Author: Thomas S Kuh
Publisher: Books LLC
Keywords: revolutions, scientific, structure
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2009-05-18
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1443255440
ISBN-13: 9781443255448

Since the publication of this book in 1962, Kuhn’s writings (and many of his ideas, such as "paradigm shift") have been highly influential in academic and popular discourse. This book is must-reading for anyone studying the history and philosophy of science specifically, or cultural or technological change generally.Thomas S. Kuhn’s classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. . . . It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost unbroken series of a

Author: Chaomei Che
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: frontiers, scientific, mapping
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-01-17
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 1852334940
ISBN-13: 9781852334949

"Mapping Scientific Frontiers" examines the history and the latest developments in the quest for knowledge visualization from an interdisciplinary perspective, ranging from theories of invisible colleges and competing paradigms, to practical applications of visualization techniques for capturing intellectual structures, and the rise and fall of scientific paradigms. Containing simple and easy to follow diagrams for modeling and visualization procedures, as well as detailed case studies and real world examples, this is a valuable reference source for researchers and practitioners, such as scien

Author: William L. McKie
Publisher: Mokelumne Hill Pr
Keywords: hydrotherapy, scientific
Published: 1993-12-01
List price: $16.90
ISBN-10: 0787305995
ISBN-13: 9780787305994

Author: Claude C. Hopkins
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: advertising, scientific
Number of Pages: 92
Published: 2007-12-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 160520045X
ISBN-13: 9781605200453

American advertising pioneer CLAUDE C. HOPKINS (1866-1932) is still renowned today for developing such marketing innovations as coded coupons that could be used to track the success of varying offers. His methods are still prized for their efficacy today. In this groundbreaking 1923 work, written after he retired as president and chairman of one of the world’s biggest ad agencies, Hopkins shares the secrets of successful marketing that are just as relevant today as they were almost a century ago. Learn: . how advertising laws are established . the importance of just salesmanship

Author: Michael T. Heath
Publisher: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Keywords: computing, scientific
Number of Pages: 563
Published: 2002-07-17
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0072399104
ISBN-13: 9780072399103

Heath 2/e, presents a broad overview of numerical methods for solving all the major problems in scientific computing, including linear and nonlinear equations, least squares, eigenvalues, optimization, interpolation, integration, ordinary and partial differential equations, fast Fourier transforms, and random number generators. The treatment is comprehensive yet concise, software-oriented yet compatible with a variety of software packages and programming languages. The book features more than 160 examples, 500 review questions, 240 exercises, and 200 computer problems. Changes for the se

Author: A. Russel Bond
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Keywords: american, scientific
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2006-12-20
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1421830140
ISBN-13: 9781421830148

Bill, he was it, the Scientific American Boy, I mean. Of course, we were all American boys and pretty scientific chaps too, if I do say it myself, but Bill, well he was the whole show. What he didn’t know wasn’t worth knowing, so we all thought, and even

Author: Tamara Horowitz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: failure, scientific
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1993-12-28
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0847678067
ISBN-13: 9780847678068

The enthusiasm and uncertainty with which a newly proposed scientific theory is received immediately encourages some scientists to disprove the theory and others to expand upon it. These tangent efforts are a very valuable result of scientific research, whether the original ideas are correct or not. "Scientific Failure" focuses on the successes that have been made out of failed theories.