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The Embodied Mind
Cognitive Science and Human Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
A new edition of a classic work that originated the “embodied cognition” movement and was one of the first to link science and Buddhist practices.
This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the “embodied cognition” approach in cognitive science. It pioneered...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this NASA report presents selected speeches of former NASA Administrator Michael Griffin from 2005 through 2008. Contents:Part 1 - Exploration and Our Future * Leadership in Space * (California Space Authority, 12/2/05)...
Forensic Fraud
Evaluating Law Enforcement and Forensic Science Cultures in the Context of Examiner Misconduct
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Forensic Fraud is the culmination of 12 years of research by author Brent E. Turvey. A practicing forensic scientist since 1996, Turvey has rendered this first of its kind study into the widespread problem of forensic fraud in the United States. It defines the nature and scope of the problem, the...
Forensic Testimony
Science, Law and Expert Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Forensic Testimony: Science, Law and Expert Evidence—favored with an Honorable Mention in Law & Legal Studies at the Association of American Publishers' 2015 PROSE Awards—provides a clear and intuitive discussion of the legal presentation of expert testimony. The book delves into the effects,...
The Progressive Revolution in Politics and Political Science
Transforming the American Regime
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
We cannot understand our current political situation and the scholarship used to comprehend our politics without taking full account of the Progressive revolution of a century ago. This fundamental shift in studying the political world relegated the theory and practice of the Founders to an antiquated...
by Adediran Adejuwon
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Sociology - Gender Studies, grade: 1.0, University of Lagos, language: English, abstract: We are daily confronted by science and technology, be it in the home, office, workplace or farm (Ameh 1991). Science offers a lot of possibilities for experimentation...
by Jesse Bazzul
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
This book encapsulates a line of research that looks at how students are positioned as ethical actors/decision makers in biology education by science policy, curriculum, and classroom resources. Its basis comes from a textbook study that examined how biology texts work to constitute subjectivities...
Intriguing Science Fiction Short Stories and Tributes
Thrilling Adventures in Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Subtitle: "Thrilling Adventures in Fantasy" Among the subjects covered, is "time travel", "living prehistoric monsters of the deep", "Alfred Hitchcock -- a master of Sci-Fi as well as suspense", "Bigfoot -- a mystery finally solved?", and "UFOs -- a subject of reality and science fiction". With...
by Robert E. Keane
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A new era in wildland fuel sciences is now evolving in such a way that fire scientists and managers need a comprehensive understanding of fuels ecology and science to fully understand fire effects and behavior on diverse ecosystem and landscape characteristics. This is a reference book on wildland...
by George Sarton
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
"There are few scholars or scientists today who write as beautifully or as interestingly as [Sarton] . . . [his] book is magnificent." — Ashley Montagu, Saturday Review
Although science did not begin in ancient Greece (millennia of work in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and other regions preceded...
by Jack Werber
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This is a provocative, behind-the-scenes introduction to the vital and complex role science plays in United States politics. It includes the first formal statement from former President Clinton's former Science Advisor, John H. Gibbons; a fresh retrospective from D. Allan Bromley on science advice...
by J. Palmer Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The secular education system, from elementary school through college, has created a false premise that life evolved, the universe was created by a big bang, and that the Bible is nothing more than a myth. Anyone not accepting this false premise is portrayed as foolish or non-thinking. Why We Believe...
A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
Volume 1, From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Given the powerful and forthright title of Andrew Dickson White's classic study, it is best to make clear his own sense of the whole as given in the original 1896 edition: "My conviction is that science, though it has evidently conquered dogmatic theology based on biblical texts and ancient modes...
Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
The Innovation Economy and Society Nexus
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy presents new critical analysis about related developments in the field such as significantly changed concepts of peer review, merit review, the emergence of big data in the digital age, and the rise of an economy and society dominated by the internet...