The Statesman's Year-Book

The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: F. Martin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 794
Release: 2016-12-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230253040

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth

The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth
Author: Éric Brian
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2007-07-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 140206036X

This is an attempt to renew our links with the oldest traditions of scholarly thinking, but is also a well-tempered reflection on today’s work in objectivization. After a deconstruction of the past and present conditions of scientific understanding of human sex-ratio at birth, the authors propose a reconstruction of the dynamics of the phenomenon based on stochastics. Appendices provide information on the first expression of sex ratio trends, as well as a comparison of Darwin’s treatments of the subject.

The Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences

The Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences
Author: Robert S. Cohen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401733910

Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences contains a series of explorations of the different ways in which the social sciences have interacted with the natural sciences. Usually, such interactions are considered to go only `one way': from the natural to the social sciences. But there are several important essays in this volume which show how developments in the social sciences have affected the natural sciences - even the `hard' science of physics. Other essays deal with various types of interaction since the Scientific Revolution. In his general introductory chapter, Cohen sets some general themes concerning analogies and homologies and the use of metaphors, drawing specific examples from the use of concepts of physics by marginalist economists and of developments in the life sciences by organismic sociologists. The remaining chapters, which explore the different ways in which the social sciences and the natural sciences have actually interacted, are written by leaders in the field of history of science, drawn from a wide range of countries and disciplines. The book will be of great interest to all historians of science, philosophers interested in questions of methodology, economists and sociologists, and all social scientists concerned with the history of their subject and its foundations.