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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Today's climate variability already has a large impact on water supply and protection. Millions of people are affected every year by droughts and floods. Future climate change is likely to make things worse. Many people within the water sector are aware that climate change is expected to have serious...
by Gregory N. Derry
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2002
How does a scientist go about solving problems? How do scientific discoveries happen? Why are cold fusion and parapsychology different from mainstream science? What is a scientific worldview? In this lively and wide-ranging book, Gregory Derry talks about these and other questions as he introduces...
Cultures without Culturalism
The Making of Scientific Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Cultural accounts of scientific ideas and practices have increasingly come to be welcomed as a corrective to previous—and still widely held—theories of scientific knowledge and practices as universal. The editors caution, however, against the temptation to overgeneralize the work of culture, and...
Evolution in Four Dimensions
Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
A pioneering proposal for a pluralistic extension of evolutionary theory, now updated to reflect the most recent research.
This new edition of the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions has been revised to reflect the spate of new discoveries in biology since the book was first published...
Vanished Ocean
How Tethys Reshaped the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
This is a book about an ocean that vanished six million years ago - the ocean of Tethys. Named after a Greek sea nymph, there is a sense of mystery about such a vast, ancient ocean, of which all that remains now are a few little pools, like the Caspian Sea. There were other great oceans in the history...
The Just War Tradition
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Politicians, pundits, and scholars have cited the principles of “just war” to defend military actions from Iraq to Afghanistan to Libya. Other politicians, pundits, and scholars have cited just war principles to condemn those same military interventions. How can the same tradition lead to such...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Following a long-term international collaboration between leaders in cosmology and the philosophy of science, this volume addresses foundational questions at the limit of science across these disciplines, questions raised by observational and theoretical progress in modern cosmology. Space missions...
Why the Wind Blows (E-book Edition)
A History of Weather and Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
From the co-author of Why Buildings Fall Down and Why the Earth Quakes (Norton) comes another fascinating look at practical science. This time it's the science of weather.
Like Levy's other books, this is a page-turner. He recounts fascinating true stories of exploration, each affected by weather and...
Glaciations in North and South America from the Miocene to the Last Glacial Maximum
Comparisons, Linkages and Uncertainties
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Improved dating methods have increased our ability to more precisely determine the timing and durations of glaciations. Utilizing glacial and loess deposits, we have compared glaciations that occurred in North and South America in order to determine if events are synchronous or not, to explore forcing...
by Angela N. H. Creager, Sigrid Schmalzer, Matthew Shindell
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.
The Cold War period saw a dramatic expansion of state-funded science and technology research. Government and military patronage shaped Cold War technoscientific...
Darwin's Black Box
The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2001
The groundbreaking, "seminal work" (Time) on intelligent design that dares to ask, was Darwin wrong?
In 1996, Darwin's Black Box helped to launch the intelligent design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design, beyond Darwinian randomness. It sparked a national debate...
by John Dvorak
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
They have been thought of as harbingers of evil as well as a sign of the divine. Eclipses—one of the rarest and most stunning celestial events we can witness here on Earth—have shaped the course of human history and thought since humans first turned their eyes to the sky.
What do Virginia...
Imaging and Imagining the Fetus
The Development of Obstetric Ultrasound
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
To its proponents, the ultrasound scanner is a safe, reliable, and indispensable aid to diagnosis. Its detractors, on the other hand, argue that its development and use are driven by the technological enthusiasms of doctors and engineers (and the commercial interests of manufacturers) and not by concern...
Rising Seas
Past, Present, Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The Earth's climate is already warming due to increased concentrations of human-produced greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and the specter of rising sea level is one of global warming's most far-reaching threats. Sea level will keep rising long after greenhouse gas emissions have ceased, because...