"An argument that science is indeed 'socially constructed' but in a way that exposes it to a Darwinian version of variability and selection which ensures its success"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Introduces a new field of study adapted from STS that the author refers to as art, science, and technology studies"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"In How to Talk to a Science Denier, Lee McIntyre tells the story of his own adventures in talking face to face with science deniers and their victims-including a Flat Earth convention in Denver, coal miners in rural Pennsylvania, and fishermen in the Maldives-and what he learned from the experience"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Science fiction stories of pandemic-inspired ingenuity, grit, and determination. This new volume in the Twelve Tomorrows series of science fiction anthologies looks at how science and technology -- existing or speculative -- might help us create a more equitable and hopeful world after the coronavirus pandemic. The original stories presented here, from a diverse collection of authors, offer no …
"Despite enormous scientific and media attention focused on the topic, real progress against climate change has been frustratingly slow. Why? Peter Friederici claims that this failure is largely due to narrative--specifically, to the existence of numerous compelling narratives of denial that are closely tied to our political, economic, religious, and psychological belief systems. By analyzing h…
"Uneven Futures reimagines the SF megatext as a vibrantly dialogical and enduringly ethical methodology for our living political futures"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"An honest attempt to compare and analyze the intelligence of humans, animals, and computers by an eminent cognitive scientist and long-time Press author"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Sounding Bodies presents the ancient Greek connections between music and medicine, their reception leading to the "sonic turn" in the eighteenth century, new kinds of sonic intervention in psychic disorders and new biological applications of sound"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"An explantion of a knowledge-based system for creating computational agents with human-like language ability"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"An argument for the inclusion of the human perspective within science and how it makes science possible"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.