Scientists and Science, Joseph L. Spradley

Автор: Hargittai Magdolna
Название: Women Scientists: Reflections, Challenges, and Breaking Boundaries
ISBN: 0199359989 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199359981
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: A compilation of sixty biographical sketches of influential female scientists, discussing topics like the state of the modern female scientist and the underrepresentation of women at the higher levels of academia.

Автор: Brown
Название: The Poetry of Victorian Scientists
ISBN: 1107527449 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107527447
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Victorian science and literature studies have long dwelt upon the responses of canonical literary figures to geology and evolutionary biology, whilst conversely ignoring verse written by scientists. The Poetry of Victorian Scientists, the first study of this subject, redresses the balance by focusing mainly upon poetry by physicists and mathematicians.

Автор: Haven, K.
Название: 100 Most Popular Scientists for Young Adults
ISBN: 1563086743 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781563086748
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: Revealing the career histories of successful 20th century scientists, this exciting resource offers students fascinating reads, a wonderful research tool, and tips to launching a science career.

Автор: Walsh Lynda
Название: Scientists as Prophets
ISBN: 0199857113 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199857111
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In Scientists as Prophets, Lynda Walsh argues that our science advisors manufacture certainty for us in the face of the unknown. Through a series of cases reaching from the Delphic oracle to seventeenth-century London to Climategate, Walsh elucidates many of the problems with our current science-advising system.

Автор: Hargittai Istvaan, Hargittai Istvn
Название: Buried Glory: Portraits of Soviet Scientists
ISBN: 0199985596 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199985593
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: A chronicle of the lives of twelve notable and celebrated Soviet scientists from the Cold War era, a time of great scientific achievement in the USSR.

Автор: Pytell Timothy E
Название: Viktor Frankl`s Search for Meaning
ISBN: 1782388303 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782388302
Издательство: Berghahn
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?“[T]his is a scholarly, commendable biography and intellectual history. Lay readers will be challenged; psychologists and historians will be grateful.”—Library Journal, starred review

First published in 1946, Viktor Frankl’s memoir Man’s Search for Meaning remains one of the most influential books of the last century, selling over ten million copies worldwide and having been embraced by successive generations of readers captivated by its author’s philosophical journey in the wake of the Holocaust.

This long-overdue reappraisal examines Frankl’s life and intellectual evolution anew, from his early immersion in Freudian and Adlerian theory to his development of the “third Viennese school” amid the National Socialist domination of professional psychotherapy. It teases out the fascinating contradictions and ambiguities surrounding his years in Nazi Europe, including the experimental medical procedures he oversaw in occupied Austria and a stopover at the Auschwitz concentration camp far briefer than has commonly been assumed.

Throughout, author Timothy Pytell gives a penetrating but fair-minded account of a man whose paradoxical embodiment of asceticism, celebrity, tradition, and self-reinvention drew together the complex strands of twentieth-century intellectual life.

From the introduction:
At the same time, Frankl’s testimony, second only to the Diary of Anne Frankin popularity, has raised the ire of experts on the Holocaust. For example, in the 1990s the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington purportedly refused to sell Man’s Search for Meaningin the gift shop…. During the late 1960s and early 1970s Frankl became very popular in America. Frankl’s survival of the Holocaust, his reassurance that life is meaningful, and his personal conviction that God exists served to make him a forerunner of the self-help genre.

Автор: Fahy Declan
Название: The New Celebrity Scientists: Out of the Lab and Into the Limelight
ISBN: 1442233427 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442233423
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: Fahy profiles an array of publicly-and internationally-prominent scientists, exploring how they captured popular imagination, achieved celebrity, and used their ideas to influence our understanding of the world.

Автор: Harrison James
Название: Scientists as Writers
ISBN: 1138013579 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138013575
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book attempted to provide a selection of scientific writing to stimulate students of arts subjects into discussion and writing about the nature of science and its relationship with the rest of life.

Автор: Scerri Eric R.
Название: A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science
ISBN: 0190232994 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190232993
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In his latest book, Eric Scerri presents a completely original account of the nature of scientific progress. It consists of a holistic and unified approach in which science is seen as a living and evolving single organism. Instead of scientific revolutions featuring exceptionally gifted
individuals, Scerri argues that the "little people" contribute as much as the "heroes" of science. To do this he examines seven case studies of virtually unknown chemists and physicists in the early 20th century quest to discover the structure of the atom. They include the amateur scientist Anton
van den Broek who pioneered the notion of atomic number as well as Edmund Stoner a then physics graduate student who provided the seed for Pauli's Exclusion Principle. Another case is the physicist John Nicholson who is virtually unknown and yet was the first to propose the notion of quantization
of angular momentum that was soon put to good use by Niels Bohr.

Instead of focusing on the logic and rationality of science, Scerri elevates the role of trial and error and multiple discovery and moves beyond the notion of scientific developments being right or wrong. While criticizing Thomas Kuhn's notion of scientific revolutions he agrees with Kuhn that
science is not drawn towards an external truth but is rather driven from within. The book will enliven the long-standing debate on the nature of science, which has increasingly shied away from the big question of "what is science?"

Автор: McGrath Patrick J.
Название: Scientists, Business, and the State, 1890-1960
ISBN: 0807874418 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807874417
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In the late nineteenth century, scientists began allying themselves with America's corporate, political, and military elites. They did so not just to improve their professional standing and win more money for research, says Patrick McGrath, but for political reasons as well. They wanted to use their new institutional connections to effect a transformation of American political culture. They succeeded, but not in ways that all scientists envisioned or agreed upon. McGrath describes how, between 1890 and 1960, scientific, business, and political leaders together forged a new definition of American democracy in which science and technology were presented to the public as crucial ingredients of the nation's progress, prosperity, and political stability. But as scientists became more prominent, they provoked conflicts among themselves as well as with their institutional patrons over exactly how their expertise should be used. McGrath examines the bitter battles that erupted over the role scientists should play during the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War arms race, and the security and loyalty investigations of the 1950s. He finds that, by the end of the 1950s, scientists were regarded by the political and military elite not as partners but as subordinate technicians who were expected to supply weapons on demand for the Cold War state.Originally published 2001.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.