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SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time has produced an astounding new theory about the future of life on Earth. James Lovelock ……続きを見る

Heritage is a social construction rooted in modern and contemporary societies. It is commonly a positive assessment of many elements of the physical and human environment (e.g. ecosystems and landsc……続きを見る

This open access textbook offers a practical guide into research ethics for undergraduate students in the social sciences. A step-by-step approach of the most viable issues, in-depth discussions of ……続きを見る

Jane Maienschein examines how understanding of embryos evolved from the speculations of natural philosophers to bioengineering, with its life-enhancing therapies. She shows that research on embryos ……続きを見る

Imagine living in 1958, and knowing that the integrated circuit--the microchip--was about to be invented, and would revolutionize the world. Or imagine 1992, when the Internet was about to transform……続きを見る

Science and Human Values was originally a lecture by Jacob Bronowski at MIT in 1953. Published five years later, it opens unforgettably with Bronowski's description of Nagasaki in 1945: 'a bare wast……続きを見る

This textbook reviews the theory, applications, and latest breakthroughs in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs). Presenting a specific focus on Opportunistic Mobile Networks (OMNs), the text considers th……続きを見る

Imagine living in 1958, and knowing that the integrated circuit--the microchip--was about to be invented, and would revolutionize the world. Or imagine 1992, when the Internet was about to transform……続きを見る

Winnaar Socratesbeker 2014! Steeds meer onderdelen van het gewone leven worden gedomineerd door een vocabulaire dat ontwikkeld, bewaakt en behartigd wordt door de wetenschap. Met als gevolg dat wij ……続きを見る

Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebra……続きを見る

Este libro tiene dos objetivos: en primer lugar, poner en escena los aportes y las propuestas desarrolladas por un conjunto de investigadores latinoamericanos sobre diversos temas y enfoques en torn……続きを見る

Both science and philosophy are interested in questions of ontology - questions about what exists and what these things are like. Science and philosophy, however, seem like very different ways of in……続きを見る

This monograph offers a fresh perspective on the applicability of mathematics in science. It explores what mathematics must be so that its applications to the empirical world do not constitute a mys……続きを見る

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of cosmic acceleration due to dark energy, a discovery that is all the more perplexing as nobody knows what dark energy actually is. We ……続きを見る

Jacobus C. Kapteyn (1851-1922) was a Dutch astronomer who contributed heavily to major catalogs of star positions, such as the Cape Photographic Durchmusterung and the Harvard-Groningen Durchmusteru……続きを見る

Benjamin K. Sovacool applies concepts from justice and ethics theory to contemporary energy problems, and illustrates particular solutions to those problems with examples and case studies from aroun……続きを見る

Scientists have been debating the meaning of quantum mechanics for over a century. This book for graduate students and researchers gets to the root of the problem; the contextual nature of empirical……続きを見る

Human society is no stranger to catastrophe, but the challenges the world faces today ー a ballooning population, intense global connectivity and the unquenchable thirst of human consumption ー have……続きを見る

This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world’s leading interdisciplinary ecologists – Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray M……続きを見る

The introduction of new technologies can be controversial, especially when they create ethical tensions as well as winners and losers among stakeholders and interest groups. While ethical tensions r……続きを見る

This book is the first thorough and overdue biography of one of the giants of science in the twentieth century, Jan Hendrik Oort. His fundamental contributions had a lasting effect on the developmen……続きを見る

We live in an age where language and screens continue to collide for creative purposes, giving rise to new forms of digital literatures and literary video games. Towards a Digital Poetics explores t……続きを見る

An exploration of the moral and ethical implications of new biotechnologies Many of the ethical issues raised by new technologies have not been widely examined, discussed, or indeed settled. For exa……続きを見る

Carl Jung y Wolfgang Pauli trabajaron respectivamente en el campo de la psique y en el de la materia. Estos dos sectores se consideran absolutamente incompatibles entre sí. De hecho, el materialismo……続きを見る

Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays ……続きを見る

Current knowledge of the genetic, epigenetic, behavioural and symbolic systems of inheritance requires a revision and extension of the mid-twentieth-century, gene-based, 'Modern Synthesis' version o……続きを見る

The global temperature is rising, the ice caps are melting, and levels of pollution across the world have reached unprecedented heights. According to eminent scientist James Lovelock, in order to su……続きを見る

A pioneering proposal for a pluralistic extension of evolutionary theory, now updated to reflect the most recent research This updated edition of the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions has bee……続きを見る

This book presents a unified evolutionary framework based on three sets of metaphors that will help to consolidate discussions on evolutionary transitions. Evolution is the unifying principle of lif……続きを見る

"La cartilla MENOS VIOLENCIA, MÁS PAZ. Identificar y tratar el acoso escolar: elementos para la acción recoge la experiencia investigativa sobre el acoso escolar del Grupo de Investigación Bienestar……続きを見る