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Purposeful Engagement in Science Learning
The Project-based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Purposeful Engagement in Science Learning provides a blueprint of how teachers and their students can engage in science learning that mirrors the way science is practiced. It is written for K–16 science educators as well as those in the informal science education sector. The framework for this book...
Presidential Science Advisors
Perspectives and Reflections on Science, Policy and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
For the past 50 years a select group of scientists has provided advice to the US President, mostly out of the public eye, on issues ranging from the deployment of weapons to the launching of rockets to the moon to the use of stem cells to cure disease. The role of the presidential science adviser...
Red Alert
Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
In Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema, editors Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia argue that Marxist philosophy, science fiction, and film share important connections concerning imaginings of the future. Contributors look at themes across a wide variety of films, including many international...
Life on Display
Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums’ shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain chronicle profound changes in these exhibitions—and the institutions...
by Justin L. Bauer, Yoo Jung Kim, Andrew H. Zureick
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. . . . We must understand and circumvent this dangerous discouragement. No one can predict where the future leaders of science will come from.”—Carl...
Nuclear Planetary Science
Planetary Science Based on Gamma-Ray, Neutron and X-Ray Spectroscopy
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Nuclear planetary science has come to play an important role in our understanding of the origin and evolution of the planetary bodies in our solar system. A newly established branch of planetary science, its study aids in humankind's exploration of the present states of the structures of various planetary...
Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines
Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
A cultural history of science and science fiction
Using key canonical science fiction narratives, Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines examines the intersection of the literary and scientific cultures of the nineteenth century. In this original and refreshing approach to the study of early science...
Mind, Body, World
Foundations of Cognitive Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Cognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that a number of disciplines, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting. Perhaps owing to the field’s immediate origins in cybernetics, as well as to the foundational assumption that cognition...
Internet Links for Science Education
Student - Scientist Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Science teachers come in many varieties, but they share a common goal: to nurture learners. Over the past decade, we have learned a great deal about how to do this effectively. Of all this new (and some not so new) knowledge, what strikes me as most important is that learning occurs best within a...
Science Teaching
The Contribution of History and Philosophy of Science, 20th Anniversary Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Science Teaching explains how history and philosophy of science contributes to the resolution of persistent theoretical, curricular, and pedagogical issues in science education. It shows why it is essential for science teachers to know and appreciate the history and philosophy of the subject they...
Food Hygiene, Agriculture and Animal Science
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Food Hygiene, Agriculture and Animal Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
The Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Food Hygiene, Agriculture and Animal Science provides an all-encompassing review of each contributor's study in topics such as food hygiene, agriculture, animal science, animal histology and embryology, and livestock production systems.
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The Road to Scientific Success
Inspiring Life Stories of Prominent Researchers(Volume 2)
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
This is Volume 2 of the book series The Road to Scientific Success: Inspiring Life Stories of Prominent Researchers. Authoritative scientists describe their life experiences in relation to how success was attained, how their careers were developed, how their research was steered, how priorities were...
by V&S Publishers' Editorial Board
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
We see application of science everywhere. Whether we are aware or not, science application plays a big part in our daily lives. While you are reading this page, an important element of optical science is in use. Electricity, for example, is one of the most important science discoveries ever made. As...
by Jonathan B. Imber
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The findings of scientific research often provide an important baseline to the formation of public policy. However, effective communication to the larger public about what scientists do and know is a problem inherent to all democratic societies. It is the prerogative of democratic societies to determine...