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Science and Citizens
Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences - such as biotechnologies in health, agricultural and environmental arenas - pose a range of pressing challenges to questions of citizenship. This volume brings together for the first time authors from diverse experiences and analytical traditions,...
Regional Science Matters
Studies Dedicated to Walter Isard
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This volume is a collection of fresh and novel contributions to regional science. They commemorate the scientific inheritance of the founding father of regional science, the late Walter Isard. All papers are written by well-known scholars in the field and serve to highlight the great importance...
by Jerome Ravetz
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Science is the great intellectual adventure, but can also be an instrument of profit, power, and privilege. Wrongly used, it might yet make the twenty-first century our last. To make sense of this, we need to let go of old ideas and assumptions.This No-Nonsense Guide to Science introduces a new way...
Political Science Research Methods
Exploring America at a Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
The principal goal of this textbook is to provide clear and elementary descriptions of the major statistical techniques used in political and social science research. The book is built on two basic assumptions. First, that it is possible to explain social science statistics in a simple and straightforward...
Building Bridges at the Science-Stakeholder Interface
Towards Knowledge Exchange in Earth System Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
This book covers the approaches, applied methods and central participatory processes at the science-stakeholder interfaces embedded in the development of the "Earth System Knowledge Platform (ESKP)". The latter is an initiative of the German Helmholtz Association, synthesizing the...
by Jeffrey S. Saltz, Jeffrey M. Stanton
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
An Introduction to Data Science by Jeffrey S. Saltz and Jeffrey M. Stanton is an easy-to-read, gentle introduction for people with a wide range of backgrounds into the world of data science. Needing no prior coding experience or a deep understanding of statistics, this book uses the R programming...
Treknology
The Science of Star Trek from Tricorders to Warp Drive
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
**Be amazed by 25 iconic pieces of tech from the *****Star Trek *****canon and the science behind how they function with **Treknology. You will not believe how close we are to achieving some of them today.
The name Star Trek conjures images of faster-than-light spacecraft, holographic...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
In 1915, with Europe in flames, Americans looked anxiously over their shoulders, wondering whether they, too, would be pulled into the "Great War" raging across an ever-narrower Atlantic Ocean. Conversations that year between Thomas Alva Edison and Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Electron Spin Resonance in Food Science covers, in detail, the ESR identification of the irradiation history of food products and beverages to investigate changes that occur during storage, with an aim of improving hygienic quality and extending shelf-life with minimal tempering in nutritional profile.
The...
Escape from the Ivory Tower
A Guide to Making Your Science Matter
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Mscientists and researchers aren’t prepared to talk to the press or to policymakers—or to deal with backlash. Many researchers have the horror stories to prove it. What’s clear, according to Nancy Baron, is that scientists, journalists and public policymakers come from differcultures. They follow...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
This volume presents current thoughts, research, and findings that were presented at a summit focusing on energy as a cross-cutting concept in education, involving scientists, science education researchers and science educators from across the world. The chapters cover four key questions: what should...
Competing with the Soviets
Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military engagement. The Cold War placed two opposite conceptions of the good society before the uncommitted world and history itself,...
Assessing Model-Based Reasoning using Evidence- Centered Design
A Suite of Research-Based Design Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
This Springer Brief provides theory, practical guidance, and support tools to help designers create complex, valid assessment tasks for hard-to-measure, yet crucial, science education standards. Understanding, exploring, and interacting with the world through models characterizes science in all its...
Ethics and Science
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend...