History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2016-11-13 | Author:Powell, Miles A.

The Ideal Indian Writers could simultaneously connect wilderness destruction to the decline of white America and to the disappearance of Indians because increasing numbers of Euro-Americans had begun encountering the ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism October 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-24 | Author:Flynn Coleman

The sooner we confront our situation and realize that there is nothing we can do to save ourselves, the sooner we can get down to the difficult task of adapting, ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics October 10,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-19 | Author:Bernard Stiegler

Here, a very difficult question arises: what meaning should be accorded to the expressions ‘moral being’ and ‘be improved’?35 And from what, in political societies, and in their ‘morale’, stems, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 9,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:W Heisenberg [Heisenberg, W]

Figure 17.—Ion of hydrogen molecule. Figure 17A.—Scattering of neutrons in hydrogen. The situation is, however, not quite so simple as we have made it appear. If the analogy of nuclear ...
( Category: Atomic & Nuclear Physics October 8,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-23 | Author:Ross, Hugh [Ross, Hugh]

if smaller: no elements other than hydrogen 2. weak nuclear force constant if larger: too much hydrogen converted to helium in big bang, hence too much heavy element material made ...
( Category: Cosmology October 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:Gareth Williams

Golden ratios Meanwhile, Erwin Chargaff had been struggling to pursue his vendetta against the tetranucleotide. His challenge was to pull the four bases out of the soup of DNA breakdown ...
( Category: Genetics October 3,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1999-10-02 | Author:Kim Sterelny & Paul E. Griffiths [Sterelny, Kim]

10.2 Function The function of the heart is to pump blood. The heart also makes noises, but that is not part of its function. The function of the brow-raising response ...
( Category: Biology October 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-28 | Author:Gibson, Susannah;

The man plant These were serious issues indeed; they affected everyone, not just men of science. Discussion of generation, preformation theory, and epigenesis were not confined to learned circles. The ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 3,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-09-15 | Author:John Farndon

Forces of nature Newton had, with his concept of gravitation, made respectable the idea of an invisible force that exerted its effect through empty space, but this idea of ‘action-at-a-distance’ ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-24 | Author:Publishing, Pottermore

Even though they were dolls, they weren’t created as playthings for a child’s bedroom, but as a centrepiece at social events where guests and friends could rip off a strip ...
( Category: Astronomy September 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-15 | Author:McCain, Kevin;Kampourakis, Kostas;

7The perception of these practices has varied over time. For example, before the digital age, when it could be much more difficult than it is today to locate literature on ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 16,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-07-14 | Author:Amir Alexander [Alexander, Amir]

Pariah in Paris In 1838 the Duke of Bordeaux reached majority, ending Cauchy’s role at the exiled court. Eight long years of exile had taken their toll on the mathematician, ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology September 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-27 | Author:Bryan Walsh [Walsh, Bryan]

DISEASE Twenty-First-Century Plague The existential threats I’ve covered in this book are either historical or theoretical. I haven’t lived through an asteroid strike or a supereruption or a full-scale nuclear ...
( Category: Geology September 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-25 | Author:Carolyn Merchant

The earth, though notwithstanding it yieldeth thus naturally the richest and most precious commodities of all others, and is properly the fountain and mother of all the riches and abundance ...
( Category: Human Geography September 10,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Amir Alexander

THE MAN WHO KNEW HIS PLACE To say that André Le Nôtre was born to be a gardener is not metaphorical praise of his genius but a statement of fact. ...
( Category: Measurement September 10,2019 )