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Autor:
Martin Paul Eve, Jonathan Gray
A range of perspectives on the complex political, philosophical, and pragmatic implications of opening research and scholarship through digital technologies.The Open Access Movement proposes to remove price and permission barriers for accessing peer-
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Allison B. Kaufman, James C. Kaufman
Case studies, personal accounts, and analysis show how to recognize and combat pseudoscience in our post-truth, fake news world. “... an invaluable volume that examines the cognitive biases that lead to pseudoscience, the history of pseudoscience,
Autor:
Harry Collins
A fascinating account, written in real time, of the unfolding of a scientific discovery: the first detection of gravitational waves.Scientists have been trying to confirm the existence of gravitational waves for fifty years. Then, in September 2015,
Autor:
Michele Gazzola, Bengt-Arne Wickström
Insights from the application of economic theories and research methods to the management of linguistic diversity in an era of globalization.In an era of globalization, issues of language diversity have economic and political implications. Transnatio
Autor:
Michael Gebert Faure, Roy A. Partain
A theoretical and practical analysis of the complex liability issues raised by carbon capture and storage systems for containing greenhouse gases.Carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems inject highly compressed carbon dioxide gas deep into geologica
Autor:
Zed Adams, Jacob Browning
A collection of essays that use John Haugeland's work on intentionality, embodiment, objectivity, and caring to explore contemporary issues in philosophy of mind.In his work, the philosopher John Haugeland (1945–2010) proposed a radical expansion o
Autor:
Joanna Radin, Emma Kowal
The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life.As the planet warms and the polar ice caps melt, naturally occurring cold is a resource of growing scarcity. At the same time, energy-intensive cooling techn
Autor:
Pablo J. Boczkowski, C. W. Anderson
Leading scholars chart the future of studies on technology and journalism in the digital age.The use of digital technology has transformed the way news is produced, distributed, and received. Just as media organizations and journalists have realized
Autor:
Vaclav Smil
A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization.'I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next'Star Wars'movie.
Autor:
Joseph Y. Halpern
Formal ways of representing uncertainty and various logics for reasoning about it; updated with new material on weighted probability measures, complexity-theoretic considerations, and other topics.In order to deal with uncertainty intelligently, we n