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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Wastewater and Biosolids Management covers a wide range of current, new and emerging topics in wastewater and biosolids. The book addresses the theoretical and practical aspect of the reuse and looks to advance our knowledge on wastewater reuse and its application in agricultural production. The book...
Baffin Island
Field Research and High Arctic Adventure, 1961-67
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative account of several expeditions to Baffin Island during the “golden age” of federal research. In the 1960s, scientists from the Geographical Branch of Canada’s Department of...
The Darwinian Tradition in Context
Research Programs in Evolutionary Biology
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
The main goal of this book is to put the Darwinian tradition in context by raising questions such as: How should it be defined? Did it interact with other research programs? Were there any research programs that developed largely independently of the Darwinian tradition? Accordingly, the contributing...
by Erdal Yiğit
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
The SpringerBriefs on Atmospheric and Space Sciences in two volumes presents a concise and interdisciplinary introduction to the basic theory, observation & modeling of atmospheric and ionospheric coupling processes on Earth. The goal is to contribute toward bridging the gap between meteorology,...
Genetics and Philosophy
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
In the past century, nearly all of the biological sciences have been directly affected by discoveries and developments in genetics, a fast-evolving subject with important theoretical dimensions. In this rich and accessible book, Paul Griffiths and Karola Stotz show how the concept of the gene has...
Worldviews
An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Winner of the 2018 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title!
PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITIONS
"This is a brilliantly clear introduction (and indeed reframing) of the history and philosophy of science in terms of worldviews and their elements…. In addition, the book is incredibly...
by Erdal Yiğit
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
The SpringerBriefs on Atmospheric and Space Sciences in two volumes presents a concise and interdisciplinary introduction to the basic theory, observation & modeling of atmospheric and ionospheric coupling processes on Earth. The goal is to contribute toward bridging the gap between meteorology,...
Rational Action
The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940-1960
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
The evolution of a set of fields—including operations research and systems analysis—intended to improve policymaking and explore the nature of rational decision-making.
During World War II, the Allied military forces faced severe problems integrating equipment, tactics, and logistics into...
Reading Galileo
Scribal Technologies and the Two New Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In 1638, Galileo was over seventy years old, blind, and confined to house arrest outside of Florence. With the help of friends and family, he managed to complete and smuggle to the Netherlands a manuscript that became his final published work, Two New Sciences. Treating diverse subjects that became...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
In this volume, a distinguished set of international scholars examine the nature of collaboration between life partners in the sciences, with particular attention to the ways in which personal and professional dynamics can foster or inhibit scientific practice. Breaking from traditional gender analyses...
Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories
Interim Results from the U.S. Country Studies Program
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
International concern for the continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions, and the potentially damaging consequences of resultant global climate change, led to the signing of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change by 155 nations at the Earth Summit in June 1992. The Convention...
by Zongxing Li
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
This thesis confirms many changes, including sharp temperature rise, interannual variability of precipitation, extreme climate events and significant decreases of sunshine duration and wind speed in southwestern China, and systemically explores the action mechanism between large-scale atmospheric...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
What are individuals? How can they be identified? These are crucial questions for philosophers and scientists alike. Criteria of individuality seem to differ markedly between metaphysics and the empirical sciences - and this might well explain why no work has hitherto attempted to relate the contributions...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book contains a selection of original conference papers covering all major fields in the philosophy of science, that have been organized into themes. The first section of this volume begins with the formal philosophy of science, moves on to idealization, representation and explanation and then...