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This book looks at the types of new research organizations that drive scientific innovation and how ground-breaking science transforms research fields and their organization. Based on historical case studies and comparative empirical data, the book presents new and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-11
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On the occasion of his 90th birthday Louis Kriesberg provides an informative account of his career, tracing the trajectory of his discoveries, contributions, and stumbles as he sought to help the advance toward a more sustainable and just peace in the world. His work...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-07-06
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How reading the Bible as a work of cultural and scientific evolution can reveal new truths about how our species conquered the Earth The Bible is the bestselling book of all time. It has been venerated -- or excoriated -- as God's word, but so far no one has read the...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2016-05-24
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Religion and science were fundamental aspects of Eastern European communist political culture from the very beginning, and remained in uneasy tension across the region over the decades. While both topics have long attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, they...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-14
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When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all human religions. It has, in many cultures, shaped and motivated a more...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-02-25
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When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all human religions. It has, in many cultures, shaped and motivated a more...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-02-25
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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science is a single volume companion that discusses the history of science as it is done today, providing a survey of the debates and issues that dominate current scholarly discussion, with contributions from leading...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-01-28
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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How should science be written? It is a question that piqued natural philosophers of the seventeenth century as they experimented with the rhetorical figures, neologisms, verse-forms, and generic variety that characterise the literary texture of their work. Inspired...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-12-17
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Did industry and commerce affect the concepts, values and epistemic foundations of different sciences? If so, how and to what extent? This book suggests that the most significant influence of industry on science in the two case studies treated here had to do with the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-12-17
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Did industry and commerce affect the concepts, values and epistemic foundations of different sciences? If so, how and to what extent? This book suggests that the most significant influence of industry on science in the two case studies treated here had to do with the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-12-17
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This monograph investigates the development of human spatial knowledge by analyzing its elementary structures and studying how it is further shaped by various societal conditions. By taking a thoroughly historical perspective on knowledge and integrating results from...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-12-11
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Der Brief, den Alexander von Humboldt am 23. April 1836 an Augustus Frederick, den Herzog von Sussex – damals Präsident der Royal Society of London – richtete, ist wahrscheinlich der wichtigste und der folgenreichste Brief, den der berühmte deutsche Forschungsreisende...
Editeur :
Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2015-11-23
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Acclaimed popular-science writer Brian Clegg and popular TV and radio astronomer Rhodri Evans give us a Top Ten list of physicists as the central theme to build an exploration of the most exciting breakthroughs in physics, looking not just at the science, but also the...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2015-11-05
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This new Yearbook addresses the question of how policy, place, and organization are made to matter for a new research field to emerge. Bringing together leading historians, sociologists, and organizational researchers on science and technology, the volume answers this...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-10-27
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According to Egyptian mythology, when the ancient Egyptian sun god Re cried, his tears turned into honey bees upon touching the ground. For this reason, the honey bee was sacrosanct in ancient Egyptian culture. From the art depicting bees on temple walls to the usage of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-10-08
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A Companion to the History of American Science offers a collection of essays that give an authoritative overview of the most recent scholarship on the history of American science. Covers topics including astronomy, agriculture, chemistry, eugenics, Big Science,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-10-07
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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We live in a world made by science. How and when did this happen? This book tells the story of the extraordinary intellectual and cultural revolution that gave birth to modern science, and mounts a major challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy of its history.Before 1492...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2015-09-17
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This book consists of chapters that focus specifically on single figures that worked on Descriptive Geometry and also in Mechanisms Sciences and contain biographical notes, a survey of their work and their achievements, together with a modern interpretation of their...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-27
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The book presents the outcomes of an innovative research programme in the history of science and implements a Text Act Theory which extends Speech Act Theory, in order to illustrate a new approach to texts and textual communicative acts. It examines assertives (absolute...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-07-15
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This volume presents the work of leading scientists from Russia, Georgia, Estonia, Lithuania, Israel and the USA, revealing major insights long unknown to the scientific community. Without any doubt their work will provide a springboard for further research in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-03
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