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Context and situation always matter in both human and animal lives. Unique insights can be gleaned from conducting scientific studies from within human communities and animal habitats. Inside Science is a novel treatment of this distinctive mode of fieldwork. Robert E. Kohler illuminates these resident practices through close analyses of classic studies: of Trobriand Islanders, Chicago hobos, corner boys in Boston's North End, Jane Goodall's c...

Sonnets and Poems is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these b...

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Robert Kohler shows exactly how entrepreneurial academic scientists became intimate "partners in science" with the officers of the large foundations created by John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, and in so doing tells a fascinating story of how the modern system of grant-getting and grant-giving evolved, and how this funding process has changed the way laboratory scientists make their careers and do their work. "This book is a rich histo...

What is it like to do field biology in a world that exalts experiments and laboratories? How have field biologists assimilated laboratory values and practices, and crafted an exact, quantitative science without losing their naturalist souls? In "Landscapes and Labscapes, " Robert E. Kohler explores the people, places, and practices of field biology in the United States from the 1890s to the 1950s. He takes readers into the fields and forests w...

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List of Illustrations Preface 1: The Nature of Experimental Life 2: Crossing the Threshold 3: Constructing Drosophila 4: The Fly People 5: The Drosophila Exchange Network 6: Improvisations 7: Reconstructing Drosophila: Developmental Genetics 8: From Laboratory to Field: Evolutionary Genetics Appendix Abbreviations Bibliography Index

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This penetrating case study of institution building and entrepreneurship in science shows how a minor medical specialty evolved into a large and powerful academic discipline.