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Science Fact and Science Fiction
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2006
Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings. Science Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how...
Assessment in Science
A Guide to Professional Development and Classroom Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Assessment in Science combines professional development and classroom practice in a single volume. The pragmatic nature of the book makes it a valuable resource for administrators and staff developers interested in designing professional development programs, and for science teachers looking for techniques...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this historic legacy by NASA contains essays from three prominent figures, British historian James Burke, ABC TV science editor and reporter Jules Bergman, and scientist and science fiction writer Dr. Isaac Asimov, to celebrate...
Cooperative Innovation
Science and Technology Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Research cooperation in a nation is a fundamental key to national competitiveness in technology that supports growth in a national economy. To fully understand why some nations are more successful in innovation than others, one must examine the structure and process of knowledge creation and use —...
by Andrew Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1996
In the wake of the highly fractious Culture Wars, conservatives in science have launched a backlash against feminist, multiculturalist, and social critics in science studies. Paul Gross and Norman Levitt’s book Higher Superstition, presented as a wake-up call to scientists unaware of the dangers...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) and its Curiosity rover, scheduled for launch on an Atlas rocket in late November 2011, is provided in this unique compilation of official NASA material. There is complete data on the MSL mission, science investigations,...
Science Fiction Prototyping
Designing the Future with Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Science fiction is the playground of the imagination. If you are interested in science or fascinated with the future then science fiction is where you explore new ideas and let your dreams and nightmares duke it out on the safety of the page or screen. But what if we could use science fiction to do...
Science as Social Existence
Heidegger and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
In this bold and original study, Jeff Kochan constructively combines the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) with Martin Heidegger’s early existential conception of science. Kochan shows convincingly that these apparently quite different approaches to science are, in fact, largely compatible,...
by Lars-Göran Johansson
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
This textbook offers an introduction to the philosophy of science. It helps undergraduate students from the natural, the human and social sciences to gain an understanding of what science is, how it has developed, what its core traits are, how to distinguish between science and pseudo-science and...
Theology and Science
From Genesis to Astrobiology
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
The age-old debate between science and faith invites more players to the fore in this book. Proponents of the origin of life as a natural process and natural selection as a mechanism of evolution come face to face with advocates for the intervention of a creator, while other scholars believe that...
Imaginative Science Education
The Central Role of Imagination in Science Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This book is about imaginative approaches to teaching and learning school science. Its central premise is that science learning should reflect the nature of science, and therefore be approached as an imaginative/creative activity. As such, the book can be seen as an original contribution of ideas...
Beyond Sputnik
U.S. Science Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Science and technology are responsible for almost every advance in our modern quality of life. Yet science isn't just about laboratories, telescopes and particle accelerators. Public policy exerts a huge impact on how the scientific community conducts its work. Beyond Sputnik is a comprehensive survey...
Publishing and the Advancement of Science
From Selfish Genes to Galileo's Finger
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Popular science books, selling in their thousands — even millions — help us appreciate breakthroughs in understanding the natural world, while highlighting the cultural importance of scientific knowledge. Textbooks bring these same advances to students; the scientists of tomorrow. But how do these...
by Loucas G. Christophorou
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Emerging Dynamics: Science, Energy, Society and Values focuses on the impact of science, science-based technology and scientific values on present-day humanity and its future. The book advocates for a science willing to accommodate both human values and scientific facts. The four main subjects...