Science: general issues

Noakes'' revelatory analysis of Victorian scientists'' fascination with psychic phenomena connects science, the occult and religion in intriguing new ways.

Details the science behind the Copernican Revolution, the transition from the Earth-centered cosmos to a modern understanding of planetary orbits.

Offers an accessible yet cutting-edge tour of the many conceptual interconnections between physics and computer science.

Leading theorists share their important insights into the ongoing quest of theoretical physics to find a quantum theory of gravity.

Explores the transnational movements of people, plants, agricultural sciences, and techniques from Russia''s steppes to North America''s Great Plains.

New essays on Kant''s complex work, considering its place in his oeuvre and in the history of science.

Explores many aspects of the behaviour, genetics, taxonomy and evolution of this genus and its adaptation to multiple environments.

This updated paperback edition contains all the very latest on the dramatic story of Crispr and the potential impact of this gene-editing technology.

A path-breaking study of national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake in a controversial German expedition to British India.

A new pragmatist philosophy of science that conceives truth and reality as operational ideals achievable in actual scientific practice.

Seminal papers by A.

A definitive handbook to photographing the night sky using DSLR cameras, including projects for both beginners and more advanced enthusiasts.

Historically and philosophically informed introduction to the embryological, zoological, and medical views presented in this sophisticated and challenging text.

An overview of the collapse theories of quantum mechanics written by distinguished physicists and philosophers of physics.

Explores how decision-makers can manage uncertainty that varies in both kind and severity by extending and supplementing Bayesian decision theory.

This book provides a panorama of modern techniques in the asymptotic analysis of classical and quantum fields in general relativity.

In-depth discussion of the value of scientific theories, bringing together and advancing current important debates in realism.

Chronicles the critical role the sciences have played in American foreign relations since World War II.

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Explores the resilience of the Dutch Republic in the face of preindustrial climate change during the Little Ice Age.

Traces the practice of induction - manipulating textual evidence by selective quotation - and its uses by Romantic-period writers.

Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century.

A history of how scientific ideas have transformed international politics since 1550.

Provides a spirited defence of anti-realism in philosophy of science.

Reveals how babies shaped modern American life, including the rise of the medical authority, consumerism, social welfare, and popular psychology.

Investigates the idea of the human within Brontë sisters'' work, offering new insight on their writing and cultural contexts.

Comprehensive and in-depth study of this important text, the first book of Aristotle''s foundational treatise on natural philosophy.

Recounts the modern transformation of model theory and its effects on the philosophy of mathematics and mathematical practice.

This history of astronomy in Egypt reveals how modern science came to play an authoritative role in Islamic religious practice.

Generation and Corruption II, a foundational text, develops Aristotle''s theory of the elements, essential for his natural philosophy.

Argues that Peirce wrote philosophy as a scientist, expanded empiricism, and conceived of science as responsible for its own philosophy.

We don''t remember what went on during our first 1,000 days, but those ''secret'' events affect our health for life.

Demonstrates the vibrancy of an Early Modern Muslim society through a study of the natural sciences in seventeenth-century Morocco.

Introduces an original approach to foundations of mathematics, departing from Gödel and Tarski and spanning many different areas of logic.

From measles to COVID, discover how data allied with statistical and probabilistic reasoning are essential to making rational decisions.

The collective biography of the only generation of economists who lived their entire professional life in GDR''s socialism.

Offers a novel solution to technology addiction through legal action to pressure the technology industry to re-design its products.

Policy insider''s compelling argument to reorganise our efforts in science, diplomacy, and economics to tackle climate change five times faster.

Gasphase synthesis of nanoparticles and nanostructured materials offers high chemical purity and crystalline quality as well as scalability up to industrial quantities.

This book provides a general introduction as well as a selected survey of key advances in the fascinating field of plant cell and tissue culture as a tool in biotechnology.

Using a transdisciplinary approach, this book examines how scientific understanding of the Earth has been created, transformed, and shared across time - combining perspectives from the history of science, sociology of knowledge, and cultural studies to explore the evolution of Earth sciences.

This volume brings together a comprehensive and up-to-date collection of protocols that reflect the diverse experimental strategies.

This volume brings together a comprehensive and up-to-date collection of protocols that reflect the diverse experimental strategies.

This book deals with a new class of materials, quantum rings.

This book presents the achievements in bionanoelectronics in a coherent manner.

Applications:- Applications of Microbial Cell Sensors, by Mifumi Shimomura-Shimizu and Isao Karube- Whole-Cell Bioreporters for the Detection of Bioavailable Metals, by Anu Hynninen and Marko Virta- Bacteriophage-Based Pathogen Detection, by Steven Ripp- Cell-Based Genotoxicity Testing, by Georg Reifferscheid and Sebastian Buchinger- Cytotoxicity and Genotoxicity Reporter Systems Based on the Use of Mammalian Cells, by Christa Baumstark-Khan, Christine E.

This monograph identifies the essential characteristics of the objects described by current quantum theory and considers their relationship to space-time.

Table of ContentsReporter cells: - Yeast Based Sensorsby Mifumi Shimomura-Shimizu and Isao Karube - Mammalian Cell-Based Sensor Systemsby Pratik Banerjee, Briana Franz, and Arun K.

Using a transdisciplinary approach, this book examines how scientific understanding of the Earth has been created, transformed, and shared across time - combining perspectives from the history of science, sociology of knowledge, and cultural studies to explore the evolution of Earth sciences.

This fully updated volume focuses on analytical separations by chromatographic and electrophoretic techniques, providing some overview along with a multitude of practical applications.