Science: general issues

In the wake of the Great Depression, economic recovery and nutritional improvement in Britain simultaneously occurred with their decline in British Africa.

How to use physical reasoning to solve surprising paradoxesEver wonder why cats land on their feet?

This book provides an historical overview of the recent developments in the history of diverse fields within chemistry.

This unique volume by two renowned astrophotographers unveils the science and history behind 100 of the most significant astronomical images of all time.

The seemingly unlimited reach of powerful biotechnologies and the attendant growth of the multibillion-dollar industry have raised difficult questions about the scientific discoveries, political assumptions, and cultural patterns that gave rise to for-profit biological research.

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARAn exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our world'A sparkling book, with an intoxicating mix of pen-portraits and grand historical narrative.

This book discusses current challenges related to teaching geography, mainly at the secondary school and higher education level.

This edited volume maps dialogues between science and technology studies research on the arts and the emerging field of artistic research.

Was hat Bill Clinton mit Niklas Luhmann zu tun und was die Fernsehsendung "Big Brother" mit der Systemtheorie?

Kagawa Toyohiko was one of the best-known evangelists and social reformers of the twentieth century.

Philippe Rochat's FINITUDE is a rumination on time and self-consciousness.

Crime and Punishment in the Future Internet is an examination of the development and impact of digital frontier technologies (DFTs) such as Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of things, autonomous mobile robots, and blockchain on offending, crime control, the criminal justice system, and the discipline of criminology.

This edited volume reveals a reflective culmination of the Socioscientific Issues (SSI) framework that examines past, present, and future trends along with advances in the field of science education.

This book presents a philosophical interpretation to numerical cognition based on dual process theories and heuristics.

Food wastage has become a major problem with about one third of all food produced for human consumption going to waste, leading to major socioeconomic and environmental consequences in an increasingly resource-constrained world.

This book explores and compares the reflections on space and quantity found in the works of five philosophers: Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, and Deleuze.

The first fully self-contained introduction to geometric algebra by two leading experts in the field.

The Handbook of Research on Food Processing and Preservation Technologies is a 5-volume collection that highlights various design, development, and applications of novel and innovative strategies for food processing and preservation.

This textbook supplement deconstructs some of the most commonly-encountered and challenging problems arising within engineering domains such as thermodynamics, separation processes, chemical kinetics, fluid dynamics, and engineering mathematics that are foundational to most engineering programs, as well as many courses in STEM disciplines.

Can scientific explanation ever make reference to God or the supernatural?

Our previous book, About Life, concerned modern biology.

Clinical research ethics consultation has emerged in the last 15 years as a service to those involved in the conduct of clinical research who face challenging issues for which more than one course of action may be justified.

Plant Breeding Reviews is an ongoing series presenting state-of-the art review articles on research in plant genetics, especially the breeding of commercially important crops.

A shrewd and compelling examination of how political figures throughout history have used scientific findings to achieve their objectives-just as scientists have often put political forces to work to achieve their own goals.

Multi-million-copy bestselling authors Drs Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz show you how to look and feel fabulous your whole life long.

This thesis focuses on the energy band engineering of graphene.

This unique introduction fully engages and clearly explains pragmatism, an approach to knowledge and philosophy that rejects outmoded conceptions of objectivity while avoiding relativism and subjectivism.

India boasts of rising itself to the status of a few big nations.

How ought we to live with new technologies?

Unless you are a specialist or watch a lot of obscure YouTube videos you have probably never heard of He II or superfluid helium.

Two articles by Lewis Feuer caught my attention in the '40s when 1 was wondering, asa student physicist, about the relations of physics to philosophy and to the world in turmoil.

This book brings together multiple aspects of the recent research conducted in the field of nanotechnology covering topics such as the synthesis of various nanoparticles, nanorods, graphene, graphene oxide-metal composites, characterization of these materials, and ample aspects of various applications including in heavy metal sensing, optoelectronic devices, gas sensing, solar cells, biomedical sensors, role in the drug delivery, and waste-water treatment.

This book discusses technological developments by distinguished figures in the history of MMS (mechanism and machine science).

With changing consumer preferences and a focus on developing resilient food systems, food processing is finding its place in key policies, government interventions, global trade, and the overall food and nutritional security.

Desulphurization and Denitrification of Diesel Oil using Ionic Liquids: Experiments and Quantum Chemical Predictions discusses how quantum chemical calculations are applied to investigate the fundamental nature of the IL-sulphur-nitrogen systems at atomic and molecular levels.

This third edition of a well-received monograph provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art of detectors and their evolution.

This book deals with aspects of thermodynamic restrictions in modern continuum mechanics and with particular problems of the kinetic theory and statistical mechanics.

Originally published in 1987.

The Royal Entomological Society was founded in 1833 and is one of the oldest such societies in the world.

This novel book introduces cellular automata from a rigorous nonlinear dynamics perspective.

An exceptional man, George Mercer Dawson (1849-1901) a tiny hunchback, may have contributed more than any other person to early knowledge of the geology, biology and ethnology of Canada's Northwest.

"José Gaos escribió una filosofía de la técnica que, a pesar de su importancia, ha sido poco reconocida y casi nada estudiada.

Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity is an anthology of original essays by an international team of leading philosophers and physicists who have come together to reassess the contemporary paradigm of the relativistic concept of time.

This book presents quantum theory as a theory based on new relationships among matter, thought, and experimental technology, as against those previously found in physics, relationships that also redefine those between mathematics and physics in quantum theory.