Alternative Science

Alternative Science
Author: Richard Milton
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1996-05
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780892816316

This tour of the scientific frontier makes a strong case that the alternative science of today will be the hard science of the future.

Alternative Careers in Science

Alternative Careers in Science
Author: Cynthia Robbins-Roth
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780125893756

You can do more with your science degree than you ever dreamed. In this book, readers will meet scientists who evolved into Wall Street analysts, science policy gurus, patent agents, journalists, and top-flight sales reps. Each chapter covers a different career track and shows why having a graduate degree in science gives you an edge.

Alternative Careers in Science

Alternative Careers in Science
Author: Christopher Avery
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0841299021

This book emerged from shared interests and conversations over many years between former Ph.D. chemists, now leaders in science policy and industry who all share a commitment to public service. While the training of Ph.D. chemists is generally targeted at a research career, the opportunities that lie beyond the degree are much more diverse. Nine Ph.D. chemists who chose careers outside of academia describe their career choices and reflect on advice they have looking back on their career path for those just starting theirs. If the stories in these pages speak to you: Welcome to the family.

Alternative Sciences

Alternative Sciences
Author: Ashis Nandy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Scientists
ISBN: 9780195655285

This work is a biographical sketch of the lives of two celebrated Indian scientists, J.C. Bose, the plant physiologist, and Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of the greatest untrained mathematical geniuses the world has ever known. Nandy discusses the extent to which the colonial context within which these two men worked impinged on the calibre and nature of their research.

Alternative Energy Sources

Alternative Energy Sources
Author: Sally Morgan
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781432924591

Explores different alternative energy sources, including wind, wave, solar, geothermal, and nuclear energy.

Science and the Media

Science and the Media
Author: Massimiano Bucchi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2014-03-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0415510511

This book provides a theoretical framework which allows us to understand why and how scientists address the general public. Bucchi's theories on scientific communication in the media make a valuable contribution to the current debate.

Conceptual Change and the Philosophy of Science

Conceptual Change and the Philosophy of Science
Author: David J. Stump
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2015-05-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317495381

In this book, David Stump traces alternative conceptions of the a priori in the philosophy of science and defends a unique position in the current debates over conceptual change and the constitutive elements in science. Stump emphasizes the unique epistemological status of the constitutive elements of scientific theories, constitutive elements being the necessary preconditions that must be assumed in order to conduct a particular scientific inquiry. These constitutive elements, such as logic, mathematics, and even some fundamental laws of nature, were once taken to be a priori knowledge but can change, thus leading to a dynamic or relative a priori. Stump critically examines developments in thinking about constitutive elements in science as a priori knowledge, from Kant’s fixed and absolute a priori to Quine’s holistic empiricism. By examining the relationship between conceptual change and the epistemological status of constitutive elements in science, Stump puts forward an argument that scientific revolutions can be explained and relativism can be avoided without resorting to universals or absolutes.

Contributions to Alternative Concepts of Knowledge

Contributions to Alternative Concepts of Knowledge
Author: Hebe Kuhn, Michael Vessuri
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2016-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3838208943

In the past, the European social sciences labelled and discredited knowledge that did not follow the definition for scientific knowledge as applied by the European social sciences as an alternative concept of knowledge, as “indigenous” knowledge. Perception has changed with time: Not only has indigenous knowledge become an entrance ticket to the European social science world, but the indigenization of European theories is seen by some as the contribution of “peripheral” social sciences to join the theories of the “centers”. This book offers contributions to the discourses about alternative concepts of knowledge, inviting the reader to decide if they are alternative, indigenous, or European types of knowledge. However, in order to make this decision, the reader must know what the nature of the European concepts of science and of scientific knowledge is; this might be a motivation to read a book that presents thoughts claiming to be alternative concepts of knowledge, alternative to the European concept of science.

Self-healing Materials

Self-healing Materials
Author: Martin D. Hager
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2016-07-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 331932778X

The series Advances in Polymer Science presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in polymer and biopolymer science. It covers all areas of research in polymer and biopolymer science including chemistry, physical chemistry, physics, material science. The thematic volumes are addressed to scientists, whether at universities or in industry, who wish to keep abreast of the important advances in the covered topics. Advances in Polymer Science enjoys a longstanding tradition and good reputation in its community. Each volume is dedicated to a current topic, and each review critically surveys one aspect of that topic, to place it within the context of the volume. The volumes typically summarize the significant developments of the last 5 to 10 years and discuss them critically, presenting selected examples, explaining and illustrating the important principles, and bringing together many important references of primary literature. On that basis, future research directions in the area can be discussed. Advances in Polymer Science volumes thus are important references for every polymer scientist, as well as for other scientists interested in polymer science - as an introduction to a neighboring field, or as a compilation of detailed information for the specialist. Review articles for the individual volumes are invited by the volume editors. Single contributions can be specially commissioned. Readership: Polymer scientists, or scientists in related fields interested in polymer and biopolymer science, at universities or in industry, graduate students