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How do scientists develop new explanations of disease How do those explanations become accepted as true And how does medical diagnosis change when physicians are confronted with new scientific evidence These are questions that Paul Thagard pursues in this pathbreaking book that develops a new, integrative approach to the study of science.

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"The portraits of Freud, Shakespeare, Einstein, and Leonardo da Vinci on the cover symbolize a major theme of How We Know --that the creative imagination plays a role in the sciences no less than in the"

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Welcome to Human 3.0.

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John's broader coverage of the evolution of sexual intimacy in the animal kingdom demonstrates that the gap between human and animal behaviour is not as large as many of you might have thought.

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Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged. Throughout his work Gould has developed a distinctive and personal form of essay to treat great scientific issues in the context of biography.

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This text is intended as an introductory overview of the emergence of Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS) as a field of study, as well as a summary of interests and concerns.

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A unique resource that synthesizes existing primary and secondary sources to provide a fascinating introduction to the development and dissemination of science within history's great empires, as well as the complex interaction between imperialism and scientific progress over two centuries.

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Barrow looks at what limits there might be to human discovery, and what we might find, ultimately, to be unknowable, undoable, or unthinkable. that any Universe complex enough to contain conscious beings will contain limits on what those beings can know about their Universe; that what we cannot know defines reality as surely as what we can know.

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Many would argue that the state of urban science education has been static for the past several decades and that there is little to learn from it. Rather than accepting this deficit perspective, Improving Urban Science Education strives to recognize and understand the successe...

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In this age of global communication, local identities and nation-states reassert themselves when cultural boundaries are dissolved and reconstructed.

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In this age of global communication, local identities and nation-states reassert themselves when cultural boundaries are dissolved and reconstructed.

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How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people.

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Narrates how two charismatic, exceptionally talented physicists - J Robert Oppenheimer and Hans A Bethe - came to terms with the nuclear weapons they helped to create. This work tells the story of modern physics, the development of atomic weapons, and the Cold War.

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This book uses a case study to explore the contribution which scientific knowledge made to the growth trajectory of England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The aim is not to re-tell the story of the Industrial Revolution, but to reconstruct its preliminary stage which is here labelled the Industrial Enlightenment. -- .

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Medics learned quickly to ignore standing operating procedures in order to save lives but tensions within infantry units created a paradoxical culture of isolation and acceptance. This groundbreaking work examines training and combat experiences of soldiers working in Battalion Aid Stations and those who went as aid men to the line companies.

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"Infinite Potential is the first biography of David Bohm--brilliant physicist, explorer of consciousness, student of Oppenheimer, friend to Einstein, and enemy of the House Committee on Un-American Act"

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The internet, television, mobile phones, computer-based devices and other new forms of information technology are changing with influences on social life. Yet, they also pose challenges and have to be managed. This book offers an introduction to both the experience and implications of these technologies in everyday life.

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The internet, television, mobile phones, computer-based devices and other new forms of information technology are changing and influencing social life. Yet, they also pose challenges and have to be managed. This book offers an introduction to both the experience and implications of these technologies in everyday life.

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This title presents explores how emerging nanotechnologies demand a new approach to scientific discovery. It develops a theory of authorship, artifacts and intentionality in relation to public policies and institutions. It concludes that localized manufacturing, distributed design and nanotechnology call into question intellectual property regimes.

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At the macroeconomic level innovation increasingly means the ability of institutions to cope with uncertainty and change.

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