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The Day We Found the Universe

The Day We Found the Universe


Marcia Bartusiak



Amazon.com Review Book Description From one of our most acclaimed science writers: a dramatic narrative of the discovery...
Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science (Contemporary Debates in Philosophy)

Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science (Contemporary Debates in Philosophy)


Robert J. Stainton



Review "Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science is an excellent introduction to debates in the philosophy of cognitive ...
Quantifiers, Questions and Quantum Physics: Essays on the Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka

Quantifiers, Questions and Quantum Physics: Essays on the Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka


Daniel Kolak, John Symons



From the Back Cover Jaakko Hintikka is one of the most creative figures in contemporary philosophy. He has made significa...
Quantifying Music: The Science of Music at the First Stage of Scientific Revolution 1580-1650 (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science)

Quantifying Music: The Science of Music at the First Stage of Scientific Revolution 1580-1650 (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science)


H.F. Cohen



Review `Quantifying Music appears to represent a high level of scholarship. THe author used entirely original sources an...
Quei temerari sulle macchine volanti. Piccola storia del volo e dei suoi avventurosi interpreti

Quei temerari sulle macchine volanti. Piccola storia del volo e dei suoi avventurosi interpreti


Paolo Magionami



From the Back Cover Il volume ripercorre la storia del volo, soffermandosi sui personaggi che ne hanno caratterizzato le ...
Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge

Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge


Karl Popper, Gerard Radnitzky, W. W. Bartley



Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge...
Crescas' Critique of Aristotle: Problems of Aristotle's Physics in Jewish and Arabic Philosophy (Harvard Semitic Series)

Crescas' Critique of Aristotle: Problems of Aristotle's Physics in Jewish and Arabic Philosophy (Harvard Semitic Series)


Harry Austryn Wolfson



Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: Hebrew About the Author Harry Austryn Wolfson was ...
Chemical consequences: environmental mutagens, scientist activism, and the rise of genetic toxicology

Chemical consequences: environmental mutagens, scientist activism, and the rise of genetic toxicology


Scott Frickel



About the Author Scott Frickel is an assistant professor of sociology at Tulane University. Chemical Consequences is his...
Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life

Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life


Justin E. H. Smith



From the Inside Flap "With this book, Justin Smith turns the world of Leibniz scholarship upside down. Others have argue...
Developing Models in Science Education

Developing Models in Science Education


C. Boulter, J.K. Gilbert



Developing Models in Science Education...
Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge

Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge


Heidi E. Grasswick



From the Back Cover This collection brings together exciting new works that address today’s key challenges for a f...
Governing Future Technologies: Nanotechnology and the Rise of an Assessment Regime (Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook)

Governing Future Technologies: Nanotechnology and the Rise of an Assessment Regime (Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook)




Governing Future Technologies: Nanotechnology and the Rise of an Assessment Regime (Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook)...
Per una storia della geofisica italiana. La nascita dell'Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica (1936) e la figura di Antonino Lo Surdo

Per una storia della geofisica italiana. La nascita dell'Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica (1936) e la figura di Antonino Lo Surdo


Franco Foresta Martin, Geppi Calcara



From the Back Cover All’inizio degli anni Trenta Guglielmo Marconi, nominato presidente del Cnr per diretta volont...
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth


R. Buckminster Fuller



About the Author Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), architect and philosopher ...
Science and the Trinity: The Christian Encounter with Reality

Science and the Trinity: The Christian Encounter with Reality


John Polkinghorne



From Publishers Weekly As a Cambridge physicist and Anglican priest, Polkinghorne is well qualified to address science-an...
The Origin and Evolution of the Solar System (Graduate Series in Astronomy)

The Origin and Evolution of the Solar System (Graduate Series in Astronomy)


Michael M. Woolfson



The Origin and Evolution of the Solar System (Graduate Series in Astronomy)...
Technology's Storytellers: Reweaving the Human Fabric

Technology's Storytellers: Reweaving the Human Fabric


John M. Staudenmaier



Review "A lucid, richly detailed review of attempts to establish the history of technology as a fully respe...
The Search for Mind

The Search for Mind


Seán Ó Nualláin



Review 'The emerging science of Consciousness needs to pay attention to this voice in order to keep alive the hope of hum...
The Numerati

The Numerati


Stephen Baker



From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In this captivating exploration of digital nosiness, business reporter Baker spotl...
Nonlinear Control Systems: Analysis and Design

Nonlinear Control Systems: Analysis and Design


Horacio Márquez



Review “…a self-contained readable presentation of nonlinear control systems…” (Zentralblatt ...
The Light of Thy Countenance: Science and Knowledge of God in the Thirteenth Century (Studies in the History of Christian Thought) (Vol.1)

The Light of Thy Countenance: Science and Knowledge of God in the Thirteenth Century (Studies in the History of Christian Thought) (Vol.1)


Steven P. Marrone



Review '..".a significant intellectual achievement...Marronehas produced a work that scholars must read.'Douglas Langston...
Space from zeno to Einstein: classic readings with a contemporary commentary

Space from zeno to Einstein: classic readings with a contemporary commentary


Nick Huggett



About the Author Nick Huggett is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. ...
Explaining Chaos

Explaining Chaos


Peter Smith



Review ' ... attractively written and should be accessible to many without advanced mathematical ability, it is a book fo...
Who Rules in Science?: An Opinionated Guide to the Wars

Who Rules in Science?: An Opinionated Guide to the Wars


James Robert Brown



From Publishers Weekly ostmodernists and social constructionists claim that there can be no such thing as "objective scie...
The Neutron and the Bomb: A Biography of Sir James Chadwick

The Neutron and the Bomb: A Biography of Sir James Chadwick


Andrew Brown



Review `Andrew Brown has made good use of what seem to be all the available archives except for a few still classified as...
Mind Of The Universe: Understanding Science and Religion

Mind Of The Universe: Understanding Science and Religion


Mariano Artigas



From Publishers Weekly Artigas takes on the ambitious task of building a philosophical "bridge between science and religi...
Cogent science in context: the science wars, argumentation theory, and Habermas

Cogent science in context: the science wars, argumentation theory, and Habermas


William Rehg



Review "Rehg brilliantly summarizes the major debates in philosophy of science over the nature of discover...
From Boolean Logic to Switching Circuits and Automata: Towards Modern Information Technology

From Boolean Logic to Switching Circuits and Automata: Towards Modern Information Technology


Jaakko Astola, Radomir S. Stankovic



From the Back Cover Logic networks and automata are facets of digital systems. The change of  the design of logic netw...
The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science

The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science


Peter Harrison



Review "The achievements of this ambitious book should be debated by scholars." Religious Studies Review "Harrison has ...
Species, Serpents, Spirits, and Skulls: Science at the Margins in the Victorian Age

Species, Serpents, Spirits, and Skulls: Science at the Margins in the Victorian Age


Sherrie Lynne Lyons



From the Author Sherrie Lynne Lyons is Assistant Professor at the Center for Distance Learning of Empire State College, S...