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Daughters of Alchemy
Meredith Ray shows that women were at the vanguard of empirical culture during the Scientific Revolution. They experimented with medicine and alchemy at home and in court, debated cosmological discoveries in salons and academies, and in their writings used their knowledge of natural philosophy to ar... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine)
This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women’s place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of the fascinating correspondence between Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a natural philosopher and author of the epic poem, Scanderb... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Machiavelli: Political, Historical, and Literary Writings (Haney Foundation Series #13)
Throughout his life, Niccolò Machiavelli was deeply invested in Florentine culture and politics. More than any other priority, his overriding central concerns, informed by his understanding of his city's history, were the present and future strength and independence of Florence. This volume highligh... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Intersectionality and Higher Education: Identity and Inequality on College Campuses
by Terry-Ann Jones • Elizabeth M. Lee • Sarah M. Ovink • W. Carson Byrd • Derrick R. Brooms • Rachelle J. Brunn-Bevel • Antron D Mahoney • Marcela G. Cuellar • R. Nicole Johnson-Ahorlu • Deborah M. Warnock • Kristen A. Clayton • Victor E. Ray • Tonya Maynard • Denise Goerisch • Bedelia N. Richards • Melanie Jones Gast • Ervin Maliq Matthew • Orkideh Mohajeri • Fernando Rodriguez • Finn Schneider • Ophelie Rowe-Allen • Meredith Smith • Tonisha B. Lane • Annemarie Vaccaro • Ezekiel Kimball • Megan Nanney • Susan V. IversonThough colleges and universities are arguably paying more attention to diversity and inclusion than ever before, to what extent do their efforts result in more socially just campuses? Intersectionality and Higher Education examines how race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity, 4th edition
by Barack Obama • Stephen B. Thomas • Rinku Sen • John P. Kretzmann • Rachel Morello-Frosch • Meredith Minkler • Nina Wallerstein • Barbara A. Israel • Eugenia Eng • Edith A. Parker • Tom Wolff • Celina Su • Manuel Pastor • Jason Corburn • Whitney Johnson • Ronald Labonté • Mark S. Homan • Christine Mitchell • Michelle C. Kegler • Patricia Wakimoto • Lionel J. Beaulieu • Adam B. Becker • Lynn Blanchard • Anne Bluethenthal • Frances Dunn Butterfross • Lisa Cacari Stone • Caricia Catalani • Charlotte Yu-Ting Chang • Roxana Chen • Wayland X. Coleman • Chris M. Coombe • Lori Dorfman • Nancy Epstein • Jessica Estrada • Jennifer Falbe • Stephanie A. Farquhar • Prisila Gonzalez • Joseph Griffin • Leslie Grover • Lorraine Gutiérrez • Trevor Hancock • Susana Hennesey Laverty • Reva Hines • Lili Farhang • Solange Gould • Cheryl A. Hyde • Anthony B. Iton • Josh Kirschenbaum • Blishda Lacet • Pam Tau Lee • Edith A. Lewis • Jennifer Lifshay • Laura Linnan • Shaw San Liu • Shaddai Martinez Cuestas • Marty Martinson • John L. McKnight • Mary Anne Morgan • Angela Ni • Susan Racine Passmore • Amber Akemi Piatt • Cheri A. Pies • Clara Pinsky • R. David Rebanal • Kathleen M. Roe • Zachary Rowe • Alicia L. Salvatore • Shannon Sanchez-Youngman • Amy J. Shulz • Lee Staples • Makani Themba • Maria Elena Torre • Evan Vandommelen-Gonzalez • Dierde Visser • Kirsten Wysen • Marisa Ruiz Asari • Nickie Bazell • Derek M Griffith • Heather CameThe fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- bu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022