Harper, 2015. — 368 pages. — ISBN10: 0062296000, ISBN13: 978-0062296009. The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating, brilliant argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world. The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the...
The MIT Press, 2019. — 664 p. — ISBN 9780262042833, 0262042835. A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our...
Weinberg & Weinberg, 2011. — 228 p. — ISBN10: 0932633013; ISBN13: 978-0932633019. If you are a consultant, or if you ever use a consultant, this book is for you. That's a wide scope, because nowadays, nearly everyone is some kind of a consultant. There are hardware consultants and software consultants, social workers and psychiatrists, management consultants and worker...
М.: МИЭЭ, 2012. — 208 с. — ISBN: 978–5–98540–030–4 Научное искусство – это и не искусство, и не наука. Это принципиально новая трансдисциплинарная область, в пределах которой в настоящее время предпринимаются многочисленные попытки адаптировать методы естественных и точных наук для создания научно-обоснованного искусства, а методы искусства – для формирования новых научных...
ARB Publications, 2021. — 157 p. — (Advanced Thinking Skills Book 1) — ISBN 979-8470971999 Think creatively like a human. Analyze and solve problems efficiently like a computer. Our everyday lives are filled with inefficient and ineffective decisions and solutions. Being overwhelmed by the magnitude of our problems makes it hard to think clearly. We procrastinate and overthink....
Abbeville Press, 2015. — 256 p. Today, art and science are often defined in opposition to each other: one involves the creation of individual aesthetic objects, and the other the discovery of general laws of nature. Throughout human history, however, the boundaries have been less clearly drawn: knowledge and artifacts have often issued from the same source, the head and hands of...
Peter Lang GmbH, 2017. — 200 p. — ISBN: 9783631731048. This book raises the question of what visuality really is and how it is possible to explain it. Virtual reality is connected to our current environment with multiple ties. It affects the everyday operation of the media and hence all of our lives. The authors connect the concepts of pictorial turn and virtual reality from...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2018. — 416 p. — ISBN: 3319677977. This book deals with randomly moving objects and their spreading. The objects considered are particles like atoms and molecules, but also living beings such as humans, animals, plants, bacteria and even abstract entities like ideas, rumors, information, innovations and linguistic features. The book...
Springer, 2016. — 248 p. — ISBN10: 3319473727. This book uses the spiral shape as a key to a multitude of strange and seemingly disparate stories about art, nature, science, mathematics, and the human endeavour. In a way, the book is itself organized as a spiral, with almost disconnected chapters circling around and closing in on the common theme. A particular strength of the...
Scribner, 2014. — 240 p. An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world’s attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegan’s star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2017. — 334 p. — ISBN: 3319593838. This contributed volume contains a collection of articles on the most recent advances in integral methods. The first of two volumes, this work focuses on the construction of theoretical integral methods. -AnL1-Product-Integration Method in Astrophysics. -Differential Operators and Approximation Processes...
Springer International Publishing, AG, 2018. — 309 p. — (Contributions from Science Education Research 04) — ISBN: 3319632477. This book reports the results of a research project that investigated assessment methods aimed at supporting and improving inquiry-based approaches in European science, technology and mathematics (STM) education. The findings were used to influence...
2nd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2017. — 1023 p. Interdisciplinarity has become as important outside academia as within. Academics, policy makers, and the general public seek insights to help organize the vast amounts of knowledge being produced, both within research and at all levels of education. The second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity offers a...
SAGE Publications, 2023. — 672 p. This SAGE Handbook brings together cutting edge social scientific research and theoretical insight into the emerging contours of digital society. Chapters explore the relationship between digitisation, social organisation and social transformation at both the macro and micro level, making this a valuable resource for postgraduate students and...
Routledge, 2012. — 428 p. In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies -- such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonics -- have changed how we think about the body. In this...
Chronicle Books, 2012 — 170 p. — ISBN 9781452108223, 1452108226 A science book like no other, « The Where, the Why, and the How » turns loose 75 of todays hottest artists onto lifes vast questions, from how we got here to where we are going. Inside these pages some of the biggest (and smallest) mysteries of the natural world are explained in essays by real working scientists,...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. — 192 p. Reading level : 18 and up. Broken down into ten simple lessons and written by leading experts in their field, the books reveal the ten most important takeaways from those areas of science we should all know more about.
Springer, 2021. — 504 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-65272-2. The Integrated Science: Science without Borders is the first volume of Integrated Science Book series, aims to publish the results of the most update ideas and reviews in transdisciplinarity fields, to highlight integration of different disciplines, including formal sciences, physical-chemical sciences and engineering,...
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