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Philosophy of Science
Volume 2, From Explanation to Justification
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Originally published as Scientific Research, this pair of volumes constitutes a fundamental treatise on the strategy of science. Mario Bunge, one of the major figures of the century in the development of a scientific epistemology, describes and analyzes scientific philosophy, as well as discloses...
Signs of Life
A Semantic Critique of Evolutionary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
This book challenges the fundamental ideas in the Neo-Darwinian theory of evolution from the perspective of mathematics, physics, computing, game theory, and non-linear dynamics.
It argues that the key ideas underlying evolution—random mutation and natural selection—are based on notions...
RNA Methodologies
Laboratory Guide for Isolation and Characterization
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
RNA Methodologies, Fifth Edition continues its tradition of excellence in providing the most up-to-date ribonucleic acid lab techniques for seasoned scientists and graduate students alike. This edition features new material on the exploding field of microRNA as well as the methods for the profiling...
Extinction Studies
Stories of Time, Death, and Generations
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Extinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. The volume opens up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations...
Cultures without Culturalism
The Making of Scientific Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Cultural accounts of scientific ideas and practices have increasingly come to be welcomed as a corrective to previous—and still widely held—theories of scientific knowledge and practices as universal. The editors caution, however, against the temptation to overgeneralize the work of culture, and...
Evolution in Four Dimensions
Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
A pioneering proposal for a pluralistic extension of evolutionary theory, now updated to reflect the most recent research.
This new edition of the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions has been revised to reflect the spate of new discoveries in biology since the book was first published...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
The advances in genomic technologies, such as microarrays and high throughput sequencing,
have expanded the realm of possibilities for capturing data and analyzing it using automated
computer driven bioinformatics tools. With the completion of the sequencing of genomes of
human and several model organisms,...
Vanished Ocean
How Tethys Reshaped the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
This is a book about an ocean that vanished six million years ago - the ocean of Tethys. Named after a Greek sea nymph, there is a sense of mystery about such a vast, ancient ocean, of which all that remains now are a few little pools, like the Caspian Sea. There were other great oceans in the history...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
These official final program mission reports issued by the NASA Johnson Space Center cover missions in 1995: STS-63, STS-67, STS-71, STS-70, STS-69, STS-73, and STS-74. In these thorough reports, with information and specifics not available on NASA website mission descriptions, each orbiter system...
Glaciations in North and South America from the Miocene to the Last Glacial Maximum
Comparisons, Linkages and Uncertainties
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Improved dating methods have increased our ability to more precisely determine the timing and durations of glaciations. Utilizing glacial and loess deposits, we have compared glaciations that occurred in North and South America in order to determine if events are synchronous or not, to explore forcing...
Elegance in Science
The beauty of simplicity
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
The idea of elegance in science is not necessarily a familiar one, but it is an important one. The use of the term is perhaps most clear-cut in mathematics - the elegant proof - and this is where Ian Glynn begins his exploration. Scientists often share a sense of admiration and excitement on hearing...
A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts
Volume II: Space, Time and Motion
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This book provides a chronological introduction to the science of motion and rest based on the reading and analysis of significant portions of Galileo’s Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, Pascal’s Treatise on the Equilibrium of Fluids and the Weight of the Mass of Air, Newton’s Mathematical...
Darwin's Black Box
The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2001
The groundbreaking, "seminal work" (Time) on intelligent design that dares to ask, was Darwin wrong?
In 1996, Darwin's Black Box helped to launch the intelligent design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design, beyond Darwinian randomness. It sparked a national debate...
Rising Seas
Past, Present, Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The Earth's climate is already warming due to increased concentrations of human-produced greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and the specter of rising sea level is one of global warming's most far-reaching threats. Sea level will keep rising long after greenhouse gas emissions have ceased, because...