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

The essays in this volume present a nuanced analysis of the development of scientific fields and institutions in Eastern Europe during the "long 19...

Text in Arabic. From Musa Al-Khwarizmi who developed algebra in 9th-century Baghdad to Al-Jazari, a 13th-century Turkish engineer whose achievement...

This book explores several issues in the emerging field of science and religion which are of common interest to different religions. The main idea ...

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 ...

A scientist casts new light on psychic phenomena, such as clairvoyance, telepathy, and 'out of body experiences'. He presents an exciting new theor...

'The Silicon Tongue' follows the award-winning novel, 'The Wood Burners' and critically acclaimed novel, 'The Iron Mouth'. These novels explore the...

The scope of public ignorance concerning how things work inevitably grows explosively. It is unreasonable to expect widespread or detailed understa...

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...

This book has been designed to provide a conduit for the pre-service and beginning teacher of science to access contemporary educational research. ...

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...