Follows Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland as they travel together in South America and then go their separate ways, in the process illustrating two very different ways of understanding humanity's place in the natural world.
"Follows Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland as they travel together in South America and then go their separate ways, in the process illustrating two very different ways of understanding humanity's place in the natural world"--
"Follows Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland as they travel together in South America and then go their separate ways, in the process illustrating two very different ways of understanding humanity's place in the natural world"--
Ask most people to imagine a philosopher and they probably think of someone like Socrates--absent-minded, perhaps, but with a sharp intellect and a thirst for the truth. A woman juggling car pools and housework is not the first image that springs to mind, but women have taken hu…
Singing in the fire: stories of women in philosophy
by Jaggar, Alison M., Nussbaum, Martha C., (Martha Craven), Nye, Andrea, Schutte, Ofelia, Bartky, Sandra Lee, Brennan, Teresa, Card, Claudia, Held, Virginia, Lewis, Stephanie, Narayan, Uma, Shrader-Frechette, K. S., (Kristin Sharon), Warren, Karen
Ask most people to imagine a philosopher and they probably think of someone like Socrates--absent-minded, perhaps, but with a sharp intellect and a thirst for the truth. A woman juggling car pools and housework is not the first image that springs to mind, but women have taken hu…
