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by Tom McLeish
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
"Can you Count the Clouds?" asks the voice of God from the whirlwind in the stunningly beautiful catalogue of nature-questions from the Old Testament Book of Job. Tom McLeish takes a scientist's reading of this ancient text as a centrepiece to make the case for science as a deeply human and ancient...
Scientific Progress
A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
For the philosopher interested in the idea of objective knowledge of the real world, the nature of science is of special importance, for science, and more particularly physics, is today considered to be paradigmatic in its affording of such knowledge. And no understand ing of science is complete...
Philosophy of Science
The Historical Background
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This anthology of selections from the works of noted philosophers affords the student an immediate contact with the unique historical background of the philosophy of science. The selections, many of which have not been readily accessible, follow the development of the philosophy of science from 1786...
Nature's Robots
A History of Proteins
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2003
Proteins are amazingly versatile molecules. They make the chemical reactions happen that form the basis for life, they transmit signals in the body, they identify and kill foreign invaders, they form the engines that make us move, and they record visual images. All of this is now common knowledge,...
by Milton W Cole, Angela D Lueking, David L Goodstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Whether on personal health, politics, or climate change, we are constantly bombarded with more numerous 'breaking news' articles than we have time for. In such an environment, how can we tell which to read, or which is even true.
Science of the Earth, Climate and Energy helps readers understand...
by Masudul Alam Choudhury, Mohammed Shahadat Hossain
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Computing Reality is a rare and challenging research output in the area of cybernetic and system theory explaining the meaning behind the understanding, interpretation and application of scientific methodology for knowing scientific truth. The fundamental goal of Computing Reality is to explain how...
Kitaaba Wal-Hikmata
‘Manifested Nature and the Utility of One’S Upright Logic’ Vol 1
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
'Kitaaba Wal-Hikmata' is an inspired sharing at the appointed time. It shares for the First Time in the History of Pen-Paper-Pencil Epistemology those Manifest Truths which are being concealed historically from mankind in general. Due to concealment of Manifest Truth and Projection of Manmade Falsehoods...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
The observation of nature has been the inspiration for many materials, laws, and theories, as well as computational methods. Nature-Inspired computing Design, Development, and Applications covers all the main areas of natural computing, from methods to computationally synthesized natural phenomena, to...
Enterprising Nature
Economics, Markets, and Finance in Global Biodiversity Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Winner of the 2018 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology!
Enterprising Nature explores the rise of economic rationality in global biodiversity law, policy and science. To view Jessica's animation based on the book's themes please visit...
by David L. Witt
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
There is a widely held belief that we are exempt from the laws of nature. And further, that we can treat the living earth without regard to consequences. Our species may endure, but our purposeful environmental destruction threatens the survival of wild nature and the civilization we have built. We...
The Unfinished Quest
The Plight of Progressive Science Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Modern educators are currently ideologically in one of two camps: those who see American education as heading in the right direction, and those who fear that it has gone tragically astray. For over 100 years the American educational system has been the hope of those who want to level the playing field...
The Nature of Whiteness
Race, Animals, and Nation in Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Nature of Whiteness explores the intertwining of race and nature in postindependence Zimbabwe. Nature and environment have played prominent roles in white Zimbabwean identity, and when the political tide turned against white farmers after independence, nature was the most powerful resource they...
Playing against Nature
Integrating Science and Economics to Mitigate Natural Hazards in an Uncertain World
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Defending society against natural hazards is a high-stakes game of chance against nature, involving tough decisions. How should a developing nation allocate its budget between building schools for towns without ones or making existing schools earthquake-resistant? Does it make more sense to build...
Environmental Changes
The Futures of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
This book addresses environmental changes and how they reconfigure society’s relationship to the future. It argues that Man does not build “his future alone: instead, environmental changes are also proof of the future-making capacity of non-human beings.
The author elaborates on the notion...