Science And Beyond

Author : Rolf Sattler
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781039102996

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Science and Beyond by Rolf Sattler Pdf

Science, coupled with technology, has become the dominant force in most parts of the world. Thus, it affects our lives and society in many ways. Yet, misconceptions about science are widespread in governments, the general public, and even among many scientists. Science and Beyond explores these misconceptions that may have grave and even disastrous consequences for individuals and society as was evident during the COVID-19 pandemic, where they led to much unnecessary suffering, sickness, and death. The misconceptions also obscure the limitations of science. Not seeing these limitations prevents us from seeing and going beyond them, which leads to a crippled life and an impoverished society. But reaching beyond the limitations of science, as outlined in this book, can open the doors to a more fulfilled, saner, healthier, happier, and more peaceful life and society.

Author : Derek John de Solla Price
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Science
ISBN : 0231049579

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Little Science, Big Science-- and Beyond by Derek John de Solla Price Pdf

Author : J. C. Polkinghorne,John Polkinghorne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998-09-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521625084

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Beyond Science by J. C. Polkinghorne,John Polkinghorne Pdf

John Polkinghorne examines the nature of scientific inquiry itself and the human context in which science operates.

Author : Jon Agar
Publisher : Polity
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745634692

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Science in the 20th Century and Beyond by Jon Agar Pdf

"Science in the Twentieth Century and beyond provides a much-needed overview of the history of science from 1900 to the present day. It is the first book to survey modern developments in science during a century of unprecedented change, conflict and uncertainty. The scope is global and it covers a wide range of disciplines, including life sciences, information sciences, as well as aspects of mathematics, engineering and technology, and medicine"--Back cover.

Author : Jason Lindsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0985424842

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Beyond the Science Lab by Jason Lindsey Pdf

In this inspirational book of easy-to-do science experiments, Jason Lindsey, a.k.a. "Mr. Science" shows kids that God is the ultimate scientist. Each chapter is inspired by a Bible passage and teaches kids about a particular scientific principle. Through the exploding film canister, the skewered balloon, the magnetic dollar and many other experiments Mr. Science explains a scientific principle as well as a Bible truth.

Author : Stephen Hilgartner,Clark Miller,Rob Hagendijk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136748202

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Science and Democracy by Stephen Hilgartner,Clark Miller,Rob Hagendijk Pdf

In the life sciences and beyond, new developments in science and technology and the creation of new social orders go hand in hand. In short, science and society are simultaneously and reciprocally coproduced and changed. Scientific research not only produces new knowledge and technological systems but also constitutes new forms of expertise and contributes to the emergence of new modes of living and new forms of exchange. These dynamic processes are tightly connected to significant redistributions of wealth and power, and they sometimes threaten and sometimes enhance democracy. Understanding these phenomena poses important intellectual and normative challenges: neither traditional social sciences nor prevailing modes of democratic governance have fully grappled with the deep and growing significance of knowledge-making in twenty-first century politics and markets. Building on new work in science and technology studies (STS), this book advances the systematic analysis of the coproduction of knowledge and power in contemporary societies. Using case studies in the new life sciences, supplemented with cases on informatics and other topics such as climate science, this book presents a theoretical framing of coproduction processes while also providing detailed empirical analyses and nuanced comparative work. Science and Democracy: Knowledge as Wealth and Power in the Biosciences and Beyond will be interesting for students of sociology, science & technology studies, history of science, genetics, political science, and public administration.

Author : Eike-Christian Heine,Martin Meiske
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822987789

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Beyond the Lab and the Field by Eike-Christian Heine,Martin Meiske Pdf

Beyond the Lab and the Field analyzes infrastructures as intense sites of knowledge production in the Americas, Europe, and Asia since the late nineteenth century. Moving beyond classical places known for yielding scientific knowledge, chapters in this volume explore how the construction and maintenance of canals, highways, dams, irrigation schemes, the oil industry, and logistic networks intersected with the creation of know-how and expertise. Referred to by the authors as “scientific bonanzas,” such intersections reveal opportunities for great wealth, but also distress and misfortune. This volume explores how innovative technologies provided research opportunities for scientists and engineers, as they relied on expertise to operate, which resulted in enormous profits for some. But, like the history of any gold rush, the history of infrastructure also reveals how technologies of modernity transformed nature, disrupting communities and destroying the local environment. Focusing not on the victory march of science and technology but on ambivalent change, contributors consider the role of infrastructures for ecology, geology, archaeology, soil science, engineering, ethnography, heritage, and polar exploration. Together, they also examine largely overlooked perspectives on modernity: the reliance of infrastructure on knowledge, and infrastructures as places and occasions that inspired a greater understanding of the natural world and the technologically made environment.

Author : John W. Boudreau,Peter M. Ramstad
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422104156

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Beyond HR by John W. Boudreau,Peter M. Ramstad Pdf

In Beyond HR: The New Science of Human capital, John Boudreau and Peter Ramstad show you how to do this through a new decisions science-talentship. Through talentship, you move far beyond merely reactive mind-set of planning and budgeting for headcount and hiring and retaining talent.

Author : Joris Mercelis
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262538695

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Beyond Bakelite by Joris Mercelis Pdf

The changing relationships between science and industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, illustrated by the career of the “father of plastics.” The Belgian-born American chemist, inventor, and entrepreneur Leo Baekeland (1863–1944) is best known for his invention of the first synthetic plastic—his near-namesake Bakelite—which had applications ranging from electrical insulators to Art Deco jewelry. Toward the end of his career, Baekeland was called the “father of plastics”—given credit for the establishment of a sector to which many other researchers, inventors, and firms inside and outside the United States had also made significant contributions. In Beyond Bakelite, Joris Mercelis examines Baekeland's career, using it as a lens through which to view the changing relationships between science and industry on both sides of the Atlantic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He gives special attention to the intellectual property strategies and scientific entrepreneurship of the period, making clear their relevance to contemporary concerns. Mercelis describes the growth of what he terms the “science-industry nexus” and the developing interdependence of science and industry. After examining Baekeland's emergence as a pragmatic innovator and leader in scientific circles, Mercelis analyzes Baekeland's international and domestic IP strategies and his efforts to reform the US patent system; his dual roles as scientist and industrialist; the importance of theoretical knowledge to the science-industry nexus; and the American Bakelite companies' research and development practices, technically oriented sales approach, and remuneration schemes. Mercelis argues that the expansion and transformation of the science-industry nexus shaped the careers and legacies of Baekeland and many of his contemporaries.

Author : Alan Sokal
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191623349

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Beyond the Hoax by Alan Sokal Pdf

In 1996, Alan Sokal, a Professor of Physics at New York University, wrote a paper for the cultural-studies journal Social Text, entitled 'Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity'. It was reviewed, accepted and published. Sokal immediately confessed that the whole article was a hoax - a cunningly worded paper designed to expose and parody the style of extreme postmodernist criticism of science. The story became front-page news around the world and triggered fierce and wide-ranging controversy. Sokal is one of the most powerful voices in the continuing debate about the status of evidence-based knowledge. In Beyond the Hoax he turns his attention to a new set of targets - pseudo-science, religion, and misinformation in public life. 'Whether my targets are the postmodernists of the left, the fundamentalists of the right, or the muddle-headed of all political and apolitical stripes, the bottom line is that clear thinking, combined with a respect for evidence, are of the utmost importance to the survival of the human race in the twenty-first century.' The book also includes a hugely illuminating annotated text of the Hoax itself, and a reflection on the furore it provoked.

Author : Roger Trigg
Publisher : Templeton Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 159947512X

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Beyond Matter by Roger Trigg Pdf

Does science have all the answers? Can it even deal with abstract reasoning beyond the world we experience? How can we ensure that the physical world is sufficiently ordered to be intelligible to humans? How can mathematics, a product of human minds, unlock the secrets of the physical universe? Should all such questions be considered inadmissible if science cannot settle them? Metaphysics has traditionally been understood as reasoning beyond the reach of science, sometimes even claiming realities beyond its grasp. Because of this, metaphysics is often contemptuously dismissed by scientists and philosophers who wish to remain within the bounds of what can be scientifically proven. Yet scientists at the frontiers of physics unwittingly engage in metaphysics, as they are now happy to contemplate whole universes that are, in principle, beyond human reach. Roger Trigg challenges those who deny that science needs philosophical assumptions. Trigg claims that the foundations of science themselves have to lie beyond science. It takes reasoning apart from experience to discover what is not yet known and this metaphysical reasoning to imagine realities beyond what can be accessed. “In Beyond Matter, Roger Trigg advances a powerful, persuasive, fair-minded argument that the sciences require a philosophical, metaphysical foundation. This is a brilliant book for newcomers to the philosophy of science and experts alike.” —Charles Taliaferro, professor of philosophy, St. Olaf College

Author : Gottlieb
Publisher : HARCOURT
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 0739891812

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The Earth and Beyond by Gottlieb Pdf

Author : Bianchi, Lynne,Feasey, Rosemary
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335241323

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Science And Beyond The Classroom Boundaries For 7-11 Year Olds by Bianchi, Lynne,Feasey, Rosemary Pdf

This is a truly innovative and practical book which aims to support schools in rethinking where teaching and learning in primary science and technology should take place. The authors challenge how and where science is taught, so that teachers maximise the potential of the school environment to develop scientific skills and concepts, across all areas of science, not just the biological elements. This will entail changing the approach to science and technology in schools by reconsidering where scientific skills and concepts are taught.

Author : Hans Diebner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 3211333576

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Performative Science and Beyond by Hans Diebner Pdf

This synthetic work is a coherent summary of 6 years’ research work at the ZKM Institute for Basic Research in Karlsruhe. The motto of the research, designed to reflect the discipline of both art and science, was "performative science", a new research method that methodologically complements the natural sciences by means of a performative-artistic procedure. The book offers a theoretical, praxis-motivated discourse on the topic, strongly orientated towards philosophical hermeneutics. It provides a methodological bridge between science and art.

Author : Michael Mallory
Publisher : Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03
Category : Science fiction television programs
ISBN : 0789329271

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The Science Fiction Universe and Beyond by Michael Mallory Pdf

Travel where no man has gone before with this decade-by-decade progression of science-fiction classics. From the classic, low-budget space exploration Flash Gordon tales of the Saturday matinee serials, to the slick CGI-realized world of The Matrix, science-fiction films have long been pushing the boundaries of the visually and dramatically fantastic—turning the known world on its head, playing with the laws of physics, and all the while holding their audience spellbound. The Science Fiction Universe . . . and Beyond offers a breadth of knowledge, insight, and passion to a century of close encounters, black holes, time travel, distant planets, impossible quests, nuclear war, futuristic technology, inexplicable forces, spaceships, extraordinary monsters, and subterranean societies. Arranged chronologically, showing the progression of sci-fi over the decades, and delving into interesting back stories and trivia, this volume includes a variety of classic films and television shows, such as The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), The Twilight Zone (1959–1964), Doctor Who (1963–1989), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Star Wars, Episode IV—A New Hope (1977), Alien (1979), E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007), Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009), and many others.