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Joseph Grinnell's Philosophy of Nature

Author : Joseph Grinnell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520345002
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Joseph Grinnell's Philosophy of Nature written by Joseph Grinnell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1943. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

A Companion to the History of Science

Author : Bernard Lightman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119121140
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the History of Science written by Bernard Lightman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science is a single volume companion that discusses the history of science as it is done today, providing a survey of the debates and issues that dominate current scholarly discussion, with contributions from leading international scholars. Provides a single-volume overview of current scholarship in the history of science edited by one of the leading figures in the field Features forty essays by leading international scholars providing an overview of the key debates and developments in the history of science Reflects the shift towards deeper historical contextualization within the field Helps communicate and integrate perspectives from the history of science with other areas of historical inquiry Includes discussion of non-Western themes which are integrated throughout the chapters Divided into four sections based on key analytic categories that reflect new approaches in the field

Science in the Context of Application

Author : Martin Carrier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048190517
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Science in the Context of Application written by Martin Carrier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We increasingly view the world around us as a product of science and technology. Accordingly, we have begun to appreciate that science does not take its problems only from nature and then produces technological applications, but that the very problems of scientific research themselves are generated by science and technology. Simultaneously, problems like global warming, the toxicology of nanoparticles, or the use of renewable energies are constituted by many factors that interact with great complexity. Science in the context of application is challenged to gain new understanding and control of such complexity—it cannot seek shelter in the ivory tower or simply pursue its internal quest for understanding and gradual improvement of grand theories. Science in the Context of Application will identify, explore and assess these changes. Part I considers the "Changing Conditions of Scientific Research" and part II "Science, Values, and Society". Examples are drawn from pharmaceutical research, the information sciences, simulation modelling, nanotechnology, cancer research, the effects of commercialization, and many other fields. The book assembles papers from well-known European and American Science Studies scholars like Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Janet Kourany, Michael Mahoney, Margaret Morrison, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Arie Rip, Dan Sarewitz, Peter Weingart, and others. The individual chapters are written to address anyone who is concerned about the role of contemporary science in society, including scientists, philosophers, and policy makers.

The Environment and Science

Author : Christian C. Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576079643
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Environment and Science written by Christian C. Young and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-04-25 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at the historical relationship between environmental issues and scientific study, social attitudes, and public policy from the 17th century to the present. The Environment and Science: Social Impact and Interaction explores the history of how science investigates nature and how those studies both shape and are shaped by the social attitudes, philosophies, and politics of their times. It follows the changes in perceptions of the natural world and humankind's place in it from the European colonization of North America through the Industrial Revolution and westward expansion, to the rise of the consumer economy and the recent hardening of the ideological battle lines over environmental policy. Coverage includes the emergence of ecology as a science and conservation as a movement, the long history of conflicts between business interests and environmentalists, and the role of scientific studies in debates over atomic and nuclear power, pesticides, toxic emissions, and other human-made sources of environmental degradation.

Nature and the English Diaspora

Author : Thomas Dunlap
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521651738
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Nature and the English Diaspora written by Thomas Dunlap and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-28 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comparative history of the development of ideas about nature, particularly of the importance of native nature in the Anglo settler countries of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It examines the development of natural history, settlers' adaptations to the end of expansion, scientists' shift from natural history to ecology, and the rise of environmentalism. Addressing not only scientific knowledge but also popular issues from hunting to landscape painting, this book explores the ways in which English-speaking settlers looked at nature in their new lands.

Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

Author : William Cronon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393315118
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature written by William Cronon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays historicizes the divorce of the 'natural' from the human, and shows that 'nature' is a human construction, arguing that what we have constructed we can reconstruct.

Saving America's Wildlife

Author : Thomas Dunlap
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691224277
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Saving America's Wildlife written by Thomas Dunlap and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an account of evolving ideas about wolves and coyotes, Thomas Dunlap shows how American attitudes toward animals have changed.

Descended from Darwin

Author : Joe Cain
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0871692791
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Descended from Darwin written by Joe Cain and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vol. has its origins in a conference, held October 22-23, 2004, at the Amer. Philosophical Society (APS) Library, Phila. The main focus was on evolutionary studies in America before, during, and after the famous “synthesis” period of the 1930s and 1940s. The synthesis period has been the focus of substantial new research and important new thinking. This vol. brings together 15 specialists to explore these developments and to press further. Questions shaping these essays focus on the following broad themes: Continuity and breaks across generations; Emerging narratives for the period; New research opportunities at the APS; New ideas from the research front; Placing evolutionists in the broader context of biology; and Future directions. Also includes a thoughtful intro. by Michael Ruse.

Intermittent Frontiers

Author : Robert B. Finley
Publisher : Pilgrims Process, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780974959771
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Intermittent Frontiers written by Robert B. Finley and published by Pilgrims Process, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is variable and undergoing continual change. Studying life sometimes requires viewing it as a condition of steady state with little or no change, but we should recognize that such a condition is not natural. A more realistic approach is to view life as a system of constant change and to try to understand those changes. The explanations for life, and especially for evolution, lie in the differences and their changes.

After the Grizzly

Author : Peter S. Alagona
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520355547
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book After the Grizzly written by Peter S. Alagona and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of threats to species and habitat in California, from the time of the Gold Rush to the present. The author shows how, over the course of more than a century, scientists and conservationists came to view the fates of endangered species as dependent on the ecological conditions and human activities in the places where those species lived. The story begins with the tale of the state's extinct mascot, the California grizzly, and the conservation movements and laws that followed its disappearance. The second half of the book focuses on four high-profile endangered species: the California condor, the desert tortoise, the San Joaquin kit fox, and the Delta smelt. The author offers an account of how Americans developed a civil system in which imperiled species serve as proxies for broader conflicts about the politics of place. The book concludes that the challenge for conservationists in the twenty-first century will be to expand habitat conservation beyond protected wildlands to build more diverse and sustainable landscapes.

The Right Tools for the Job

Author : Adele E. Clarke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400863139
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Right Tools for the Job written by Adele E. Clarke and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines scientific practice through studies of research tools in an array of twentieth-century life sciences. The contributors draw upon and extend the multidisciplinary perspectives in current science studies to understand the processes through which scientific researchers constructed the right--and, in some cases, the wrong--tools for the job. The articles portray the crafting or accessing of specific materials, techniques, instruments, models, funds, and work arrangements involved in doing scientific work. They demonstrate the historical and local contingencies of scientific problem construction and solving by highlighting the articulation between the tools and jobs. Indeed, the very "rightness" of the tools is contingently constructed, maintained, lost, and refashioned. The cases examined include evolutionary biology laboratory systems (James R. Griesemer), the plasmid prep procedure in molecular biology (Kathleen Jordan and Michael Lynch), models in the human ecology of African pastoralists (Peter Taylor), the micromanometer in metabolic studies (Frederic L. Holmes), genetics research and the role played by Planaria (Gregg Mitman and Anne Fausto-Sterling) and by corn (Barbara A. Kimmelman), quantitative data in field biology (Yrj Haila), taxidermy in natural history (Susan Leigh Star), technical standardization in bacteriology (Patricia Peck Gossell), and the discipline of immunology as the tool for stabilizing conceptual definitions in the field (Peter Keating, Alberto Cambrosio, and Michael Mackenzie). Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Museum Curatorship in the National Park Service, 1904-1982

Author : Ralph H. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Museum Curatorship in the National Park Service, 1904-1982 written by Ralph H. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Her Own Terms

Author : Barbara R. Stein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520227263
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book On Her Own Terms written by Barbara R. Stein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-10-18 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Fact Sheet The life of an explorer, amateur naturalist, philanthropist, & pioneer in the field of science.

Connecting with Nature

Author : Robert Cyril Stebbins
Publisher : NSTA Press
ISBN 13 : 1936959119
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Connecting with Nature written by Robert Cyril Stebbins and published by NSTA Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how one child fell in love with nature and your students can, too. Taking what he calls 'a nature-centered worldview', author Robert Stebbins blends activities, examples, and stories with his perspectives on the importance of dealing objectively yet compassionately with social and environmental problems.

Evolutionary Ecology

Author :
Publisher : Eric R. Pianka
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Ecology written by and published by Eric R. Pianka. This book was released on 2011 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, an eBook version of this now classic textbook has become available. Largely based on the 6th edition, published in 2000, this version is competitively priced. Written by well-known ecologist Eric R. Pianka, a student of the late Robert H. MacArthur, this timeless treatment of evolutionary ecology, first published in 1974, will endure for many decades to come. Basic principles of ecology are framed in an evolutionary perspective.

Museum Origins

Author : Hugh H Genoways
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315423995
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Museum Origins written by Hugh H Genoways and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the development of institutions displaying natural science, history, and art in the late 19th century came the debates over the role of these museum in society. This anthology collects 50 of the most important writings on museum philosophy dating from this formative period, written by the many of the American and European founders of the field. Genoways and Andrei contextualize these pieces with a series of introductions showing how the museum field developed within the social environment of the era. For those interested in museum history and philosophy or cultural history, this is an essential resource.

Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists

Author : George A. Cevasco
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313036497
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists written by George A. Cevasco and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-12-09 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casting a wide net, this volume provides personal and professional information on some 445 American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists, who lived from the late 15th century to the late 20th century. It includes explorers who published works on the natural history of North America, conservationists, ecologists, environmentalists, wildlife management specialists, park planners, national park administrators, zoologists, botanists, natural historians, geographers, geologists, academics, museum scientists and administrators, military personnel, travellers, government officials, political figures and writers and artists concerned with the environment. Some of the subjects are well known. The accomplishments of others are little known. Each entry contains a succinct but careful evaluation of the subject's career and contributions. Entries also include up-to-date bibliographies and information concerning manuscript sources.