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Ask a Science Teacher
250 Answers to Questions You've Always Had About How Everyday Stuff Really Works
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Fun and fascinating science is everywhere, and it’s a cinch to learn—just ask a science teacher!
We’ve all grown so used to living in a world filled with wonders that we sometimes forget to wonder about them: What creates the wind? Do fish sleep? Why do we blink? These are common phenomena,...
Another Science is Possible
A Manifesto for Slow Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Like fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good, and it clogs up the system. Efforts to tackle our most pressing issues have been stymied by conflict within the scientific community and mixed messages symptomatic of a rushed approach. What is more, scientific research is being...
Science Left Behind
Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
To listen to most pundits and political writers, evolution, stem cells, and climate change are the only scientific issues worth mentioning-and the only people who are anti-science are conservatives. Yet those on the left have numerous fallacies of their own. Aversion to clean energy programs, basic...
by Brian Rotman, Andrew Pickering
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 1997
Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory is a unique collection of essays dealing with the intersections between science and mathematics and the radical reconceptions of knowledge, language, proof, truth, and reality currently emerging from poststructuralist literary theory, constructivist history...
by Chris Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
Science has never been more crucial to deciding the political issues facing the country. Yet science and scientists have less influence with the federal government than at any time since Richard Nixon fired his science advisors. In the White House and Congress today, findings are reported in a politicized...
by Andrew J. Knight
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
For decades, experts and the public have been at odds over the nature and magnitude of risks and how they should be mitigated through policy. Experts argue that the fears of the public are irrational, and that public policy should be based on sound science. The public, on the other hand, is skeptical...
Air Con
The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming: Climategate Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
For the past twenty five years, climate change has dominated the news agenda and the political sector. As the media whip up a frenzy of public concern, politicians use that concern as a cover to seize more taxes, more power and much more control of the daily lives of the public.
But what...
by Michael C. Kalton, George E. Mobus
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
This pioneering text provides a comprehensive introduction to systems structure, function, and modeling as applied in all fields of science and engineering. Systems understanding is increasingly recognized as a key to a more holistic education and greater problem solving skills, and is also reflected...
by Martin Rees
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
One of our greatest scientific minds reflect on the role of science in the twenty-first century.
Science is often portrayed as an obscure, difficult discipline, governed by elite researchers and inaccessible to the general public. In this riveting, inspiring new book, preeminent astrophysicist...
Science and Insight
For Science Fiction Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Good stories are about people Good science fiction stories are about science and people. So how to you put good science into a story that is about people? Thats what this book is about. Its about looking for how science changes peoples lives, and how to make that change an interesting story about...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
The series Advances in Polymer Science presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in polymer and biopolymer science. It covers all areas of research in polymer and biopolymer science including chemistry, physical chemistry, physics, material science. The thematic volumes are addressed...
Design Science Research
A Method for Science and Technology Advancement
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Consolidating existing knowledge in Design Science, this book proposes a new research method to aid the exploration of design and problem solving within business, science and technology. It seeks to overcome a dichotomy that exists in the field between theory and practice to enable researches to find...
Managing Science
Developing your Research, Leadership and Management Skills
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Leadership and management are general skills that apply in most walks of life, but in the scientific domain they require some special characteristics. Science thrives on challenge, whether it is the technical challenge of trying to do something which has not been done before or challenging a widely...
The Element in the Room
Science-y Stuff Staring You in the Face
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
'Made me go Hydrogen Argon, Hydrogen Argon, Hydrogen Argon.' Rufus Hound
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