Author : Gregg Sapp
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 1995-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0313289360
Examines how popular science information resources contribute to science literacy and recommends numerous titles representing all fields of modern science.
Author : United States. Bureau of Federal Credit Unions
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 22,92 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Banks and banking, Cooperative
ISBN :
Author : Jack London
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
JACK LONDON (1876-1916), American novelist, born in San Francisco, the son of an itinerant astrologer and a spiritualist mother. He grew up in poverty, scratching a living in various legal and illegal ways -robbing the oyster beds, working in a canning factory and a jute mill, serving aged 17 as a common sailor, and taking part in the Klondike gold rush of 1897. This various experience provided the material for his works, and made him a socialist. "The son of the Wolf" (1900), the first of his collections of tales, is based upon life in the Far North, as is the book that brought him recognition, "The Call of the Wild" (1903), which tells the story of the dog Buck, who, after his master ́s death, is lured back to the primitive world to lead a wolf pack. Many other tales of struggle, travel, and adventure followed, including "The Sea-Wolf" (1904), "White Fang" (1906), "South Sea Tales" (1911), and "Jerry of the South Seas" (1917). One of London ́s most interesting novels is the semi-autobiographical "Martin Eden" (1909). He also wrote socialist treatises, autobiographical essays, and a good deal of journalism.
Author : Arthur Seldon
Publisher : Collected Works of Arthur Seld
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780865975521
"Everyman's Dictionary of Economics provides over nineteen hundred concise desk encyclopedia-style articles on economic terms and concepts, as well as on significant people working in the field, in plain, nontechnical English. The articles challenge readers' acceptance of the conventional wisdom on such subjects as government intervention in economic matters."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Daniel H. Nichols
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1351207253
This text provides an introduction to the important physics underpinning current technologies, highlighting key concepts in areas that include linear and rotational motion, energy, work, power, heat, temperature, fluids, waves, and magnetism. This revision reflects the latest technology advances, from smart phones to the Internet of Things, and all kinds of sensors. The author also provides more modern worked examples with useful appendices and laboratories for hands-on practice. There are also two brand new chapters covering sensors as well as electric fields and electromagnetic radiation as applied to current technologies.
Author : Murdo William McRae
Publisher :
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 33,45 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780820315065
"Each of the book's three sections addresses a distinct set of topics. The first section, concerned with language and rhetoric, discusses how scientific information can be mistranslated for nonscientific audiences, how scientists try to escape the constraints of their professional discourse, and how tropes shape scientific epistemology. The second section, which focuses on history, myth, and narrative, shows that the literature of science is shaped by our view of history, is the product of our culture's mythic and narrative practices, and is therefore subject to interpretive decoding. Centered on ideology and culture, the third section explains that the literature of science has at times advanced, but now seems ready to subvert, orthodox structures of knowledge and power. It goes on to suggest how the scientific and popular cultures can reach a better mutual understanding." "The Literature of Science represents a major effort to examine the central questions raised by the interaction of science and culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Arthur Jack Meadows
Publisher : Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier Science Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Author : Joseph Schwartz
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780060167882
Taking our present ignorance of science and technology as a symptom of profound cultural malaise, writer and physicist Joseph Schwartz offers a provocative and fascinating look back into the history of science to find out how it progressively lost touch with the rest of society. Acting as a sort of science critic, Schwartz examines a range of great "creative moments", from seventeenth-century Florence and Galileo (whose decision to describe his theories in mathematical language avoided trouble with the Church, but began the trend to number-worship in physics) to Cold Spring Harbor in 1946 and the invention of molecular biology, which ultimately fostered a way of thinking so restrictive that it may now be imperiling the search for an AIDS cure. Why Einstein's relativity theory is so famously arcane, when it ought not to be....Why the bomb-makers of Los Alamos allowed themselves to be manipulated by the military....Why physicists have come up with almost no new ideas since the 1920s....These are the kinds of questions The Creative Moment tackles and illuminates with a freshness and knowledgeability that is the hallmark of a truly new approach to understanding science and technology.
Author : John Chynoweth Burnham
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Medical
ISBN :
John Burnham studies the history of changing patterns in the dissemination, or "popularization," of scientific findings to the general public since 1830. Focusing on three different areas of science -- health, psychology, and the natural sciences -- Burnham explores the ways in which this process of popularization has deteriorated. He draws on evidence ranging from early lyceum lecturers to the new math and argues that today popular science is the functional equivalent of superstition.
Author : Robert M. Hazen
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 1995-12-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780471002499
Science is central to daily life. As consumers, we are besieged by new products and processes, not to mention a bewildering variety of warnings about health and safety. As taxpayers, we must vote on issues that directly affect our communities - energy taxes, recycling proposals, and more. A firm grasp of the principles and methods of science will help you make life's important decisions in a more informed way.
