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Exceptional Creativity in Science and Technology: Individuals, Institutions, and Innovations
ISBN: 9781599474267 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the evolution of science and technology, laws governing exceptional creativity and innovation have yet to be discovered. The historian Thomas Kuhn, in his influential study The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, noted that the final stage in a scientific breakthrough such as Albert Einstein s theory of relativity that is, the most crucial stage was inscrutable. The same is still true half a century later.Yet, there has been considerable progress in understanding many of the stages and facets of exceptional creativity and innovation. In Exceptional Creativity in Science and...
In the evolution of science and technology, laws governing exceptional creativity and innovation have yet to be discovered. The historian Thomas Kuhn,...
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013
ISBN: 9780544003439 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pulitzer Prize winning authorSiddhartha Mukherjee, a leading cancer physician and researcher, selects the year stop science and nature writing fromjournalists who dive into their fields with curiosity and passion, deliveringmust-read articlesfrom a wide array of fields."
Pulitzer Prize winning authorSiddhartha Mukherjee, a leading cancer physician and researcher, selects the year stop science and nature writing fromjou...
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Silabario Para Deletrear El Universo y La Manada Humana
ISBN: 9781597548229 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. En dos errores, inevitables atendido el nivel del conocimiento cientifico de su epoca, incurrio Augusto Comte. Lo hizo cuando, en su Curso de Filosofia Positiva, publicada en 1830, expreso: "Hace dos siglos, en que la accion combinada de los preceptos de Bacon, de las teorias de Descartes y de los descubrimientos de Galileo, hizo que el espiritu de la filosofia positiva comenzara a pronunciarse en el mundo en clara oposicion al espiritu teologico y metafisico. A partir de este momento, las concepciones positivas se separaron por completo de la alianza supersticiosa y escolastica que mas o...
En dos errores, inevitables atendido el nivel del conocimiento cientifico de su epoca, incurrio Augusto Comte. Lo hizo cuando, en su Curso de Filosofi...
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A Universe of Atoms, an Atom in the Universe
ISBN: 9781468492668 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. jThis thoroughly updated and revised text contains a selection of well-written essays based on Silvermans work on a wide range of topics, including: quantum mechanics, including atomic and nuclear physics, electromagnetism and optics, gravity, thermodynamics, and the physics of fluids. Presenting a personal odyssey in physics, Silverman investigates processes for which no visualizable mechanism can be given, or that seem to violate fundamental physical laws (but do not). The discussions use little mathematics, and anyone with a little college physics will be able to read the book with...
jThis thoroughly updated and revised text contains a selection of well-written essays based on Silvermans work on a wide range of topics, including: q...
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New Dimensions in Bioethics: Science, Ethics and the Formulation of Public Policy
ISBN: 9781461356301 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last three decades, bioethics has matured into a field of study with several areas of concentration, including medical ethics, environmental ethics and more recently, genetic ethics. For reasons related to both the developmental history of the subject and to the poignancy of the problems presented, most textbooks and collections of essays have dealt with only a single area, medical ethics. In fact, to many not in the field, the word bioethics has become synonymous with medical ethics. The aim of this collection of essays, entitled New Dimensions in Bioethics: Science,...
In the last three decades, bioethics has matured into a field of study with several areas of concentration, including medical ethics, environmental et...
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Cogitans: thinking man, not arrogantly 'knowing' H sapiens
ISBN: 9780989298001 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited
ISBN: 9780262525381 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Representation in Scientific Practice, published by the MIT Press in 1990, helped coalesce a long-standing interest in scientific visualization among historians, philosophers, and sociologists of science and remains a touchstone for current investigations in science and technology studies. This volume revisits the topic, taking into account both the changing conceptual landscape of STS and the emergence of new imaging technologies in scientific practice. It offers cutting-edge research on a broad array of fields that study information as well as short reflections on the evolution... Representation in Scientific Practice, published by the MIT Press in 1990, helped coalesce a long-standing interest in scientific visualiza... |
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The Best American Science Writing 2012
ISBN: 9780062117915 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Best American Science Writing 2012 is yet another endlessly fascinating and mind-expanding installment of the popular science series that Kirkus Reviews calls, "Superb brain candy." Edited by renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku, co-founder of string field theory, this collection contains the most engaging and provocative science writing of the year--gathering in one volume enthralling and eye-opening essays about the latest developments in biochemistry, physics, astronomy, genetics, evolutionary theory, cognition, and more.
The Best American Science Writing 2012 is yet another endlessly fascinating and mind-expanding installment of the popular science series that...
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Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
ISBN: 9780199214662 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the publication of the international bestseller The Selfish Gene some thirty years ago, Richard Dawkins powerfully captured a newly emerging way of understanding evolution--a gene's eye view. Dawkins went on to publish five more bestselling books, including The Blind Watchmaker and Unweaving the Rainbow. He is one of the most high profile public intellectuals today and any attempt to understand the scientific view of the world must grapple with his ideas.
Now, in this exciting collection of original essays, some of the world's leading thinkers offer their take on how Dawkins has... With the publication of the international bestseller The Selfish Gene some thirty years ago, Richard Dawkins powerfully captured a newly emerging way ...
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Future Science : Essays from the cutting edge
ISBN: 9780199699353 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From 19 talented young scientists comes a volume of essays about the future of science. Including cutting edge research across a wide range of fields, we make exciting new discoveries about some of the most interesting scientific problems today, from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology to plant populations and oceanography.
From 19 talented young scientists comes a volume of essays about the future of science. Including cutting edge research across a wide range of fields,...
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10 Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet): A Guide to Science's Greatest Mysteries
ISBN: 9780230622845 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Considering questions such as 'Where did language come from?' and 'Do animals know they exist?', Michael Hanlon explores possible theories and dispatches a few of the less likely ones in his quest to fill the gaping holes that science is littered with.
Considering questions such as 'Where did language come from?' and 'Do animals know they exist?', Michael Hanlon explores possible theories and dispatc...
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The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader
ISBN: 9780822349570 / Angielski / Miękka / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For twenty years, the renowned philosopher of science Sandra Harding has argued that science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist critique must inform one another. In The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader, Harding puts those fields in critical conversation, assembling the anthology that she has long wanted for classroom use. In classic and recent essays, international scholars from a range of disciplines think through a broad array of science and technology philosophies and practices. The contributors reevaluate conventional accounts of the West s...
For twenty years, the renowned philosopher of science Sandra Harding has argued that science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and feminis...
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Letters to a Young Scientist
ISBN: 9780871403773 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career both his successes and his failures and his motivations for becoming a biologist. At a time in human history when our survival is more than ever linked to our understanding of science, Wilson insists that success in the sciences does not depend on mathematical skill, but rather a...
Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy ...
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The Gods of Science
ISBN: 9781425937256 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World
ISBN: 9781444710168 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. India: it's a nation of geeks, swots and nerds. Almost one in five of all medical and dental staff in the UK is of Indian origin, and one in six employed scientists with science or engineering doctorates in the US is Asian. By the turn of the millennium, there were even claims that a third of all engineers in Silicon Valley were of Indian origin, with Indians running 750 of its tech companies.
At the dawn of this scientific revolution, "Geek Nation" is a journey to meet the inventors, engineers and young scientists helping to give birth to the world's next scientific superpower - a nation... India: it's a nation of geeks, swots and nerds. Almost one in five of all medical and dental staff in the UK is of Indian origin, and one in six emplo...
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Science in Seconds: 200 Key Concepts Explained in an Instant
ISBN: 9781780871448 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The quickest ever way to learn everything, from the physics of black holes to quantum computing.
The quickest ever way to learn everything, from the physics of black holes to quantum computing.
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Newtonian Studies
ISBN: 9780674181854 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Forging of Physical Theories
ISBN: 9781532736476 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Nothing: Surprising Insights Everywhere from Zero to Oblivion
ISBN: 9781615192052 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Incredible discoveries from the fringes of the universe to the inner workings of our minds all from nothing It turns out that almost nothing is as curious or as enlightening as, well, nothing. What is nothingness? Where can it be found? The writers of the world's top-selling science magazine investigate from the big bang, dark energy, and the void to superconductors, vestigial organs, hypnosis, and the placebo effect and discover that understanding nothing may be the key to understanding everything: What came before the big bang, and will our universe end? Incredible discoveries from the fringes of the universe to the inner workings of our minds all from nothing
It turns out that almo... |
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The Works of Archimedes: Edited in Modern Notation With Introductory Chapters
ISBN: 9781466475397 / Angielski / Miękka / 518 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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