Science: general issues

This volume gathers together previously unpublished articles focusing on the relationship between preference adaptation and autonomy in connection with human enhancement and in the end-of-life context.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2013, held in Oldenburg, Germany, in February/March 2013.

How many citizens take part in moral and political decisions concerning the results obtained by the contemporary life sciences?

In this engaging, lyrical book, physicist Sander Bais shows how science can liberate us from our cultural straitjacket of prejudice and intolerance.

A follow-up to the author's prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society.

What does a mammoth smell like?

Learn how to strengthen your immune system, for life.

In the spring of 2020, as a new and deadly virus rapidly spread across the globe, the world shut down.

Traditional media is over.

This second of a two-part volume (Book II) extends the historical–scientific inquiry of first-part volume (Book I) by considering other specific case studies within cultural, fundamental & technological frameworks.

The period 1650 to 1790 was such a turbulent one for Scottish seafarers that much of this fast-flowing narrative reads like Treasure Island.

Performative methods are playing an increasingly prominent role in research into historical production processes, materials, bodily knowledge and sensory skills, and in forms of education and public engagement in classrooms and museums.

Discover the True Path to Lasting Happiness Rooted in Reason and ScienceHave you ever wondered why some methods for happiness feel empty, while others seem to offer genuine fulfillment?

This book includes peer reviewed articles from the 4th International Conference on Optoelectronic and Nanomaterials for Advanced Technology (icONMAT 2025), held during 11–14 February in Cochin, India.

This book includes peer reviewed articles from the 4th International Conference on Optoelectronic and Nanomaterials for Advanced Technology (icONMAT 2025), held during 11–14 February in Cochin, India.

Weithin hat die Meinung um sich gegriffen, allein mit Hilfe der Naturwissenschaften seien das Leben und die Welt zu begreifen.

This book describes systematically the historical aspects of the development of Solid State Physics.

A groundbreaking analysis of how the genomic revolution is transforming American society and creating new social divisions-some along racial lines-that promise to fundamentally shape American politics for years to come.

This book describes systematically the historical aspects of the development of Solid State Physics.

This book explores advanced image processing techniques for systems with deformed and sparse apertures.

This book investigates the influence of the graph of a symmetric matrix on the multiplicities of its eigenvalues.

This second of a two-part volume (Book II) extends the historical–scientific inquiry of first-part volume (Book I) by considering other specific case studies within cultural, fundamental & technological frameworks.

This volume brings together essays on a wide range of topics, from the popular notion of ‘climacterical’ years believed to recur every seventh year, and the origins and development of the concept of ‘palliative’ care in premodern medicine, to the early modern understanding of ‘melancholia’ as a disease rather than just a temperament, and its visual representation in the famous ‘Melancholia’ paintings of Lukas Cranach the Elder.

This volume brings together essays on a wide range of topics, from the popular notion of ‘climacterical’ years believed to recur every seventh year, and the origins and development of the concept of ‘palliative’ care in premodern medicine, to the early modern understanding of ‘melancholia’ as a disease rather than just a temperament, and its visual representation in the famous ‘Melancholia’ paintings of Lukas Cranach the Elder.

Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Analytical Chemistry: A Practical Approach provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental, theoretical aspects and advanced applications of fluorescence spectroscopy in analytical chemistry.

Prompting marks a paradigmatic shift in how we engage with artificial intelligence—transforming static interfaces into dynamic conversations, reshaping the relationship between user intent, system behavior, and knowledge production.

Personal physician of the emperors Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, and Septimius Severus, Galen was a multi-faceted intellectual and his extensive writings constitute, by far, the largest surviving corpus of any ancient author.

Without a doubt, ufology and the search for extraterrestrial intelligences and clues are among the most fascinating concepts in the process of human understanding.

This first of a two-part volume (Book I) deals with a unit intellectual cultural history of science in the Renaissance within fundamental frameworks.

This book provides a detailed review of the scaled-up production of nanoparticles.

As past president of both the History of Science Society and the American Society of Church History, Ronald L.

Is het brein een generator van bewustzijn, of slechts een filter die onze perceptie van een grotere realiteit beperkt?

First published in 1955, The Robot Era presents a pioneering examination of the emerging field of robotics and automated systems during the post-World War II industrial expansion.

First published in 1963, Language, Meaning and Persons stands as a bold challenge to the declaration that metaphysics has reached its end.

The debate about vivisection is over 150 years old yet until this book was published in 1987 there had been few studies of the historical context of the vivisection controversy.

First published in 1963, Language, Meaning and Persons stands as a bold challenge to the declaration that metaphysics has reached its end.