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Multicultural Science Education
Preparing Teachers for Equity and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This book offers valuable guidance for science teacher educators looking for ways to facilitate preservice and inservice teachers’ pedagogy relative to teaching students from underrepresented and underserved populations in the science classroom. It also provides solutions that will better equip...
Medical Science in the 21st Century
Sunset or New Dawn?
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
This book sets out the unique and paradoxical position biomedical science finds itself in, in the early 21st (superscript st) century. Science has never been stronger in shaping the world we live in; progress in medical science during most of the last century has helped to transform health care and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Science Education: A Global Perspective is ‘global’ both in content and authorship. Its 17 chapters by an assemblage of seasoned and knowledgeable science educators from many parts of the world seek to bring to the fore current developments in science education and their implications. The book...
Citizen Science
Public Participation in Environmental Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Citizen science enlists members of the public to make and record useful observations, such as counting birds in their backyards, watching for the first budding leaf in spring, or measuring local snowfall. The large numbers of volunteers who participate in projects such as Project FeederWatch or Project...
by Susan Wise Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
A riveting road map to the development of modern scientific thought.
In the tradition of her perennial bestseller The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer delivers an accessible, entertaining, and illuminating springboard into the scientific education you never had. Far too often, public discussion...
by Ben Bova
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Ben Bova, best-selling author and six-time Hugo Award winner for Best Editor explains step by step all the elements you need to write profesionally selling science fiction. Bova was editor of both Analog and Omni magazine, two of the best-ever markets for short fiction, as well as a best-selling novelist...
by Mike Hockney
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
“The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer.” – Terence McKennaAt school, you are taught “science”. You are not taught the history of science, so you have no idea how science came to be the institution it now is. Above all, you have no idea that science is a...
Science and Society
Studies in the Sociology of Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"If a science has to be supported by fraudulent means, let it perish. " With these words of Kepler, Agassi plunges into the actual troubles and glories of science (321). The SOciology of science is no foreign intruder upon scientific knowledge in these essays, for we see clearly how Agassi...
The Science Communication Challenge
Truth and Disagreement in Democratic Knowledge Societies
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Current knowledge societies tend to be based on an understanding of science as an all-purpose problem-solver and include the expansion of scientific methods and frameworks of thought to ever more areas of life. Such development is less pragmatic and down-to- earth than it may appear at first glance....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
Thirty-three vital papers, studies, reports, and proposals from 1996 through September 2012 are included in this unique compilation with over a 1000 pages of detailed material, providing extraordinary details about planning for robotic Mars exploration - focusing on rovers, landers, orbiters, and...
Quickfic Anthology 3
Quickfic from Digital Fiction, #3
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
Quickfic Anthology 3 from Digital Fiction
Shorter-Short Speculative Fiction
42 more speculative fiction shorter-short stories in horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Top fiction authors present stories that grab you in 3,499 words or less. Includes the following terrific stories:
A...
by Tom Godwin
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Tom Godwin published his first of approximately thirty sf stories, "The Gulf Between", in Astounding in 1953, and soon after wrote his most famous and compelling tale, "The Cold Equations" (August 1954 Astounding Science Fiction), in which a girl stowaway on a precisely payloaded...
The Meaning of Science
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
A philosopher of science examines the biggest ethical and moral issues in science today, and explains why they matter for all of us--scientist and layman alike
Science has produced explanations for everything from the mechanisms of insect navigation to the formation of black holes and the workings...
Science on the Air
Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Mr. Wizard’s World. Bill Nye the Science Guy. NPR’s Science Friday. These popular television and radio programs broadcast science into the homes of millions of viewers and listeners. But these modern series owe much of their success to the pioneering efforts of early-twentieth-century science...