Science: general issues books

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Governing AI: A Primer

Governing AI: A Primer

Author: Onur Bakiner (Seattle University)
ISBN: 9781009738330
Format: Paperback
$82.80

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

Effective Communication and Single-Molecule Research

Effective Communication and Single-Molecule Research...

Author: Guillaume Graciani
ISBN: 9783032104250
Format: Paperback
$145.17

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

The The Life Organic: The Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenetics

The The Life Organic: The Theoretical Biology Club and...

Author: Erik L. Peterson
ISBN: 9780822968153
Format: Paperback
$105.60

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

The Chavanian Worldview: From Cosmos to Mind

Author: Sandeep Chavan
ISBN: 9788199541443
Format: Paperback
$145.17

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

Doxxed: How Privacy Abuse Harms

Doxxed: How Privacy Abuse Harms

Author: Briony Anderson (Durham University)
ISBN: 9781529253955
Format: Hardback
$176.95

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

Understanding Science: The Web of Trust

Understanding Science: The Web of Trust

Author: Niklas Janz (Stockholm University) ,  Sören Nylin (Stockholm University)
ISBN: 9781009672894
Format: Hardback
$181.13

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 Things and Concepts in Early Modern Science: The Case of Natural History

Naming New Things and Concepts in Early Modern Science:...

Author: Dominik Berrens (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany)
ISBN: 9781009622523
Format: Hardback
$284.63

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

The Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Making Sense of the Quantum World

The Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics:...

Author: Olimpia Lombardi (Senior Researcher, Institute of Philosophy, Senior Researcher, Institute of Philosophy, University of Buenos Aires and CONICET)
ISBN: 9780198951384
Format: Hardback
$260.95

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

Weeping Eyes: Seeing and Feeling in the Sentimental Tradition

Weeping Eyes: Seeing and Feeling in the Sentimental...

Author: Megan Nash (University of Auckland)
ISBN: 9781009661751
Format: Hardback
$245.81

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

Governing AI: A Primer

Governing AI: A Primer

Author: Onur Bakiner (Seattle University)
ISBN: 9781009738309
Format: Hardback
$258.75

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: An Idealistic Theory of Evolution

The Collective Spirit: An Idealistic Theory of Evolution...

Author: Viggo Cavling
ISBN: 9781032937694
Format: Paperback
$77.60

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

Science Policy in the Soviet Union

Author: Stephen Fortescue
ISBN: 9781032889788
Format: Paperback
$82.77

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

System, Structure and Experience: Toward a Scientific Theory of Mind

System, Structure and Experience: Toward a Scientific...

Author: Ervin Laszlo
ISBN: 9781032830926
Format: Paperback
$77.60

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

Soviet Science

Soviet Science

Author: J.G. Crowther
ISBN: 9781032881119
Format: Paperback
$77.60

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

The Idea of the Soul: In Western Philosophy and Science

The Idea of the Soul: In Western Philosophy and Science...

Author: William Ellis
ISBN: 9781032880471
Format: Paperback
$82.77

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

Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up

Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from...

Author: Britt Paris, Ph.D
ISBN: 9780520402058
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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

Acing Science: Compulsory Sexuality and Asexual Possibilities

Acing Science: Compulsory Sexuality and Asexual Possibilities...

Author: Kristina Gupta (Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University) ,  Rebecca Herzig (Professor and Chair, Bates College)
ISBN: 9780295754260
Format: Paperback
$79.20

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

A Century of Cosmic Discoveries: Heliophysics and Space Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology

A Century of Cosmic Discoveries: Heliophysics and Space...

Author: Kanaris Tsinganos
ISBN: 9783032062819
Format: Hardback
$316.77

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

Atomic Bombshells: How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies

Atomic Bombshells: How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies...

Author: Isabelle Held
ISBN: 9781478033103
Format: Paperback
$71.99

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

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