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Author : Elliott Coues
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Daemon of Darwin written by Elliott Coues and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elliott Coues
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781340811495
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Daemon of Darwin written by Elliott Coues and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Charles Darwin
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Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (559 download)
Download or read book The Dæmon of Darwin. By the Author of "Biogen." written by Charles Darwin and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elliott Coues
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330009857
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Daemon of Darwin written by Elliott Coues and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Daemon of Darwin The undersigned will publish from time to time a collection of books entitled The Biogen Series, of which "Biogen: A Speculation on the Origin and Nature of Life," now in its third edition, was the first. The present volume, "The Dæmon of Darwin," is the second of this series. A third, in press, and to appear at once, is "A Buddhist Catechism." The series will consist of concise essays on live questions of the day or of historical research in Religion, Science, and Philosophy, prepared by writers of the most eminent ability, and will be under the editorial direction of Dr. Coues. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Luis A. Campos
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022641874X
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Radium and the Secret of Life written by Luis A. Campos and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicists, botanists, and geneticists were excited thinking that radium held the key to the secret of life. Luis Campos examines the many and varied connections between early radioactivity research and understandings of vitality, both scientific and popular, in the first half of the twentieth century. As some physicists and chemists early on described the wondrous new element and its radioactive brethren in lifelike terms ( decay, half-life, and frequent reference to the natural selection and evolution of the elements), many biologists of the period eagerly sought to bring radium into the biological fold. They did so with experiments aimed at elucidating some of the most basic phenomena of life, including metabolism and mutation, and often saw in these phenomena properties that in turn reminded them of the new element. These initially provocative links between radium and life proved remarkably productive in experimental terms and ultimately led to key biological insights into the origin of life, the nature of mutation, and the structure of the gene. "Radium and the Secret of Life" traces the half-life of this connection between the living and the radioactive, while also exploring the approach to history that emerges when one follows a trail of associations that, asymptotically, never quite disappears."
Author : Friedel Weinert
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319317083
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)
Download or read book The Demons of Science written by Friedel Weinert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first all-encompassing exploration of the role of demons in philosophical and scientific thought experiments. In Part I, the author explains the importance of thought experiments in science and philosophy. Part II considers Laplace’s Demon, whose claim is that the world is completely deterministic. Part III introduces Maxwell’s Demon, who - by contrast - experiences a world that is probabilistic and indeterministic. Part IV explores Nietzsche’s thesis of the cyclic and eternal recurrence of events. In each case a number of philosophical consequences regarding determinism and indeterminism, the arrows of time, the nature of the mind and free will are said to follow from the Demons’s worldviews. The book investigates what these Demons - and others - can and cannot tell us about our world.
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Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 540 pages
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Download or read book The Universalist Quarterly and General Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jimena Canales
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691241686
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Bedeviled written by Jimena Canales and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities—demons—to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible Science may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously materialized in the scientific imagination itself. Scientists began to employ hypothetical beings to perform certain roles in thought experiments—experiments that can only be done in the imagination—and these impish assistants helped scientists achieve major breakthroughs that pushed forward the frontiers of science and technology. Spanning four centuries of discovery—from René Descartes, whose demon could hijack sensorial reality, to James Clerk Maxwell, whose molecular-sized demon deftly broke the second law of thermodynamics, to Darwin, Einstein, Feynman, and beyond—Jimena Canales tells a shadow history of science and the demons that bedevil it. She reveals how the greatest scientific thinkers used demons to explore problems, test the limits of what is possible, and better understand nature. Their imaginary familiars helped unlock the secrets of entropy, heredity, relativity, quantum mechanics, and other scientific wonders—and continue to inspire breakthroughs in the realms of computer science, artificial intelligence, and economics today. The world may no longer be haunted as it once was, but the demons of the scientific imagination are alive and well, continuing to play a vital role in scientists' efforts to explore the unknown and make the impossible real.
Author : Jonathan Silvertown
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459627385
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Demons in Eden written by Jonathan Silvertown and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Silvertown here explores the astonishing diversity of plant life in regions as spectacular as the verdant climes of Japan, the lush grounds of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, the shallow wetlands and teeming freshwaters of Florida, the tropical rainforests of southeast Mexico, and the Canary Islands archipelago, whose evolutionary n...
Author : Philip J. Pauly
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691186332
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Biologists and the Promise of American Life written by Philip J. Pauly and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explorers, evolutionists, eugenicists, sexologists, and high school biology teachers--all have contributed to the prominence of the biological sciences in American life. In this book, Philip Pauly weaves their stories together into a fascinating history of biology in America over the last two hundred years. Beginning with the return of the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1806, botanists and zoologists identified science with national culture, linking their work to continental imperialism and the creation of an industrial republic. Pauly examines this nineteenth-century movement in local scientific communities with national reach: the partnership of Asa Gray and Louis Agassiz at Harvard University, the excitement of work at the Smithsonian Institution and the Geological Survey, and disputes at the Agriculture Department over the continent's future. He then describes the establishment of biology as an academic discipline in the late nineteenth century, and the retreat of life scientists from the problems of American nature. The early twentieth century, however, witnessed a new burst of public-oriented activity among biologists. Here Pauly chronicles such topics as the introduction of biology into high school curricula, the efforts of eugenicists to alter the "breeding" of Americans, and the influence of sexual biology on Americans' most private lives. Throughout much of American history, Pauly argues, life scientists linked their study of nature with a desire to culture--to use intelligence and craft to improve American plants, animals, and humans. They often disagreed and frequently overreached, but they sought to build a nation whose people would be prosperous, humane, secular, and liberal. Life scientists were significant participants in efforts to realize what Progressive Era oracle Herbert Croly called "the promise of American life." Pauly tells their story in its entirety and explains why now, in a society that is rapidly returning to a complex ethnic mix similar to the one that existed for a hundred years prior to the Cold War, it is important to reconnect with the progressive creators of American secular culture.
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Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of New Books, No.-- written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Simmons
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316213489
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Darwin's Blade written by Dan Simmons and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darwin Minor travels a dangerous road. A Vietnam veteran turned reluctant expert on interpreting the wreckage of fatal accidents, Darwin uses science and instinct to unravel the real causes of unnatural disasters. He is very, very good at his job. His latest case promises to be his most challenging yet. A spate of seemingly random high-speed car accidents has struck the highways of southern California. Each seems to have been staged-yet the participants have all died. Why would anyone commit fraud at the cost of his own life? The deeper Darwin digs, the closer he comes to unmasking an international network specializing in intimidation and murder, whose members will do anything to make sure Darwin soon suffers a deadly accident of his own. "A literary thriller like no other...A hard-charging, edge-of-the-seat tale."-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Author : John Milton Hoberman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395822920
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Darwin's Athletes written by John Milton Hoberman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the prominence of African American athletes provides fuel for sterotypes.
Author : Robert Ellis Thompson
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Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The American written by Robert Ellis Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean G. Boulton
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ISBN 13 : 0199565252
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Embracing Complexity written by Jean G. Boulton and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes what it means to say the world is complex and explores what that means for managers, policy makers and individuals. The first part of the book is about the theory and ideas of complexity. This is explained in a way that is thorough but not mathematical. It compares differing approaches, and also provides a historical perspective, showing how such thinking has been around since the beginning of civilisation. It emphasises the difference between a complexity worldview and the dominant mechanical worldview that underpins much of current management practice. It defines the complexity worldview as recognising the world is interconnected, shaped by history and the particularities of context. The comparison of the differing approaches to modelling complexity is unique in its depth and accessibility. The second part of the book uses this lens of complexity to explore issues in the fields of management, strategy, economics, and international development. It also explores how to facilitate others to recognise the implications of adopting a complex rather than a mechanical worldview and suggests methods of research to explore systemic, path-dependent emergent aspects of situations. The authors of this book span both science and management, academia and practice, thus the explanations of science are authoritative and yet the examples of changing how you live and work in the world are real and accessible. The aim of the book is to bring alive what complexity is all about and to illustrate the importance of loosening the grip of a modernist worldview with its hope for prediction, certainty and control.
Author : Clarence Howard Clark
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Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Forming the Library of Clarence H. Clark ... Philadelphia written by Clarence Howard Clark and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
