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The Origins of Ancient Greek Science
Blood—A Philosophical Study
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
This book examines the origins of ancient Greek science using the vehicles of blood, blood vessels, and the heart. Careful attention to biomedical writers in the ancient world, as well as to the philosophical and literary work of writers prior to the Hippocratic authors, produce an interesting story...
by David Ball
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Science literacy is becoming more and more important as our society progresses. Even everyday issues have science components: What we eat, how we communicate, how we entertain ourselves, how we educate ourselves all have scientific or technological influences. Yet the US typically lags behind other...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
In recent years, our world has experienced a profound shift and progression in available computing and knowledge sharing innovations. These emerging advancements have developed at a rapid pace, disseminating into and affecting numerous aspects of contemporary society. This has created a pivotal need...
In Defence of Scientism
An Insider's View of Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
This book is a series of short, perceptive and witty essays about science and how it works. The author, a long-time theoretical physicist and science administrator, shares his hard won insights about science gained from years of working in the trenches. The approach is eclectic with examples...
Science and Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia
Potentials and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Science and Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia: Potentials and Challenges provides both a local and global perspective on how to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Topics demonstrate the advancement of scientific research as it applies to early warning systems,...
Before Nature
Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the “natural world” confronts us all and always has—but Before Nature explores that almost unimaginable time when there was no such conception of “nature”—no word, reference, or sense for it.
Before the concept of nature formed...
by Roody Harris
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
CAT-AGEDDON is a Stylistic world that exists between the Genres of Hard Science fiction, Science Fantasy, Horror, Magical realism, Mystery and Literary fiction. It is a cat themed attempt to steal the fire from the Astrophysics, Cosmology, Space travel and Computer Sciences and give it to some of...
The Lagoon
How Aristotle Invented Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
A brilliant study of Aristotle as biologist
The philosophical classics of Aristotle loom large over the history of Western thought, but the subject he most loved was biology. He wrote vast volumes about animals. He described them, classified them, told us where and how they live and how they...
Logic, Language, and Probability
A Selection of Papers Contributed to Sections IV, VI, and XI of the Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Bucharest, September 1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philos ophy of Science was held in Bucharest, Romania, on August 29-September 4, 1971. The Congress was organized, under the auspices of the Inter national Union for History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology...
Interdisciplinarity
Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
The idea that research should become more interdisciplinary has become commonplace. According to influential commentators, the unprecedented complexity of problems such as climate change or the social implications of biomedicine demand interdisciplinary efforts integrating both the social and natural...
Bodyology
The Curious Science of Our Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
•16 gripping stories on the body
•Popular science from the Wellcome charity
Ever wondered what it’s like to be struck by lightning, or to lose your sense of smell, or if we will ever cure baldness? Heard about the woman who was saved by bees —or the window cleaner who fell 472ft...
Science For A Polite Society
Gender, Culture, And The Demonstration Of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Traditional accounts of the scientific revolution focus on such thinkers as Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, and usually portray it as a process of steady, rational progress. There is another side to this story, and its protagonists are more likely to be women than men, dilettante aristocrats than...
Physics at Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Leiden: Philosophy and the New Science in the University
Philosophy and the New Science in the University
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
2 result of the attitudes characteristic of the small group of permanent residents at the schools, the academic scholars. This conservatism, however, was not everywhere equally efficacious. In the sixteenth century, the universities of northern Italy, Padua above all, had nurtured an intellectual...
Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution
Science and Technology in Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Despite the verdict of the Cultural Revolution as a disaster for China, a number of scholars have called for re-examining socialist science under Mao’s aegis. Western observers once found much to admire in Chairman Mao’s mass science, with its origins in the May Fourth era. This collection represents...