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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date foundation for research in this field. In intellectual, material and social terms, the...
Big Science Transformed
Science, Politics and Organization in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
This book analyses the emergence of a transformed Big Science in Europe and the United States, using both historical and sociological perspectives. It shows how technology-intensive natural sciences grew to a prominent position in Western societies during the post-World War II era, and how their development...
by Edward McCafferty
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2010
This textbook is intended for a one-semester course in corrosion science at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level. The approach is that of a physical chemist or materials scientist, and the text is geared toward students of chemistry, materials science, and engineering. This textbook should...
by Martin Moeller, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
The progress in polymer science is revealed in the chapters of Polymer Science: A Comprehensive Reference. In Volume 1, this is reflected in the improved understanding of the properties of polymers in solution, in bulk and in confined situations such as in thin films. Volume 2 addresses new characterization...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
The series Advances in Polymer Science presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in polymer and biopolymer science. It covers all areas of research in polymer and biopolymer science including chemistry, physical chemistry, physics, material science. The thematic volumes are addressed...
Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science
New Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The question of the proper role of metaphysics in philosophy of science is both significant and contentious. The last few decades have seen considerable engagement with philosophical projects aptly described as "the metaphysics of science:" inquiries into natural laws and properties, natural kinds,...
Visions of Science
Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
The first half of the nineteenth century witnessed an extraordinary transformation in British political, literary, and intellectual life. There was widespread social unrest, and debates raged regarding education, the lives of the working class, and the new industrial, machine-governed world. At the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Geographic Information Science and Technology (GISc&T) has been at the forefront of education innovation in geography and allied sciences for two decades.
Teaching Geographic Information Science and Technology in Higher Education is an invaluable reference for educators and researchers...
Political Science Revitalized
Filling the Jigsaw Puzzle with Metatheory
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Political science has been described as a jigsaw puzzle with many specializations and subfields that do not talk to one another. This book offers a solution that will advance the field from mid-level theory to engage in cross-fertilization through metatheoretical paradigms. The book begins with a...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Twenty-five years ago, Gerald Holton's Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought introduced a wide audience to his ideas. Holton argued that from ancient times to the modern period, an astonishing feature of innovative scientific work was its ability to hold, simultaneously, deep and opposite commitments...
Contemporary Issues
Science, Africa and More
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Contemporary Issues, Science, Africa and More attends to very sensitive and contemporary issues pertaining to biotechnology such as human cloning and Genetic Engineering. It also comprises such areas as Affirmative Action, one's right to abortion, one's right to sexual choice(s), questions relating...
Advances in Geosciences
Volume 30: Planetary Science (PS) and Solar & Terrestrial Science (ST)
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
This invaluable volume set of Advances in Geosciences continues the excellent tradition of the Asia-Oceania scientific community in providing the most up-to-date research results on a wide range of geosciences and environmental science. The information is vital to the understanding of the effects...
Advances in Geosciences
Volume 28: Atmospheric Science (AS) & Ocean Science (OS)
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
This invaluable volume set of Advances in Geosciences continues the excellent tradition of the Asia-Oceania scientific community in providing the most up-to-date research results on a wide range of geosciences and environmental science. The information is vital to the understanding of the effects...
Science and Society
Understanding Scientific Methodology, Energy, Climate, and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
This undergraduate textbook educates non-science majors—our future policy makers—on how science works, the rules that underpin our existence, our impact on nature, and nature's impact on us. The book provides a concise, historically based, non-mathematical treatment of modern physics relevant...