Complexity Science

A wide-ranging exploration of how music has influenced science through the ages, from fifteenth-century cosmology to twentieth-century string theory.In the natural science of ancient Greece, music formed the meeting place between numbers and perception; for the next two millennia, Pesic tells us in Music and the Making of Modern Science, “liberal education” connected music with arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy within a fourfold study, the quadrivium. Peter Pesic argues provocatively that music has had a formative effect on the development of modern science―that music has been not just a charming accompaniment to thought but a conceptual force in its own right. Pesic explores a series of episodes in which music influenced science, moments in which prior developments in music arguably affected subsequent aspects of natural science. He describes encounters between harmony and fifteenth-century cosmological controversies, between musical initiatives and irrational numbers, between vibr

Everything from A to Z about going number one and two.This deep dive into the science and history of poop (and pee) covers everything kids ever wanted to know about their favorite subject. Both expertly researched and hilarious, the book starts with human waste: what's in our poop, how our digestive system works, the history of sanitation. It then moves on to other fascinating topics: why some animals eat poop, poop's potential use as fuel, how astronauts poop in space. Kids will enjoy getting the scoop on poop!Flush with engrossing facts and loaded with silly puns, this book belongs in every bathroom. It's sure to turn the amateur poop afficionado into a pro!Part of the Gross Science series, here's a book flush with facts on the number-one topic of interest to kids: going number two!Overflowing with the science and history of poop (and pee), Poopy Science covers everything kids ever wanted to know (and more!) about their favorite subject. Both expertly researched and hilarious, this b

Dive into the deep end with this ocean-themed Science Comics boxed set!Readers can't get enough of Science Comics, so we're delivering three fan-favorite titles in an attractive and affordable boxed set! This boxed set includes Science Comics: Coral Reefs, Science Comics: Sharks, and Science Comics: Whales. Also included is a full-color Science Comics poster perfect for the wall of a library, classroom, or a kid's bedroom!

Everything students need to know to succeed on the AP Environmental Science Exam.AP Environmental Science Prep, 2023 provides students with quick-study lists of important environmental science terms, a thorough review of all necessary laboratory exercises, a comprehensive guide for how to ace the free-response section of the exam, 3 full-length practice exams, and much more.

What is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of theory and experiment; that all science is basically reducible to physics; and that science and the natural world which it pictures are deterministic. The author's innovative and thoughtful book draws on examples from the physical, life, and social sciences alike, and focuses on all the products of science – not just experiments or theories – and how they work together. She reveals just what it is that makes science ultimately reliable, and how this reliability is nevertheless still compatible with a view of nature as more responsive to human change than we might think. Her book is a call for greater intellectual humility by and within scientific institutions. It will have strong appeal to anyone who thinks about science and how it is practised in society.

Suspend your disbelief with Science Comics: Bridges, the latest volume of First Second's nonfiction STEM series!Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic―dino

Morphological structures interact dynamically with lexical processing and storage, with the parameters of morphological typology being partly dependent on cognitive pathways for processing, storage and generalization of word structure, and vice versa. Bringing together a team of well-known scholars, this book examines the relationship between linguistic cognition and the morphological diversity found in the world's languages. It includes research from across linguistic and cognitive science sub-disciplines that looks at the nature of typological diversity and its relationship to cognition, touching on concepts such as complexity, interconnectedness within systems, and emergent organization. Chapters employ experimental, computational, corpus-based and theoretical methods to examine specific morphological phenomena, and an overview chapter provides a synthesis of major research trends, contextualizing work from different methodological and philosophical perspectives. Offering a novel pe

How the tools of STS can be used to understand art and science and the practices of these knowledge making communities.In Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge, Hannah Star Rogers suggests that art and science are not as different from each other as we might assume. She shows how the tools of science and technology studies (STS) can be applied to artistic practice, offering new ways of thinking about people and objects that have largely fallen outside the scope of STS research. Arguing that the categories of art and science are labels with specific powers to order social worlds―and that art and science are best understood as networks that produce knowledge―Rogers shows, through a series of cases, the similarities and overlapping practices of these knowledge communities. The cases, which range from nineteenth-century artisans to contemporary bioartists, illustrate how art can provide the basis for a new subdiscipline called art, science, and technology studies (ASTS), offering

What is the sound barrier? What is snot made of? Why do we yawn? Curious kids want to know, and they will get the answers to these questions and many more in this exceptional illustrated Q&A book. Questions from many branches of science, including chemistry, physics, biology, geology―are answered in a fun, kid-friendly way and accompanied by quirky cartoon illustrations that will entertain readers and help them remember important facts• 80 pages of educational, science-related questions and answers for kids ages 7 and up• Fun illustrations that engage readers while helping them learn• Educational content reviewed by a science expertWhat About: Science is a Q&A book that offers easy-to-understand answers to tough science questions!• Great family and classroom read-aloud book• Nonfiction books for kids• Educational books for elementary school students

Boldly go where no man has gone before and discover the real science behind the cyborgs, starships, aliens, and antimatter of the Star Trek galaxy. Star Trek is one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. It has changed our cultural landscape in so many ways since it first aired in 1966. The franchise has generated billions of dollars in revenue, leading to a wide range of spin-off games, novels, toys, and comics. Star Trek is noted for its social science, too, with its progressive civil rights stances and its celebration of future diversity that began with The Original Series, one of television's first multiracial casts. The Science of Star Trek explores one of the greatest science fiction universes ever created and showcases the visionary tech that inspired and influenced the real-world science of today. The perfect Star Trek gift for fans of the franchise, this book addresses many unanswered, burning questions, including: What can Star Trek tell us about aliens

This book offers an extensive analysis of Woolf's engagement with science. It demonstrates that science is integral to the construction of identity in Woolf's novels of the 1930s and 1940s, and identifies a little-explored source for Woolf's scientific knowledge: BBC scientific radio broadcasts. By analyzing this unstudied primary material, it traces the application of scientific concepts to questions of identity and highlights a single concept that is shared across multiple disciplines in the modernist period: the idea that modern science undermined individualized conceptions of the self. It broadens our understanding of the relationship between modernism and radio, modernism and science, and demonstrates the importance of science to Woolf's later novels.

Best practices for addressing the bias and inequality that may result from the automated collection, analysis, and distribution of large datasets.Human-centered data science is a new interdisciplinary field that draws from human-computer interaction, social science, statistics, and computational techniques. This book, written by founders of the field, introduces best practices for addressing the bias and inequality that may result from the automated collection, analysis, and distribution of very large datasets. It offers a brief and accessible overview of many common statistical and algorithmic data science techniques, explains human-centered approaches to data science problems, and presents practical guidelines and real-world case studies to help readers apply these methods. The authors explain how data scientists’ choices are involved at every stage of the data science workflow―and show how a human-centered approach can enhance each one, by making the process more transparent, aski

This first science book exploring the science behind light provides a great foundation for scientific knowledge. From topics such as shadows and relection to colour and rainbows, the book has clear in

This first science book exploring the science behind machines provides a great foundation for scientific knowledge. From topics such as wheels and pulleys to slopes and screws, the book has clear info

Science Art and Drawing Games for Kids is a collection of 40+ activities that teach/demonstrate science concepts through art, crafts, and other fun hands-on projects.In Science Art and Drawing Games f

Until now, biological invasions have been conceptualised and studied mainly as a linear process: from introduction to establishment to spread. This volume charts a new course for the field, drawing on key developments in network ecology and complexity science. It defines an agenda for Invasion Science 2.0 by providing new framings and classification of research topics and by offering tentative solutions to vexing problems. In particular, it conceptualises a transformative ecosystem as an open adaptive network with critical transitions and turnover, with resident species heuristically learning and fine-tuning their niches and roles in a multiplayer eco-evolutionary game. It erects signposts pertaining to network interactions, structures, stability, dynamics, scaling, and invasibility. It is not a recipe book or a road map, but an atlas of possibilities: a 'hitchhiker's guide'.

Until now, biological invasions have been conceptualised and studied mainly as a linear process: from introduction to establishment to spread. This volume charts a new course for the field, drawing on key developments in network ecology and complexity science. It defines an agenda for Invasion Science 2.0 by providing new framings and classification of research topics and by offering tentative solutions to vexing problems. In particular, it conceptualises a transformative ecosystem as an open adaptive network with critical transitions and turnover, with resident species heuristically learning and fine-tuning their niches and roles in a multiplayer eco-evolutionary game. It erects signposts pertaining to network interactions, structures, stability, dynamics, scaling, and invasibility. It is not a recipe book or a road map, but an atlas of possibilities: a 'hitchhiker's guide'.

This remarkable reference book tells the story of science from earliest times to the present day, taking in everything from ancient Greek geometry to quantum physics, and the wedge to the worldwide web. Exploring science in a thematic, highly approachable manner, each spread takes as its theme a specific event, discovery, invention, experiment, theory, or individual and explains why this subject was so significant in the development of scientific thought and what its impact on history has been. In addition to providing a broad-ranging and comprehensive history of science, the book also explains how science works, employing DK's trademark clarity and visual ingenuity to render tricky scientific subjects easily comprehensible. Science is structured chronologically with five chapters covering major phases in world history from ancient times to the present day, with an eye to the future. Within these chapters, subjects are arranged in discrete spreads, each of which takes a key scientific

This first science book exploring the science behind energy provides a great foundation for scientific knowledge. From plant and animal energy to the power of the Sun, wind and water, the book has c

This first science book exploring the science behind forces provides a great foundation for scientific knowledge. From pushes and pulls to magnetism and friction, this book has clear information and

Grab your lab coat and goggles. We need your help!With FAIRY TALE SCIENCE, explore the science behind your most beloved tales, from Snow White, to Chicken Little, to Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, an

Dive deep with Science Comics: Whales, the latest volume of First Second's middle grade nonfiction series!Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic―dinosaurs,

Dive deep with Science Comics: Whales, a new and exciting volume of First Second's nonfiction graphic novel series!Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic-d

This first science book exploring the science behind time provides a great foundation for scientific knowledge. From day and night and how we measure time, to the seasons and the natural clocks of p

The myth-busting Monster Science series explores the science behind the hottest monsters in pop culture. How would a mermaid breathe underwater, with lungs like a human or gills like a fish? Does th

The myth-busting Monster Science series explores the science behind the hottest monsters in pop culture. Could a process of evolution develop a unicorn horn on a horse? How would dragons create fire

This first science book exploring the science behind the five senses provides a great foundation for scientific knowledge. From sight and hearing to touch, smell and taste, the book has clear informat

何清華，男，同濟大學經濟與管理學院建設管理與房地產系教授本書結合歐洲不同國家的六個大型基礎設施項目的實踐經驗，基於實踐者視角將複雜性歸納為技術複雜性（technical complexity）、社會複雜性（social complexity）、融資複雜性（financial complexity）、法律複雜性（legal complexity）、組織複雜性（organisational complexity）和時間複雜性（time complexity）等六個維度；然後從理論視角將複雜性進一步劃分為細節複雜性（detail complexity）和動態複雜性（dynamic complexity），從而針對性地提出了複雜性四象限管理模型，即內部和內容聚焦法（Internal & Content focused approach）、系統管理（Systems management）、交互管理（Interactive management）和動態管理（Dynamic management）。本書將理論與實踐結合，闡述了重大工程複雜性的奧秘，提出了一個可用於指導重大工程項目實踐的複雜性管理模型

Cece loves science and adventure! In this STEM-themed picture book, the second in a series, Cece and her Adventure Girls troop use science, technology, engineering, and math to solve problems and earn

The myth-busting Monster Science series explores the science behind the hottest monsters in pop culture. Could electricity really bring Frankenstein's creature to life? Could a zombie even move abou

The myth-busting Monster Science series explores the science behind the hottest monsters in pop culture. Could a vampire survive on a diet of blood alone? Could a witch really fly on a broomstick wh

Objectivity is a key concept both in how we talk about science in everyday life and in the philosophy of science. This Element explores various ways in which recent philosophers of science have thought about the nature, value and achievability of objectivity. The first section explains the general trend in recent philosophy of science away from a notion of objectivity as a 'view from nowhere' to a focus on the relationship between objectivity and trust. Section 2 discusses the relationship between objectivity and recent arguments attacking the viability or desirability of 'value free' science. Section 3 outlines Longino's influential 'social' account of objectivity, suggesting some worries about drawing too strong a link between epistemic and ethical virtues. Section 4 turns to the value of objectivity, exploring concerns that notions of objectivity are politically problematic, and cautiously advocating in response a view of objectivity in terms of invariance.

"Surf the web" with Science Comics: Spiders, the latest volume in First Second’s action-packed nonfiction graphic novel series for middle-grade readers!Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete

"Surf the web" with Science Comics: Spiders, the latest volume in First Second’s action-packed nonfiction graphic novel series for middle-grade readers!Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete

This first science book exploring the science behind materials and matter provides a great foundation for scientific knowledge. From topics such as melting and dissolving to natural or man-made materi

Learning earth science has never been so easy or so painless Barron's Painless Earth Science provides comprehensive review and practice in an easy, step-by-step format. Inside you'll find: Clear examples for all topics, including the atmosphere, weather and climate, earthquakes and volcanoes, Earth in space, and much moreDiagrams, charts, and instructive science illustrationsPainless tips, common pitfalls, and informative sidebarsBrain Tickler quizzes throughout each chapter to test your progressWhether you're a student or an adult looking to refresh your knowledge, Painless Earth Science makes learning easy...and painless

Save the world with these fun step-by-step science projects you can do at home!Explore the science in everyday life with these simple, step-by-step experiments to do around the home that will teach ki

First Time in Paperback The Acadia Files: Book One, Summer Science presents five summer stories, each one followed by Acadia's science notebook pages with her simple explanations and lively, whimsical drawings of natural phenomena. The Acadia Files is a fun introduction to the wonders of science, using real-world scenarios to make scientific inquiry relatable and understandable. Parents and educators can use The Acadia Files to let kids discover for themselves what it's like to be curious about the world and to satisfy that curiosity with scientific thinking. The Acadia Files: Book One, Summer Science offers an engaging new way to apply the scientific method to real-world scenarios.Great for teaching STEAM

Data Science for Business with R, written by Jeffrey S. Saltz and Jeffrey M. Stanton, focuses on the concepts foundational for students starting a business analytics or data science degree program. To

Does your child dream of a future career be in the exciting world of science? This book will show them that there is so much more to a science career than peering at bacteria through a microscope. T