Other Sciences category: 9579 books
by Michael F. Modest
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
The third edition of Radiative Heat Transfer describes the basic physics of radiation heat transfer. The book provides models, methodologies, and calculations essential in solving research problems in a variety of industries, including solar and nuclear energy, nanotechnology, biomedical, and environmental....
by Tony Eggleton
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
A Short Introduction to Climate Change provides a clear, balanced and well documented account of one of the most important issues of our time. It covers developments in climate science over the past 250 years and shows that recent climate change is more than the result of natural variability. It explains...
Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads
The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
The natural history museum is a place where the line between "high" and "low" culture effectively vanishes--where our awe of nature, our taste for the bizarre, and our thirst for knowledge all blend happily together. But as Stephen Asma shows in Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads, there is more going...
The Physics of Transfigured Light
The Imaginal Realm and the Hermetic Foundations of Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2016
Reveals the Hermetic underpinnings of modern scientific theories
• Offers a full reconsideration of the history of science from Newton to the present day as well as a Platonic-Hermetic perspective on modern technology
• Examines Hermetic resonances among the ideas of Gurdjieff, Robert...
by Henri Poincaré
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
"Still a joy to read." — Mathematical Gazette
This classic by the famous mathematician defines the basic methodology and psychology of scientific discovery, particularly regarding mathematics and mathematical physics. Drawing on examples from many fields, it explains how scientists analyze...
The Language of Plants
Science, Philosophy, Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The eighteenth-century naturalist Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) argued that plants are animate, living beings and attributed them sensation, movement, and a certain degree of mental activity, emphasizing the continuity between humankind and plant existence. Two centuries later, the understanding...
Atoms Under the Floorboards
The Surprising Science Hidden in Your Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Using the modern home as a springboard, Atoms under the Floorboards introduces the reader tothe fascinating and surprising scientific explanations behind a variety of common (and often entertainingly mundane) household phenomena, from gurgling drains and squeaky floorboards to rubbery custard and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The death of Imre Lakatos on February 2, 1974 was a personal and philosophical loss to the worldwide circle of his friends, colleagues and students. This volume reflects the range of his interests in mathematics, logic, politics and especially in the history and methodology of the sciences. Indeed,...
Learned Patriots
Debating Science, State, and Society in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
The nineteenth century was, for many societies, a period of coming to grips with the growing, and seemingly unstoppable, domination of the world by the “Great Powers” of Europe. The Ottoman Empire was no exception: Ottomans from all walks of life—elite and non-elite, Muslim and non-Muslim—debated...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The tension between art and science may be traced back to the Greeks. What became "natural philosophy" and later "science" has traditionally been posed as a fundamental alternative to poetry and art. It is a theme that has commanded central attention in Western thought, as it captures...
Survival of the Nicest
How Altruism Made Us Human and Why It Pays to Get Along
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014
This revelatory tour de force by an acclaimed and internationally bestselling science writer upends our understanding of “survival of the fittest”—and invites us all to think and act more altruistically
The phrase “survival of the fittest”...
The Evolution of Moral Progress
A Biocultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
In The Evolution of Moral Progress, Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell resurrect the project of explaining moral progress. They avoid the errors of earlier attempts by drawing on a wide range of disciplines including moral and political philosophy, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, anthropology,...
Lady Luck
The Theory of Probability
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
"Should I take my umbrella?" "Should I buy insurance?" "Which horse should I bet on?" Every day ― in business, in love affairs, in forecasting the weather or the stock market questions arise which cannot be answered by a simple "yes" or "no." Many of these questions involve probability. Probabilistic...
by John Harris
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2007
Decisive biotechnological interventions in the lottery of human life--to enhance our bodies and brains and perhaps irreversibly change our genetic makeup--have been widely rejected as unethical and undesirable and have often met with extreme hostility. But in Enhancing Evolution leading bioethicist...