Science

To properly understand the nature of the digital economy we need to investigate the phenomenon of a "ubiquitous computing system" (UCS). As defined...

Diversification and Professionalization in Psychology offers readers a multicentric perspective on the history of social science and compares the d...

This book describes how to architect and design Internet of Things (loT) solutions that provide end-to-end security and privacy at scale. It is uni...

Imagine a world where the normal human life span is 150 years, where worn-out vital organs are routinely replaced by spares, where after death you ...

This book consists of essays that stand on their own but are also loosely connected. Part I documents how numbers and geometry arise in several cul...

This volume brings together a collection of essays by contemporary thinker and social scientist S.N. Balagangadhara which develop an alternative th...

Philosophical questions regarding both the existence and nature of properties are ubiquitous in ordinary life, the sciences, and philosophical theo...

A fascinating and incisive examination of our language instinct from award-winning science writer Steven Mithen.Along with the concepts of consciou...

By investigating the re-emergence of intellectual, moral, and civic virtues in the practice and teaching of science, this text challenges the incre...

This book provides an extensive and self-contained presentation of quantum and related invariants of knots and 3-manifolds. Polynomial invariants o...

Enigma of the Skies is a joint endeavor by a scientist and a photographer to present to readers everything there is to know about auroras in an eas...

The ancient Roman orator Horace (65 B.C.-8 B.C.) wrote, 'Control your mind or it will control you.' In today's society we are faced with more infor...

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the state of the art in the philosophy of physics. I...

The benefits of modern technology often involve health, safety and environmental risks that produce public suspicion of technologies and aversion t...

According to the moral error theorist, all moral judgments are mistaken. The world just doesn’t contain the properties and relations necessary for ...

Enigma of the Skies is a joint endeavor by a scientist and a photographer to present to readers everything there is to know about auroras in an eas...

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the origin and development of the concept of physical continuity in ancient thought before Ari...

Causation: The Basics explores questions about what causes are, and how we come to know them, describe them, and put them to use. The book begins w...

MUL.APIN, written sometime before the 8th century BC, was the most widely copied astronomical text in ancient Mesopotamia: a compendium including i...

History reveals countless attempts by great minds to solve life’s paradoxes. But what if these attempts miss the point? What if paradox is life?Con...

Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture offers a comprehensive account of our contemporary media environment—digital culture and audiences in particular...

What is Science? A Guide for Those Who Love It, Hate It, or Fear It, provides the reader with ways science has been done through discovery, explora...

The ancient Roman orator Horace (65 B.C.-8 B.C.) wrote, 'Control your mind or it will control you.' In today's society we are faced with more infor...

First published in 1967, The Art of the Soluble presents collection of essays giving the views of the author on creativity and originality in scien...

This heavily revised third edition of an award-winning text offers a keen insight into the development of scientific thought in early modern Europe...

Electron microscopy is now a mainstay characterization tool for solid state physicists and chemists as well as materials scientists. Containing the...

The handicap principle, first proposed by Zahavi about 17 years ago, has in the past several years become widely accepted as a central unifying the...

This book consists of essays that stand on their own but are also loosely connected. Part I documents how numbers and geometry arise in several cul...

This book on modelling and simulation in biomathematics will be invaluable to researchers who are interested in the emerging areas of the field. Gr...

Popular claims that new information technology will expand democratic and public spaces are problematic given the exclusive history of the public a...

This historical survey of the discovery of the electron has been published to coincide with the centenary of the discovery. The text maps the life ...

This volume is a comprehensive study of George Wilson, a leading advocate for evangelical science and for the role of biology in technology – it ex...

Studies on Ottoman Science and Culture brings together eleven articles by distinguished historian Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu.The book addresses multiple ...

Becoming a Buddhist monk in Thailand has for a long time provided the opportunity for access to a good education and to social advancement, both to...

For four decades now, information and communication technologies have been seen as principal drivers of socio-economic change. Stimulated in recent...