Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: william burns

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  • THE QUARREL BETWEEN POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY
    JOHN BURNS / MATTHEW FLAMM / WILLIAM GAHAN / STEPHANIE QUINN
    The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Perspectives Across the Humanities is an interdisciplinary study of the abiding quarrel to which poet-philosopher Plato referred centuries ago in the Republic. The book presents eight chapters by four humanities scholars that historically contextualize and cross-interpret aspects of the quarrel in question. The authors share the view t...

    $640.00

  • THE DEMOCRATS MUST LEAD
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS / WILLIAM J CROTTY / LOIS LOVELACE DUKE / LAWRENCE D LONGLEY
    All over the world, political parties are being born and political pluralism is being fostered. Ironically, here in the United States, the parties are blurring together ideologically, and the political process is suffering. One of the messages of this book is that a vital two-party system is essential to America’s political health. The last thing this country needs, the authors...

    $1,200.00

  • KNOWLEDGE AND POWER
    WILLIAM BURNS
    Knowledge and Power presents and explores science not as something specifically for scientists, but as an integral part of human civilization, and traces the development of science through different historical settings from the Middle Ages through to the Cold War. Five case studies are examined within this book: the creation of modern science by Muslims, Christians and Jews in ...

    $1,060.00

  • KNOWLEDGE AND POWER
    WILLIAM BURNS
    Knowledge and Power shows how science has developed in different historical settings by focusing on four episodes in the history of world science from the Middle Ages to the mid-twentieth century. The title of this book comes from a famous saying by the English Renaissance philosopher Francis Bacon: "Knowledge is Power." Through a combination of narrative and primary sources, a...

    $1,120.00

  • OPTICAL FIBER ROTATION SENSING
    BURNS, WILLIAM K. / LIAO, PAUL F. / KELLEY, PAUL
    Optical Fiber Rotation Sensing is the first book devoted to Interferometric Fiber Optic Gyros (IFOG). This book provides a complete overview of IFOGs, beginning with a historical review of IFOG development and including a fundamental exposition of basic principles, a discussion of devices and components, and concluding with industry reports on state-of-the-art activity. With se...

    $928.00