著者:Eric Scerri
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年10月10日
In his latest book, Eric Scerri presents a completely original account of the nature of scientific progress. It consists of a holistic and unified approach in which science is seen as a living and e……続きを見る
出版社: University of Pittsburgh Press
発売日: 2016年07月24日
The century from 1750 to 1850 was a period of dramatic transformations in world history, fostering several types of revolutionary change beyond the political landscape. Independence movements in Eur……続きを見る
著者:Martin Ziegler
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年11月11日
Dieses Buch bietet eine Einführung in die verschiedenen Aspekte der mathematischen Logik, die jeder Mathematiker und Informatiker kennen sollte. Nach dem Prädikatenkalkül und seinen Anwendungen auf ……続きを見る
著者:Edward Slowik
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年11月13日
This volume explores the inadequacies of the two standard conceptions of space or spacetime, substantivalism and relationism, and in the process, proposes a new historical interpretation of these ph……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年11月14日
The contributions in this proceedings volume offer a new perspective on the mathematical ties between France and Italy, and reveal how mathematical developments in these two countries affected one a……続きを見る
This book of thoroughly engaging essays from one of today's most prodigious innovators provides a uniquely personal perspective on the lives and achievements of a selection of intriguing figures fro……続きを見る
Protective measurements offer an intriguing method for measuring the wave function of a single quantum system. With contributions from leading physicists and philosophers of physics - including two ……続きを見る
How do attempts to foresee the future actually change it? For thousands of years, humans have called upon foresight to shape their own actions in order to adapt and survive; as Charles Darwin reveal……続きを見る
This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards. It investigates various forms of scientific practice cond……続きを見る
著者:Emilio Segrè
出版社: Plunkett Lake Press
発売日: 2016年10月18日
Born in Italy to a well-to-do Jewish family, Emilio Segrè (1905-1989) became Enrico Fermi’s first graduate student in 1928, contributed to the discovery of slow neutrons and was appointed director o……続きを見る
著者:Abraham A. Fraenkel
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年11月22日
Abraham A. Fraenkel was a world-renowned mathematician in pre–Second World War Germany, whose work on set theory was fundamental to the development of modern mathematics. A friend of Albert Einstein……続きを見る
著者:Njord Kane
出版社: Spangenhelm Publishing
発売日: 2016年11月01日
The Mystery of Maya Math Code is solved and simplified!
Presented in a manner that is not long winded by explaining centuries of theories regarding ancient mathematics, Maya philosophy, and history.……続きを見る
For women contemplating divorce or for those who have already divorced, Ashton Applewhite’s insightful book sheds light on what to consider before making the decision to end your marriage, how to pr……続きを見る
著者:James Trafford
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年11月22日
This book argues for a view in which processes of dialogue and interaction are taken to be foundational to reasoning, logic, and meaning. This is both a continuation, and a substantial modification,……続きを見る
The aim of this book is to provide an introduction to probability logic-based formalization of uncertain reasoning. The authors' primary interest is mathematical techniques for infinitary probabilit……続きを見る
著者:Jack Morrell
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年10月04日
First published in 2005, this book represents the first full length biography of John Phillips, one of the most remarkable and important scientists of the Victorian period. Adopting a broad chronolo……続きを見る
In the sixteenth century medicinal plants, which until then had been the monopoly of apothecaries, became a major topic of investigation in the medical faculties of Italian universities, where they ……続きを見る
Over the last half century scholars from a range of disciplines have attempted to theorise silence. Naively we tend to think of silence negatively, as a lack, an emptiness. Yet silence studies shows……続きを見る
On the Origin of Species outlines Charles Darwin's world-changing theory that life on Earth had not been brought into being by a creator, but had arisen from a single common ancestor and had evolved……続きを見る
Today, when many parents seem reluctant to have their children vaccinated, even with long proven medications, the Salk vaccine trial, which enrolled millions of healthy children to test an unproven ……続きを見る
An epic story of courage, genius and terrible folly, this is the first history of how the Soviet Union's scientists became both the glory and the laughing stock of the intellectual world.
Simon Ings……続きを見る
著者:Carole R. McCann
出版社: University of Washington Press
発売日: 2017年05月01日
Figuring the Population Bomb traces the genealogy of twentieth-century demographic “facts” that created a mathematical panic about a looming population explosion. This narrative was popularized in t……続きを見る
著者:Miles A. Powell
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 2016年11月14日
Putting a provocative new slant on the history of U.S. conservation, Vanishing America reveals how wilderness preservation efforts became entangled with racial anxietiesーspecifically the fear that ……続きを見る
著者:Mr Derek Wilson
出版社: Little, Brown Book Group
発売日: 2017年05月25日
'A dazzling chronicle, a bracing challenge to modernity's smug assumptions' - Bryce Christensen, Booklist
'O what a world of profit and delight
Of power, of honour and omnipotence
Is promised to the……続きを見る
Les Guerres contemporaines est un essai de l'économiste et essayiste français Paul Leroy-Beaulieu (1843 – 1916).
Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale et comporte une table des matières dy……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年12月04日
This volume honors the lifetime achievements of the distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920–2010) on the occasion of her 95th birthday. Known as the “matriarch” of the twentieth cent……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年12月01日
This series of four volumes honors the lifetime achievements of the distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920–2010) on the occasion of her 95th birthday. This first anthology documents……続きを見る
著者:Walter Karp
出版社: New Word City, Inc.
発売日: 2018年05月09日
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution - found in his 1859 work The Origin of Species - shocked Victorian scientists, who equated Darwinism with blasphemy and atheism. But the religious issue never tr……続きを見る
This book introduces the reader to the visible memorabilia of science and scientists in all the five boroughs of New York City - statues, busts, plaques, buildings, and other artifacts. In addition,……続きを見る
Electroconvulsive Therapy is widely demonized or idealized. Some detractors consider its very use to be a human rights violation, while some promoters depict it as a miracle, the "penicillin of psyc……続きを見る