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Australia's favourite scientist answers more curly questions on Life, the Universe and Everything. No one conveys the excitement and wonder of science quite like Dr Karl, and this, his twenty-seventh book, takes us on another thoroughly entertaining exploration of the world around us.

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In this thoroughly revised and updated new edition of their classic bestselling guide to basic principles of science, Hazen and Trefil take into account the most recent developments, from particle physics to biotechnology.

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A dictionary of several thousand common science terms that are broken down into their component parts. This work helps students learn the meaning of common suffixes, prefixes and roots, and quickly understand the meaning of scientific terminology without resorting to memorisation or frequently referring to standard dictionaries.

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This book seeks to deconstruct the process of scientific knowledge discovery and theory construction by scrutinizing the circumstances under which all scientific hypotheses are conceived. It concentrates on the interrelatedness of observation, paradox, delusion and self reference in scientific theory and method.

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This book seeks to deconstruct the process of scientific knowledge discovery and theory construction by scrutinizing the circumstances under which all scientific hypotheses are conceived. It concentrates on the interrelatedness of observation, paradox, delusion and self reference in scientific theory and method.

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The author sees the history of Western science as the history of a vision and an argument, initiated by the ancient Greeks in their search for principles at once of nature and of argument itself. This volume explores science, art and nature in medieval and modern thought.

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In Science, Order and Creativity the authors call for a new creative urge in science and, in doing so, explore how creativity itself can be fostered, not only in science but in society and in the life of each individual.

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Part of the "Key Concepts in Philosophy" series, this book considers such fundamentals as discovery, evidence, verification and falsification, realism and objectivity. It also draws on specific examples from the history of science to further illuminate the philosophical questions addressed.

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Written with the specific needs of students new to the discipline in mind, this book covers the work of key thinkers and outlines the central questions, problems and arguments encountered in studying the philosophy of science. It considers such fundamentals as discovery, evidence, verification and falsification, realism and objectivity.

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An account of the errors into which seemingly infallible humans have fallen, whether through obstinacy, arrogance or carelessness. Examples investigated include the Piltdown Man hoax and the Tay Bridge collapse.

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Readers will discover how mistakes and misunderstandings led to further experimentation and eventually to scientific facts.

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Proposes philosophical theory of scientific explanation proposed that involves a treatment of causality that accords with the pervasively statistical character of contemporary science. This title describes three fundamental conceptions of scientific explanation - the epistemic, modal, and ontic.

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Examines the connected histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in twentieth-century Britain. -- .

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This book examines twentieth-century scientific management and the role and influence of technocrats who have exercised power and formulated public policies by virtue of their specialized technical knowledge.

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Profiles approximately 200 individuals who changed the world by leaving lasting legacies in the fields of science, medicine and exploration.

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Historians of science have long been intrigued by the impact of disparate cultural styles on the science of a given country and time period. Richard Olson's book is a case study in the interaction between philosophy and science as well as an examination of a particular scientific movement. The author investigates the methodological arguments of th

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Based on an ethnographic study of the traditional medicine of African Americans in the rural southern United States, this work concentrates on the original Louisiana Territory, with its Native and African American indigenous traditions, and the French migration and Black Haitian freed and enslaved population influx during the 1700s and 1800s.