Other category: 18288 books
Entangled Worlds
Religion, Science, and New Materialisms
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Historically speaking, theology can be said to operate “materiaphobically.” Protestant Christianity in particular has bestowed upon theology a privilege of the soul over the body and belief over practice, in line with the distinction between a disembodied God and the inanimate world “He” created....
The Future of Creation Order
Vol. 1, Philosophical, Scientific, and Religious Perspectives on Order and Emergence
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This work provides an overview of attempts to assess the current condition of the concept of creation order within reformational philosophy compared to other perspectives. Focusing on the natural and life sciences, and theology, this first volume of two examines the arguments for and against the beauty,...
by Richard Lung
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
A universe, by definition independent, implies its own freedom. The debate, whether the universe is determined or governed by laws of chance, takes the opposite ends to a range from zero to infinite choice.Science is measurement, whose logic is an increasing power of choice to give the most...
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2008
The third volume in the Institute of Animal Health (IAH) Biology of Animal Infections Series, Bluetongue discusses one of the most economically important diseases of domesticated livestock. Affecting primarily sheep particularly the improved mutton and wool breeds, it is now endemic in Africa, India,...
Herrera's 'Plasmogenia' and Other Collected Works
Early Writings on the Experimental Study of the Origin of Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014
This book collects three outstanding examples of the work of Mexican biologist Alfonso Luis Herrera (1868-1943), a pioneer in experimental origins of life research. Two of the collected works appear here in English for the first time. Herrera's works represent the attempt to deal experimentally with...
Conceptual Challenges in Evolutionary Psychology
Innovative Research Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine. Its scope is intended to span the full range of interests from classical...
Biomagnetic Monitoring of Particulate Matter
In the Indo-Burma Hotspot Region
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Air pollution originating from rapid industrialization, urbanization, population growth and economic development has disturbed the urban ecosystems of ecologically sensitive regions like the Indo-Burma hot spot, and they are under severe air pollution stress with limited resources to collect data...
Evidence-Based Climate Science
Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Evidence-Based Climate Science: Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming, Second Edition, includes updated data related to the causes of global climate change from experts in meteorology, geology, atmospheric physics, solar physics, geophysics, climatology, and computer...
Coteaching in International Contexts
Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Coteaching is two or more teachers teaching together, sharing responsibility for meeting the learning needs of students and, at the same time, learning from each other. Working as collaborators on every aspect of instruction, coteachers plan, teach and evaluate lessons together. Over the past decade,...
The Hidden Curriculum—Faculty-Made Tests in Science
Part 2: Upper-Division Courses
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This resource manual for college-level science instructors reevaluates the role of testing in their curricula and describes innovative techniques pioneered by other teachers. part I examines the effects of the following on lower-division courses: changes in exam content, format, and environment; revisions...
Integrated Vector Management
Controlling Vectors of Malaria and Other Insect Vector Borne Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Diseases transmitted by insects continue to have a major impact on human populations. Malaria, dengue, onchocerciasis, sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis all adversely affect man. Malaria is one of the most important causes of child mortality and reduces economic development in many countries, with...
Defining an Identity
The Evolution of Science Education as a Field of Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Research in science education is now an international activity. This book asks for the first time, Does this research activity have an identity?
-It uses the significant studies of more than 75 researchers in 15 countries to see to what extent they provide evidence for an identity as a distinctive...
The Practical Einstein
Experiments, Patents, Inventions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Albert Einstein may be best known as the wire-haired whacky physicist who gave us the theory of relativity, but that’s just one facet of this genius’s contribution to human knowledge and modern science. As József Illy expertly shows in this book, Einstein had an eminently practical side as well.
As...
An Introduction to Biotechnology
The Science, Technology and Medical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
An Introduction to Biotechnology is a biotechnology textbook aimed at undergraduates. It covers the basics of cell biology, biochemistry and molecular biology, and introduces laboratory techniques specific to the technologies addressed in the book; it addresses specific biotechnologies at both the...