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by Jonathan Clatworthy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
For many decades, militant atheism and religious dogmatism have fed off of each other. Each intellectual argument and rhetorical flourish acts as encouragement and cause for further passion in the other.
Into this mix, author Jonathan Clatworthy offers a different alternative: “to reject...
Nonplussed!
Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Math—the application of reasonable logic to reasonable assumptions—usually produces reasonable results. But sometimes math generates astonishing paradoxes—conclusions that seem completely unreasonable or just plain impossible but that are nevertheless demonstrably true. Did you know that a losing...
Derrida after the End of Writing
Political Theology and New Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
What are we to make of Jacques Derrida’s famous claim that “every other is every other,” if the other could also be an object, a stone or an elementary particle? Derrida’s philosophy is relevant not just for human ethical language and animality, but to profound developments in the physical...
What? Where? When? Why?
Essays on Induction, Space and Time, Explanation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Only in fairly recent years has History and Philosophy of Science been recog nised - though not always under that name - as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour. Previously, in the Australasian region as elsewhere, those few individuals working within this broad area of inquiry found their base,...
The Deep Metaphysics of Space
An Alternative History and Ontology Beyond Substantivalism and Relationism
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This volume explores the inadequacies of the two standard conceptions of space or spacetime, substantivalism and relationism, and in the process, proposes a new historical interpretation of these physical theories. This book also examines and develops alternative ontological conceptions of space,...
by Joe Provenzano
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
This book is about how I have reconciled my belief in God with the findings of modern science and other issues. I realize that many others have written books about this and I have looked at many of their approaches and solutions. Most of these books base their arguments on repackaged, old ideas. A...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
The concept of temporal networks is an extension of complex networks as a modeling framework to include information on when interactions between nodes happen.
Many studies of the last decade examine how the static network structure affect dynamic systems on the network. In this traditional approach ...
by Leslie Tomory
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Beginning in 1580, a number of competing London companies sold water directly to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of thousands of homes. By the late eighteenth...
MoS2
Materials, Physics, and Devices
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This book reviews the structure and electronic, magnetic, and other properties of various MoS2 (Molybdenum disulfide) nanostructures, with coverage of synthesis, Valley polarization, spin physics, and other topics. MoS2 is an important, graphene-like layered nano-material that substantially extends...
by A.E. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
A.E. Williams presents his thoughts on a variety of subjects of interest to thinking persons.
Bringing together a lifetime of experience as a science fiction author, former aerospace materials engineer, cyber-security expert and irascible genius, Williams provides big picture views on our place...
Symmetry Discovered
Concepts and Applications in Nature and Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Symmetry provides an insight into the way nature works and is often used by scientists and technologists to help solve problems. Symmetry has numerous other applications as well — with more being discovered all the time in science, the arts and other fields of human endeavor.This classic work provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Biomarkers hold immense promise for the early detection of disease. Unlike other disorders like diabetes and heart disease where a limited number of biological markers are at hand that allow the physician to come up with a reliable diagnosis, there are currently no such markers available for affective...
Fluorescence Microscopy
Super-Resolution and other Novel Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Fluorescence Microscopy: Super-Resolution and other Novel Techniques delivers a comprehensive review of current advances in fluorescence microscopy methods as applied to biological and biomedical science. With contributions selected for clarity, utility, and reproducibility, the work provides practical...
Autophagy: Cancer, Other Pathologies, Inflammation, Immunity, Infection, and Aging
Volume 9: Human Diseases and Autophagosome
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Autophagy: Cancer, Other Pathologies, Inflammation, Immunity, Infection, and Aging: Volume 9: Human Diseases and Autophagosome offers a valuable guide to both cellular processes while helping researchers explore their potentially important connections.
Volume 9 emphasizes the role of autophagy...