Other Sciences category: 9579 books
Perspectives of Stem Cells
From tools for studying mechanisms of neuronal differentiation towards therapy
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Stem cells are fascinating cell types. They can replicate themselves forever while retaining the potential to generate progeny with speci?c functions. Because of these special properties, stem cells have been subjects of intensive investigation, from understanding basic mechanisms underlying tissue...
Creating Scientific Controversies
Uncertainty and Bias in Science and Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
For decades, cigarette companies helped to promote the impression that there was no scientific consensus concerning the safety of their product. The appearance of controversy, however, was misleading, designed to confuse the public and to protect industry interests. Created scientific controversies...
by Joyce Appleby
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
An engrossing history of the voyages of exploration that ignited curiosity about nature and gave birth to modern science.
When Columbus first returned to Spain from the Caribbean, he dazzled King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with exotic parrots, tropical flowers, and bits of gold. Inspired...
Measuring the New World
Enlightenment Science and South America
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission’s...
The Unfinished Mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti
An Edition and English Translation of His Dialogue on Mechanics, 1576
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Mechanics has long been recognized as the pivotal science in the decline of Aristotelian natural philosophy and the rise of the new, mathematical physics of the Scientific Revolution. Less well known, however, is the earlier transformation of mechanics from a practical art into a theoretical and mathematical...
Science in History
Volume 1: The Emergence of Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
J. D. Bernal's monumental work, Science in History, was the first full attempt to analyse the reciprocal relations of science and society throughout history, from the perfection of the flint hand-axe to the hydrogen bomb. In this remarkable study he illustrates the impetus given to (and the limitations...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
In the 1980s, philosophical, historical and social studies of science underwent a change which later evolved into a turn to practice. Analysts of science were asked to pay attention to scientific practices in meticulous detail and along multiple dimensions, including the material, social and psychological....
digitalSTS
A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences are grappling with how best to study virtual environments, use computational tools in their research, and engage audiences with their results. Classic work in science and technology studies (STS) has played a central role in...
by Mark Strikman, Kevork Spartalian, Milton W. Cole
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
Many remarkable medical technologies, diagnostic tools, and treatment methods have emerged as a result of modern physics discoveries in the last century—including X-rays, radiation treatment, laser surgery, high-resolution ultrasound scans, computerized tomography (CT) scans, and magnetic resonance...
by Wayne A. Wickelgren
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
If you've ever tried to solve mathematical problems without any idea how to go about it, this book is for you. It will improve your ability to solve all kinds of mathematical problems whether in mathematics, science, engineering, business, or purely recreational mathematical problems (puzzles, games,...
Hidden Dimensions
The Unification of Physics and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Bridging the gap between the world of science and the realm of the spiritual, B. Alan Wallace introduces a natural theory of human consciousness that has its roots in contemporary physics and Buddhism. Wallace's "special theory of ontological relativity" suggests that mental phenomena are...
by Philip Ball
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 13, 2016
¿Qué haría si pudiera volverse invisible? Seguramente, algo relacionado con el poder, con el dinero o con el sexo… o con las tres cosas. Un ensayo fascinante sobre la turbulenta relación del ser humano con lo invisible: desde los mitos griegos hasta las últimas tecnologías bélicas para no...
The Farmers' Manual and Complete Cotton Book
New methods of penmanship and business laws. A complete treatise on insects injurious to vegetation;
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2017
James Lawrence Nichols was a North-Western (now North Central) College professor, publisher, businessman and benefactor to the Nichols Library and North Central College. Naperville, Illinois
George Washington Carver (1860s – January 5, 1943), was an American botanistand inventor. The exact...
CLIMATE CHANGE CRAZINESS EXPOSED!
Twenty-One Climate Change Denials of Environmentalists
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
THIS IS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND CONSERVATIVE BOOK ON CLIMATE CHANGE IN PRINT. It contains all the Major Claims made by Proponents of Man-made Climate Change ... or Anthropogenic Global Warming. It contains all their major False Predictions on Climate and Oil for over a hundred years! It contains...