University Of Pittsburgh Press imprint: 402 books
The Life and Legend of James Watt
Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
***The Life and Legend of James Watt***offers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer. Stripping away layers of legend built over generations, David Philip Miller finds behind the heroic engineer a conflicted man often diffident about his achievements...
The Making of Modern Anthrax, 1875-1920
Uniting Local, National and Global Histories of Disease
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
From the mid-nineteenth century onwards a number of previously unknown conditions were recorded in both animals and humans. Known by a variety of names, and found in diverse locations, by the end of the century these diseases were united under the banner of "anthrax." Stark offers a fresh...
Shifting Standards
Experiments in Particle Physics in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
In Shifting Standards, Allan Franklin provides an overview of notable experiments in particle physics. Using papers published in Physical Review, the journal of the American Physical Society, as his basis, Franklin details the experiments themselves, their data collection, the events witnessed, and...
Sound of the Ax
Aphorisms and Poems by William Stafford
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Sound of the Ax brings together for the first time over four hundred aphorisms and twenty-six aphoristic poems by one of America’s most essential poets of the twentieth century. Many readers are familiar with the trenchant nature of William Stafford’s poems, with lines such as “Justice will...
by Wesley C. Salmon
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
As Aristotle stated, scientific explanation is based on deductive argument--yet, Wesley C. Salmon points out, not all deductive arguments are qualified explanations. The validity of the explanation must itself be examined. Four Decades of Scientific Explanation provides a comprehensive account of...
Garbage In The Cities
Refuse Reform and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2004
As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a thousand tons a day in New York City alone-that clogged streets and overwhelmed the senses of residents. In his landmark study, Garbage in the Cities,...
Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920
Ocular Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Winner of the British Society for Literature and Science Annual Prize, 2011
Winner of the Cultural Studies in English Prize, 2012
This book explores the role of vision and the culture of observation in Victorian and modernist ways of seeing. Willis charts the characterization of vision...
by Heather Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
The role of science in policymaking has gained unprecedented stature in the United States, raising questions about the place of science and scientific expertise in the democratic process. Some scientists have been given considerable epistemic authority in shaping policy on issues of great moral and...
Of Greater Dignity than Riches
Austerity and Housing Design in India
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Extreme poverty, which intensified in India during colonial rule, peaked in the 1920s—after decades of imperialist exploitation, famine, and disease—a time when architects, engineers, and city authorities proposed a new type of housing for India’s urban poor and industrial workers. As Farhan...
Chaos, Violence, Dynasty
Politics and Islam in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
In the post-Soviet era, democracy has made little progress in Central Asia. In Chaos, Violence, Dynasty, Eric McGlinchey presents a compelling comparative study of the divergent political courses taken by Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan in the wake of Soviet rule. McGlinchey examines economics,...