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Conservation for the Anthropocene Ocean
Interdisciplinary Science in Support of Nature and People
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Conservation for the Anthropocene Ocean: Interdisciplinary Science in Support of Nature and People emphasizes strategies to better connect the practice of marine conservation with the needs and priorities of a growing global human population. It conceptualizes nature and people as part of shared ecosystems,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Traditional explorations of war look through the lens of history and military science, focusing on big events, big battles, and big generals. By contrast, The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspective*** ***views war through the lens of the social sciences, looking at the causes, processes...
Golf Science
Optimum Performance from Tee to Green
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Golf is perhaps the most complicated simple game ever invented. Golfing greats like Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods make the sport look easy, but anyone who has ever picked up a club knows how truly frustrating golf can be. The success of each shot depends on a diverse range of factors, from the club...
by Erica Vidal
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Advances in Cephalopod Science: Biology, Ecology, Cultivation and Fisheries—volume 67 in the Advances in Marine Biology series—addresses major themes of growing research interest in the field of cephalopod research. The book is composed of four chapters incorporating the latest advances in biology,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
For a while now, political science as a discipline has been big enough (in terms of the number of academics) and analytically mature enough to justify reflections on and reviews of its achievements. In fact, there is no lack of general handbooks, dictionaries and 'state of the art' assessments (as...
Groovy Science
Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
In his 1969 book The Making of a Counterculture, Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science “as if from a place inhabited by plague,” and even seeking “subversion of the scientific worldview” itself. Roszak’s view has come to be our own: when we think of the...
Trends and Issues in Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Science
Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Science (ICIBSoS 2016), 5-6 November 2016, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Trends and Issues in Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Science contains papers presented at the 5th International Congress on Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Science 2016 (ICIBSoS 2016), held 5-6 November 2016 in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. The 24 papers cover every discipline in all fields of...
Enjoy Writing Your Science Thesis or Dissertation!
A Step-by-Step Guide to Planning and Writing a Thesis or Dissertation for Undergraduate and Graduate Science Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
This book is a step by step illustrated guide to planning and writing dissertations and theses for undergraduate and graduate science students. Topics covered include advice on writing each section of a thesis as well as general discussions on collecting and organizing references, keeping records,...
The Genealogical Science
The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
The Genealogical Science analyzes the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing field of genetic history. A biological discipline that relies on genetic data in order to reconstruct the geographic origins of contemporary populations—their histories of migration and genealogical...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
This book contains peer reviewed papers accepted for presentation at the National Conference on Advances in Environmental Science & Technology. Topics include environmental regulations, groundwater remediation technologies, waste to energy, climate change, economics, environmental justice,...
Data Science for Transport
A Self-Study Guide with Computer Exercises
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
The quantity, diversity and availability of transport data is increasing rapidly, requiring new skills in the management and interrogation of data and databases. Recent years have seen a new wave of 'big data', 'Data Science', and 'smart cities' changing the world, with the Harvard Business Review...
Structures in Science
Heuristic Patterns Based on Cognitive Structures An Advanced Textbook in Neo-Classical Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Although there is an abundance of highly specialized monographs, learned collections and general introductions to the philosophy of science, only a few 25 years. synthetic monographs and advanced textbooks have appeared in the last The philosophy of science seems to have lost its self-confidence....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
This volume sheds light on still unexplored issues and raises new questions in the main areas addressed by the philosophy of science. Bringing together selected papers from three main events, the book presents the most advanced scientific results in the field and suggests innovative lines for further...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
The Springer Handbook of Bio-/Neuro-Informatics is the first published book in one volume that explains together the basics and the state-of-the-art of two major science disciplines in their interaction and mutual relationship, namely: information sciences, bioinformatics and neuroinformatics. Bioinformatics...