"From the 'gay gene' to the 'female brain' and African American students' insufficient 'hereditary background' for higher education, arguments about a biological basis for human difference have reemerged in the twenty-first century. Measuring Manhood shows where they got their s…
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"From the 'gay gene' to the 'female brain' and African American students' insufficient 'hereditary background' for higher education, arguments about a biological basis for human difference have reemerged in the twenty-first century. Measuring Manhood shows where they got their s…
"From the 'gay gene' to the 'female brain' and African American students' insufficient 'hereditary background' for higher education, arguments about a biological basis for human difference have reemerged in the twenty-first century. Measuring Manhood shows where they got their s…
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Health and War Beyond the Battlefield -- Part I: Preparation for Chemical Warfare -- 1. Wounding Men to Learn: Soldiers as Human Subjects -- 2. Race Studies and the Science of War -- Part …
"Mustard gas is typically associated with the horrors of World War I battlefields and trenches, where chemical weapons were responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. Few realize, however, that mustard gas had a resurgence during the Second World War, when its uses and effects…
How It All Works is an unprecedented demonstration of our universe and how it works. Starting in the home, and moving through ever more complex scenes of street, city and landscape, all the way to the solar system and the whole universe, Adam Dant's illustrations reveal where sc…
How It All Works is a unique and unprecedented demonstration of our universe and how it works. Starting in the home, and moving through ever more complex scenes of street, city and landscape, all the way to the solar system and the whole universe, Adam Dant's exquisite illustrat…
How It All Works is a unique and unprecedented demonstration of our universe and how it works. Starting in the home, and moving through ever more complex scenes of street, city and landscape, all the way to the solar system and the whole universe, Adam Dant's exquisite illustrat…
Languages of science in the eighteenth century
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The eighteenth century is an important period both in the history of science and in the history of languages. In this volume, seventeen authors explore, from a variety of angles, the construction of a scientific language and discourse. The chapters explore the forming of scienti…
On July 17, 2012, the centenary of Henri Poincaré's death was commemorated; his name being associated with so many fields of knowledge that he was considered as the last universalist. In pure and applied mathematics, physics, astronomy, engineering and philosophy, his works have…
The Unity of Science in the Arabic Tradition: Science, Logic, Epistemology and their Interactio…
by Priest, Graham, Hintikka, Jaakko, Benthem, Johan, Street, Tony, Symons, John, Rahman, Shahid, Rahman, Shahid, Wansing, Heinrich, Tahiri, Hassan, Bendegem, Jean Paul, Dubucs, Jacques, Fagot-Largeault, Anne, Fraassen, Bas, Gabbay, Dov, Lambert, Karel, Sandu, Gabriel, Williamson, Timothy
fromLogic, epistemology and the unity of science
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This book is the first to reflect the multi-dimensional nature of the interplay between logic, science, philosophy and language in the Arabic tradition. It presents contributions from the worlda (TM)s leading scholars and historians under the headings a Epistemology and Philosop…
This book brings together papers of the conference on 'Space, Geometry and the Imagination from Antiquity to the Modern Age' held in Berlin, Germany, 27-29 August 2012. Focusing on the interconnections between the history of geometry and the philosophy of space in the pre-Modern…
This book brings together papers of the conference on 'Space, Geometry and the Imagination from Antiquity to the Modern Age' held in Berlin, Germany, 27-29 August 2012. Focusing on the interconnections between the history of geometry and the philosophy of space in the pre-Modern…
This book brings together papers of the conference on 'Space, Geometry and the Imagination from Antiquity to the Modern Age' held in Berlin, Germany, 27-29 August 2012. Focusing on the interconnections between the history of geometry and the philosophy of space in the pre-Modern…
Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media coverage, and several meetings, conferences and books raising…