Understanding How Science Explains the World, Kevin McCain
Автор: Mermin N. David Название: It`s about Time: Understanding Einstein`s Relativity ISBN: 0691218773 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691218779 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2216.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In It's About Time, N. David Mermin asserts that relativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education--after all, it is largely about time, a subject with which all are familiar. The book reveals that some of our most intuitive notions about time are shockingly wrong, and that the real nature of time discovered by Einstein can be rigorously explained without advanced mathematics. This readable exposition of the nature of time as addressed in Einstein's theory of relativity is accessible to anyone who remembers a little high school algebra and elementary plane geometry.
The book evolved as Mermin taught the subject to diverse groups of undergraduates at Cornell University, none of them science majors, over three and a half decades. Mermin's approach is imaginative, yet accurate and complete. Clear, lively, and informal, the book will appeal to intellectually curious readers of all kinds, including even professional physicists, who will be intrigued by its highly original approach.
Автор: Noble, Raymond (university College London) Noble, Denis (university Of Oxford) Название: Understanding living systems ISBN: 1009277367 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781009277365 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2374.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Life is definitively purposive and creative. Organisms use genes in controlling their destiny. This book presents a paradigm shift in understanding living systems. The genome is not a code, blueprint or set of instructions. It is a tool orchestrated by the system. This book shows that gene-centrism misrepresents what genes are and how they are used by living systems. It demonstrates how organisms make choices, influencing their behaviour, their development and evolution, and act as agents of natural selection. It presents a novel approach to fundamental philosophical and cultural issues, such as free-will. Reading this book will make you see life in a new light, as a marvellous phenomenon, and in some sense a triumph of evolution. We are not in our genes, our genes are in us.
Автор: Tattersall, Ian Название: Understanding human evolution ISBN: 1009101994 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781009101998 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1899.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is for everyone interested in who we are and where we came from. Accessibly written, it presents the evidence from which the complex and tangled story of human evolution is reconstructed, and the techniques by which that evidence is interpreted.
Автор: Dillon, Andrew Название: Understanding users ISBN: 0367459272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367459277 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 19906.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Grounded in the user-centered design movement, this book offers a broad consideration of how our civilization has evolved its technical infrastructure for human purpose to help us make sense of our contemporary information infrastructure and online existence. The author incorporates historical, cultural, and aesthetic approaches to situating information and its underlying technologies across time in the collective, lived experiences of humanity. In today's digital environment, user experience is vital to the success of any product or service.
Yet as the user population expands to include us all, designing for people who vary in skills, abilities, preferences, and backgrounds is challenging. This book provides an integrated understanding of users, and the methods that have evolved to identify usability challenges, that can facilitate cohesive and earlier solutions. The book treats information creation and use as a core human behavior based on acts of representation and recording that humans have always practiced.
It suggests that the traditional ways of studying information use, with their origins in the distinct layers of social science theories and models is limiting our understanding of what it means to be an information user and hampers our efforts at being truly user-centric in design. Instead, the book offers a way of integrating the knowledge base to support a richer view of use and users in design education and evaluation. Understanding Users is aimed at those studying or practicing user-centered design and anyone interested in learning how people might be better integrated in the design of new technologies to augment human capabilities and experiences.
Автор: Summerfield, Christopher (department Of Experiment Название: Natural general intelligence ISBN: 0192843885 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192843883 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 8870.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Natural General Intelligence aims to provide a bridge between the theories of those who study biological brains and the practice of those who are seeking to build artificial brains.
Название: Understanding How Science Explains the World ISBN: 1108995500 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108995504 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2206.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Explanation is a key aim of science. We seek to explain the world around us because doing so allows us to come to know about the world and to better understand it. This book explores the nature and contours of scientific explanation and how they lead to knowledge and understanding.
Автор: John Robert Burger Название: Brain Theory From A Circuits And Systems Perspective ISBN: 1489989862 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781489989864 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 22201.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines proposals involving electron tunneling between synapses, and quantum computations within neurons. It features clear explanations of neural pulses with reference to physical circuitry.
Автор: Burger John Robert Название: Brain Theory from a Circuits and Systems Perspective ISBN: 1461464110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781461464112 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 26122.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines proposals involving electron tunneling between synapses, and quantum computations within neurons. It features clear explanations of neural pulses with reference to physical circuitry.
Название: Normative Species ISBN: 1032484039 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032484037 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Carey Nessa Название: Epigenetics Revolution ISBN: 1848313470 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848313477 Издательство: TBS/GBS Рейтинг: Цена: 2374.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: At the beginning of this century enormous progress had been made in genetics. The Human Genome Project finished sequencing human DNA. It seemed it was only a matter of time until we had all the answers to the secrets of life on this planet.
Автор: Nestar Russell Название: Understanding Willing Participants, Volume 1 ISBN: 3030071014 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030071011 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Horrified by the Holocaust, social psychologist Stanley Milgram wondered if he could recreate the Holocaust in the laboratory setting. Unabated for more than half a century, his (in)famous results have continued to intrigue scholars. Based on unpublished archival data from Milgram’s personal collection, volume one of this two-volume set introduces readers to a behind the scenes account showing how during Milgram’s unpublished pilot studies he step-by-step invented his official experimental procedure—how he gradually learnt to transform most ordinary people into willing inflictors of harm. Volume two then illustrates how certain innovators within the Nazi regime used the very same Milgram-like learning techniques that with increasing effectiveness gradually enabled them to also transform most ordinary people into increasingly capable executioners of other men, women, and children. Volume two effectively attempts to capture how step-by-step these Nazi innovators attempted to transform the F?hrer’s wish of a Jewish-free Europe into a frightening reality. By the books’ end the reader will gain an insight into how the seemingly undoable can become increasingly doable.
