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Method and Appraisal in the Physical Sciences
Cambridge University Press 1976; US$ 34.00This is a volume of studies on the problems of theory-appraisal in the physical sciences. more...
The Common Sense of Science
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 14.57Jacob Bronowski was, with Kenneth Clarke, the greatest popularizer of serious ideas in Britain between the mid 1950s and the early 1970s. Trained as a mathematician, he was equally at home with painting and physics, and wrote a series of brilliant books that tried to break down the barriers between 'the two cultures'. He denounced 'the destructive... more...
Surfaces and Essences
Basic Books 2013; US$ 35.00A Pulitzer Prize?winning cognitive scientist and a leading psychologist search for the core of thinking more...
The Common Sense of Science
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 14.57Jacob Bronowski was, with Kenneth Clarke, the greatest popularizer of serious ideas in Britain between the mid 1950s and the early 1970s. Trained as a mathematician, he was equally at home with painting and physics, and wrote a series of brilliant books that tried to break down the barriers between 'the two cultures'. He denounced 'the... more...
The Intuitive Way of Knowing
Floris Books 2013; US$ 14.57Professor Brian Goodwin was a visionary biologist, mathematician and philosopher. Born in Canada in 1931, he studied biology at McGill University then for his PhD at Oxford under the eminent biologist Conrad Waddington. Understanding organisms as dynamic wholes, he worked to develop an alternate view to extreme Darwinism based solely on genetic factors.... more...
The Very Idea of Modern Science
Springer 2012; US$ 99.99This book is a study of the scientific revolution as a movement of amateur science. It describes the ideology of the amateur scientific societies as the philosophy of the Enlightenment Movement and their social structure and the way they made modern science such a magnificent institution. It also shows what was missing in the scientific organization... more...
The Berlin Group and the Philosophy of Logical Empiricism
Springer 2011; US$ 99.99The Berlin Group for scientific philosophy was active between 1928 and 1933 and was closely related to the Vienna Circle. In 1930, the leaders of the two Groups, Hans Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap, launched the journal Erkenntnis. However, between the Berlin Group and the Vienna Circle, there was not only close relatedness but also significant difference.... more...
Mars Direct
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 3.99?Bob Zubrin really, nearly alone, changed our thinking on this issue.? ?Carl Sagan, The Denver Post If you ever daydream about space travel and human space flight?or if your " Curiosity " is piqued by the Red Planet?it's time for you to get aboard MARS DIRECT The human race is at a crossroads. In the coming years, we will... more...
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 26.95In its 4.5 billion?year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How? As a species, Homo sapiens... more...
Does Science Need a Global Language?
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 18.00In early 2012, the global scientific community erupted with news that the elusive Higgs boson had likely been found, providing potent validation for the Standard Model of how the universe works. Scientists from more than one hundred countries contributed to this discovery—proving, beyond any doubt, that a new era in science had arrived, an era... more...









