|9780822949107|Modern Histories of an Ancient Supercontinent|The ancient landmass of Gondwanaland began to break up two hundred million years ago into what would become present-day Africa, Antarctica, Australasia, South America, and South Asia—a prehuman “Global South” connected territorially across the southern hemisphere. Named by European geologists in the nineteenth century after the Gondwana region in central India, Gondwanaland has spawned rich and unexpected histories in which the supercontinent has been mythologized and reinvented in response to contemporary geopolitical circumstances. Bridging history, geography, and the geosciences, this volume analyzes the multidimensional interpretations of Gondwanaland in the modern world, tracing its diverse resonances…

|9780822968337|A Historical Approach to Understanding Einstein’s Theory|Albert Einstein transformed our understanding of the universe—but he didn’t do it alone. The Road to Relativity traces the full arc of the relativity revolution, from the overlooked protorelativity period (1880–1905) through Einstein’s 1905 breakthrough and the long road to acceptance into the 1930s. Dan Siegel explains the radical reconception of space, time, mass, and energy, along with the novel logic and structure that set Einstein’swork apart, bringing a clear understanding of relativity to readers without a background in physics. Retracing the steps taken by Einstein and his predecessors and followers, the author leads…

|9780822949183|A Historical Approach to Understanding Einstein’s Theory|Albert Einstein transformed our understanding of the universe—but he didn’t do it alone. The Road to Relativity traces the full arc of the relativity revolution, from the overlooked protorelativity period (1880–1905) through Einstein’s 1905 breakthrough and the long road to acceptance into the 1930s. Dan Siegel explains the radical reconception of space, time, mass, and energy, along with the novel logic and structure that set Einstein’swork apart, bringing a clear understanding of relativity to readers without a background in physics. Retracing the steps taken by Einstein and his predecessors and followers, the author leads…

|9780822949206|Mass Media, Natural History, and the Environment in Britain, 1900–1945|A Science for Everyday Life argues that mass media and communications technologies transformed the way British people thought about and experienced the natural world by democratizing knowledge about science and the environment. From progressive educational methods and new modes of museum display to microcinematographic film techniques, new broadcast technologies, and popular periodicals, the British public engaged with a wide variety of novel ways of approaching the natural world during this period, many of which emphasized the relevance of nature in modern everyday life. Drawing on a wide array of original archival…

|9780822968306|Mass Media, Natural History, and the Environment in Britain, 1900–1945|A Science for Everyday Life argues that mass media and communications technologies transformed the way British people thought about and experienced the natural world by democratizing knowledge about science and the environment. From progressive educational methods and new modes of museum display to microcinematographic film techniques, new broadcast technologies, and popular periodicals, the British public engaged with a wide variety of novel ways of approaching the natural world during this period, many of which emphasized the relevance of nature in modern everyday life. Drawing on a wide array of original archival…