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The Unity of Science and Economics
A New Foundation of Economic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This book presents a new economic theory developed from physical and biological principles. It explains how technology, social systems and economic values are intimately related to resources. Many people have recognized that mainstream (neoclassical) economic theories are not consistent with physical...
The Tao of Deception
Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
The history of China is a history of warfare. Wars have caused dynasties to collapse, fractured the thin façade of national unity, and brought decades of alien occupation. But throughout Chinese history, its warfare has been guided by principles different from those that governed Europe. Chinese...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Networks represents the frontier of research into how and why networks they form, how they influence behavior, how they help govern outcomes in an interactive world, and how they shape collective decision making, opinion formation, and diffusion dynamics. From...
Sneaky Book for Boys: How to perform sneaky magic tricks, escape a grasp, craft a compass, and more
How to perform sneaky magic tricks, escape a grasp, craft a compass, and more
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Thank you, Cy . . . for opening up the world of tinkering and creativity to a whole new generation . . . looking to get their hands dirty with new and exciting projects. --NPR's Ira Flatow, host of Science FridayIt's The Dangerous Book for Boys meets Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook via...
Irrationally Yours
On Missing Socks, Pickup Lines, and Other Existential Puzzles
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Three-time New York Times bestselling author Dan Ariely teams up with legendary The New Yorker cartoonist William Haefeli to present an expanded, illustrated collection of his immensely popularWall Street Journal advice column, “Ask Ariely”.
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely revolutionized...
The Value of the Moon
How to Explore, Live, and Prosper in Space Using the Moon's Resources
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
While the Moon was once thought to hold the key to space exploration, in recent decades, the U.S. has largely turned its sights toward Mars and other celestial bodies instead. In The Value of the Moon, lunar scientist Paul Spudis argues that the U.S. can and should return to the moon in order to remain...
How to Change Minds About Our Changing Climate
Let Science Do the Talking the Next Time Someone Tries to Tell You…The Climate Isn't Changing; Global Warming is Actually a Good Thing; Climate Change is Natural, Not Man-Made...and Other Arguments It's Time to End for Good
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
The book to spark action on the defining challenge of our time
In our post-truth world, there’s only one place to turn to if we want to live in reality: science. And the research on climate change is clear: It’s real, it threatens us all, and human activity is the primary cause. This essential...
by Stephen Burt
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
The Weather Observer's Handbook provides a comprehensive, practical and independent guide to all aspects of making weather observations. Automatic weather stations today form the mainstay of both amateur and professional weather observing networks around the world and yet – prior to this book –...
Science Left Behind
Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
To listen to most pundits and political writers, evolution, stem cells, and climate change are the only scientific issues worth mentioning-and the only people who are anti-science are conservatives. Yet those on the left have numerous fallacies of their own. Aversion to clean energy programs, basic...
by Steve Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Steve Fuller has a reputation for setting the terms of debate within science and technology studies. In his latest book, New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies he charts the debates likely to be of relevance in the coming years.
Should science and technology be treated as separate entities?
What...
by Steve Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
For centuries, science and religion have been portrayed as diametrically opposed. In this provocative new book, Steve Fuller examines the apparent clash between science and religion by focusing on the heated debates about evolution and intelligent design theory. In so doing, he claims that science...
Fictions in Science
Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2008
Science is popularly understood as being an ideal of impartial algorithmic objectivity that provides us with a realistic description of the world down to the last detail. The essays collected in this book—written by some of the leading experts in the field—challenge this popular image right at...
Making Natural Knowledge
Constructivism and the History of Science, with a new Preface
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Arguably the best available introduction to constructivism, a research paradigm that has dominated the history of science for the past forty years, Making Natural Knowledge reflects on the importance of this theory, tells the history of its rise to prominence, and traces its most important tensions.
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The Crisis of Progress
Science, Society, and Values
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book is about the concept of progress, its separate varieties, its current rejection, and how it may be reconsidered from a philosophical and scientific basis. John C. Caiazza's main emphasis is on how science is understood as it has a direct impact on social values as expressed by prominent...