The late J. D. Bernal's lectures given to first-year students in physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, are presented here in their entirety, tracing the history of physics up to the end o
A number of intellectual and literary events in Russia after 1953 led to a break in the code of Socialist Realism. Several courageous writers invoked sharp debate and attack by defending the individua
The 63 articles collected in this book appeared in the news and reviews section of "Nature" between January 1969 and August 1970. These short essays, written by the journal's specialist correspondents
The original sources compiled in this volume, many of which have not previously been available in English, will allow students of communism to examine more closely both the substance of change in Czec
China's Great Leap Forward, beginning in 1958, touched almost everything in Chinese life, even the traditions of academic scholarship. The study of history was given special attention, offering the te
There is no work in English that compares with this major survey of mathematics. Twenty prime subjects areas in mathematics are treated in terms of their simple origins, and their sophisticated develo
Alvin M. Weinberg has played a key role in scientific developments of the 20th century. In 1941 he joined the University of Chicago group that developed the first chain reactor. As a member of this te
"A Social History of Engineering" shows how social and economic conditions in each age have precipitated advances in engineering. There are, in short, economic, political, and philosophical implicatio
Papers from the first International Conference on Universals in Language, uniting perspectives from linguistics, cultural anthropology, and psychology. In 1961, the first International Conference on
Burgers's purpose is to outline a system of thought in which notions or values can find a place along with the ideas of causal relationships that are applied in the physical sciencesThis important phi
Long out of print, and difficult to come by on the used book market, The Dawn of Astronomy, first published in 1894, is now made available once again. In this book, Sir Norman Lockyer, one of the grea
This volume contains the editors' survey of the proceedings of a Conference on Physics in General Education held in Rio de Janeiro in July, 1963. This was the second conference on education to be orga
How the far North offered a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination.European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous a
A case study that uses a new technique for comparing the locational advantages of different regions for a set of strongly interrelated industrial activities.
Proceedings of an international conference on the atomic mechanisms of fracture. Papers on cleavage, ductile, fatigue, and high-temperature mechanisms of fracture for metals, ceramics, and polymers, w
How information can make us happy or miserable, and why we sometimes avoid it and sometimes seek it out.How much information is too much? Do we need to know how many calories are in the giant vat of p
An investigation of the syntax and semantics of wh-questions through the lens of intervention effects, offering a new proposal on overt and covert wh-movement. In this book, Hadas Kotek investigates
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Questions about the physical world, the mind, and technology in conversations that reveal a rich seam of interacting ideas.Science today is more a process of collaboration than moments of individual "
