith

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The Human Lineage

By: Matt Cartmill,Fred H. Smith

The newly revised and thoroughly updated standard source for mastering the human fossil record. This new edition of The Human Lineage is the best and most current guide to the morphological, geological, paleontological, and archeological evidence for the story of human evolution. This comprehensive textbook presents the history, methods, and issues of paleoanthropology through detailed analyses of the major fossils of interest to practicing scientists in the field. It will help both advanced students and practicing professionals to become involved with the lively scholarly debates that mark the field of human-origins research. Its clear and engaging chapters contain concise explanatory text and hundreds of high-quality illustrations. This thoroughly revised second edition reflects the most recent fossil discoveries and scientific analyses, offering new sections on the locomotor adaptations of Miocene hominoids, the taxonomic distinctiveness of Homo heidelbergensis, the Burtele foot, Ardipithecus, and Neandertal genomics. Updated and expanded chapters offer fresh insights on topics such as the origins of bipedality and the anatomy and evolution of early mammals and primates. Written and illustrated by established leaders in the field, The Human Lineage: Provides the background needed to study human evolution, including dating techniques, mechanics of evolution, and primate adaptations Covers the major stages in human evolution with emphasis on important fossils and their implications Offers a balanced critical assessment of conflicting ideas about key events in human evolution Includes an extensive bibliography and appendices on biological nomenclature and craniometrics Covering the entire story of human evolution from its Precambrian beginnings to the emergence of modern humanity, The Human Lineage is indispensable reading for all advanced students of biological anthropology.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119086876

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9781119086871

Shout at the Day

By: Steven H. Smith

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Shout at the Day

By: Steven H. Smith

Compared to the big city, life is a little slower and calmer behind the East Texas Pine Curtain in the fictional community of Lone Star, located several miles south of New Summerfield, Texas. That is except when it comes to Texas High School Football and teenagers in love during the early 1970’s. Only the strongest, fastest and quickest survive on the grid iron. Only the most loyal survive true love in rural East Texas. Jason and Sara Jane are the two characters that bring it all together in the 1973-74 school year.

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1546272291

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Russia and the World Economy

Problems of Integration

By: Alan H Smith,Alan Smith

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Russia and the World Economy

Problems of Integration

By: Alan H Smith,Alan Smith

Russia and the World Economy analyses the major economic, historical and political obstacles to the successful integration of the Russian economy into the world economy. Alan Smith examines the role of Western assistance and advice in this process, and the potential implications of failure of reforms in Russia for global stability and international

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Routledge

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1134878893

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9781134878895

Introduction to Special Relativity

By: James H. Smith

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Introduction to Special Relativity

By: James H. Smith

By the year 1900, most of physics seemed to be encompassed in the two great theories of Newtonian mechanics and Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism. Unfortunately, there were inconsistencies between the two theories that seemed irreconcilable. Although many physicists struggled with the problem, it took the genius of Einstein to see that the inconsistencies were concerned not merely with mechanics and electromagnetism, but with our most elementary ideas of space and time. In the special theory of relativity, Einstein resolved these difficulties and profoundly altered our conception of the physical universe. Readers looking for a concise, well-written explanation of one of the most important theories in modern physics need search no further than this lucid undergraduate-level text. Replete with examples that make it especially suitable for self-study, the book assumes only a knowledge of algebra. Topics include classical relativity and the relativity postulate, time dilation, the twin paradox, momentum and energy, particles of zero mass, electric and magnetic fields and forces, and more.

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Courier Dover Publications

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0486808963

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9780486808963

Common Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of Southeastern Michigan - Bulletin No. 14

By: Alexander H. Smith

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Common Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of Southeastern Michigan - Bulletin No. 14

By: Alexander H. Smith

Common Edible And Poisonous Mushrooms Of South-eastern Michigan is a portable handy field guide containing a number of helpful pictures. Written by Alexander H. Smith who was an American mycologist known for his extensive contributions to the taxonomy and phylogeny of the higher fungi. This early work by Alexander H. Smith was first published in 1938 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction.

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Read Books Ltd

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147339340X

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Freethought and Freedom

The Essays of George H. Smith

By: George H. Smith

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Freethought and Freedom

The Essays of George H. Smith

By: George H. Smith

Liberty of conscience and freedom of thought are twin, core components of modern life in societies across the world. The ability to pursue one?s vision of the right and the good, coupled with liberty to pursue individual reason and enlightenment, helped produce so much of modern life that we may be apt to forget that libertarian philosophy was not dictated by Nature. Freethought and Freedom surveys the long history of religious and intellectual liberty, exploring their key ideas along the way.

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Cato Institute

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1944424385

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From Lived Experience to the Written Word

Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World

By: Pamela H. Smith

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From Lived Experience to the Written Word

Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World

By: Pamela H. Smith

This book focuses on how literate artisans began to write about their discoveries starting around 1400: in other words, it explores the origins of technical writing. Artisans and artists began to publish handbooks, guides, treatises, tip sheets, graphs and recipe books rather than simply pass along their knowledge in the workshop. And they tried to articulate what the new knowledge meant. The popularity of these texts coincided with the founding of a "new philosophy" that sought to investigate nature in a new way. Smith shows how this moment began in the unceasing trials of the craft workshop, and ended in the experimentation of the natural scientific laboratory. These epistemological developments have continued to the present day and still inform how we think about scientific knowledge"--

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University of Chicago Press

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0226818241

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9780226818245

New Salem (Bloody Bakersfield Book 3)

By: Christian H. Smith

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New Salem (Bloody Bakersfield Book 3)

By: Christian H. Smith

It’s Halloween weekend in the bloodiest little town in Illinois, and the good citizens of Bakersfield are already on edge. The memory of the sleepwalking sickness is still fresh in their minds—so when a photo from a botched home birth accidentally goes viral, the simmering tensions explode. The still-born infant has horns on her head. A mass panic witch hunt soon follows and claims innocent lives—even as real witches wreak massive havoc upon the town. Their malevolent tricks and malicious treats thrust Bakersfield once again into pure bloody chaos. Meanwhile failed author Mark Davies, confronts something just as terrifying. Two years after his divorce, he’s finally jumping back into the dating game. Worse, his beautiful and mysterious co-worker Ellie Tarwater is the queen of the mixed signals. She’s also a practicing witch. Mark is drawn into the strange world of the actual coven “Bell’s Angels,” devoted to the memory of the powerful witch Adaleen Bell, lynched by the citizens of Bakersfield during the Great Depression. Wicked Adaleen has been buried for more than eighty years, burning with desire to exact her bloody vengeance upon the town—and the coven is planning to raise her from the grave. This time, Bakersfield may not survive Halloween.

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Permuted Press

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1682610330

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Why Atheism?

By: George H. Smith

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Why Atheism?

By: George H. Smith

Written by a defender of reason and personal liberty, this book reviews the historical roots of nonbelief and defends reason as the most reliable method humans have for establishing truth and conducting one's life.

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Prometheus Books

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1615923942

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Reading the Enemy's Mind

Inside Star Gate

By: Paul H. Smith

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Reading the Enemy's Mind

Inside Star Gate

By: Paul H. Smith

If you thought The Manchurian Candidate was fiction or John Farris's The Fury, which featured a CIA mind-control program run amok, was the stuff of an overheated imagination, you were sorely mistaken. From behind the cloak of U.S. military secrecy comes the story of Star Gate, the project that for nearly a quarter of a century trained soldiers and civilian spies in extra-sensory perception (ESP). Their objective: To search out the secrets of America's cold war enemies using a skill called "remote viewing." Paul H. Smith, a U.S. Army Major, was one of these viewers. Assigned to the remote viewing unit in 1983 at a pivotal time in its history, Smith served for the rest of the decade, witnessing and taking part in many of the seminal national-security crises of the twentieth century. With the Star Gate secrets declassified and the program mothballed by the Central Intelligence Agency, the story can now be told of the ordinary soldiers drafted onto the battlefield of human consciousness. Using hundreds of interviews with the key players in the Star Gate program, and gathering thousands of pages of documents, Smith opens the records on this remarkable chapter in American military, scientific, and cultural history. He reveals many secrets about how remote viewing works and how it was used against enemy targets. Among these stories are the search for hostages in Lebanon; spying on Soviet directed energy weapons; investigating the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland; tracking foreign testing of weapons of mass destruction; combating narco-trafficking off America's coasts; aiding in the Iranian hostage situation; finding KGB moles in the CIA; pursuing Middle East terrorists; and more. Between the lines in the official records are revelations about unrelenting attempts from within and without to destroy the remote viewing program, and the efforts that kept Star Gate going for more than two decades in spite of its enemies. This is a story for the believer and the skeptic---a rare look at the innards of a top secret program and an eye-opening treatise on the power of the human mind to transcend the limitations of space and time. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Macmillan + ORM

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0312349602

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9780312349608

Conjuring Culture

Biblical Formations of Black America

By: Theophus H. Smith

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Conjuring Culture

Biblical Formations of Black America

By: Theophus H. Smith

This book provides a sophisticated new interdisciplinary interpretation of the formulation and evolution of African American religion and culture. Theophus Smith argues for the central importance of "conjure"--a magical means of transforming reality--in black spirituality and culture. Smith shows that the Bible, the sacred text of Western civilization, has in fact functioned as a magical formulary for African Americans. Going back to slave religion, and continuing in black folk practice and literature to the present day, the Bible has provided African Americans with ritual prescriptions for prophetically re-envisioning, and thereby transforming, their history and culture. In effect the Bible is a "conjure book" for prescribing cures and curses, and for invoking extraordinary and Divine powers to effect changes in the conditions of human existence--and to bring about justice and freedom. Biblical themes, symbols, and figures like Moses, the Exodus, the Promised Land, and the Suffering Servant, as deployed by African Americans, have crucially formed and reformed not only black culture, but American society as a whole. Smith examines not only the religious and political uses of conjure, but its influence on black aesthetics, in music, drama, folklore, and literature. The concept of conjure, he shows, is at the heart of an indigenous and still vital spirituality, with exciting implications for reformulating the next generation of black studies and black theology. Even more broadly, Smith proposes, "conjuring culture" can function as a new paradigm for understanding Western religious and cultural phenomena generally.

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Oxford University Press

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0198023197

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9780198023197

On Clausewitz

A Study of Military and Political Ideas

By: H. Smith

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On Clausewitz

A Study of Military and Political Ideas

By: H. Smith

Clausewitz is often quoted but more often misunderstood. On Clausewitz presents his central ideas about war and politics - such as war as an instrument of policy, the concept of Absolute War, friction and the fog of war - in a clear and systematic fashion. It also presents the man, his life and the military and intellectual environment in which he produced his great work On War . A final section considers Clausewitz's relevance to the rapidly changing nature of war today.

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Springer

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0230513670

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9780230513679

The Catholic Church and Democracy in Chile and Peru

By: Michael Fleet,Brian H. Smith

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The Catholic Church and Democracy in Chile and Peru

By: Michael Fleet,Brian H. Smith

Recent changes imposed by the Vatican may redefine the Chilean and Peruvian Church's involvement in politics and social issues. Fleet and Smith argue that the Vatican has been moving to restrict the Chilean and Peruvian Church's social and political activities. Fleet and Smith have gathered documentary evidence, conducted interviews with Catholic elites, and compiled surveys of lay Catholics in the region. The result will help chart the future of the Church and Chile and Peru.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268079838

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9780268079833

Spook

By: James H. Smith IV

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Spook

By: James H. Smith IV

Spook By: James H. Smith IV When Paulie Drake, a vibrant and generous, smart little girl, moves with her family to Sanhedrin, her father Vernon plans to build them a better life—literally—as an architect employed by one of the country’s freedmen’s towns looking to expand during a time of prosperity. Yes, life in Sanhedrin will surely be better for her and her family. But this notion of a better life shatters when Paulie finds herself the victim of a witch’s curse—one that threatens the peace and well-being of the town of Sanhedrin, and all the people in it. Can she break the curse, or will darkness consume her and the town?

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Dorrance Publishing

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1685373550

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9781685373559

Design Readiness for Landscape Architects

Drawing Exercises that Generate Ideas

By: Les H. Smith

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Design Readiness for Landscape Architects

Drawing Exercises that Generate Ideas

By: Les H. Smith

Demands on landscape architecture students’ time are many and varied – when is there a chance to just sketch, and is it worth dedicating your time to the pursuit of drawing? This book shows how in short bursts you can build up your design skills using quick, relaxed sketches, which form the basis for full projects and studio work. This book will provide you with your own image library – sources of inspiration, guidance, and short-cuts to future designs. A variety of paths leading to design discovery, based upon experimental sketching methods, are discussed, demonstrated, and then put into action with valuable exercises. These exercises focus your sketching, giving hints and tips on what to look for, how to capture the essence of the object or location, and how to become a natural in the art of speedy visual communication. Real-life examples of the author’s built-works as a landscape architect show how professionals use these techniques in their own design creations. Design Readiness for Landscape Architects presents enjoyable and thought-stirring essays and drawing-based exercises to help students grow more facile and agile in their service as architects of the land, whether using tablets, paints, or pens and pencils.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317401816

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9781317401810

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