Browsing OU - Dissertations by Author "Taylor, Kenneth L.,"
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Architects of the self: Social scientists and the construction of the individual in postwar America.
Eddy, Mark Alan. (2004)American social science experienced unprecedented institutional growth during and after the Second World War due in part to the increased need for techniques in human resource management. As a result, scientific representations ... -
An astronomer beyond the observatory: Harlow Shapley as prophet of science.
Palmeri, Joann. (2000)By 1918 American astronomer Harlow Shapley (1885--1972) had completed the work that established his reputation as a scientist and secured his place as one of the most important contributors to the development of twentieth-century ... -
Theories of the Earth from Descartes to Cuvier: Natural order and historical contingency in a contested textual tradition.
Magruder, Kerry V. (2000)Parts I and II together suggest that the language of biblical idiom fostered the expression of historical sensibilities in the tradition, although such idiom was never an essential characteristic of Theories of the Earth. ...