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A History of Biophysics in Contemporary China
This book gives a concise history of biophysics in contemporary China, from about 1949 to 1976. It outlines how a science specialty evolved from an ambiguous and amorphous field into a fully-fledged academic discipline in the socio-institutional contexts of contemporary China. The book relates how, while initially consisting of cell biologists, the Chinese biophysics community redirected their …
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- 978-3-319-18093-9
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- SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
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- 501 LUK h
Time Perspective Theory; Review, Research and Application
This book is about time and its powerful influence on our personal and collective daily life. It presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of contemporary knowledge on temporal psychology inspired by Zimbardo's work on Time Perspective (TP). With contributions from renowned and promising researchers from all over the globe, and at the interface of social, personality, cognitive an…
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- 978-3-319-07368-2
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- 26 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
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A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks: Sciences, Society and Technology Studies
This book analyzes scientific problems within the history of physics, engineering, chemistry, astronomy and medicine, correlated with technological applications in the social context. When and how is tension between disciplines explicitly practised? What is the conceptual bridge between science researches and the organization of technological researches in the development of industrial applicat…
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- 978-94-017-9645-3
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- History of Mechanism and Machine Science
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- 530.01 BRI b
Engineering Identities, Epistemologies and Values Engineering Education and …
This second companion volume on engineering studies considers engineering practice including contextual analyses of engineering identity, epistemologies and values. Key overlapping questions examine such issues as an engineering identity, engineering self-understandings enacted in the professional world, distinctive characters of engineering knowledge and how engineering science and engineering…
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- 978-3-319-16172-3
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- 18 b/w illustrations
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Engineering Ethics for a Globalized World
This volume identifies, discusses and addresses the wide array of ethical issues that have emerged for engineers due to the rise of a global economy. To date, there has been no systematic treatment of the particular challenges globalization poses for engineering ethics standards and education. This volume concentrates on precisely this challenge. Scholars and practitioners from diverse national…
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- 978-3-319-18260-5
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- 20 b/w illustrations
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Narrative, Philosophy and Life
This notable collection provides an interdisciplinary platform for prominent thinkers who have all made significant recent contributions to exploring the nexus of philosophy and narrative. It includes the latest assessments of several key positions in the current philosophical debate. These perspectives underpin a range of thematic strands exploring the influence of narrative on notions of self…
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- 978-94-017-9348-3
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- IX, 210
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- Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life
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A New Science for Future: Climate Impact Modeling and the Quest for Digital O…
Building on concepts from Science & Technology Studies, Simon David Hirsbrunner investigates practices and infrastructures of computer modeling and science communication in climate impact research. The book characterizes how scientists calculate future climate risks in computer models and scenarios, but also how they circulate their insights and make them accessible and comprehensible to others…
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- 9783839452653
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- 302.23 HIR n
Neuroenhancement: how mental training and meditation can promote epistemic vi…
This book explores how one can bring about changes in the brain through meditation, both through attention-focus training and through compassion training. Recent findings in the natural sciences have confirmed that it is possible for humans to achieve these structural and functional changes through various life-style practices. It is argued that meditation enables us to influence some aspects o…
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- 978-3-319-23516-5
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- XI, 110
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- SpringerBriefs in Ethics
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Neoliberalization, Universities and the Public Intellectual
This book employs an an intersectional feminist approach to highlight how research and teaching agendas are being skewed by commercialized, corporatized and commodified values and assumptions implicit in the neoliberalization of the academy. The authors combine 50 years of academic experience and focus on species, gender and class as they document the hazardous consequences of seeing people as …
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- 978-1-137-57908-9
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- XIII, 142
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- Palgrave Critical University Studies
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The “New Culture” From a Modern Perspective
Contemporary China, in an era of globalization and in the midst of transition, now faces both great opportunities and unprecedented challenges. People are more and more becoming “economic man,” “technological man” and “one-dimensional man,” and are increasingly losing the virtue, dignity and beauty of human nature. When humanity’s habitat grows smaller and smaller as economic, tec…
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- 978-3-662-48011-3
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