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Bridging the Communication Gap in Science and Technology
Lessons from India
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This first-of-a-kind volume provides a snapshot of existing science communication policy and practice in India across different S&T sectors, and offers solutions to building effective communication. It provides an understanding on how to avoid societal clashes in situations when science meets...
Science and the American Century
Readings from "Isis"
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The twentieth century was one of astonishing change in science, especially as pursued in the United States. Against a backdrop of dramatic political and economic shifts brought by world wars, intermittent depressions, sporadic and occasionally massive increases in funding, and expanding private patronage,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
This book explores the beneficial impact of pedagogically updated practices and approaches in the teaching of science concepts as well as elaborates on future challenges and emerging issues that address Science and Technology Education. By pointing out new research directions it informs educational...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann's contributions to chemistry are well known. Less well known, however, is that over a career that spans nearly fifty years, Hoffmann has thought and written extensively about a wide variety of other topics, such as chemistry's relationship to philosophy, literature, and...
Architecture
Cool Women Who Design Structures
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
What style building do you live in? Is it a skyscraper, a Victorian home, or a modern building? In Architecture: Cool Women Who Design Structures, readers ages 9 to 12 examine the stories of women who are today designing the houses, schools, museums, and public spaces where we spend our time.
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by John S. Rigden
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
“Rabi’s voice comes through vividly and forcefully. This is a work of great inspiration.” — **Aage Bohr**, Professor of Physics, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
“This excellent work is the first full biography of Professor Rabi, the scientist who epitomizes the passing...
Interdisciplinary Mentoring in Science
Strategies for Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Interdisciplinary Mentoring in Science: Strategies for Success is a practical and engaging resource on interdisciplinary mentoring in all fields of science. This book outlines what successful mentoring is, what it is not and how these important concepts relate to scientists today. Chapters include...
by Chandra Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Can You Save The World?
It’s so easy to be overwhelmed by everything that is wrong in the world. In 2010, there were 660,000 deaths from malaria. Dire predictions about climate change suggest that sea levels could rise enough to submerge both Los Angeles and London by 2100. Bees are dying,...
Soul Mind Body Science System
Grand Unification Theory and Practice for Healing, Rejuvenation, Longevity, and Immortality
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
What is a soul? Are miracles real? When the soul is healed, how does the body respond? Throughout history, there have been countless cases of miracle” healings, unexplainable by modern science. Dr. and Master Zhi Gang Sha has personally healed thousands of patients, usually in front of dozens of...
by Susumu Ikeda, Motoko Kotani
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
This book is the first volume of the SpringerBriefs in the Mathematics of Materials and provides a comprehensive guide to the interaction of mathematics with materials science. The anterior part of the book describes a selected history of materials science as well as the interaction between mathematics...
Science, Society and Sustainability
Education and Empowerment for an Uncertain World
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Recent work in science and technological studies has provided a clearer understanding of the way in which science functions in society and the interconnectedness among different strands of science, policy, economy and environment. It is well acknowledged that a different way of thinking is required...
Science Investigation
Student Views about Learning, Motivation and Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
This book reports the findings of an interpretive case study of the phenomenon of science investigation (science inquiry) from students’ perspective. Data were collected from a class of twenty-four Year 11 students in a middle size, co-educational New Zealand school, through Science Laboratory Environment...
The Nature of Science in Science Education
Rationales and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
This is the first book to blend a justification for the inclusion of the history and philosophy of science in science teaching with methods by which this vital content can be shared with a variety of learners. It contains a complete analysis of the variety of tools developed thus far to assess learning...
Water Policy Science and Politics
An Indian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Water Policy Science and Politics: An Indian Perspective presents the importance of politics and science working together in policymaking in the water sector. Many countries around the developed and developing world, including India, are experiencing major water scarcity problems that will undoubtedly...