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The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader
ISBN: 9780822349365 / Angielski / Twarda / 504 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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513,51 zł |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012
ISBN: 9780547799537 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Best American Series(r)
First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected and most popular of its kind. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012 includes JEROME GROOPMAN, SY MONTGOMERY,... The Best American Series(r)
First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country s finest shor... |
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95,36 zł |
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James Clerk Maxwell: A Commemoration Volume 1831-1931
ISBN: 9781107670952 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 1931 book is comprised of ten essays dealing with various aspects of James Clerk Maxwell's life and achievements.
This 1931 book is comprised of ten essays dealing with various aspects of James Clerk Maxwell's life and achievements.
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288,32 zł |
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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
ISBN: 9780062109392 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edge.org presents brilliant, accessible, cutting-edge ideas to improve our decision-making skills and improve our cognitive toolkits, with contributions by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Richard Dawkins, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker, and more. Featuring a foreword by New York Times columnist David Brooks and edited by John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter presents some of the best wisdom from today's leading thinkers--to make better thinkers out of the leaders of tomorrow.
Edge.org presents brilliant, accessible, cutting-edge ideas to improve our decision-making skills and improve our cognitive toolkits, with contributio...
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82,35 zł |
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Hard Science and the Unknowable: reviews by
ISBN: 9781461157069 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Hard Science and the Unknowable" is another extraordinary book from Dennis Littrell. There is nothing quite like it in the literature. What Littrell does is review in depth 117 popular science and pseudoscience books covering a range of topics from aliens and UFOs to cosmology and particle physics. The result is a collection of essays that informs and gives meaning and relevance to our lives against the grandeur of the cosmos. The book is divided into eight chapters beginning with "Aliens, SETI and UFOs" through "Futurists" and ending with "Metaphysical Science." Tomes by some of the august...
"Hard Science and the Unknowable" is another extraordinary book from Dennis Littrell. There is nothing quite like it in the literature. What Littrell ...
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72,63 zł |
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Acres of Diamonds
ISBN: 9781604445442 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Russell Herman Conwell (February 15, 1843 - December 6, 1925) was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, lawyer, and writer. He is best remembered as the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the Pastor of The Baptist Temple, and for his inspirational lecture Acres of Diamonds. "Acres of Diamonds" originated as a speech which Conwell delivered over 6,000 times around the world. It was first published in 1890 by the John Y. Huber Company of Philadelphia. The central idea of the work is that one need not look elsewhere for opportunity,...
Russell Herman Conwell (February 15, 1843 - December 6, 1925) was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, lawyer, and writer. He is best...
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57,38 zł |
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Jesus Vu Par UN Musulman
ISBN: 9782234044036 / Francuski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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145,66 zł |
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The Best Science Writing Online
ISBN: 9780374533342 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Showcasing more than fifty of the most provocative, original, and significant online essays from 2011, The Best Science Writing Online 2012 will change the way we think about science-- from fluids to fungi, poisons to pirates. Featuring noted authors and journalists as well as the brightest up-and-comers writing today, this collection provides a comprehensive look at the fascinating, innovative, and trailblazing scientific achievements and breakthroughs of 2011, along with elegant and thoughtprovoking new takes on favorite topics. This is the sixth anthology of online essays edited... Showcasing more than fifty of the most provocative, original, and significant online essays from 2011, The Best Science Writing Online 2012 ... |
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86,73 zł |
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This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
ISBN: 9780062230171 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come up with their favorite explanations for everyday occurrences. Why do we recognize patterns? Is there such a thing as positive stress? Are we genetically programmed to be in conflict with each other? Those are just some of the 150 questions that the world's best scientific minds answer with elegant simplicity. With contributions from Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, Nassim Taleb, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker, and more, everything is explained in... In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come u... |
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78,02 zł |
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Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy
ISBN: 9781588382818 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Darwin (1809-82) changed the world forever with the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy is an anthology of critical writings that grew out of a lecture series, hosted by Auburn University, held on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of Darwin's birth and the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the first edition of his most famous book. Ideas in On the Origin of Species reordered the biological sciences forever, spawned new disciplines including evolutionary psychology, sociobiology,...
Charles Darwin (1809-82) changed the world forever with the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin...
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140,94 zł |
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Science & Human Val
ISBN: 9780060972813 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thought-provoking essays on science as an integral part of the culture of our age from a leader in the scientific humanism movement. "A profoundly moving, brilliantly perceptive essay by a truly civilized man."--Scientific American
Thought-provoking essays on science as an integral part of the culture of our age from a leader in the scientific humanism movement. "A profoundly mov...
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69,34 zł |
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El Conocimiento Es La Vida
ISBN: 9781463343170 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. El Alma multisensorial, con la funcion de la Disciplina del Conocimiento, transmite el reflejo del Bien al Espiritu del Ser Humano, para comportar, por medio de la Conciencia, el mayor atributo generador de la Vida, con racionalidad, verdad, armonia y felicidad individual y colectiva. "Un libro que compendia el estudio y la experiencia de una vida con esplendor. Destila la problematica humana y presenta la solucion. Una escritura matizada por la luz del Espiritu, y, configurada como un autentico legado para las nuevas generaciones esparcidas en todo tiempo y espacio." German Sanclemente...
El Alma multisensorial, con la funcion de la Disciplina del Conocimiento, transmite el reflejo del Bien al Espiritu del Ser Humano, para comportar, po...
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149,39 zł |
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El Conocimiento Es La Vida
ISBN: 9781463343187 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. El Alma multisensorial, con la funcion de la Disciplina del Conocimiento, transmite el reflejo del Bien al Espiritu del Ser Humano, para comportar, por medio de la Conciencia, el mayor atributo generador de la Vida, con racionalidad, verdad, armonia y felicidad individual y colectiva. "Un libro que compendia el estudio y la experiencia de una vida con esplendor. Destila la problematica humana y presenta la solucion. Una escritura matizada por la luz del Espiritu, y, configurada como un autentico legado para las nuevas generaciones esparcidas en todo tiempo y espacio." German Sanclemente...
El Alma multisensorial, con la funcion de la Disciplina del Conocimiento, transmite el reflejo del Bien al Espiritu del Ser Humano, para comportar, po...
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61,67 zł |
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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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197,11 zł |
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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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95,36 zł |
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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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127,49 zł |
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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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191,40 zł |
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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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382,84 zł |
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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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68,30 zł |
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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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279,50 zł |
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