Scientific and technical knowledge and guidance influences not just policy related to science and technology, but also many of today's public polic...

In Gobekli Tepe' near Urfa, an ancient city in south-eastern Turkey, stand 11,000 year old concentric rings of old massive T shaped pillars. The ca...

In Gobekli Tepe' near Urfa, an ancient city in south-eastern Turkey, stand 11,000 year old concentric rings of old massive T shaped pillars. The ca...

What can one life teach about the unfolding of opportunities into developing careers? From a 20th century social scientist at the forefront of scie...

The first chapter of this book is a fact sheet, providing data on past, current and proposed NASA appropriations. The second chapter provides an ov...

A scientist is always led by intellectual curiosity; obviously he has collected information about the subjects of the field of interest in a system...

In many real-world applications, the problems with the data used for scheduling such as processing times, set-up times, release dates or due dates ...

Global, local, glocal – reflecting on the area of world social science seems to be above all a matter of space. In these spatial dichotomies the gl...

Like the ever-widening universe, Standard candles expands on Alice Major's earlier themes of family, mythology, and cosmology, teasing out subtle w...

In 1966 the author, newly graduated from college, went to work for the MIT laboratory where the Apollo guidance system was designed. His assignment...

Systems-thinking, a holistic approach that puts the study of wholes before that of parts, is an effective means of dealing with real-world situatio...

Research and development in scientific computing and computational science has considerably increased the power of numerical simulation. Engineers ...

The Catholic Church today is accustomed to o en being ridiculed and criticised. Well known scientists such as Richard Dawkins treat religion in gen...

The Catholic Church today is accustomed to o en being ridiculed and criticised. Well known scientists such as Richard Dawkins treat religion in gen...

The importance of the Arctic in many fields of human activity strongly increased over the past decades. The academic scientific research demonstrat...

The Ypres salient ‘was the favourite battle ground of the devil and his minions’ wrote one returned serviceman after the First World War. Few who f...

The concept of a constant reformulation of the canon due to the notion of singularity or irreducibility of the case can be applied in both scientif...

Science is on its Deathbed! Lies, specious argument and fraud abound in a variety of scientific endeavours including the treatment and vaccines for...

Finocchiaro's new and revised translations have done what the Inquisition could not: they have captured an exceptional range of Galileo's career wh...

Finocchiaro's new and revised translations have done what the Inquisition could not: they have captured an exceptional range of Galileo's career wh...

"Ernest Nagel's work, The Structure of Science , has earned for itself the status of an outstanding standard work in its field. It offers an except...

"Ernest Nagel's work, The Structure of Science , has earned for itself the status of an outstanding standard work in its field. It offers an except...

This volume includes Whewell's seminal studies of the logic of induction (with his critique of Mill's theory), arguments for his realist view that ...

This volume includes Whewell's seminal studies of the logic of induction (with his critique of Mill's theory), arguments for his realist view that ...

Contents: Introduction , Bibliography On the Sects for Beginners An Outline of Empiricism On Medical Experience Index of the Persons Mentione...

Every curriculum in traffic or queuing theory presents Engset's formula. Published in 1918 this relatively simple, yet powerful piece of scientific...

Physics and mathematics have always been closely intertwined, with developments in one field frequently inspiring the other. Currently, there are m...

Since their discovery a mere thirty years ago, solitons have been invoked to explain such diverse phenomena as: The long lived 'giant red spot' in ...

This book gives a down-in-the-trenches view of how knowledge of the biological world increased. It deals with science, but in a way that does not p...

In fluid-dynamics, several motivating factors can spur new lines of inquiry. Beginning with considerations on the exchange of momentum that takes p...

The book is the first attempt to connect the natural sciences into a history of creation. The idea is a bold one, and there are many circumstances ...

Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major's most persistent question--"Where do we fit in the ...

This anthology explores different approaches to and readings of Techno-Anthropology, which is a new inter-disciplinary research and study area at A...

Written for the millions of science teachers, students and the public who want evidence of their views. Society must make important choices in heal...

The future looks brighter than most people think! That is the conclusion of this book after a thorough investigation of present facts, trends and p...

A reprint of the Bobbs-Merrill edition of 1970. These essays lead the reader through the land of the wonderful shrinking genie to the warehouse whe...

A reprint of the Bobbs-Merrill edition of 1970. These essays lead the reader through the land of the wonderful shrinking genie to the warehouse whe...