Science: general issues

Who are we in simulated worlds?

This book presents the results of the first full-scale emissions trading schemes in Australia and internationally, arguing these schemes will not be sufficient to 'civilize markets' and prevent dangerous climate change.

This book is essential for anyone interested in knowing how science works nationally and internationally in the contemporary world.

This book examines the role of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in society.

The second half of the eighteenth century brought important changes in attitudes towards shaping the body.

Drawing on court records from London and the South West, Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England explores medical roles in trials for sexual offences.

This handbook offers the first comprehensive, state-of-the-field guide to past weather and climate and their role in human societies.

This study offers an analysis of the technological and entrepreneurial features of the Victorian telegraph service, together with the companies which ran it until nationalization in 1869.

This book looks at how sexuality is framed in enhancement scenarios and how descriptions of the resulting posthuman future are informed by mythological, historical and literary paradigms.

Exploring how scholars use digital resources to reconstruct the 19th century, this volume probes key issues in the intersection of digital humanities and history.

Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the Post-Apollo period.

Towards a Sustainable University tackles the challenge of sustainability in universities.

The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history.

The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing hierarchies.

This book offers the first in-depth study of the masculine self-fashioning of scientific practitioners in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain.

Asoka Bandarage provides an integrated analysis of the twin challenges of environmental sustainability and human well-being by investigating them as interconnected phenomena requiring a paradigmatic psychosocial transformation.

Sustainable Knowledge rethinks the nature of interdisciplinary research and the place of philosophy and the humanities in society and offers a new account of what is at stake in talk about 'interdisciplinarity'.

This collection takes the perspective that the historiography of science, technology, and medicine needs a broader approach toward regulation.

This book provides a unique, comprehensive exploration of the scale, scope, threats and drivers of wildlife trafficking.

This volume challenges the widespread belief that scientific knowledge as such is international.

The Politics of Addiction  examines power and policy-making in the context of a bitter conflict between private and publicly employed doctors treating addiction.

This book illuminates how crucial transformations in medical politics and organisation were linked to wider changes in society, economy and ideology.

Max Muller is often referred to as the 'father of Religious Studies', having himself coined the term 'science of religion' (or religionswissenschaft) in 1873.

This book uses both oral and conventional historical methods to describe and analyze the history of lung transplantation in the US.

The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions of the natural world continue to be hampered by imprecision or ambiguity.

An atom is the smallest part of any element that can exist alone or combined with other particles.

The first book of its kind, Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History draws on the most recent developments in the historiography, to provide an overview of the history of forensic medicine in the West from the medieval period to the present day.

Methodologies and legislative frameworks regarding the archaeological excavation, retrieval, analysis, curation and potential reburial of human skeletal remains differ throughout the world.

Methodologies and legislative frameworks regarding the archaeological excavation, retrieval, analysis, curation and potential reburial of human skeletal remains differ throughout the world.

The thermodynamics knowledge you need to succeed in class and in your career Thermodynamics For Dummies, 2nd Edition covers the topics found in a typical undergraduate introductory thermodynamic course (which is an essential course to nearly all engineering degree programs).

Genius, Einstein said, is 99% perspiration.

Genius, Einstein said, is 99% perspiration.

The period between World War I and World War II was one of intense change.

The period between World War I and World War II was one of intense change.

Evolution: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the history, development and science of the theory of evolution.

Evolution: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the history, development and science of the theory of evolution.

'if AI is outside your field, or you know something of the subject and would like to know more then Artificial Intelligence: The Basics is a brilliant primer.

'if AI is outside your field, or you know something of the subject and would like to know more then Artificial Intelligence: The Basics is a brilliant primer.

Este libro se enfoca en las transformaciones de las políticas que afectaron al sistema público de investigación científica entre 1980 y 2021, ocupándose del análisis de organismos públicos e instrumentos transversales que permean a las distintas instituciones involucradas.

Why human biology is far more expansive than the simple categories of female and maleBeing human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture, and while there are important differences between women and men, there is a lot more variation and overlap than we may realize.

This book appeared in its first edition in 1922, then a second edition appeared in 1924, and was reprinted for the third time in 1949.

Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper's Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery.

Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper's Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery.

Realism and the Aim of Science is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper's Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery.

Realism and the Aim of Science is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper's Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery.

The Open Universe is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper's Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery.

The Open Universe is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper's Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery.

There is a method theory that has not yet been proven correct, which says that both humans and insects trace their origin to the class of creatures commonly known as arthropods, because they are composed of many similar rings or brains arranged in a regular series from front to back.

**A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2025 SO FAR * A SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK TO READ THIS SUMMER **A transporting exploration of the deep sea, and how our planet s strangest, most ancient and astonishing creatures have urgent relevance to cutting-edge science today.

Written by a tribological expert with more than thirty years of experience in the field, this second edition compiles an extensive range of graphs, tables, micrographs, and drawings to illustrate wear, friction, and lubrication behavior in modern engineering applications.