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This book examines the philosophical foundations of the realist view of the progress of science as cumulative. It is a view that has recently been faced with a number of powerful attacks in which successive scientific theories are seen, not as extending their scope and honing their explanations, but as incommensurable. There is, it is held, in principle no way of establishing that they are about the same things. From the voluminous literature on the topic, Dr Smith has selected relevantly and incisively and his exposition of the contending arguments is vigourous and clear, without undue...

For centuries, Old Town, Albuquerque, has been the crossroads of the American Southwest. It was formed in the traditional Spanish pattern of a central plaza surrounded by church, places of business, and homes. This book gives a concise history of events that shaped the unusual village that was first settled in 1706.