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Book Synopsis A Smoother Pebble by : Donald C. Benson
Download or read book A Smoother Pebble written by Donald C. Benson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a selective cultural history of algorithmic approaches to calculation, from Babylonian arithmetic and Egyptian geometric and surveying methods, through Newton's calculus, this text should appeal to students and to amatuer mathematicians.
Book Synopsis Smoother Pebbles by : Jonathan R. Cole
Download or read book Smoother Pebbles written by Jonathan R. Cole and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the middle of the twentieth century, few thought of science as a social system, instead seeing scientific discovery as the work of individual geniuses. Columbia University’s Department of Sociology played a pivotal role in advancing the social study of science. Researchers of the “Columbia Program” analyzed how science works as a social institution, exploring its norms, values, and structure. Smoother Pebbles presents a collection of essays authored or coauthored by Jonathan R. Cole, a leading Columbia Program figure, that trace the development and institutionalization of the sociology of science. Spanning from the 1960s to the 2020s and including both empirical and theoretical studies of science, the book is at once wide-ranging and united by core questions. Are scientists rewarded for the merits of their work or for other reasons? How does the system of social stratification in science operate? Has the funding of scientists been the result of an “old boys’ network”? How fair is the peer review process? In what ways does science fall short of its universalistic ideals? What factors have constrained opportunities for women in science? How has science fared amid attacks on academic freedom and free inquiry at universities? Cole’s introduction contextualizes both individual essays and the major concerns of the Columbia Program. Smoother Pebbles is essential reading for those interested in the growth and crucial questions of the sociology and social studies of science.
Book Synopsis The Hygiene of Schools and Scholars by : H. Beale Collins
Download or read book The Hygiene of Schools and Scholars written by H. Beale Collins and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All the Year Round written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Economy of a Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides by : Niall Sharples
Download or read book The Economy of a Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides written by Niall Sharples and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the economic evidence for the settlement at Bornais on South Uist. It reports in detail on the large assemblages of material found during the excavations at mounds 2 and 2A. There is important evidence for craft activity, such as bone and antler working and this includes the only comb making workshop from a rural settlement in Britain. A large proportion of the copper alloy, bone and antler assemblages comprise pieces of personal adornment and provide important information on the dress and thereby social relations within the settlement occupation. There is a large assemblage of iron tools and fittings, which provides important information on the activities taking place at the settlement. The information derived from the artefact assemblages is complemented by that provided by the ecofactual material. Large amounts of animal, fish and bird bones plus carbonised plant remains provide detailed information on agricultural practices, and the processing, preparation and consumption of foodstuffs. It is clear that the Norse inhabitants of the settlement had access to a much richer variety of resources than had been exploited before the Viking colonisation of the region. The settlement also had a significantly wider range of connections; material culture indicates contacts to the south with the Irish Sea ports and Bristol, and to the north with Shetland and the Viking homelands of Norway. The evidence produced by these excavations is exceptional and provides an unparalleled opportunity to explore medieval life in the Scandinavian kingdoms of Western Britain.
Download or read book Elegantly Simple written by Art Bardige and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explosion of invention 150 years ago, connected by a new singular idea-environments-revolutionized the disciplines. Today, a new singular idea-artifacts-enables us to understand the invention of knowledge and unify the arts and sciences.
Book Synopsis Pebbles on the Beach by : M. Jankiraman Ph.D.
Download or read book Pebbles on the Beach written by M. Jankiraman Ph.D. and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This planet abounds in myths and legends prevalent in various cultures. More often than not, these are based on a kernel of truth. The facts get grossly exaggerated through the ages, much like a fishing tale! Pebbles on the Beach is a concise examination of many of these. There are adequate references given at the end of each chapter, in case the reader wishes to follow-up on these. Some of the stories examined are pertaining to the year 2012, the biblical end-of-times, as well as the story of Atlantis, the Ark of the Covenant, and an examination of the secrets of the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt, amongst others. This book also includes an investigation of the story of Moses, especially the identity of the Pharaoh responsible for the Exodus. This is a result of many years of patient study of such topics by the author and is presented for the first time in the form of one book for easy reading! One is reminded of the famous quote attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, wherein he said that “I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
Book Synopsis The Great American University by : Jonathan R. Cole
Download or read book The Great American University written by Jonathan R. Cole and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans and people throughout the world have become increasingly dependent on America's great research universities. Yet few of us truly understand to what we owe this extraordinary excellence or what we must do to keep it. From the development of technologies like the laser, the global positioning system, the MRI, radar, and even Viagra, to predicting weather patterns, American research universities are one of our most vital sources of economic growth and social welfare. They have flourished because of a system that has invested public tax dollars in their work and, more importantly, granted substantial autonomy to funding agencies and the universities. This system is now under attack, the university's preeminence endangered by the USA PATRIOT Act and other conservative policies. This revelatory and alarming book will show how this vital institution is at risk of tragically losing its dominant status and why a threat to the university is a threat to the health and wealth of our nation.
Download or read book CLACHTOLL written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blaise Pascal written by Daniel Coenn and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of 280 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Blaise Pascal: "You always admire what you really don't understand." "All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room." "Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world." "Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself." "Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us." "The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason." "We understand nothing of the works of God unless we take it as a principle that He wishes to blind some and to enlighten others."
Download or read book George Eliot written by Daniel Coenn and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult." This book is a collection of the quotes and aphorisms of George Eliot. It grants her reflections on subjects ranging from love, women and men, art and life. The well researched and edited compilation of phrases provides approaching into the way of thinking of George Eliot. Mary Anne Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, and translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. An additional factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived for over 20 years.
Download or read book Isaac Newton written by Daniel Coenn and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of 73 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." "Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion." "And to every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction." "Errors are not in the art but in the artificers." "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
Book Synopsis THE TECH DIARY: FROM STONE TO SMARTPHONE by : Kristian Factora
Download or read book THE TECH DIARY: FROM STONE TO SMARTPHONE written by Kristian Factora and published by Kristian Factora. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original version of Philippine travel diary and technological evolution in a file preview. The ignorant explorer's quest to explore the vastness of the universe, as well as the detailed encyclopedia of tools that had evolved over time. It also includes simple black-and-white artwork depicting how life and matter can be explained in an evolutionary manner over time.
Download or read book Richard Outram written by Ingrid Ruthig and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 2011 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something of a ?foreigner? in his own country, Richard Outram was uncommonly dedicated to living an "examined life" and to the act of creation for its own reward. This book represents a posthumous, introductory panorama of this late Canadian poet's work, written by those who continue to admire his achievement. Much of it is new material, offering fresh consideration and a charting of the path of Outram's lifelong engagement with poetry.
Book Synopsis The Beginning and the End of the World by : Robert Crawford
Download or read book The Beginning and the End of the World written by Robert Crawford and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a work of spectacular imagination and remarkable synthesis, poet Robert Crawford celebrates St Andrews, the first town in the world to have its people, buildings and natural environment thoroughly documented through photography. The Beginning and the End of the World tells the stories of several pioneering Scottish photographers, linking their work to one of the nineteenth century's most scandalous and hotly debated publications. Here is the extraordinary intellectual life of an eccentric society rich in apocalyptically-minded Victorian inventors and authors whose work has had an international impact. The protagonists include a very quarrelsome professor, a cello-playing ex-military golfer, a notorious scientist, a married couple coping with mental breakdown and a physician obsessed with sewage. In paying full attention to these people's inter-relationship, implicitly and explicitly this book suggests that their lasting legacies may have a bearing on our own arguments about environmental sustainability and the possibility of largescale extinction.
Book Synopsis The Lightness of Being by : Frank Wilczek
Download or read book The Lightness of Being written by Frank Wilczek and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Nobel-prize winning physicist takes on the essential question: what are we made of? Our understanding of nature's deepest reality has changed radically, but almost without our noticing, over the past twenty-five years. Transcending the clash of older ideas about matter and space, acclaimed physicist Frank Wilczek explains a remarkable new discovery: matter is built from almost weightless units, and pure energy is the ultimate source of mass. He calls it "The Lightness of Being." Space is no mere container, empty and passive. It is a dynamic Grid-a modern ether- and its spontaneous activity creates and destroys particles. This new understanding of mass explains the puzzling feebleness of gravity, and a gorgeous unification of all the forces comes sharply into focus.The Lightness of Being is the first book to explore the implications of these revolutionary ideas about mass, energy, and the nature of "empty space." In it, Wilczek masterfully presents new perspectives on our incredible universe and envisions a new golden age of fundamental physics.
Book Synopsis Statistical Rock Physics by : Gabor Korvin
Download or read book Statistical Rock Physics written by Gabor Korvin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
