Figuring (Record no. 36153)
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| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
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| International Standard Book Number | 9781786897244 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781524748135 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Call number | 305.435 PO FI |
| MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Authors | Popova, Maria |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Figuring |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Maria Popova |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New York : |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, |
| Date | c2019. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | x, 578 p. ; |
| Size | 25 cm. |
| GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-552) and index. |
| SUMMARY | |
| Summary | "Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries--beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalysed the environmental movement. Stretching between these figures is a cast of artists, writers, and scientists--mostly women, mostly queer--whose public contributions have risen out of their unclassifiable and often heartbreaking private relationships to change the way we understand, experience, and appreciate the universe. Among them are the astronomer Maria Mitchell, who paved the way for women in science; the sculptor Harriet Hosmer, who did the same in art; the journalist and literary critic Margaret Fuller, who sparked the feminist movement; and the poet Emily Dickinson. Emanating from these lives are larger questions about the measure of a good life and what it means to leave a lasting mark of betterment on an imperfect world: Are achievement and acclaim enough for happiness? Is a genius? Is love? Weaving through the narrative is a set of peripheral figures--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman--and a tapestry of themes spanning music, feminism, the history of science, the rise and decline of religion, and how the intersection of astronomy, poetry, and Transcendentalist philosophy fomented the environmental movement."--Dust jacket. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Heading | Women in science |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Heading | Women and the arts |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Heading | Technological innovations |
| Form | History |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Heading | Technology and civilization |
| ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://uowd.box.com/s/mg2569xm4dpkwl9i9azs5heb88zt0fh5 |
| Public note | Location Map |
| MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| -- | 30063 |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| -- | 30064 |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| -- | 30065 |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| -- | 30066 |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| -- | 1496 |
| Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Permanent location | Current location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type | Public note |
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| University of Wollongong in Dubai | University of Wollongong in Dubai | Main Collection | 2019-07-29 | Virgin Megastore | 305.435 PO FI | T0062646 | 2019-06-25 | 2019-06-25 | REGULAR | Sep.2019 |