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A ground-breaking book that will do for morality what THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT did for language.

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Despite the verdict of the Cultural Revolution as a disaster for China, a number of scholars have called for reexamining socialist science under Maos aegis. This collection examines the viewpoints on social and scientific enterprises of that era, probing medicine, the space program and the one-child policy as outcomes of earlier Maoist science.

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This accessible volume provides readers whether students new to the field or just interested members of the lay public with the essential ideas of the new science of nanotechnology using a minimum of jargon and mathematics.

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With lively prose and an eye for colorful and unusual details, Le Couteur and Burreson offer a novel way to understand the shaping of civilization and the workings of our contemporary world.

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How maturing digital media and network technologies are transforming place, culture, politics, and infrastructure in our everyday life.

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Dr Karl has taken on Santa Claus, atom bombs, 'friendly' dolphins and 'killer' whales, meteors, black holes, string theory and camel's humps. In his 27 books, he demolishes myths, tells readers how to spot bogus science and advises readers to be wise. Here he continues his crusade to keep the world a rational place.

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Offers a "postmodern" ' assessment of the philosophy of mathematics - one that addresses issues of theoretical importance in terms of mathematical experience. This book reveals an effort to account for the nature of mathematics in relation to other human activities. It discusses such topics as the history of mathematics as a field study.

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The era of the new information revolution is arriving faster than any other era in the history of humanity-and its implications for communication, work, democracy, and education are discussed in detail in this volume.

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Reveals the manner in which Newton strove for nearly half a century to rectify universal history by reading ancient texts through the lens of astronomy, and to create a tight theoretical system for interpreting the evolution of civilization on the basis of population dynamics.

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AIDS is not caused by HIV. Coal and oil are not fossil fuels. Radiation exposure is good for you. Distributing more guns reduces crime. These ideas make headlines, but most educated people scoff at them. This title evaluates, for the general reader or student, nine seemingly far-out propositions culled from physics, biology, and social science.

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The science of our slumber, from the different stages of sleep and how our sleeping patterns change throughout our lives, to what happens when things go wrong.

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Tells a complex story about human beings and their attempts to come to grips with perhaps the most intellectually demanding puzzle there is: how does the world work at the most fundamental level and what is the role of mathematics in its description It considers what the role of beauty may be in mathematics and physics.

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Real and imagined undergrounds in the late nineteenth century viewed as offering a prophetic look at life in today's technology-dominated world.

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Demonstrates how odd and unusual math problems can be solved by bringing together basic physics ideas and powerful computers. This title looks at how the art of number-crunching has changed since the advent of computers, and how high-speed technology helps to solve conundrums such as the three-body, Monte Carlo, and gambler's ruin problems.

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An eloquent, accessible tour de force that reveals how the concept of number evolved from prehistoric times through to the 20th century.

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The measurement practice section illustrates the application of objective measurement methods to personality psychology, a sociological study of school environment, personnel management, pain research, motor performance, and curriculum development.

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Examines prominent feminist ideas regarding how to revise and enrich the concept of objectivity. These theories offer us warnings about 'idealized' concepts of objectivity and propose conceptions of objectivity that are intended to allow us to increase the extent to which our scientific theories are objective.

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[Woodard] successfully brings to life the fascinating mysteries of marine science [and] outlines strategies that, he contends, must be taken to save our seas.-Publishers Weekly