Toward A New Dimension

Author : Anne Marcovich,Terry Shinn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191024009

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Toward a New Dimension by Anne Marcovich,Terry Shinn Pdf

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 knowledge, it has perhaps even more significantly redirected the ways in which much research work is carried out, changed scientists' methodology and reasoning processes, and influenced aspects of the structure of career trajectory and the functioning of scientific disciplines. This book identifies key historical moments and episodes in the birth and evolution of nanoscience, discusses the novel repertory of epistemological concerns of practitioners, and signals sociological propensities. As Galileo's telescope explored the moon's surface four hundred years ago, nano instrumentation now makes it possible to see the surface of single molecules. Moreover, practitioners are able to manipulate individual atoms and molecules at will to produce pre-designed synthetic materials, non-existent in nature. The combinatorial of heightened observational capacity and the tailoring of synthetic artificial materials exhibiting hitherto novel physical properties has widened and transformed the worlds of scientific knowledge and technical artefact. This book invites the question: to what extent does nanoscale scientific research constitute a kind of 'scientific revolution'?

Author : P. I. Ahmed
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461329916

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Toward a New Definition of Health by P. I. Ahmed Pdf

It is generally recognized today that the United States has a need to contri bute to the improvement of health throughout the world. The need stems from the interrelationships that exist between the health of Americans and the health status of the rest of the people on "Spaceship Earth." Disease does not respect national boundaries, and the frequency of travel and trade between countries increases each year. It further relates to the opportunities found in international settings to help solve health problems more effec tively and efficiently. This includes the unique human resources that are found throughout the world as well as certain natural ecological conditions that cannot be duplicated in the United States. The United States also has a responsibility to contribute to improved health status. Our tradition of humanitarianism alone supports such a re sponsibility, but our comparative wealth of technical and financial re sources dictates a requirement to participate. Modern political realities de fine relationships between developed and developing countries that will not allow us to isolate ourselves from the compelling health needs of a majority of the world's population.

Author : Wilfred F. Garcia
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781480924451

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Toward a New Psychology by Wilfred F. Garcia Pdf

Toward a New Psychology: The Miracle of the Mind By Wilfred F. Garcia In Toward a New Psychology: The Miracle of the Mind, Wilfred F. Garcia shares his insights about mental illness, which he expects to advance the field of psychology and the treatment of the mentally ill. In doing so, he provides an intriguing glimpse into the subconscious or spiritual life. Stemming from the author’s personal experiences, Towards a New Psychology challenges readers to use their new-found knowledge to understand and improve not only themselves, but humanity as a whole.

Author : Todd L. Cherry,Jon Hovi,David M. McEvoy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136163579

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Toward a New Climate Agreement by Todd L. Cherry,Jon Hovi,David M. McEvoy Pdf

Climate change is one of the most pressing problems facing the global community. Although most states agree that climate change is occurring and is at least partly the result of humans’ reliance on fossil fuels, managing a changing global climate is a formidable challenge. Underlying this challenge is the fact that states are sovereign, governed by their own laws and regulations. Sovereignty requires that states address global problems such as climate change on a voluntary basis, by negotiating international agreements. Despite a consensus on the need for global action, many questions remain concerning how a meaningful international climate agreement can be realized. This book brings together leading experts to speak to such questions and to offer promising ideas for the path toward a new climate agreement. Organized in three main parts, it examines the potential for meaningful climate cooperation. Part 1 explores sources of conflict that lead to barriers to an effective climate agreement. Part 2 investigates how different processes influence states’ prospects of resolving their differences and of reaching a climate agreement that is more effective than the current Kyoto Protocol. Finally, part 3 focuses on governance issues, including lessons learned from existing institutional structures. The book is unique in that it brings together the voices of experts from many disciplines, such as economics, political science, international law, and natural science. The authors are academics, practitioners, consultants and advisors. Contributions draw on a variety of methods, and include both theoretical and empirical studies. The book should be of interest to scholars and graduate students in the fields of economics, political science, environmental law, natural resources, earth sciences, sustainability, and many others. It is directly relevant for policy makers, stakeholders and climate change negotiators, offering insights into the role of uncertainty, fairness, policy linkage, burden sharing and alternative institutional designs.

Author : Albert O. Hirschman,Dudley Seers,Paul Streeten
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483188942

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Toward a New Strategy for Development by Albert O. Hirschman,Dudley Seers,Paul Streeten Pdf

Toward a New Strategy for Development: A Rothko Chapel Colloquium is a collection of papers commissioned by the Rothko Chapel and presented at a colloquium held in Houston, Texas on February 3-5, 1977. The colloquium provided a forum for discussing the need for a new strategy for development, with emphasis on needs and programs from the perspectives of the developed countries at the center of the world's economic system and of the developing countries at its periphery, and from the standpoint of different disciplines. Comprised of 10 chapters, this book begins with an introduction to Marxism and its congruence with other neoclassical doctrines such as the Chicago School, followed by a discussion on development economics as well as the conditions that gave rise to the rapidly growing interest in development. The next chapter traces the origins and history of one major body of Latin American ideas on development since the early 1950s: the United Nation's Economic Commission for Latin America. Subsequent chapters explore internal issues of development within countries, with emphasis on urban and rural bias as well as factors that influence regional development policy; the postwar economic experience of the Third World; and the reactions of developed countries to calls for a new international economic order. This monograph will be of interest to economists and sociologists.

Author : Paul Kurtz
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412840171

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Toward a New Enlightenment by Paul Kurtz Pdf

Paul Kurtz has been the dominant voice of secular humanism over the past thirty years. This compilation of his work reveals the scope of his thinking on the basic topics of our time and his many and varied contributions to the cause of free thought. It focuses on the central issues that have concerned Kurtz throughout his career: ethics, politics, education, religion, science, and pseudoscience. The chapters are linked by a common theme: the need for a new enlightenment, one committed to the use of rationality and skepticism, but also devoted to realizing the highest values of humanist culture. Many writings included here were first published in magazines and journals long unavailable. Some of the essays have never before been published. They now appear as a coherent whole for the first time. Also included is an extensive bibliography of Kurtz's writings. "Toward a New Enlightenment "is essential for those who know and admire Paul Kurtz's work. It will also be an important resource for students of philosophy, political science, ethics, and religion. Among the chapters are: "Humanist Ethics: Eating the Forbidden Fruit"; "Relevance of Science to Ethics"; "Democracy without Theology"; "Misuses of Civil Disobedience"; "The Limits of Tolerance"; "Skepticism about the Paranormal: Legitimate and Illegitimate"; "Militant Atheism vs. Freedom of Conscience"; "Promethean Love: Unbound"; "The Case for Euthanasia"; and "The New Inquisition in the Schools."

Author : Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107157842

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Toward a New Legal Common Sense by Boaventura de Sousa Santos Pdf

In a period of paradigmatic transition, Toward a New Legal Common Sense aims to devolve to law its emancipatory potential.

Author : Tullio Scrimali,Liria Grimaldi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461505679

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Cognitive Psychotherapy Toward a New Millennium by Tullio Scrimali,Liria Grimaldi Pdf

In the roughly two decades since Aaron T. Beck published the now classic "Cognitive Therapy of Depression," and Michael J. Mahoney declared the "Cognitive Revolution," much has happened. What was proposed as the "cognitive revolution" has now become the zeitgeist, and Cognitive Therapy (CT) has grown exponentially with each passing year. A treatment model that was once seen as diffe rent, strange, or even alien, is now commonplace. In fact, many people have allied themselves with CT claiming that they have always done CT. Even my psychoanalytic colleagues have claimed that they often use CT. "After all," they say, "Psychoanalysis is a cognitive therapy." Cognitive Therapy (or Cognitive Psychotherapy) has become a kaleidoscope model of treatment, with influences coming from many sources. Some of these contributory streams have been information pro cessing, behavior therapy, Constructivist psychology, and dynamic psychotherapy. Each of these sources have added color, shading, and depth to the CT model. What was originally uni dimensional in terms of the CT focus on depression has become multidimensional as the CT model has been applied to virtually every patient population, treatment setting, and therapy context. CT must now be seen as a general model of psychotherapy that, with modifications, can be applied to the broad range of clinical problems and syndromes. What has tied these various applications of CT together is the emphasis on a strong grounding in cogni tive theory, a commitment to empirical support, and a dedication to broadening the model.

Author : Anne Marcovich,Terry Shinn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191024016

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Toward a New Dimension by Anne Marcovich,Terry Shinn Pdf

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 knowledge, it has perhaps even more significantly redirected the ways in which much research work is carried out, changed scientists' methodology and reasoning processes, and influenced aspects of the structure of career trajectory and the functioning of scientific disciplines. This book identifies key historical moments and episodes in the birth and evolution of nanoscience, discusses the novel repertory of epistemological concerns of practitioners, and signals sociological propensities. As Galileo's telescope explored the moon's surface four hundred years ago, nano instrumentation now makes it possible to see the surface of single molecules. Moreover, practitioners are able to manipulate individual atoms and molecules at will to produce pre-designed synthetic materials, non-existent in nature. The combinatorial of heightened observational capacity and the tailoring of synthetic artificial materials exhibiting hitherto novel physical properties has widened and transformed the worlds of scientific knowledge and technical artefact. This book invites the question: to what extent does nanoscale scientific research constitute a kind of 'scientific revolution'?

Author : Louis J. Sousa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Composite materials industry
ISBN : UOM:39015077581414

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Toward a New Materials Paradigm by Louis J. Sousa Pdf

Author : Rudy von Bitter Rucker,Rudy Rucker
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0395393884

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The Fourth Dimension by Rudy von Bitter Rucker,Rudy Rucker Pdf

A detailed description of what the fourth dimension would be like.

Author : Rudy Rucker
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486779782

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The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality by Rudy Rucker Pdf

One of the most talented contemporary authors of cutting-edge math and science books conducts a fascinating tour of a higher reality, the Fourth Dimension. Includes problems, puzzles, and 200 drawings. "Informative and mind-dazzling." — Martin Gardner.

Author : Marianna Papastephanou
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527531987

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Toward New Philosophical Explorations of the Epistemic Desire to Know by Marianna Papastephanou Pdf

This collection of essays explores curiosity from many philosophical perspectives of relevance to various fields and disciplines such as educational studies, epistemology, political philosophy and history of thought. It advances and enriches scholarly research on curiosity while critiquing current approaches to the epistemic desire to know. Its interest in contemporary accounts of curiosity does not entail neglect of the conceptual history of this notion from antiquity to the present. Its focus on cultural and scientific appreciations of curiosity is global rather than local and inclusive of standpoints beyond established divisions such as the “modern versus postmodern” or the “analytic versus continental”. The book offers fresh and unique engagements with what motivates us to ask questions and how this motivation operates from an ethical, cultural and political point of view.

Author : Douglas Kellner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658317904

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Technology and Democracy: Toward A Critical Theory of Digital Technologies, Technopolitics, and Technocapitalism by Douglas Kellner Pdf

As we enter a new millennium, it is clear that we are in the midst of one of the most dramatic technological revolutions in history that is changing everything from the ways that we work, communicate, participate in politics, and spend our leisure time. The technological revolution centers on computer, information, communication, and multimedia technologies, is often interpreted as the beginnings of a knowledge or information society, and therefore ascribes technologies a central role in every aspect of life. This Great Transformation poses tremendous challenges to critical social theorists, citizens, and educators to rethink their basic tenets, to deploy the media in creative and productive ways, and to restructure the workplace, social institutions, and schooling to respond constructively and progressively to the technological and social changes that we are now experiencing.

Author : Mitzi J. Smith,Yung Suk Kim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532604652

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Toward Decentering the New Testament by Mitzi J. Smith,Yung Suk Kim Pdf

Toward Decentering the New Testament is the first introductory text to the New Testament written by an African American woman biblical scholar and an Asian-American male biblical scholar. This text privileges the voices, scholarship, and concerns of minoritized nonwhite peoples and communities. It is written from the perspectives of minoritized voices. The first few chapters cover issues such as biblical interpretation, immigration, Roman slavery, intersectionality, and other topics. Questions raised throughout the text focus readers on relevant contemporary issues and encourage critical reflection and dialogue between student-teachers and teacher-students.