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subject:"Science / General" from books.google.com
As the amount of information in biology expands dramatically, it becomes increasingly important for textbooks to distill the vast amount of scientific knowledge into concise principles and enduring concepts.As with previous editions, ...
subject:"Science / General" from books.google.com
Índice: 1. The Foundations for a New Kind of Science -- 2. The Crucial Experiment -- 3. The World of Simple Programs -- 4. Systems Based on Numbers -- 5. Two Dimensions and Beyond -- 6. Starting from Randomness -- 7.
subject:"Science / General" from books.google.com
This book explains why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthy and why social character is its greatest strength--for example, why we should trust doctors on vaccine safety, or climate experts on the perils of ...
subject:"Science / General" from books.google.com
Presents Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist novel, first published in 1938, in which Antoine Roquentin, a French writer, chronicles his reactions to the world and people around him, which combine to give him an overpowering feeling of nausea ...
subject:"Science / General" from books.google.com
While there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts, this book uses primary source material and interviews with key participants to provide a comprehensive account of how the actions taken by JFK's ...
subject:"Science / General" from books.google.com
In this mind-expanding book, he shows how our understanding of reality has changed throughout centuries, from Democritus to loop quantum gravity.
subject:"Science / General" from books.google.com
Hofstadter has developed a sophisticated vision of the mind in which perception, at an abstract level, is the key.
subject:"Science / General" from books.google.com
Reprint of the 1987 original with a new introduction and preface. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
subject:"Science / General" from books.google.com
Argues that the key to understanding ourselves and consciousness is the "strange loop," a special kind of abstract feedback loop that inhabits the brain.
subject:"Science / General" from books.google.com
Ward and Brownlee, a geologist and an astronomer respectively, combine their knowledge of how the critical sustaining systems of our planet evolve through time with their understanding of the life cycles of stars and solar systems, to tell ...