History & Philosophy
azw3 |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:Wilson, David Sloan [Wilson, David Sloan]

BUSINESS GROUPS A business, or firm, is a group of people with the shared endeavor of manufacturing a product or providing a service. It goes without saying that members of ...
( Category: Evolution June 6,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-07-21 | Author:Kunal K. Das

Figure 4.5 When light travels from one medium (water) to another medium (air) where its speed is different, it bends at the surface in order to take the path of ...
( Category: Quantum Theory May 31,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Angela Saini

David Reich isn’t a racist. But neither does he adopt the staunch antiracist position of the old-school population geneticists, such as Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, who bravely debated the scientific racists ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism May 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:David C. Lindberg & Michael H. Shank [Lindberg, David C.]

LATE LATIN TEXTS ON MEDICINE AND NATURAL SCIENCE Although the same pattern of the coexistence of medical and scientific texts of various levels of sophistication and audience applied across the ...
( Category: History of Technology May 28,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-12-06 | Author:Brown, Nancy Marie [Brown, Nancy Marie]

After his dazzling performance, the new abbot of Bobbio accompanied the emperor and Archbishop Adalbero to Rome. There, at an Easter synod, Gerbert saw his Catalan friend Miro Bonfill, bishop ...
( Category: Science & Religion May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-08-26 | Author:Freely, John [Freely, John]

9 Over the Rainbow NATURE ITSELF WAS THE FIRST PHYSICS LABORATORY, AND AMONG natural phenomena there are none that are more beautiful and spectacular than the rainbow. It cries out ...
( Category: History & Philosophy May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Sautoy, Marcus Du [Sautoy, Marcus Du]

IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE? It is striking how often cosmology and religion have intersected throughout history. The question of what might lie beyond the edge of the universe has ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics May 27,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-03-06 | Author:Mayor, Adrienne [Mayor, Adrienne]

Evidence of Giant Populations of the Past Not all fabulous creatures of myth were inspired by fossils, of course; some were imaginary. And it’s impossible to know which came first, ...
( Category: Paleozoology May 27,2019 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael S. Gazzaniga

MORE FUNDING, MORE RESEARCH, MORE KNOWLEDGE Meanwhile, many visiting researchers were making a mess of the scientific literature on split-brain patients.7 The researchers seemed not to understand how cross-cueing tricks, ...
( Category: Neurology May 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:Hoffman, Andrew J. [Hoffman, Andrew J.]

5 HISTORICAL ANALOGIES FOR CULTURAL CHANGE Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. —H. G. Wells Consider the central cultural question of climate change: Do ...
( Category: Political Parties May 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-21 | Author:Matthew Stanley

How star images in the Hyades are deflected from their positions by the sun’s gravity. Detail from the Illustrated London News, November 22, 1919. COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR The path ...
( Category: History & Philosophy May 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-16 | Author:Gary Greenberg

CHAPTER 11 DIAGNOSING FOR DOLLARS Sometime during my first session with a new patient, usually toward the end, the touchiest subject in therapy comes up. Which is not what you ...
( Category: Depression May 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Ziya Tong

* * * — IN BEIJING, A NEW COLOUR was named by the general public in November 2014. They called it “APEC blue.” It was the result of a mission ...
( Category: Environmental Science May 16,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Irun R. Cohen [Irun R. Cohen]

Note that a single protein may actually deploy a number of different reaction sites, each with its own function. And the activations of these functions may be responsive to diverse ...
( Category: Anatomy May 9,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Austen Henry Layard

(132) A corruption of Sunedik, the plural from of Sanduk, a box. The place is so called by the Arabs from the peculiar from of the rocks near the river. ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations May 8,2019 )