ThermoPoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science

In ThermoPoetics, Barri Gold sets out to show us how analogous, intertwined, and mutually productive poetry and physics may be. Charting the simultaneous emergence of the laws of thermodynamics in literature and in physics that began in the 1830s, Gold finds that not only can science influence literature, but literature can influence science, especially in the early stages of intellectual devel…

Pragmatism and Reference

Despite a revival of interest in pragmatist philosophy, most work in the analytic philosophy of language ignores insights offered by classical pragmatists & contemporary neopragmatists. This text arues that a pragmatist perspective on reference presents a distinct alternative to the prevailing analytic views on the topic.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Cornell's lives of clergymen, physicians and eminent business men of the nine…

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Furnishing the mind : concepts and their perceptual basis

"A Bradford book."Western philosophy has long been divided between empiricists, who argue that human understanding has its basis in experience, and rationalists, who argue that reason is the source of knowledge. A central issue in the debate is the nature of concepts, the internal representations we use to think about the world. The traditional empiricist thesis that concepts are built up from …

Georeferencing : the geographic associations of information

An introduction to the principles of unified georeferencing, which uses placename and geospatial referencing interchangeably across all types of information storage and retrieval systems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Global biomass burning : atmospheric, climatic, and biospheric implications

The burning of biomass - forests, grasslands, and agricultural fields after the harvest - is much more widespread and extensive than previously believed; most biomass burning is thought to be initiated by humans and is on the increase. This comprehensive volume is the first to consider biomass burning as a global phenomenon and to assess its impact on the atmosphere, on climate, and on the bios…

Indeterminacy: The Mapped, the Navigable, and the Uncharted

Interdisciplinary perspectives on the concepts of indeterminacy and indeterminability and the distinctions between the two.Formal thinking about certainty/uncertainty gained greater focus in scientific domains with the advent of particle physics and quantum mechanics. Concern with the exact predictability of events under guidance from scientific determinism led to speculation, then acknowledgem…

Sartor resartus; the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh

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CO2 Rising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge

An introduction to the global carbon cycle and the human-caused disturbances to it that are at the heart of global warming and climate change.The most colossal environmental disturbance in human history is under way. Ever-rising levels of the potent greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) are altering the cycles of matter and life and interfering with the Earth's natural cooling process. Melting Ar…

Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care: An Institutional Compromise

Holly Fernandez Lynch presents a balanced proposal that protects both a patient's access to care and a physician's ability to refuse to provide certain services for reasons of conscience.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.