Science category: 476400 books
Science Communication
A Practical Guide for Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Science communication is a rapidly expanding area and meaningful engagement between scientists and the public requires effective communication.
Designed to help the novice scientist get started with science communication, this unique guide begins with a short history of science communication...
3D Printed Science Projects
Ideas for your classroom, science fair or home
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Create 3D printable models that can help students from kindergarten through grad school learn math, physics, botany, chemistry, engineering and more.
This book shows parents and teachers how to use the models inside as starting points for 3D printable explorations. Students can start with...
by Eric Winsberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
There continues to be a vigorous public debate in our society about the status of climate science. Much of the skepticism voiced in this debate suffers from a lack of understanding of how the science works - in particular the complex interdisciplinary scientific modeling activities such as those which...
Science and Religion
A Historical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Since its publication in 2002, Science and Religion has proven to be a widely admired survey of the complex relationship of Western religious traditions to science from the beginning of the Christian era to the late twentieth century. In the second edition, eleven new essays expand the scope and enhance...
by John Gribbin
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
“A real scientist writing science-fiction with real science what more could one ask? John Gribbin is a visionary, and one heck of a good storyteller.”
Robert J. Sawyer
Hugo Award-winning author of QUANTUM NIGHT
John Gribbin, widely regarded as one of the best science writers of the 20th...
Made Modern
Science and Technology in Canadian History
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Science and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of people living in modern times.
Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History explores the complex interconnections between science, technology,...
Machinery, Materials Science and Engineering Applications
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Machinery, Materials Science and Engineering Applications (MMSE 2016), Wuhan, China, October 26-29 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This conference proceeding contains papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Machinery, Materials Science and Engineering Applications (MMSE 2016), held 28-30 October, 2016 in Wuhan, China.
The conference proceeding contributions cover a large number of topics, both theoretical...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Scientific governance in Britain, 1914-79 examines the connected histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in twentieth-century Britain. During the middle portion of that century, British science grew dramatically in scale, reach and value. These changes were due in no small part...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication presents several historic air power technology and military aeronautics: Where We Stand was written in 1945 and issued as an AAF Report in 1946. Science, the Key to Air Supremacy, originally published...
Contemplative Science
Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
Science has long treated religion as a set of personal beliefs that have little to do with a rational understanding of the mind and the universe. However, B. Alan Wallace, a respected Buddhist scholar, proposes that the contemplative methodologies of Buddhism and of Western science are capable of...
Science and the State
From the Scientific Revolution to World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Was it coincidence that the modern state and modern science arose at the same time? This overview of the relations of science and state from the Scientific Revolution to World War II explores this issue, synthesising a range of approaches from history and political theory. John Gascoigne argues the...
Islamic Perspectives on Science and Technology
Selected Conference Papers
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
This book presents 25 selected papers from the International Conference on “Developing Synergies between Islam & Science and Technology for Mankind’s Benefit” held at the International Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, in October 2014. The papers cover a broad...
by George Saliba
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
The rise and fall of the Islamic scientific tradition, and the relationship of Islamic science to European science during the Renaissance.
The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing...
by Evandro Agazzi
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The first part of this book is of an epistemological nature and develops an original theory of scientific objectivity, understood in a weak sense (as intersubjective agreement among the specialists) and a strong sense (as having precise concrete referents). In both cases it relies upon the adoption...