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Il libro tenta di spiegare storicamente come, quando e perché la cultura della scienza occidentale si sviluppò con la strana esclusione di metà del genere umano. Per la maggior parte della sua evoluzione la cultura della scienza non ha solo escluso le donne, ma è stata definita contro di esse e in loro assenza. Non sempre è stato così: per il primo millennio dell'era cristiana le donne godettero di ampia libertà intellettuale. Dunque, secondo ...

WESTERN CIVILIZATION: BEYOND BOUNDARIES, Volume I: To 1715, 7E, International Edition is distinguished for its wider definition of Europe that includes Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and European frontiers. Recognizing that factors outside the continent affected European history, the authors highlight Europe¿s place in the world throughout the narrative and in the primary source feature, ¿The Global Record.¿ The seventh edition has a streamlined...

Is the Internet the springboard which will take universities into a new age, or a threat to their existence? Will dotcom degrees create new opportunities for those previously excluded, or lead them into a digital dead-end? From UCLA to Columbia, digital technologies have brought about rapid and sweeping changes in the life of the university—changes which will have momentous effects in the decade ahead. In the first book-length analysis of the ...

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Cultural Writing. Labor History. In this ground-breaking study, newly available from Charles H. Kerr, scientific historian David F. Noble draws valuable parallels between our era of burgeoning technology and the technological advances of the industrial revolution. Proponents of technology during both eras, says Noble, argued that technological advancement was an essential, unstoppable force that would be inherently beneficial to humanity. Nobl...

Are religion and science really at war with one another? Not according to David F. Noble, who argues that the flourishing of both religion and technology today is nothing new but rather the continuation of a 1, 000-year-old Western tradition.The Religion of Technology demonstrates that modern man's enchantment with things technological was inspired by and grounded in religious expectations and the quest for transcendence and salvation. The two...