Other Sciences category: 9579 books
Antipositivist Theories of the Sciences
Critical Rationalism, Critical Theory and Scientific Realism
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The sciences are too important to be left exclusively to scientists, and indeed they have not been. The structure of scientific knowledge, the role of the sciences in society, the appropriate social contexts for the pursuit of scientific inquiry, have long been matters for reflection and debate about...
The Application of Neural Networks in the Earth System Sciences
Neural Networks Emulations for Complex Multidimensional Mappings
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
This book brings together a representative set of Earth System Science (ESS) applications of the neural network (NN) technique. It examines a progression of atmospheric and oceanic problems, which, from the mathematical point of view, can be formulated as complex, multidimensional, and nonlinear mappings....
by Erling Norrby
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
The Nobel Prizes in natural sciences have developed to become a unique measure of scientific excellence. Using archival documents, which have been released (50 years secrecy) for scholarly work, the author expertly traces the strengths and weaknesses of the Nobel system as exemplified by individual...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Innovative Strategies for Teaching in the Plant Sciences focuses on innovative ways in which educators can enrich the plant science content being taught in universities and secondary schools. Drawing on contributions from scholars around the world, various methods of teaching plant science is demonstrated....
Counter-Movements in the Sciences
The Sociology of the Alternatives to Big Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Heretical thoughts in an orthodox series on sociology of the sciences? Devils and science between the covers of one book? Games with ambivalence to mask collective uncertainty? We anticipate similar future reactions from readers or reviewers when assessing the way in which this volume has been assembled....
Advance in Barley Sciences
Proceedings of 11th International Barley Genetics Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Advance in barley sciences presents the latest developments in barley sciences. It collects 39 papers submitted to the 11th International Barley Genetics Symposium, and covers all presentation sessions of the conference, i.e., barley development and economy, utilization
of germplasm, genetic resources...
by Daniel S. Wilks
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences, Third Edition, explains the latest statistical methods used to describe, analyze, test, and forecast atmospheric data. This revised and expanded text is intended to help students understand and communicate what their data sets have to say, or to make...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Why do scientists have to chase storms and other weather disturbances? It is because they want to learn where storms form the most and how destructive they can get. This way, they can create a system that can detect the intensity of storms and therefore reduce effects on property and populations. In this book, you're going to learn what the scientists have found out.
by Alan Perez
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This book is a theory of everything and it is based on a very simple concept. Everything from atoms to gravitation, psychology, economics and sociology to name a few are all easily explained in terms of equilibrium and disequilibrium. This book is about how re-examining the use of the word "force"...
by A. Reutlinger
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
This first full length treatment of interventionist theories of causation in the social sciences, the biological sciences and other higher-level sciences the presents original counter arguments to recent trends in the debate and serves as useful introduction to the subject.
La science, même pas peur
Un outil original : La Conclusion Locale Provisoire
Language: French
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Marima Hvass-Faivre d'Arcier explique ce qu’est la Conclusion Locale Provisoire et l’intérêt de l’enseignement des sciences aux jeunes enfantsRéalisé en collaboration avec l’association 1, 2, 3, sciences, cet ouvrage vise à exposer la méthode pédagogique de la Conclusion Locale Provisoire...
The Only Woman in the Room
Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
A bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard sciences, mathematics, engineering, and computer science
In 2005, when Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, asked why so few women, even today, achieve tenured positions in the hard sciences, Eileen Pollack set...
Lively Capital
Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Lively Capital is an urgent and important collection of essays addressing the reconfigured relations between the life sciences and the market. Exploring the ground where social and cultural anthropology intersect with science and technology studies, prominent scholars investigate the relationship...
Unified Science
The Vienna Circle Monograph Series originally edited by Otto Neurath, now in an English edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
a priori, and what is more, to a rejection based ultimately on a posteriori findings; in other words, the "pure" science of nature in Kant's sense of the term had proved to be, not only not pure, but even false. As for logic and mathematics, the decisive works of Frege, Russell, and White...