Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers examines the discourse of seventeenth-century English physicians to demonstrate that physicians utilized cultural attitudes and beliefs to create medical theory. They meshed moralism with medicine to self-fashion an image of themselves as k…
« Combining compelling storytelling with insightful observation, the book invites readers to take a close look at ten high-profile killings committed by American women. The work exposes the forces that underlie the public's fascination with female killers and determines why thes…
Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 International Conference on Measurement, Instrumentation and Automation (ICMIA 2014), April 23-24, 2014, Shanghai, China. The 380 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Measurement Science, Methods and Techniques of M…
Ce livre nous fait découvrir la richesse des instruments scientifiques : instruments de navigation, cartes, globes célestes ou terrestres, instruments de cosmologie ... Il permet d'explorer de nombreux domaines appartenant pour des raisons diverses au patrimoine haut-normand. Il…
Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 International Conference on Advancements in Automation and Control (ICAAC 2014), April 11-12, 2014, Ramanathapuram, Tamilnadu, India. Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).The 138 papers are grouped as folllo…
Discusses how film has affected the culture of presidential politics by looking at fourteen different presidents, including Herbert Hoover, John F. Kennedy, and Barack Obama.
