Search Results - "Endeavour (New series)"

CO2, the greenhouse effect and global warming: from the pioneering work of Arrhenius and Callendar to today's Earth System Models by Anderson, Thomas R., Hawkins, Ed, Jones, Philip D.

“…•The climate system is complex but with a simple core, the laws of radiative transfer.•These laws are incorporated in Earth System Models (ESMs), with climate…”
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"On the ruins of seriality": The scientific journal and the nature of the scientific life by Daling, Dorien

“…Twenty-first-century discourse on science has been marked by narratives of crisis. Science is said to be experiencing crises of public trust, of peer review…”
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Editorial: Care and scholarship in times of war by Opitz, Donald L

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Government controls, non-government reactions: Private radio manufacturing and the development of amateur radio in China (1912–1949) by Zhang, Hang, Zhang, Hongguang, Nie, Fuling

“…As in most countries, the Republic of China’s development of amateur radio benefited from the appeal of the amateur radio medium as well as characteristics of…”
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From grandmothers to granddaughters: Generational agricultural knowledge among rural women in British Mandate Palestine by Morkus-Makhoul, Rawda

“…Palestinian peasant families had to adapt and survive under political and economic conditions dictated by European occupation and Zionist settler colonialism…”
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‘Lady Guardians’ of the Royal Society of Horticulture of Portugal, 1898–1906 by Duarte Rodrigues, Ana

“…In the second half of the nineteenth century gardening flourished in Portugal’s public sphere, having considerably expanded beyond the private realms of…”
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Educating gender: The economic and spiritual battles over land and Mapuche children in Araucanía, Chile, 1897–1922 by Rioja, Romina Akemi Green

“…This article examines the role of gender as an embodied site of political control and resistance within Mapuche-Capuchin relations in the early period of…”
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Horticulture as a profession for middle-class German and Austrian women, 1890–1940 by Richmond, Marsha L.

“…Women seeking to work in horticulture in the early twentieth century were the beneficiaries of developments put in motion by the late nineteenth-century…”
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Ferryman between two cultures: The calling of a historian of science by van Berkel, Klaas

“…•The career of Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis (1892–1965) as a mathematics teacher, historical scholar, and public intellectual was marked by the desire to…”
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Diogenes’ tub and the double bind of science and vocation in the late Middle Ages by Santing, Catrien

“…•The development of the university as an educational institution in the High Middle Ages chained the academic once and for all to a formal training that costs…”
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Physics and the quest for transcendence: A Durkheimian approach by van Lunteren, Frans H.

“…•Modern scientific communities resemble religious communities in their penchant for transcendence.•One indication for this penchant within physics is the…”
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Vocation as tragedy: Love and knowledge in the lives of the Mills, the Webers, and the Russells by Hoekstra, Hanneke

“…•The Mills, the Webers and the Russells were world-famous couples in the social sciences who used their marriages as living experiments for freedom and…”
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Virtues and vocation: An historical perspective on scientific integrity in the twenty-first century by Theunissen, Bert

“…•The ideas of Dutch chemist, Gerrit Jan Mulder (1802–1880), about the vocation and moral mission of the university professor can serve as a historical…”
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Science as a calling and as a profession: The wider setting in Weber’s scholarly endeavor by Cohen, H. Floris

“…•The background to ‘Science as a Vocation’ in Max Weber’s own work.•Weber’s rare yet highly perceptive statements on the origins of modern science•What made…”
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Vegetable women: Agricultural education, indigenous knowledge, and becoming settlers in early twentieth century Palestine by Teharlev Ben-Shachar, Erela, Novick, Tamar

“…This paper deals with agricultural training for Jewish women settlers in Palestine, and focuses on the first school established by the Jewish botanist and…”
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Gentlemen, husbandmen, and industrious wives: The role of gender in imagining Indian agriculture by Tavolacci, Laura

“…The Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India (AHSI), founded in 1820, remains the most important producer of English-language knowledge regarding the…”
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An evaluation of the xenobotic cognitive project: Towards Stage 1 of xenobotic cognition by Joy, Reshma

“…Xenobot, the world’s first biological robot, puts numerous philosophical riddles before us. One among them pertains to the cognitive status of these entities…”
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Editorial: Endeavouring innovation by Opitz, Donald L

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History in the pub: The historiography of J.D. Wetherspoon by Smith, Nathan

“…•J. D. Wetherspoon is a popular UK pub chain that has an active and deliberate engagement with history.•A prominent supporter of Brexit, it presents history…”
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Specialists with spirit: Re-enchanting the vocation of science by Shapin, Steven

“…•Adds historical depth to present-day sensibilities about the academic discipline called the history of science.•Offers a commentary on the collection,…”
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