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Summarising the most novel facts and theories which were coming into prominence at the time, particularly those which had not yet been incorporated into standard textbooks, this important work was f……続きを見る

This book, first published 1931, examines the attitudes surrounding the natural sciences at the time of writing, and contends that an unreflective belief in the power of science, and especially in h……続きを見る

Originally published in 1952. Following on from British Scientists of the Nineteenth Century, this volume covers six eminent British scientists whose work and personality have not receded into the s……続きを見る

Originally published in 1982. This volume explores some features of modern philosophy of science from the point of view of their utility for sociology’s self-understanding. Recently philosophers of ……続きを見る

China's Scientific Elite is a study of those scientists holding China's highest academic honour - membership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Having carried out extensive systematic data collecti……続きを見る

Originally published in 1966. This volume analyzes the general structure of scientific theories, their relation to experience and to non-scientific thought. Part One is concerned with the logic unde……続きを見る

What are scientists working on today? What do they worry about? What do they think about the working of the brain, climate change, animal experimentation, cancer, and mental illness? Is science prog……続きを見る

Originally published in 1967. This reprints the second edition of 1973, revised and expanded. Evolution and Human Behaviour considers man’s biological and cultural development within the framework o……続きを見る

The ancient Greeks and Romans lived in a world teeming with animals. Animals were integral to ancient commerce, war, love, literature and art. Inside the city they were found as pets, pests, and par……続きを見る

The beautifully written story of shells and their makers, and our relationships with them. Seashells are the sculpted homes of a remarkable group of animals: the molluscs. These are some of the most……続きを見る

Originally published in English in 1973. This volume traces the development of the revolution which so drastically altered man’s view of the universe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The ……続きを見る

Copernic a chassé l'Homme du centre de l'Univers, Lamarck et Darwin du sommet de la création, notre société a tendance à le chasser du cœur de ses projets. Il n'est pourtant pas utopique de concilie……続きを見る

" Il est prouvé que... ", " du point de vue scientifique... ", " objectivement, les faits montrent que "... Combien de fois de telles expressions ne scandent-elles pas le discours de ceux qui nous g……続きを見る

Il est banal de dire que la science contemporaine s'appuie sur la théorie et l'expérience. Mais si les philosophes et les historiens des sciences se sont intéressés à la charge de vérité des théorie……続きを見る

Le " public " est tantôt admiratif devant les prouesses scientifiques, tantôt il est ce contre-pouvoir qui défie l'autorité des experts. L'opinion est perçue soit comme une masse amorphe, manipulabl……続きを見る

Le décryptage du génome humain n'a pas levé le secret sur nos origines et notre devenir : voici pourquoi la complexité et la multiplicité demeurent nécessaires à toute avancée scientifique. Annoncé ……続きを見る

" À sa mort, mon père m'a laissé une lettre. Avec cette ultime injonction : "Sois raisonnable et humain ! " C'était il y a trente-trois ans, mais ces mots ne m'ont jamais quitté. Quelles sont les ch……続きを見る

Qu'est-ce que la vie ? Ce problème s'est posé à l'homme depuis des millénaires, et malgré les immenses progrès de la biologie, le statut du vivant reste, quoiqu'on en pense, toujours aussi incertain……続きを見る

Nos corps, nos intelligences, les messages et les biens que nous échangeons sont affectés d'un mouvement de virtualisation rapide et généralisé. Cette évolution atteint même nos manières d'être ense……続きを見る

Cognitive Science is a major new guide to the central theories and problems in the study of the mind and brain. The authors clearly explain how and why cognitive science aims to understand the brain……続きを見る

First published in 1982. During the past fifty years, dramatic changes have occurred in the use of laboratory animals to study learning and memory. Yet the basic reasons for this research, diverse a……続きを見る

In the 1980s, philosophical, historical and social studies of science underwent a change which later evolved into a turn to practice. Analysts of science were asked to pay attention to scientific pr……続きを見る

Imagine if The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were a real, practical book about the mysteries of the universe . . . The Universe in Your Hand takes us on a wonder-filled journey to the surface of ……続きを見る

You don’t know that much about physics. You don’t understand everything about gravity, magnetism, electricity or light, but you are curious and want to know more about these fields. This book helps ……続きを見る

The nineteenth century was, for many societies, a period of coming to grips with the growing, and seemingly unstoppable, domination of the world by the “Great Powers” of Europe. The Ottoman Empire w……続きを見る

EXTRAIT: L’empire Français, favorisé d’un si grand nombre de productions différentes, emploie à leur culture et à leur transport plusieurs espèces d’animaux. Chaque département doit une partie de sa……続きを見る

The author has aimed to prepare a text-book on human physiology for use in higher schools. The design of the book is to furnish a practical manual of the more important facts and principles of physi……続きを見る

Rudolf Raff is recognized as a pioneer in evolutionary developmental biology. In their 1983 book, Embryos, Genes, and Evolution, Raff and co-author Thomas Kaufman proposed a synthesis of development……続きを見る

Why have creatures evolved as they are? Which species have been the most successful? How do life forms adapt to a world dominated by nearly seven billion humans? Christopher Lloyd leads us on an exh……続きを見る

Critics of intelligence testsーwriters such as Robert Sternberg, Howard Gardner, and Daniel Golemanーhave argued in recent years that these tests neglect important qualities such as emotion, empathy……続きを見る