Science: general issues books

This book is about efforts to get AI right. It documents potential risks and actual harms associated with AI, lists...  Read More >>

This Brief explores the vital role of science communication in today's world while demystifying how research is...  Read More >>

As scientists debated the nature of life in the nineteenth century, two theories predominated: vitalism, which suggested...  Read More >>

The Chavanian Worldview: From Cosmos to Mind presents a bold, integrative framework that dissolves centuries of...  Read More >>

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What happens when your personal information is weaponised against you online? This groundbreaking book offers...  Read More >>

In a time when the role of science is under threat, this book provides a timely and accessible text that can be...  Read More >>

Naming new discoveries is central to science, and for centuries, Latin dominated this process. The resulting terminology...  Read More >>

This book introduces a new interpretation of quantum mechanics, the Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation (MHI), which...  Read More >>

Academic discourse on eyes has focused overwhelmingly on their visual function. Weeping Eyes turns instead to their...  Read More >>

This book is about efforts to get AI right. It documents potential risks and actual harms associated with AI, lists...  Read More >>

The Collective Spirit (1925) lays down a rough outline of what science can tell us as to the progress of evolution,...  Read More >>

Science Policy in the Soviet Union (1990) examines the major institutional and behavioural aspects influencing scientific...  Read More >>

First Published in 1969, System, Structure and Experience offers a basic information-flow design capable of accounting...  Read More >>

Soviet Science (1936) gives information about the sort and conditions of research in Soviet scientific institutes...  Read More >>

First Published in 1940, this book which is written not so much for the philosopher as for the ordinary educated...  Read More >>

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

Reveals the limits and exclusions of defining desire as universalCompulsory sexuality—where sexual desire is seen...  Read More >>

This book provides a concise, non-mathematical summary of key astronomical discoveries, organized chronologically...  Read More >>

Bullet bras, bazookas, bombshells, bikinis. In Atomic Bombshells, Isabelle Held challenges the usual narratives...  Read More >>