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  • Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science
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    Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science

    The last two decades have seen two significant trends emerging within the philosophy of science: the rapid development and focus on the philosophy of the specialised sciences, and a resurgence of Aristotelian metaphysics, much of which is concerned with...
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  • Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics
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    Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics

    Vulnerability is an important concern of moral philosophy, political philosophy and many discussions in applied ethics. Yet the concept itself-what it is and why it is morally salient-is under-theorized. Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics brings...
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  • The Evolution Of Immortality (1901) The Evolution Of Immortality (1901)
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    The Evolution Of Immortality (1901)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • The Theory And Practice Of Scientific Management (1917) The Theory And Practice Of Scientific Management (1917)
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    The Theory And Practice Of Scientific Management (1917)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • The New Physics And Its Evolution (1908) The New Physics And Its Evolution (1908)
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    The New Physics And Its Evolution (1908)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Permanence And Evolution Permanence And Evolution
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    Permanence And Evolution

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Lectures On The Evolution Of Plants (1899) Lectures On The Evolution Of Plants (1899)
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    Lectures On The Evolution Of Plants (1899)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Alcohol, The Sanction For Its Use Alcohol, The Sanction For Its Use
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    Alcohol, The Sanction For Its Use

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • The Further Evolution Of Man The Further Evolution Of Man
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    The Further Evolution Of Man

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • The Routledge Guidebook to Galileo's Dialogue The Routledge Guidebook to Galileo's Dialogue
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    The Routledge Guidebook to Galileo's Dialogue

     The publication in 1632 of Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican marked a crucial moment in the 'scientific revolution' and helped Galileo become the 'father of modern science'. The Dialogue contains Galileo's...
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  • Genetic Databases Genetic Databases
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    Genetic Databases

    Genetic Databases offers a timely analysis of the underlying tensions, contradictions and limitations of the current regulatory frameworks for, and policy debates about, genetic databases. Drawing on original empirical research and theoretical debates in...
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  • On Science On Science
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    On Science

    Can science explain everything? Brian Ridley, a physicist himself, explores this question and more in this compelling exploration of both the scope and limits of science. Tracing back to the roots of scientific thinking in a world of 'magical ideas', he...
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  • Evolution Of The Dominion Of Canada Evolution Of The Dominion Of Canada
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    Evolution Of The Dominion Of Canada

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Studies Scientific And Social V2 (1900) Studies Scientific And Social V2 (1900)
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    Studies Scientific And Social V2 (1900)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • The Science Matrix The Science Matrix
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    The Science Matrix

    In these essays, Professor Seitz, President Emeritus of Rockefeller University, and one of the developers of modern semiconductor physics, investigates the role of science in modern society, its origins, and its development.
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  • Spatio-Temporal Pattern Formation
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    Spatio-Temporal Pattern Formation

    Spatio-temporal patterns appear almost everywhere in nature, and their description and understanding still raise important and basic questions. However, if one looks back 20 or 30 years, definite progress has been made in the...
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  • Urban Youth in China Urban Youth in China
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    Urban Youth in China

    Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet users in China had reached 253 million (in comparison with 22.5...
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  • Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age
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    Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age

    It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies - from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities for altering human genetics - seem to make obsolete our...
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  • On the Human Condition On the Human Condition
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    On the Human Condition

    On the Human Condition is an invigorating and fascinating exploration of where the idea of the human stands today.
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  • Philosophy and Revolutions in Genetics Philosophy and Revolutions in Genetics
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    Philosophy and Revolutions in Genetics

    The last century saw two great revolutions in genetics; the development of classic Mendelian theory and the discovery and investigation of DNA. Each fundamental scientific discovery in turn generated its own distinctive technology. These two case...
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  • The God/Man/World Triangle The God/Man/World Triangle
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    The God/Man/World Triangle

    Introduction Where is God? Is God in the World? After Darwin Einstein What Kind of World is This? What are We? The Indian Tradition The Semitic Tradition Models of God Does God Exist? What Kind of God Model? Notes Index
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  • Place of Science in a World of Values and Facts Place of Science in a World of Values and Facts
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    Place of Science in a World of Values and Facts

    This is an engrossing book. It is also an unusual book: it is written by a scientist who is quite willing to talk about the softer side of life, about things such as love and respect and responsibility, and to try and position...
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  • Sex, Drugs and DNA Sex, Drugs and DNA
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    Sex, Drugs and DNA

    In a frank, edgy and entertaining style that pulls no punches this book reveals the truth about modern biology and debunks the commonest myths surrounding some of the most controversial topics in science and health. It says what most scientists and...
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  • The Politics of Bioethics The Politics of Bioethics
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    The Politics of Bioethics

    Recent rapid advances in the biosciences have led to considerable debate about the social, ethical, and legal implications of research and its applications. The mapping of the human genome, advances in cloning techniques, the harvesting of embryonic stem...
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  • The Social Life of Nanotechnology The Social Life of Nanotechnology
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    The Social Life of Nanotechnology

    This book addresses the interconnections and tensions between technological development, the social benefits and risks of new technology, and the changing political economy of a global world system as they apply to the emerging field of nanotechnologies...
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  • The Culture of Science The Culture of Science
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    The Culture of Science

    This book offers the first comparative account of the changes and stabilities of public perceptions of science within the US, France, China, Japan, and across Europe over the past few decades. The contributors address the influence of cultural factors;...
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  • Internet and Emotions Internet and Emotions
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    Internet and Emotions

    Nothing seems more far removed from the visceral, bodily experience of emotions than the cold, rational technology of the Internet. But as this collection shows, the internet and emotions intersect in interesting and surprising ways. Internet and...
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