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'The book provides a concise, informative, comprehensive, and current overview of key issues in the field of science communication, the background of science communication, its theoretical bases, an……続きを見る

The environmental crisis is the most prominent challenge humanity has ever had to battle with, and humanity is currently failing. The Anthropoceneーor so called ‘age of humans’ーis indeed a period w……続きを見る

Esta obra, más que tratar de una filosofía de la ciencia general, consiste, por un lado, en un análisis de los problemas que plantea la relación de la actividad científica con otras actividades huma……続きを見る

Die Topic-informierte Diskursanalyse ist ein Mixed-Methods-Verfahren, das Methoden des Text-Mining mit der Wissenssoziologischen Diskursanalyse verbindet, um Diskurstransformationen im Zeitverlauf z……続きを見る

Over the course of the last thirty years, the investigation of objects at the nano scale has rocketed. Nanoscale scientific research has not only powerfully affected the amount and orientation of kn……続きを見る

This book explores how Paul Tillich’s systematic theology, focusing on the concepts of being and reason can benefit nonhuman animals, while also analysing how taking proper account of nonhuman anima……続きを見る

Why do people fear air travel, but text while driving? How were the travesties at the Abu Ghraib prison like a nuclear meltdown? What is the best way to throw a rocket at a robot? These are just a f……続きを見る

La condición de transnacionalidad no constituye un fenómeno nuevo. Durkheim y Mauss, ya a principios del siglo XX elaboraron herramientas analíticas para estudiar los “hechos sociales transnacionale……続きを見る

The classic case for why government must support scienceーwith a new essay by physicist and former congressman Rush Holt on what democracy needs from science today Science, the Endless Frontier is r……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forestーa movi……続きを見る

Evolutionary Theory and Human Nature is an original, highly theoretical work dealing with the transition from genes to behavior using general principles of evolution, especially those of sexual sele……続きを見る

During the later Middle Ages, new optical theories were introduced that located the power of sight not in the seeing subject, but in the passive object of vision. This shift had a powerful impact no……続きを見る

Providing readers with the confidence needed to debate key issues in bioethics, this introductory text clearly explains bioethical theories and their philosophical foundations. Over 250 activities i……続きを見る

How has the Internet been changing our lives, and how did these changes come about? Nathan Newman seeks the answers to these questions by studying the emergence of the Internet economy in Silicon Va……続きを見る

Are science and technology independent of one another? Is technology dependent upon science, and if so, how is it dependent? Is science dependent upon technology, and if so how is it dependent? Or, ……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 offers a reflection on the central role that the ethics of informed consent plays in Rapid Tissue Donation (RTD). RTD is an advanced oncology procedure that involves the procurement, for r……続きを見る

Die Frage, wie lange können Menschen eigentlich unter günstigen Umständen leben und was bedeutet das, hat mich schon oft beschäftigt. Immer wieder hat mich an Artikeln, die ich dazu gelesen habe ode……続きを見る

Return of the Avatars is a Gold Winner of the prestigious 2023 Nautilus Book Awards for books that invite imaginative storytelling that evolve human capacities and visionary positive futures. It is ……続きを見る

Are you curious about time travel? Think Black Holes and Worm Holes are cool? Then this book is for you. Do you wish you could learn about science without having to muddle through dry texts and unde……続きを見る

This book offers the first systematic review of the structuralism of physical theories. Particular emphasis is placed on the inclusion of empirical imprecision into formal reconstructions of theorie……続きを見る

A probing examination of the dynamic history of predictive methods and values in science and engineering that helps us better understand today’s cultures of prediction. The ability to make reliable ……続きを見る

Astrophilosopy, Exotheology, and Cosmic Religion: Extraterrestrial Life in a Process Universe applies Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy and the associated process philosophies of Henri Ber……続きを見る

Un apasionante viaje al futuro del amor y el sexo en la era de la Inteligencia Artificial ¿Cómo será el amor de aquí a treinta años? ¿Existirá tal y como lo conocemos? ¿Viviremos con menos vínculos ……続きを見る

This book examines the use, principally in economics, of the concept of the invisible hand, centering on Adam Smith. It interprets the concept as ideology, knowledge, and a linguistic phenomenon. It……続きを見る

How do desires and fears motivate human sociability? What effect do these motivators have on reproductive, social and political behaviour? And, crucially, how might we understand them separate from ……続きを見る

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and univer……続きを見る

Nominated for the TaPRA Early Career Research Prize 2018 In this book, Jo Scott shares writing and documentation from her practice as research (PaR) project, which explored and analysed a mode of pe……続きを見る

If all philosophy starts with wondering, then Calculated Surprises starts with wondering about how computers are changing the face and inner workings of science. In this book, Lenhard concentrates o……続きを見る

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) was founded in 1919, in the wake of the First World War, together with its sister Unions in related natural sciences. It will thus turn 100 years in 2019. ……続きを見る