Science: general issues books

What is a lighthouse? What does it mean? What does it do? This book shows how exchanging knowledge across disciplinary...  Read More >>

Digital Existence: Ontology, Ethics and Transcendence in Digital Culture advances debates on digital culture and...  Read More >>

To properly understand the nature of the digital economy we need to investigate the phenomenon of a ubiquitous...  Read More >>

Arguing that historical analysis is an important, yet heretofore largely underexplored dimension of scholarship...  Read More >>

Moral skepticism is at present a vibrant topic of philosophical inquiry. Particularly since the turn of the millennium,...  Read More >>

Making a fresh contribution to the political history of science, this book explores the connections between the...  Read More >>

This book tells ten urban histories of science from nine cities-Athens, Barcelona, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Dublin...  Read More >>

Scientific realism is a central, long-standing, and hotly debated topic in philosophy of science. Debates about...  Read More >>

The essays in this collection explore our reliance on experts within a historical context and across a wide range...  Read More >>

The major significance of the German naturalist-physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840) as a topic of...  Read More >>

Extension innovation method is an approach to originality generation. It utilizes basic theories of Extenics, a...  Read More >>

Since its development as a field over the last part of the twentieth century, scholars in science and religion have...  Read More >>

First Published in 1994. This research guide was written as a comprehensive, though by no means exhaustive, survey...  Read More >>

Detecting Signals at the Single Molecule Level: Pioneering Achievements in Microscopy Recent advances...  Read More >>

The Peckham Experiment, conducted between 1935 and 1950 in the London Pioneer Health Centre, was one of the most...  Read More >>

Digital worlds and cultures-social media, web 2.0, youtube, wearable technologies, health and fitness apps-dominate,...  Read More >>

Central state and non-covert surveillance began in earnest at the start of the twentieth century. By the start of...  Read More >>

The 1950s were a vital time in the history of science. In accordance with the intensification of the Cold War, many...  Read More >>

This book focuses on an important but neglected aspect of the Spanish Civil War, the evolution of medical and surgical...  Read More >>

Online video's unique capacity to reach large audiences makes it a powerful tool to communicate science and technology...  Read More >>

Wittgenstein was centrally concerned with the puzzling nature of the mind, mathematics, morality and modality. He...  Read More >>

Based on interrogation and review of historical and current cultural and indigenous knowledge combined with extensive...  Read More >>

The financial/social cataclysm beginning in 2007 ended notions of a great moderation and the view that capitalism...  Read More >>

On Ancient Medicine, On the Art, On Breaths, On the Nature of Human Beings and On the Sacred Disease are among the...  Read More >>

The application of standard measurement is a cornerstone of modern science. In this collection of essays, standardization...  Read More >>