History & Philosophy
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-01-12 | Author:Alondra Nelson

SIX Acts of Reparation They owe us more than they could ever pay. . . . They stole us from our mothers and fathers and took away our names from ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 9,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:William Poundstone

“The greatest magician (Novalis had memorably written) would be the one who would cast over himself a spell so complete that he would take his own phantasmagorias as autonomous appearances. ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 9,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-04-09 | Author:Linda D. Williams

Fig. 9-2. Crystalline solids have different configurations. Fig. 9-3. Sodium chloride has a cubic crystalline structure. Covalent bonding holds hard solids together. Assembled together in large nets or chains, covalent ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Knight

Graunt's patron, whose influence in his work was strong and to whom it was sometimes attributed, was William Petty (1623–87). The son of a draper, he had gone to sea, ...
( Category: World April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ronald Bailey [Bailey, Ronald]

THE ENEMIES OF GENETIC ENHANCEMENT One might be tempted to dismiss concerns about genetic enhancement as premature. However, even bioconservatives like Francis Fukuyama don't think so. "As we discover not ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Potter

Project Gemini had 27 astronauts to draw from: the Mercury Seven and two later intakes. Late in 1962 NASA had introduced a further nine astronauts to the world. Unimaginatively, they ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-01 | Author:Coeckelbergh, Mark;

Indeed, presented with the chance to enter new, virtual worlds, people entered these worlds as social and emotional beings. They used the new worlds not to “calculate” but to have ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jon Agar

• CHAPTER 15 • CRISIS LOOMS Non-Euclidean geometries were the first suggestion that mathematics was not merely the steady accumulation of true theorems, and their discovery directed attention towards foundations. ...
( Category: History & Culture April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-20 | Author:Harry Collins

Notes 1. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03fm6b8. Thanks to Graham Woan for pointing this out to me. 2. Davide Castelvecchi, “Gravitational-wave Rumours in Overdrive,” Nature, January 12, 2016. 3. Quoted in Shannon Hall, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Barry Schwartz

The peculiarity of the civilization the collapse of which we have witnessed was precisely that it rested on economic foundations. Other societies and other civilizations, too, were limited by the ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Bertrand David

XV Everything seemed to be coming together; with the existence of the statues now firmly established, my idea didn’t seem so crazy anymore. If it could hold weight as a ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-09 | Author:Alan Chalmers

Further reading The central text for Lakatos’s methodology is his 1970 text, ‘Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes’. Most of the other key papers have been collected in ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-23 | Author:Crofton, Ian & Black, Jeremy [Crofton, Ian]

CLASHES OF CIVILIZATIONS The emergence of two aspiring world religions – Christianity and Islam – within a few hundred years of each other led to centuries of conflict, which many ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-26 | Author:Elizabeth Tynan

8 D-notices and media self-censorship The press in both Britain and Australia, at least initially, did not probe at all into the political, scientific, moral, economic or any other aspect ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-23 | Author:Michael Dowd

“I Don’t Merely Believe...I Know!” I don’t merely believe in the fall of Adam and Eve, in Original Sin. I know that the reptilian and mammalian parts of my brain ...
( Category: Religious Studies April 9,2018 )