Good Science revisits the key debates of the Science Wars and argues that the pursuit of scientific truth has, more than any other human endeavor, routinely revolutionized the fabric of social reality
Balancing readability with intellectual rigour, this is an essential guide to the complex relationship between psychology, science, and pseudoscience. Unique in its focus on the philosophy of science
Good Science, Bad Science, Pseudoscience, and Just Plain Bunk teaches readers to think like scientists to more critically evaluate the truth of scientific claims. Filled with provocative real-life exa
Good Science revisits the key debates of the Science Wars and argues that the pursuit of scientific truth has, more than any other human endeavor, routinely revolutionized the fabric of social reality
Psychology is one of the most popular subjects in universities across the world, offering unique insights into the human condition. However, its very popularity threatens to undermine its value as a d
Good Science, Bad Science, Pseudoscience, and Just Plain Bunk teaches readers to think like scientists—to critically evaluate the truth of scientific claims. Filled with provocative real-life examples
We are among those who have come to enjoy the blossoming intellects, often comical behaviors, and insatiable curiosity of middle schoolers and choose to work with them! With more than 130 years of com
After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized.There may be no consensus on the status of the embryo -- only a tacit agreement to disagree -- butthe debate now tak
Clear, easy principles to spot what's nonsense and what's reliableEach year, teachers, administrators, and parents face a barrage of new education software, games, workbooks, and professional developm
Good stories are about people Good science fiction stories are about science and people. So how to you put good science into a story that is about people? That's what this book is about. It's about lo
Science Teaching Essentials: Short Guides to Good Practice serves as a reference manual for science faculty as they set up a new course, consider how to teach the course, figure out how to assess thei
What has social science learned about the common good? Can that knowledge improve the views of the common good held by philosophers and theologians? Would humanists ever even alter their definitions o
What makes a good experiment? Although experimental evidence plays an essential role in science, as Franklin argues, there is no algorithm or simple set of criteria for ranking or evaluating good expe
Science affects every part of our lives. It can determine the foods we eat, the clothes we wear -- even the video games we play. But how do you tell the good science from the bad?Bite into Nibbling o
Science affects every part of our lives. It can determine the foods we eat, the clothes we wear -- even the video games we play. But how do you tell the good science from the bad?Bite into Nibbling o
All human beings have spontaneous needs for happiness, self-understanding, and love. In Feeling Good: The Science of Well Being, psychiatrist Robert Cloninger describes a way to coherent living that s
Your logical, linear guide to the fundamentals of data science programming Data science is exploding--in a good way--with a forecast of 1.7 megabytes of new information created every second for each h
Data science libraries, frameworks, modules, and toolkits are great for doing data science, but they’re also a good way to dive into the discipline without actually understanding data science. W
Good Night Nashville features the Cumberland River, Nashville Zoo, Belle Meade Plantation, Centennial Park, Country Music Hall of Fame, Grand Old Opry, Ryman Auditorium, Adventure Science Center, Tenn
There is widespread recognition at universities that a proper understanding of science is needed for all undergraduates. Good jobs are increasingly found in fields related to Science, Technology, Engi
With a visual approach to the STEM subjects, this book makes science easy to understand and shows kids how things work.From molecules and magnetism to rockets and radio waves, How to Be Good at Scienc
Learn how to build a data science technology stack and perform good data science with repeatable methods. You will learn how to turn data lakes into business assets.The data science technology stack d
In a sparkling debut in the entertaining pop science vein of Mary Roach, scientist Emma Byrne examines the latest research to show how swearing can be good for you. She reveals how swearing has been a
Good Night Museum explores art museums, children’s museums, natural history museum, science museums, history museums, aerospace museums, auto museums, firefighter museums nautical museums, wax museums
Good Night Books explores storybooks, picture books, pop-up books, animal books, science books, school books, fairy tales, libraries, bookstores, book mobiles, big books, small books, hard- and soft-c
From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply can't match. Good writing about science can be moving, f
In Cook's Science, the all-new companion to the New York Times-bestselling The Science of Good Cooking, America's Test Kitchen deep dives into the surprising science behind 50 of our favorite ingredie
Why do religion and science often appear in conflict in America’s public sphere? In Seeking Good Debate, Michael S. Evans examines the results from the first-ever study to combine large-scale emp
Why do religion and science often appear in conflict in America’s public sphere? In Seeking Good Debate, Michael S. Evans examines the results from the first-ever study to combine large-scale emp
Some kids are too smart for their own good...and maybe for everybody else's good. When an overly ambitious little girl builds a humongous robot for her science fair, she fully expects to win first pla
The Good Earth is the product of collaboration between the content rigor provided by Earth Science specialists (McConnell, Steer) and the results of research on learning as contributed by pedagogical
