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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)

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

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)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

C. Boulter, J.K. Gilbert

Developing Models in Science Education...

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)...

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

About the Author Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), architect and philosopher ...

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)

Michael M. Woolfson

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

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

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

Stephen Baker

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In this captivating exploration of digital nosiness, business reporter Baker spotl...

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)

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

Nick Huggett

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sherrie Lynne Lyons

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

Kant and the Sciences

Eric Watkins

Review "...a collection worth studying." -- The Review of Metaphysics About the Author Eric Watkins is at Virgi...

Tip Enhancement (Advances in Nano-Optics and Nano-Photonics)

Satoshi Kawata, Vladimir M. Shalaev

About the Author Professor Melvin Hinich, the Mike Hogg Professor of Government, has been teaching at the University of T...

Flaubert's Tentation: Remapping Nineteenth-Century French Histories of Religion and Science

Mary Orr

Review This volume is not only an invaluable contribution to scholarship on the Tentation, but also presents considerable...

Machines in Our Hearts: The Cardiac Pacemaker, the Implantable Defibrillator, and American Health Care

Kirk Jeffrey

Review The story is a complex one, and Professor Kirk Jeffrey follows its twists and turns with utter clarity, technical so...

Ecology Revisited: Reflecting on Concepts, Advancing Science

Astrid Schwarz, Kurt Jax

From the Back Cover As concerns about humankind’s relationship with the environment move inexorably up the agenda,...

Becoming beside ourselves: the alphabet, ghosts, and distributed human being

Brian Rotman

Review “Becoming Beside Ourselves is a bold, provocative, and highly original argument about the relation between ...

John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought (International Archives of the History of Ideas)

Stephen Clucas

Review From the reviews: "John Dee has proved an endlessly fascinating subject for students of early modern though...

Der Porsche Chef. Wendelin Wiedeking - mit Ecken und Kanten an die Spitze

Ulrich Viehöver

Der Porsche Chef. Wendelin Wiedeking - mit Ecken und Kanten an die Spitze...

Statistik im Forschungsprozess

From the Back Cover Statistik ist die Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Kunst der Datenanalyse. Wie die Physik besitzt sie so...

Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology

Brian Regal

Review “This excellent and fascinating book is not just about scientists searching for monsters, but others, calle...

A Vision of Modern Science: John Tyndall and the Role of the Scientist in Victorian Culture

Ursula Deyoung

Review “In her book-length study of an important—but somewhat neglected—Victorian physicist, Ursula ...

Globalizing Polar Science: Reconsidering the International Polar and Geophysical Years

James R. Fleming, Roger D. Launius

Review “Provides an invaluable assessment of the evolution of worldwide research from the first IPY of 1882/83. Re...

Constructing socialism: technology and change in East Germany 1945-1990

Raymond G. Stokes

Review "Stokes delivers a beautifully nuanced and seductive economic history of technology from Societ Zone to the fall of ...

Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Robert E. Krebs

Review ?[P]resents a wealth of little known but important facts, which characterize and elucidate an epoch lasting well o...

Mind and Nature: Essays on Time and Subjectivity

Jason Brown

Mind and Nature: Essays on Time and Subjectivity...

Lost worlds: adventures in the tropical rainforest

Bruce Mcp. Beehler

Review “This is a marvelous account of rain forest field biology and conservation. It captures the life of modern ...

Science and Religion: An Introduction

Alister E. Mcgrath

From Publishers Weekly McGrath's argument in this book is schematic. He begins with three turning points in the history o...

Phenomenology and the Foundations of Science: Third Book, Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy

Edmund Husserl

Language Notes Text: English, German (translation) ...

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