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The role that system has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our own computational universe.

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A scientific nail-biter that takes readers where no reality television show would dare go - and proves what survival really means.

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The first book to explore the fascinating-and essential-world beneath our feet

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Use an interactive approach to keep students engaged and excited about learning science with 25 teaching modules that cover ten major science areas.

One-of-a-kind tool that covers all areas of science with films

Make learning fun while meeting science and information literacy standards

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Six exciting titles use well-known works of childrens literature as a springboard for learning! Activities, booktalks, and recommended book titles help students connect reading for pleasure with reading for information. Includes relevant McREL, Information Power II, and NETS standards.

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Six exciting titles use well-known works of childrens literature as a springboard for learning! Activities, booktalks, and recommended book titles help students connect reading for pleasure with reading for information. Includes relevant McREL, Information Power II, and NETS standards.

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An essential resource for teachers and librarians who work with students in the later high school years through college and graduate school levels, this book explains and simplifies the scholarly task of researching and writing a scientific literature review.

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This book looks at the practice of science and the role of technologies and instruments in the process of knowledge production by building bridges between the philosophy of science, philosophy of technology, and science and technology studies.

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The intersection of race and technology: black creativity and the economic and social functions of the myth of disengenuity.

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Most contemporary accounts of the role of technology in world culture are alarmist and, at times, condemn many uses of technology without much effort to get beyond the surface of this worldwide phenomenon.

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Discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that illuminate what technology is and why it matters.

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For the developing countries to take advantage of the accumulated and growing body of scientific and technological information, they must develop competence in choosing technology through an institutionalized technology policy.

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With evidence from contemporary astrophysics, biology, anthropology, and evolutionary psychology, "Thank God for Evolution" lays out a compelling argument for how religion and science can be mutually enriching forces. Illustrations throughout.

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Over the past 200 years, technology has enabled tourists to visit everywhere on the globe, resulting in locations being commodified into "products" and national identity constructs. Presenting a historical narrative, this study examines landscape consumption and the technologies that shape it.

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Over the years, millions of school children must have written out their address in the same way their house number and street, their town, their country, their continent, planet Earth, the universe

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A scientist provides a close-up look at his discoveries about and evidence concerning life after death, offering revelations about the nature of life and death, the soul in the afterlife, and the meaning of eternity and charting his own personal odyssey in search of the mysteries of human existence.

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A sweeping overview of the scientific achievements of the 20th century, without question the greatest century for science in human history, by the legendary former publisher of Scientific American.

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In a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of goodness in both animals and humans This work traces the history of this debate from Darwin. It aims to bring to life the people, the issues, and the passions that have surrounded the altruism debate.

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Tools to make hard problems easier to solve.