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Author : Arnold James Cooley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:A0000401406
Author : Edi E. T. Stevens and Charles Hole
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 102206665X
This series of educational books was published in the late 1800s and aimed at providing children with a broad range of knowledge and skills. The books cover a wide range of topics, from history and science to literature and the arts, and are written in an engaging and accessible style. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Jonathan Lyons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608195725
A spellbinding, rich history of the American Enlightenment-think 1776 meets The Metaphysical Club.
Author : Alan Rauch
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822383154
Nineteenth-century England witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of publications and institutions devoted to the creation and the dissemination of knowledge: encyclopedias, scientific periodicals, instruction manuals, scientific societies, children’s literature, mechanics’ institutes, museums of natural history, and lending libraries. In Useful Knowledge Alan Rauch presents a social, cultural, and literary history of this new knowledge industry and traces its relationships within nineteenth-century literature, ending with its eventual confrontation with Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. Rauch discusses both the influence and the ideology of knowledge in terms of how it affected nineteenth-century anxieties about moral responsibility and religious beliefs. Drawing on a wide array of literary, scientific, and popular works of the period, the book focusses on the growing importance of scientific knowledge and its impact on Victorian culture. From discussions of Jane Webb Loudon’s The Mummy! and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, to Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor, Charles Kingsley’s Alton Locke, and George Eliot’s Mill on the Floss, Rauch paints a fascinating picture of nineteenth-century culture and addresses issues related to the proliferation of knowledge and the moral issues of this time period. Useful Knowledge touches on social and cultural anxieties that offer both historical and contemporary insights on our ongoing preoccupation with knowledge. Useful Knowledge will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth century history, literature, culture, the mediation of knowledge, and the history of science.
Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015019151011
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Physics
ISBN : UOM:39015023982518
Author : Abraham Flexner,Robbert Dijkgraaf
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780691174761
A short, provocative book about why "useless" science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughs A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent of creating products of immediate value. In such a scenario, it makes sense to focus on the most identifiable and urgent problems, right? Actually, it doesn't. In his classic essay "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge," Abraham Flexner, the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the man who helped bring Albert Einstein to the United States, describes a great paradox of scientific research. The search for answers to deep questions, motivated solely by curiosity and without concern for applications, often leads not only to the greatest scientific discoveries but also to the most revolutionary technological breakthroughs. In short, no quantum mechanics, no computer chips. This brief book includes Flexner's timeless 1939 essay alongside a new companion essay by Robbert Dijkgraaf, the Institute's current director, in which he shows that Flexner's defense of the value of "the unobstructed pursuit of useless knowledge" may be even more relevant today than it was in the early twentieth century. Dijkgraaf describes how basic research has led to major transformations in the past century and explains why it is an essential precondition of innovation and the first step in social and cultural change. He makes the case that society can achieve deeper understanding and practical progress today and tomorrow only by truly valuing and substantially funding the curiosity-driven "pursuit of useless knowledge" in both the sciences and the humanities.
Author : F. Tupper Saussy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Christianity and politics
ISBN : 0066210836
Provides links connecting secret societies such as the Iluminati and the Freemasons to the American Revolution and subsequent events.
Author : Elizabeth Flinn,Sarah Patel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317402558
The Really Useful Primary Design and Technology Book brings together essential subject knowledge and pedagogy to support and inspire those planning to teach D&T in the primary school. Offering comprehensive coverage of the 2014 National Curriculum, as well as exciting ideas to extend beyond it, the book is packed full of everything the busy teacher needs to be able to develop children’s key skills and techniques, and a range of big and small projects to put them into practice. With crucial subject knowledge explained in detail, useful ‘How To’ guides at the end of each chapter reinforce the skills and technology covered with instructions for making a variety of models. Sets of lesson plans include information on the resources needed to support both more and less able children, and assessment guidance, ‘Top Tips’ and ‘Things to Consider’ provide extra help and inspiration. Key topics covered include: cooking and nutrition textiles and the design cycle IT control and monitoring mechanisms structures electronic systems the roles and responsibilities of the DT leader assessment of D&T. The Really Useful Primary Design and Technology Book provides all the information a new teacher needs to be able to teach D&T confidently, and with valuable cross-curricular links and photocopiable templates, even experienced teachers and subject leaders will find fresh inspiration for their lessons.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590299669
Author : Michael Brian Schiffer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319000770
This manual pulls together—and illustrates with interesting case studies—the variety of specialized and generalized archaeological research strategies that yield new insights into science. Throughout the book there are templates, consisting of questions, to help readers visualize and design their own projects. The manual seeks to be as general as possible, applicable to any society, and so science is defined as the creation of useful knowledge—the kinds of knowledge that enable people to make predictions. The chapters in Part I discuss the scope of the archaeology of science and furnish a conceptual foundation for the remainder of the book. Next, Part II presents several specialized, but widely practiced, research strategies that contribute to the archaeology of science. In order to thoroughly ground the manual in real-life applications, Part III presents lengthy case studies that feature the use of historical and archaeological evidence in the study of scientific activities.
Author : Sterling Professor of Economics and Political Science Charles E Lindblom,Charles Edward Lindblom,David K. Cohen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300023367
The problem that gives rise to this book is dissatisfaction with social science and social research as instruments of social problem solving. Policy makers and other practical problem solvers frequently voice disappointment with what they are offered. And many social scientists and social researchers think they should be more drawn upon, more useful, and more influential. Out of the discontent have come numerous diagnoses and prescriptions. This thoughtful contribution to the discussion provides an agenda of basic questions that should be asked and answered by those who are concerned about the impact of social science and research on real life problems. In general, Cohen and Lindblom believe that social scientists are crippled by a misunderstanding of their own trade, and they suggest that the tools of their trade be applied to the trade itself. Social scientists do not always fully appreciate that professional social inquiry is only one of several ways of solving a problem. They are also often engaged in a mistaken pursuit of authoritativeness, not recognizing that their contribution can never be more than a partial one. Cohen and Lindblom suggest that they reexamine their criteria for selecting subjects for research, study their tactics as compared to those of policy makers, and consider more carefully their role in relation to other routes to problem solving. To stimulate further inquiry into these fundamental issues, they also provide a comprehensive bibliography.
Author : Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Biography
ISBN : HARVARD:32044098616618
Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0199116903
"...an up-to-the-minute encyclopedia specially written for young students. Young readers will have fun learning new and exciting information about human life, our incredible world and beyond."--p. [4] of cover.
Author : William Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Cooking
ISBN : CHI:22938409