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Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Science in Perspective; Chapter 2 Formal Reasoning; Chapter 3 Experimentation; Chapter 4 Scientific Inference; Chapter 5 Dynamics of Science; Chapter 6 Controversies and Challenges; Chapter 7 Case Studies; Bibliography; Back Cover.