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Synthetic Planet: Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life
ISBN: 9780415933544 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent surveys indicate that 10 per cent of children starting primary school are now regarded as alarmingly overweight, increasing to 15 per cent among school leavers. Doctors fear that this could lead to three out of four Britons being labelled obese within the next 15 years. This volume looks at the increasingly low levels of physical activity in our daily lives in the UK. There is also a chapter on the benefits of exercise. The information presented here comes from a wide variety of sources and includes government reports and statistics, newspaper reports, features, magazine articles and...
Recent surveys indicate that 10 per cent of children starting primary school are now regarded as alarmingly overweight, increasing to 15 per cent amon...
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756,45 zł |
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Synthetic Planet: Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life
ISBN: 9780415933551 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From chemistry sets to chemical weapons, from plastics to pesticides and from air pollution to Agent Orange, industrial chemicals have transformed the way we live. Industrial chemicals have brought many good things to life, but at what cost? This timely collection of original essays traces the migration of synthetic chemicals from the laboratory to the factory and then into our environment, bodies and communities. The impact these chemicals have on our ecosystems, human health and political processes is addressed by the the contributors, focusing on the production and distribution of these...
From chemistry sets to chemical weapons, from plastics to pesticides and from air pollution to Agent Orange, industrial chemicals have transformed the...
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104,29 zł |
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Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology
ISBN: 9780415939911 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together a collection of original essays by leading philosophers exploring an extensive range of diverse issues for the philosophy of science and technology. These essays extend philosophical discussion of science and technology beyond the standard feminist and gender analyses that have flourished since 1980, by bringing a thorough and truly diverse set of cultural, racial and ethical concerns to bear on questioning in these areas. Science and Other Cultures charts important new directions in ongoing discussions of science and technology and makes a contribution to both...
This volume brings together a collection of original essays by leading philosophers exploring an extensive range of diverse issues for the philosophy ...
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808,63 zł |
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Science & Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology
ISBN: 9780415939928 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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198,19 zł |
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The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies
ISBN: 9780415941044 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a broad, interdisciplinary and rapidly-growing field that explores the relationship between science, technology and the multitude of ways they shape, structure and reorient our society, and our understanding of the world. This is the first book to lay out a general account of the underlying philosophical character, assumptions, and implications of STS and its relationship to traditional and contemporary philosophy.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a broad, interdisciplinary and rapidly-growing field that explores the relationship between science, technolog...
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704,29 zł |
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The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies
ISBN: 9780415941051 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book to present a general account of the underlying philosophical character, assumptions and implications of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and its relationship to traditional and contemporary philosophy.
This is the first book to present a general account of the underlying philosophical character, assumptions and implications of Science and Technology ...
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198,19 zł |
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Playing God?: Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom
ISBN: 9780415942492 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the origional publication of Playing God? in 1996, three developments in genetic technology have moved to the centre of the public conversation about the ethics of human bioengineering. Cloning, the completion of the human genome project and, most recently, the controversy over stem cell research have all sparked lively debates among religious thinkers and the makers of public policy. In this updated edition, Ted Peters illuminates the key issues in these debates and continues to make connections between our questions about God and our efforts to manage technological innovations with...
Since the origional publication of Playing God? in 1996, three developments in genetic technology have moved to the centre of the public conversation ...
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192,97 zł |
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Scientific Communication in African Universities: External Assistance and National Needs
ISBN: 9780415945301 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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808,63 zł |
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General Philosophy of Science: Focal Issues
ISBN: 9780444515483 / Angielski / Twarda / 683 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scientists use concepts and principles that are partly specific for their subject matter, but they also share part of them with colleagues working in different fields. Compare the biological notion of a 'natural kind' with the general notion of 'confirmation' of a hypothesis by certain evidence. Or compare the physical principle of the 'conservation of energy' and the general principle of 'the unity of science'. Scientists agree that all such notions and principles aren't as crystal clear as one might wish. An important task of the philosophy of the special sciences, such as... Scientists use concepts and principles that are partly specific for their subject matter, but they also share part of them with colleagues working ... |
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Symmetry, Structure, and Spacetime: Volume 3
ISBN: 9780444531162 / Angielski / Twarda / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book Rickles considers several interpretative difficulties raised by gauge-type symmetries (those that correspond to no change in physical state). The ubiquity of such symmetries in modern physics renders them an urgent topic in philosophy of physics. Rickles focuses on spacetime physics, and in particular classical and quantum general relativity. Here the problems posed are at their most pathological, involving the apparent disappearance of spacetime Rickles argues that both traditional ontological positions should be replaced by a structuralist account according to which relational...
In this book Rickles considers several interpretative difficulties raised by gauge-type symmetries (those that correspond to no change in physical sta...
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631,25 zł |
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After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence
ISBN: 9780465007820 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the first fifty years of the computer revolution, scientists have been trying to program electronic circuits to process information the same way humans do. Doing so has reassured us all that underlying every new computer capability, no matter how miraculously fast or complex, are human thought processes and logic. But cutting-edge computer scientists are coming to see that electronic circuits really are alien, that the difference between the human mind and computer capability is not merely one of degree (how fast), but of kind(how). The author suggests that computers "think" best when...
Through the first fifty years of the computer revolution, scientists have been trying to program electronic circuits to process information the same w...
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95,13 zł |
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The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
ISBN: 9780465023943 / Angielski / Miękka / 133 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many appreciate Richard P. Feynman's contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize how engaged he was with the world around him--how deeply and thoughtfully he considered the religious, political, and social issues of his day. Now, a wonderful book--based on a previously unpublished, three-part public lecture he gave at the University of Washington in 1963--shows us this other side of Feynman, as he expounds on the inherent conflict between science and religion, people's distrust of politicians, and our universal fascination with flying saucers, faith healing, and mental...
Many appreciate Richard P. Feynman's contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize how engaged he was with the world around him--how dee...
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77,04 zł |
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
ISBN: 9780465023950 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman--from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science-a life like no other. From his ruminations on science in our culture to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, this book will fascinate anyone interested in the world of ideas.
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman--from interviews and speeches to lec...
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82,15 zł |
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Darwin's Worms
ISBN: 9780465056767 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adam Phillips has been called "the psychotherapist of the floating world" and "the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness." His style is epigrammatic; his intelligence, electric. His new book, Darwin's Worms, uses the biographical details of Darwin's and Freud's lives to examine endings-suffering, mortality, extinction, and death. Both Freud and Darwin were interested in how destruction conserves life. They took their inspiration from fossils or from half-remembered dreams. Each told a story that has altered our perception of our lives. For Darwin, Phillips explains, "the story...
Adam Phillips has been called "the psychotherapist of the floating world" and "the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness." His style is ...
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86,48 zł |
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Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning
ISBN: 9780465068630 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bolstered by unassailable science and delivered in eloquent style, Our Final Hour's provocative argument that humanity has a mere 5050 chance of surviving the next century has struck a chord with readers, reviewers, and opinion-makers everywhere. Rees's vision of our immediate future is both a work of stunning scientific originality and a humanistic clarion call on behalf of the future of life.
Bolstered by unassailable science and delivered in eloquent style, Our Final Hour's provocative argument that humanity has a mere 5050 chance o...
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127,37 zł |
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The Universe as It Really Is: Earth, Space, Matter, and Time
ISBN: 9780231184946 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thomas R. Scott explains our universe and the laws that govern it. The Universe as It Really Is begins with physics, the building blocks of the universe, and chemistry's ability to explain the interactions among them. Scott tours the earth and atmospheric sciences to explain the forces that shape our planet and describes our place in the cosmos.
Thomas R. Scott explains our universe and the laws that govern it. The Universe as It Really Is begins with physics, the building blocks of the univer...
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164,75 zł |
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Managing Global Communication in Science and Technology
ISBN: 9780471249221 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In compiling articles from eighteen professionals in the field of science and technical communication, this unique collection updates readers on the evolving theory, teaching, and practice within the field. A framework is provided on the direction practitioners and academicians can focus their research or application on. Extensive discussions are provided on the management of the dynamic growth in international and intercultural communication in technical and scientific disciplines. Emphasis is also placed on understanding the issues and training for effectiveness.
In compiling articles from eighteen professionals in the field of science and technical communication, this unique collection updates readers on the e...
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856,40 zł |
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The Bit and the Pendulum: From Quantum Computing to M Theory--The New Physics of Information
ISBN: 9780471399742 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Funny, clear, deep, and right on target. Siegfried] lets us get a handle on ideas that are essential for understanding the evolving world.
-K. C. Cole, author of The Universe and the Teacup ""An eager, ambitious book. A stimulating, accessible introduction to scientific theory."" -Dallas Morning News An award-winning journalist surveys the horizon of a new revolution in science Everything in the universe, from the molecules in our bodies to the heart of a black hole, is made up of bits of information. This is the radical idea at the center of the new physics of information,... Funny, clear, deep, and right on target. Siegfried] lets us get a handle on ideas that are essential for understanding the evolving world.
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69,00 zł |
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Pioneering Research: A Risk Worth Taking
ISBN: 9780471488521 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ask questions not on the agenda
Explore ideas wherever they lead Pursue goals because they're important Create options not yet perceived According to premier researcher Don Braben, these are the vital intellectual processes that underlie all human achievement, the kinds of risk-taking activities that have made our civilization what it is today. Yet, warns Braben, the same pioneer spirit that fueled our meteoric industrial and scientific growth is now being undermined by a growing climate of corporate caution and conformity. In this... Ask questions not on the agenda
Explore ideas wherever they lead Pursue goals because they're important Create options not ye... |
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433,56 zł |
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Bioethics for Scientists
ISBN: 9780471495321 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A dictionary definition of Bioethics is, 'the ethics, or moral principles and rules of conduct, of medical and biological research'. This book is an introductory text of just biological and not medical bioethics. It covers the ethics of experimentation, including genetic manipulation, in plants and animals; ethics and biodiversity, ethics and the environment.
There is increasing interest in bioethics - both in academia and by the media and the general public. Awareness of bioethics is incorporated into Biological / Environmental Science courses, plus the first dedicated modular... A dictionary definition of Bioethics is, 'the ethics, or moral principles and rules of conduct, of medical and biological research'. This book is an i...
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1207,86 zł |
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