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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tutorial and regulations regarding the curling sport.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Women complain of the want of liberty.these and many other grievances are enough to justify any class of persons in seeking for their removal.' -Lydia Becker Lydia Becker; A Cameo Life-Sketch, by Marion Holmes, offers a series of glimpses into Lydia Becker's life and struggles for the cause of universal suffrage in the United Kingdom. Though Becker died in 1890, thirty-eight years later, due in part to her work, the United Kingdom did grant suffrage rights to all women on equal standing with men. Becker's life was, initially, average for that of a middle-class woman living in Britain in the Victorian period. She was the oldest of 15 children and she was educated at home, which was typical for girls like her at the time. As she grew, she found opportunities for great work including collecting plant samples for Darwin and contributing to the scientific understanding of plants. Yet, her greatest work came in her pursuit for equality. The story of women voting in Great Britain has a tumultuous history. Until 1832, women were theoretically capable of voting in parliamentary elections if they met certain property ownership qualifications, which rarely occurred. After that period, women could vote in local elections if they met the same property qualifications - some particularly wealthy women were even able to cast multiple votes. What Becker and others wanted, however, was for women to be able to vote in every election with equal standing to men.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - You may know that the Quantum Theory revolutionized our perception of matter on the atomic scale, but did you know that its founder, Max Planck, himself didn't believe it This short read is Planck's address to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences after winning the Nobel prize. He displays how his Quantum Theory came into existence. It was not the result of a single lab experiment and a conclusion, but an inspection of overwhelming evidence from various works of immortal names like Bohr, Hertz, Ostwald, Einstein, and others. Planck unveils secrets in the scientific community, explains why his own theory was inconceivable to the classical physicist, and first mentions the famous dispute between Quantum Theory and Relativity in this eye-opening book. 'After some weeks of the most intense work of my life, clearness began to dawn upon me, and an unexpected view revealed itself in the distance.' 'The quantum would have to play a fundamental role in physics, heralding the advent of a new state of things, destined to transform completely our physical concepts.' ~Max Planck.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first work to introduce the concepts of Zionism.