University Of Pittsburgh Press: 402 books

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The Life and Legend of James Watt

Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine

by David Philip Miller
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...
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The Making of Modern Anthrax, 1875-1920

Uniting Local, National and Global Histories of Disease

by James F. Stark
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...
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Shifting Standards

Experiments in Particle Physics in the Twentieth Century

by Allan Franklin
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...
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Sound of the Ax

Aphorisms and Poems by William Stafford

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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...
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by Wesley C. Salmon
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...
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Garbage In The Cities

Refuse Reform and the Environment

by Martin V. Melosi
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,...
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by Martin Willis
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...
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by Heather Douglas
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...
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Of Greater Dignity than Riches

Austerity and Housing Design in India

by Farhan Karim
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...
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Chaos, Violence, Dynasty

Politics and Islam in Central Asia

by Eric McGlinchey
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,...
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