Other Sciences category: 9579 books
World Chaos
The Responsibility of Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
This book, first published 1931, examines the attitudes surrounding the natural sciences at the time of writing, and contends that an unreflective belief in the power of science, and especially in humanity’s capacity to turn such knowledge to noble ends, could lead to catastrophic results for human...
Angular Momentum in Geophysical Turbulence
Continuum Spatial Averaging Method
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Turbulence theory is one of the most intriguing parts of fluid mechanics and many outstanding scientists have tried to apply their knowledge to the development of the theory and to offer useful recommendations for solution of some practical problems. In this monograph the author attempts to integrate...
Risk
A Study of Its Origins, History and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Over a period of several centuries, the academic study of risk has evolved as a distinct body of thought, which continues to influence conceptual developments in fields such as economics, management, politics and sociology. However, few scholarly works have given a chronological account of cultural...
The Genealogical Science
The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
The Genealogical Science analyzes the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing field of genetic history. A biological discipline that relies on genetic data in order to reconstruct the geographic origins of contemporary populations—their histories of migration and genealogical...
by Michael F. Modest
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2003
The most comprehensive and detailed treatment of thermal radiation heat transfer available for graduate students, as well as senior undergraduate students, practicing engineers and physicists is enhanced by an excellent writing style with nice historical highlights and a clear and consistent notation...
Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 7
Education, Professional Ethics and Public Recognition of Engineering Geology
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes and deals with education and the professional ethics, which scientists, regulators and practitioners of engineering geology inevitably have to face through the purposes, methods, limitations and findings of their works. This volume presents contributions...
Survival under Uncertainty
An Introduction to Probability Models of Social Structure and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This book introduces and studies a number of stochastic models of subsistence, communication, social evolution and political transition that will allow the reader to grasp the role of uncertainty as a fundamental property of our irreversible world. At the same time, it aims to bring about a more...
Three Decades of Progress in Control Sciences
Dedicated to Chris Byrnes and Anders Lindquist
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
In this edited collection we commemorate the 60th birthday of Prof. Christopher Byrnes and the retirement of Prof. Anders Lindquist from the Chair of Optimization and Systems Theory at KTH. These papers were presented in part at a 2009 workshop in KTH, Stockholm, honoring the lifetime contributions of Professors Byrnes and Lindquist in various fields of applied mathematics.
Spiegelzee
de zeespiegelgeschiedenis van de mens
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Wie zich zorgen maakt over een stijgende zeespiegel, zo schrijft Salomon Kroonenberg in ‘Spiegelzee’, vergeet dat de mensheid zoiets al eerder heeft meegemaakt. Zo’n 120.000 jaar geleden stond de zeespiegel zes meter hoger dan nu, en lag Amersfoort aan zee. In het koudste deel van de laatste...
Gene Therapy of Cancer
Translational Approaches from Preclinical Studies to Clinical Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2002
The Second Edition of Gene Therapy of Cancer provides crucial updates on the basic science and ongoing research in this field, examining the state of the art technology in gene therapy and its therapeutic applications to the treatment of cancer. The clinical chapters are improved to include new areas...
Facing Gaia
Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world.
The situation...
Of Apes and Ancestors
Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
Tell me, sir, is it on your grandmother's or your grandfather's side that you are descended from an ape?
In June of 1860, some of Britain's most influential scientific and religious authorities gathered in Oxford to hear a heated debate on the merits of Charles Darwin's recently published Origin...
Methodological Variance
Essays in Epistemological Ontology and the Methodology of Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For a philosopher with an abiding interest in the nature of objective knowledge systems in science, what could be more important than trying to think in terms of those very subjects of such knowledge to which men like Galileo, Newton, Max Planck, Einstein and others devoted their entire lifetimes?...
by Christopher Hookway
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the work of Willard van Orman Quine, the most important and influential American philosopher of the post-war period. An understanding of Quine's work is essential for anyone who wishes to follow contemporary debates in the philosophy of...