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Star Maker

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Stapledon, Olaf, PUBLISHER: Orion Publishing Co, Star Maker is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, published in . Star Maker tackles philosophical themes such as the essence of life, of birth, decay and death, and the relationship between creation and creator. A pervading theme is that of progressive unity within and between different civilizations. Some of the elements and themes in Star Maker prefigure later fiction concerning genetic engineering and alien life forms. Arthur C. Clarke considered Star Maker to be one of the finest works of science fiction ever written.

Einstein's Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gimbel, Steven, PUBLISHER: Johns Hopkins University Press, Is relativity Jewish? The Nazis denigrated Albert Einstein's revolutionary theory by calling it "Jewish science," a charge typical of the ideological excesses of Hitler and his followers. Philosopher of science Steven Gimbel explores the many meanings of this provocative phrase and considers whether there is any sense in which Einstein's theory of relativity is Jewish. Arguing that we must take seriously the possibility that the Nazis were in some sense correct, Gimbel examines Einstein and his work to explore how beliefs, background, and environment may--or may not--influence the work of the scientist. You cannot understand Einstein's science, Gimbel declares, without knowing the history, religion, and philosophy that influenced it. No one, especially Einstein himself, denies Einstein's Jewish heritage, but many are uncomfortable saying that he was a Jew while he was at his desk working. To understand what "Jewish" means for Einstein's work, Gimbel first explores the many definitions of "Jewish" and asks whether there are elements of Talmudic thinking apparent in Einstein's theory of relativity. He applies this line of inquiry to other scientists, including Isaac Newton, Ren? Descartes, Sigmund Freud, and ?mile Durkheim, to consider whether and how their specific religious beliefs or backgrounds manifested in their scientific endeavors. "Einstein's Jewish Science" intertwines science, history, philosophy, theology, and politics in fresh and fascinating ways to solve the multifaceted riddle of what religion means--and what it means to science. There are some senses, Gimbel claims, in which Jews can find a special connection to "E = mc2," and this claim leads to the engaging, spirited debate at the heart of this book. Acquista Ora

Logic Thinker Sheets

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Daniel, Becky / McClure, Nancee, PUBLISHER: Good Apple, From beginning to more advanced logic puzzles, students begin to recognize certain facts and deduce conclusions based on reasoning. Bonus activities included.

Bears of the World

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Domico, Terry / Newman, Mark, PUBLISHER: Facts on File, Bears of the World features an authoritative text, global coverage, and stunning, previously unpublished photographs.

Applying Scientific Reasoning to the Field of Marketing:

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Grapentine, Terry, PUBLISHER: Business Expert Press, Marketing decisions often misfire when driven more by beliefs than knowledge. Make Better Marketing Decisions: Lessons from the Philosophy of Science, guides readers on how to think more clearly and correctly when making these decisions, thereby increasing organizational success. The book is based on the field of epistemology--the study of how knowledge is created--within the philosophy of science. Epistemology is a difficult subject with its own vocabulary and concepts that are often esoteric and considered too academic for marketing decision makers and researchers to apply. Consequently, the first sections of the book disabuse this notion by explaining why incorporating a scientific way of viewing the world and the scientific method is actually a practical way to make better decisions. These introductory chapters transition into a more formal discussion of philosophy of science, epistemology, and why marketing is a social science as opposed to merely an art or a practice, like medicine or engineering. The main body of the book then guides the reader through selected lessons from the philosophy of science to improve decision making. Example topics are (1) applying scientific reasoning to decision making, (2) differentiating between symptoms vs. causes of consumer behavior, and (3) understanding the importance of theory development in translating information into understanding. The book concludes by identifying the necessary conditions for applying philosophy of science's lessons to decision making and how to strike the proper balance between (1) allocating resources for knowledge creation, and (2) managing the day-to-day realities of running a business.

Continental Philosophy of Social Science: Hermeneutics,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sherratt, Yvonne, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Yvonne Sherratt argues for the importance of an historical understanding of the continental traditional approach to social science in order to appreciate its individual, humanist character. Examining the key traditions of hermeneutic, genealogical and critical theory, and the texts of major thinkers such as Gadamer, Ricoeur, Derrida, Nietzsche, Foucault, the Early Frankfurt School and Habermas, she also contextualizes contemporary developments within strands of thought stemming back to Ancient Greece and Rome. Sherrat demonstrates how these modes of thinking developed through the ages to become part of twentieth-century disciplines.

Becoming a Successful Scientist: Strategic Thinking for

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Loehle, Craig, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Scientific research requires both innovation and attention to detail, clever breakthroughs and routine procedures. This indispensable guide gives students and researchers across all scientific disciplines practical advice on how to succeed. All types of scientific careers are discussed, from those in industry and academia to consulting, with emphasis on how scientists spend their time and the skills that are needed to be productive. Strategic thinking, creativity and problem-solving, the central keys to success in research, are all explored. The reader is shown how to enhance the creative process in science, how one goes about making discoveries, putting together the solution to a complex problem and then testing the solution obtained. The social dimension of science is also discussed from the development and execution of a scientific research program to publishing papers, as well as issues of ethics and science policy.

Invitation to Invent: A Physical Science Unit for

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Center For Gifted Education, PUBLISHER: NA, NA

The Berenstain Bears Big Book of Science and Nature

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jan Berenstain Stan Berenstain, PUBLISHER: Dover Publications Incorporated, NA

Cold, Colder, Coldest: Animals That Adapt to Cold Weather

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dahl, Michael / Jensen, Brian, PUBLISHER: Picture Window Books, - Measurement charts - Index - At the Library - Glossary - Fun Facts - Safe internet sites at www.FactHound.com

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Disco vinile 33 giri

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Disco vinile 33 giri pari a nuovo Tracklist Science Fiction/Double Feature Dammit Janet Over At The Frankenstein Place Time Warp Sweet Transvestite I Can Make You A Man Hot Patootie - Bless My Soul I Can Make You A Man (Reprise) Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-A, Touch Me Eddie Rose Tint My World I'm Going Home Super Heroes Science Fiction/Double Feature (Reprise) Eventuali spese di spedizione otto euro con corriere tracciabile cellulare

Exploring the Universe: Essays on Science and Technology

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Day, P. / Day, Peter, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, Much of our present knowledge of the universe has come from observations made over the centuries with ever more powerful telescopes, operating from isolated mountain tops. But the Hubble Space Telescope, the first to be launched into space, is revolutionizing our ability to picture and understand the universe. In Exploring the Universe, astronomer Alexander Boksenberg shows how a star is born and how the magnificent pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope will enable us to explore the universe in ever more depth. This selection of essays from experts in their fields - exploring subjects from magic bullets derived from traditional folk medicines, to the role science can play in understanding the work of Mondrian and other artists - taken from the Royal Institution's Evening Discourses provides an authoritative and accessible summary of current thinking in many areas of science and technology.

Magnetic Resonance in Food Science Challenges in a Changing

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Maria Gu j nsd ttir, PUBLISHER: Royal Society of Chemistry, NA

Multiple Sclerosis: The Facts You Need

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: O'Connor, Paul, PUBLISHER: Firefly Books, Multiple sclerosis -- MS -- strikes about one in a thousand North Americans, usually in early adulthood, when they are building careers and starting families. Because the disease involves the central nervous system, its effects are wide-ranging and difficult to predict. Multiple Sclerosis: The Facts You Need -- part of the "Your Personal Health Series" -- is a fact filled, comprehensive guide to living with MS, supported by diagrams, case histories, a drug table and an extensive list of helpful books and organizations. Topics include: what MS is, and who gets it; how MS is diagnosed as "possible," "probable" or "definite"; why the disease affects different people in different ways; how "relapsing-remitting" MS differs from "progressive" MS; how people with MS and their families, can adapt their homes, careers and lifestyles to cope with the disease; which treatments work, which don't and what help is on the horizon. Combining authoritative medical advice and practical hands-on tips, Multiple Sclerosis: The Facts You Need is an invaluable guide for anyone affected, directly or indirectly by this complex disease.

Thomas Kuhn

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bird, Alexander, PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press, Thomas S. Kuhn () transformed the philosophy of science. His seminal work, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions," sold over one million copies and was translated into more than a dozen languages. It introduced the term "paradigm shift" into the vernacular and remains a fundamental text in the study of the history and philosophy of science. This introduction to Kuhn's ideas situates "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" within the development of his thought over time. Alexander Bird explains Kuhn's central distinction between normal and revolutionary science and then examines in detail the role played by the key notion of a paradigm in his account of radical scientific change. The book considers Kuhn's claim that the scientist's world changes when paradigms change and relates this thought to his views on perception, incommensurability, and meaning. The author engages with the main criticisms of Kuhn's philosophy. Examining Kuhn's thought in relation to its historical context as well as other more recent philosophies of science, Alexander Bird argues that Kuhn's thinking betrays a residual commitment to many theses characteristic of the empiricists he set out to challenge. His book concludes by looking at Kuhn's influence on the history and philosophy of science and asks where the field may be heading in the wake of Kuhn's ideas. Accessible to those with little formal philosophy training, this is an assured and engaging read for anyone interested in Kuhn's pivotal ideas.

Stacs th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Reichel, H. / Tison, S. / Reichel, Horst, PUBLISHER: Springer, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, STACS , held in Lille, France in February . The 51 revised full papers presented together with the three invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 146 submissions on the basis of some 700 reviewers' reports. The papers address fundamental issues from all current areas of theoretical computer science including algorithms, data structures, automata, formal languages, complexity, verification, logic, cryptography, graph theory, optimization, etc.

Science, Grade 6, Health Activity Book Harcourt School

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: HSP, PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers, NA Acquista Ora

English Chinese Dictionary of Atmospheric Sci

DIZIONARIO ENGLISH CHINESE DICTIONARY OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE DC-035 Titolo - Title ENGLISH CHINESE DICTIONARY OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE AUTORE - Author KUO, TEH-HUA HSU, CHEN-CHIEN VOCI - Item oltre APPENDICE - Appendix Si LINGUA - Language ENGLISH CHINESE EDITORE - Publisher Taipei, TAIWAN ANNO - Publication Year PAGINE - Pages [] FORMATO - Size mm. 145 x 205 IMMAGINI - Images No COPERTINA - Binding rigida PESO - Weight 695 gr. STATUS come nuovo * CODICE - Code DC-035 *Condizioni: presenta lievi segni delle macchie all' interno e nel complesso buono stato di conservazione.(come da fotografia) Possibilità di spedizione in tutta Italia. Se interessati contattarmi all'indirizzo mail

Drifting Continents and Shifting Theories: The Modern

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Le Grand, H. E., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This innovative book uses the story of how a modern science achieved its present shape and focus to introduce the question of the nature of scientific change and its philosophical analysis. The "modern revolution in geology" of the s and s saw the triumph of the global theory of plate tectonics, and decisive turning point in fifty years' controversy and competition first sparked in by Wegener's proposal of continenta drift. Here, Professor Le Grand interweaves a history of this episode of scientific change with reflective discussions of its historical, philosophical, and social circumstances, and of the development of science more generally. The approach of the book is exploratory; the reader is encouraged to be an active participant--to use the historical narrative to understand and criticize some of the more recent, influential ideas about science and scientists, to draw conclusions, and especially to pose questions about how and why changes occur in scientific knowledge and practice.

Forensic Science: The Basics

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Siegel, Jay A. / Mirakovits, Kathy, PUBLISHER: CRC Press, Now in its second edition, this tremendously popular text explains every aspect of crime scene investigation, moving from basic areas of criminalistics to pathology, anthropology, and engineering. It also explores new and emerging areas such as forensic entomology. The text requires no previous knowledge of either science or law. The information is self-contained and conveyed at the lowest possible non-scientific level, making it suitable for both lower level students as well as for a general audience. It also offers a complete package of ancillary material for instructors. This forensic primer works well in conjunction with current CRC laboratory manuals. New to this edition: New co-author who is high school teacher of forensic science Computer forensic science Engineering with an emphasis on accident reconstruction and failure analysis Mini-glossary and list of acronyms Comprehensive and simple hands-on laboratory activities at the end List of websites in 'further readings' throughout that include free videos, demonstrations, etc. More end of chapter questions More figures and pictures Crime scene scenarios and how to set them up at the end of each chapter More case studies and existing case studies set off in boxes New boxes: on the Internet New boxes: a bit of history New boxes: forensic science and the law Embedded and highlighted references to material in other chapters.

The Music of the Spheres Music, Science and the Natural

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jamie James, PUBLISHER: Abacus, NA

What's the Matter? A Physical Science Unit for

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: The Center for Gifted Education, PUBLISHER: Sourcebooks Incorporated, NA

The Cambridge Factfinder

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Crystal, David, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Now thoroughly revised and updated, this popular reference book provides the quickest and most accurate answers to the widest possible range of questions. With more up-to-date facts and figures than any similar book, The Cambridge Factfinder is a storehouse of general and not-so-general knowledge for anyone needing information in a hurry. The information is clearly presented in the form of tables, lists, maps and diagrams. Its logical ordering, attractive page design and superb index makes this the most user-friendly source of information available. ??? Over 800 pages of up-to-date information ??? Covers all areas of human knowledge ??? Over facts and figures ??? Over 300 maps and diagrams ??? 120-page index ensuring rapid information retrieval

Clementoni Science & Play Laboratorio Meccanica Set

Con questo set di costruzione Laboratorio di Meccanica della Clementoni Science & Play potete costruire la vostra macchinina, e più di altri 50 veicoli o macchine! Questo set stimola la creatività e la capacità di risoluzione dei problemi e le capacità motorie, come si arriva a plasmare le idee e sviluppare nuovi progetti. Contiene oltre 250 componenti intercambiabili, con i quali è possibile costruire oltre 50 complesse costruzioni. È persino possibile equipaggiare un elicottero o un'automobile con un vero motore elettrico, consentendo al bambino di azionare effettivamente la leva del cambio e il volante.

Amphibians

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: O'Hare, Ted, PUBLISHER: Rourke Publishing, - Colorful and simple introduction to the Animal Kingdom - Basic series gives good science information - Satisfies most State Standards

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