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Author | : Clive Gifford |
Publisher | : QEB Publishing |
Total Pages | : 67 |
Release | : 2020-05-19 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0711249903 |
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This book is backward! It starts at the end, ends at the beginning, and travels back in history to show you what life was like before major inventions and discoveries. Step into a time before smartphones, television, cars, or even the toilet; then learn about the major invention or discovery that changed the world. Explore bright, detailed, humorous scenes from different eras that will spark discussion and make you think about what life was like in history. Learn about the clever inventors, the accidental discoveries, and how people managed without the everyday things that we take for granted. Detailed, humorous scenes of different eras to explore Key topics of science, technology, and inventions
Author | : Meera Nanda |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813533582 |
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The leading voices in science studies have argued that modern science reflects dominant social interests of Western society. Following this logic, postmodern scholars have urged postcolonial societies to develop their own "alternative sciences" as a step towards "mental decolonization". These ideas have found a warm welcome among Hindu nationalists who came to power in India in the early 1990s. In this passionate and highly original study, Indian-born author Meera Nanda reveals how these well-meaning but ultimately misguided ideas are enabling Hindu ideologues to propagate religious myths in the guise of science and secularism. At the heart of Hindu supremacist ideology, Nanda argues, lies a postmodernist assumption: that each society has its own norms of reasonableness, logic, rules of evidence, and conception of truth, and that there is no non-arbitrary, culture-independent way to choose among these alternatives. What is being celebrated as "difference" by postmodernists, however, has more often than not been the source of mental bondage and authoritarianism in non-Western cultures. The "Vedic sciences" currently endorsed in Indian schools, colleges, and the mass media promotes the same elements of orthodox Hinduism that have for centuries deprived the vast majority of Indian people of their full humanity. By denouncing science and secularization, the left was unwittingly contributing to what Nanda calls "reactionary modernism." In contrast, Nanda points to the Dalit, or untouchable, movement as a true example of an "alternative science" that has embraced reason and modern science to challenge traditional notions of hierarchy.
Author | : Lovick Pierce Anthony |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Biography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Patrick Grim |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1990-07-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781438404981 |
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This book both introduces the philosophy of science through examination of the occult and examines the occult rigorously enough to raise central issues in the philosophy of science. Placed in the context of the occult, philosophy of science issues become immediately understandable and forcefully compelling. Divergent views on astrology, parapsychology, and quantum mechanics mysticism emphasize topics standard to the philosophy of science. Such issues as confirmation and selection for testing, causality and time, explanation and the nature of scientific laws, the status of theoretical entities, the problem of demarcation, theory and observation, and science and values are discussed. Significantly revised, this second edition presents an entirely new section of quantum mechanics and mysticism including instructions from N. David Mermin for constructing a device which dramatically illustrates the genuinely puzzling phenomena of quantum mechanics. A more complete and current review of research on astrology has been included in this new edition, and the section on the problem of demarcation has been broadened.
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Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Bilaspur (India : District) |
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Download National Seminar on Applications of Science & Technology for Backward Area Development, July 29-30, 1989 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John Michels |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 774 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
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Vols. for 1911-13 contain the Proceedings of the Helminothological Society of Washington, ISSN 0018-0120, 1st-15th meeting.
Author | : Marsha Hanen |
Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0889207933 |
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This volume collects the papers presented at a conference on “Science, Pseudo–science and Society,” sponsored by the Calgary Institute for the Humanities and held at the University of Calgary, May 10–12, 1979. More than many such collections, this one preserves some trace of the intellectual excitement which surrounded this gathering of scholars. A primary inspiration for the symposium on “Science, Pseudoscience, and Society” was a growing awareness of the crucial role the study of pseudo–science plays in the areas of contemporary scholarship which are concerned with the nature of science and its relationship to broader social issues. This volume is organized around three major questions concerning the relationships among science, pseudo–science, and society. The papers in the first section address the question of whether it is possible to draw a sharp demarcation between science and pseudo–science and what the criteria of that demarcation might be. The papers in the second section, recognizing the historical importance of various of the pseudo–sciences, consider their impact—positive or negative—on the development of the sciences themselves. The papers in the third section deal with the question of the relationship between the sciences and pseudo–sciences, on the one hand, and social factors on the other.
Author | : John Fiske |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Evolution |
ISBN | : |
Download Organization of the sciences. Philosophy as an organon. Cosmism and positivism. The question stated. Matter, motion, and force. Rhythm. Evolution and dissolution. The law of evolution. Planetary evolution. The evolution of the earth. The sources of terrestrial energy. The beginnings of life. Special creation or derivation? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Eric Herschthal |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300236808 |
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In the context of slavery, science is usually associated with slaveholders' scientific justifications of racism. But this book demonstrates that abolitionists were equally adept at using scientific ideas to discredit slaveholders.00Focusing on antislavery scientists and black and white abolitionists in Britain and America between the 1770s and 1860s, historian Eric Herschthal shows how these activists drew upon chemistry, botany, medicine, and mechanics to portray slavery as a premodern institution bound for obsolescence. These activists contended that slavery stood in the way of scientific progress, blinded slaveholders to scientific evidence, and prevented enslavers from adopting labor-saving technologies that might eradicate enslaved labor.00Historians have recently begun to challenge the myth that slavery was premodern-backward-demonstrating slavery's centrality to the rise of modern capitalism, science, and technology. This book demonstrates where the myth comes from in the first place.
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Total Pages | : 804 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Science |
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