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The Value of Science
Essential Writings of Henri Poincare
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
More than any other writer of the twentieth century, Henri Poincaré brought the elegant, but often complicated, ideas about science and mathematics to the general reader. A genius who throughout his life solved complex mathematical calculations in his head, and a writer gifted with an inimitable...
by J Alan Erwine
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Mundane science fiction does not imply boring science fiction. Quite the contrary, mundane science fiction simply means fiction based on plausible science. How can sf be interesting without aliens and interstellar travel, you might ask…well, Mundanities answers that question with five fantastic...
New Trends in Earth-Science Outreach and Engagement
The Nature of Communication
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Perhaps just as perplexing as the biggest issues at the core of Earth science is the nature of communicating about nature itself. New Trends in Earth-Science Outreach and Engagement: The Nature of Communication examines the processes of communication necessary in bridging the chasm between climate...
The Fevers of Reason
New and Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
"America's most interesting and important essayist." —Eric Kandel, Nobel Prize–winning author of The Age of Insight
"[Gerald Weissmann] bridges the space between science and the humanities, and particularly between medicine and the muses, with wit, erudition, and, most important,...
River Futures
An Integrative Scientific Approach to River Repair
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Across much of the industrialized world, rivers that were physically transformed and ecologically ruined to facilitate industrial and agricultural developmare now the focus of restoration and rehabilitation efforts. River Futures discusses the emergence of this new era of river repair and documents...
Clinical and Translational Science
Principles of Human Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Clinical or translational science is the field of study devoted to investigating human health and disease, interventions and outcomes for the purposes of developing new treatment approaches, devices, and modalities to improve health. New molecular tools and diagnostic technologies based on clinical...
Higher Education and the Growth of Knowledge
A Historical Outline of Aims and Tensions
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This book sketches the history of higher education, in parallel with the development of science. Its goal is to draw attention to the historical tensions between the aims of higher education and those of science, in the hope of contributing to improving the contemporary university. A helpful tool...
Practicing Art/Science
Experiments in an Emerging Field
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Over the last two decades, multiple initiatives of transdisciplinary collaboration across art, science, and technology have seen the light of day. Why, by whom, and under what circumstances are such initiatives promoted? What does their experimental character look like - and what can be learned, epistemologically...
Why Sh*t Happens
The Science of a Really Bad Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Have you ever fallen victim to Murphy's law? Sometimes bad things just happen. In Why Sh*t Happens, esteemed British scientist Peter J. Bentley takes readers on an informative and amusing tour through the least lucky, most accident-prone day of their lives. From sleeping through the alarm clock and...
by Werner K. Jensen, C. Devine, M. Dikeman
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2004
The Encyclopedia of Meat Sciences is an impressive and important body of work. Prepared by an international team of experts, this reference work covers all important aspects of meat science from stable to table, including animal breeding, physiology and slaughter, meat preparation, packaging, welfare,...
Open Science
Sharing Knowledge in the Global Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Open Science is about how we address the profound challenges which now confront humanity: climate, the food crisis, environmental degradation, resource scarcity and disease; through science communication. These call for the sharing of scientific knowledge among billions of humans, on a scale never before...
Interpretive Political Science
Selected Essays, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Interpretive Political Science is the second of two volumes featuring a selection of key writings by R.A.W. Rhodes. Volume II looks forward and explores the 'interpretive turn' and its implications for the craft of political science, especially public administration, and draws together articles from...
Science, Society and the Environment
Applying Anthropology and Physics to Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
In an era when pressing environmental problems make collaboration across the divide between sciences and arts and humanities essential, this book presents the results of a collaborative analysis by an anthropologist and a physicist of four key junctures between science, society, and environment. ...
by Steven B. Krivit
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Steven B. Krivit's Explorations in Nuclear Research three-book series (Hacking the Atom, Fusion Fiasco, Lost History) describes the emergence of a new field of science, one that bridges chemistry and physics. The books give readers an understanding of low-energy nuclear reaction (LENR) research...