Other Sciences category: 9579 books
Integrating Scientific Disciplines
Case Studies from the Life Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Interdisciplinary research has been a popular idea with many people in the last 20 years. Academic administrators have admonished their faculty to become more interdisciplinary. Students often request the chance to pursue an interdisciplinary degree. While the issue of managing interdisciplinary projects...
A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks
Sciences, Society and Technology Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This book analyzes scientificproblems within the history of physics, engineering, chemistry, astronomy and medicine, correlated with technological applications in the social context. When and how is tension between disciplines explicitly practised? What is the conceptual bridge between science researches...
A New Approach to Science
An exploration that fuses science and religion to perceive interpret and transform reality
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
This book enriches the four causes of Aristotelian thought—i.e., the material, formative, efficient and final causes (Duque, 1.992) – and a previously suggested fifth cause (Duque, 1.999), the Maturity Cause, using the same methodology discovered while working with the four causes.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2009
Nucleic acids are the fundamental building blocks of DNA and RNA and are found in virtually every living cell. Molecular biology is a branch of science that studies the physicochemical properties of molecules in a cell, including nucleic acids, proteins, and enzymes. Increased understanding of nucleic...
Dictionnaire des Idées & Notions en Sciences de la vie et de la Terre
(Les Dictionnaires d'Universalis)
Language: French
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Idées & Notions : joli titre pour une collection consacrée au savoir. Mais comment se relient les deux faces de ce diptyque ? Il est possible de le dire en peu de mots. Le volet « idées » traite des courants de pensée. Il passe en revue les théories, manifestes, écoles, doctrines. Mais...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
Advances in Wastewater Treatment presents a compendium of the key topics surrounding wastewater treatment, assembled by looking at the future technologies, and provides future perspectives in wastewater treatment and modelling. It covers the fundamentals and innovative wastewater treatment processes...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
This volume offers a meta-philosophical reflection on feminist philosophies of science. It emphasizes and discusses both the connections and differences between "traditional" philosophies of science and feminist philosophies of science. The collection systematically analyses feminist contributions...
Connecting Self-regulated Learning and Performance with Instruction Across High School Content Areas
Connecting Self-regulated Learning and Performance with Instruction Across High School Content Areas
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
This book shows how principles of self-regulated learning are being implemented in secondary classrooms. The 14 chapters are theoretically driven and supported by empirical research and address all common high school content areas. The book comprises 29 lesson plans in English language arts, natural...
by Vincent JULLIEN
Language: French
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: December 1, 2016
La fabuleuse et incroyable histoire des sciences
Pythagore, Aristote, Archimède, Ptolémée, Avicenne, Léonard de Vinci, Copernic, Galilée, Descartes, Pascal, Newton, Buffon, Lavoisier, Franklin, Darwin, Pasteur, Mendeleïev, Planck, Fleming, Einstein, Bohr, Watson... Qu'ont-ils imaginé, découvert,...
Quand Berlin pensait les peuples
Anthropologie, ethnologie et psychologie (1850-1890)
Language: French
Release Date: June 20, 2013
L’anthropologie, l’ethnologie et la psychologie des peuples connaissent un spectaculaire essor dans le Berlin de la seconde moitié du xixe siècle. L’émergence de ces disciplines s’inscrit dans le cadre de l’expansion coloniale et dans le paysage scientifique de la ville, où la référence...
Other Minds
The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In captivity, octopuses...
by Charles Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter...
Darwin and His Children
His Other Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
While much has been written about the life and works of Charles Darwin, the lives of his ten children remain largely unexamined. Most "Darwin books" consider his children as footnotes to the life of their famous father and close with the death of Charles Darwin. This is the only book that...
Nonplussed!
Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Math—the application of reasonable logic to reasonable assumptions—usually produces reasonable results. But sometimes math generates astonishing paradoxes—conclusions that seem completely unreasonable or just plain impossible but that are nevertheless demonstrably true. Did you know that a losing...