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Present at the Future
From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Veteran NPR® science correspondent and award-winning radio and TV journalist Ira Flatow's enthusiasm for all things science has made him a beloved on-air journalist. For more than thirty-five years, Flatow has interviewed the top scientists and researchers on many NPR and PBS programs, including...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2011
This ebook presents a magnificent compilation of authoritative Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) documents providing an excellent, up-to-date overview of the research work of this famed agency, along with information on doing business with DARPA. The Defense Advanced Research Projects...
AsapSCIENCE
Answers to the World's Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors, and Unexplained Phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
The instant New York Times bestselling book of entertaining, irreverent, and totally accessible illustrated answers to the scientific “questions you had no idea were bugging you all your life” (Fast Company), from the creators of the wildly popular YouTube channel AsapSCIENCE.
Why do we...
by Locus Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing fields, with book reviews, author interviews, news, and listings.
Locus Issue #632, September 2013, contains interviews with Nalo Hopkinson and Jack Skillingstead; a new column titled “Libraries and E-Books” by...
Advances in Geosciences
Volume 29: Hydrological Science (HS)
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
This invaluable volume set of Advances in Geosciences continues the excellent tradition of the Asia-Oceania scientific community in providing the most up-to-date research results on a wide range of geosciences and environmental science. The information is vital to the understanding of the effects...
Communicating Biological Sciences
Ethical and Metaphorical Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Recent scandals in the biosciences have highlighted the perils of communicating science leading many observers to ask questions about the pressures on scientists and the media to hype-up claims of scientific breakthroughs. Journalists, science writers and scientists themselves have to report complex...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
This book addresses current societal debates around the globe. Written by respected researchers from France, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Portugal and Italy, the chapters are based on presentations given at a conference organized by the European Academy of Sciences, in partnership with the Royal...
Financing Life Science Innovation
Venture Capital, Corporate Governance and Commercialization
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Financing Life Science Innovation reviews the literature on venture capital, corporate governance, and life science venturing and presents a study of the Swedish life science industry and the venture capital investors being active in financially and managerially supporting life science start-up firms.
On Fact and Fraud
Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Fraud in science is not as easy to identify as one might think. When accusations of scientific misconduct occur, truth can often be elusive, and the cause of a scientist's ethical misstep isn't always clear. On Fact and Fraud looks at actual cases in which fraud was committed or alleged, explaining...
Service Science, Management, and Engineering:
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The Intelligent Systems Series comprises titles that present state of the art knowledge and the latest advances in intelligent systems. Its scope includes theoretical studies, design methods, and real-world implementations and applications.
Service Science, Management, and Engineering presents...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
by Douglas Jamison, Stephen Waite
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Over the past decade, software companies have increasingly monopolized the flow of venture capital, starving support for scientific research and its transformative discoveries. New medicines, cheaper and faster personal computers, and other life-changing developments all stem from investment in science....
Science and the Akashic Field
An Integral Theory of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2007
Presents the unifying world-concept long sought by scientists, mystics, and sages: an Integral Theory of Everything
• Explains how modern science has rediscovered the Akashic Field of perennial philosophy
• New edition updates ongoing scientific studies, presents new research inspired...
by Massimo Pigliucci
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Recent polls suggest that fewer than 40 percent of Americans believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution, despite it being one of science’s best-established findings. Parents still refuse to vaccinate their children for fear it causes autism, though this link has been consistently disproved. And about...