This volume presents new research on the epistemology of experts. It features original essays from leading epistemologists on this timely topic....Lasīt vairāk
Despite recent advancements, gender disparities in STEM disciplines remain a major concern worldwide, particularly in Africa. Africa possesses a vast pool of untapped STEM talent among women and this book aims to support women in entering and thrivi...Lasīt vairāk
Following on from The Shortcut, Nello Cristianini has authored another brilliant book, explaining the ideas behind a technology destined to change the world. If the worst fear is that of the unknown, the cure is knowledge...Lasīt vairāk
This textbook is designed for teaching quantitative research in the scientific, health and engineering disciplines at first-year undergraduate level, with an emphasis on statistics. Almost every dataset used is a real dataset, and is available onlin...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers an exploration of the diverse perspectives shaping the future of Artificial Intelligence, highlighting the influence of non-Western thinking in its development. Whether youre a curious reader, a policy maker, a scholar, or a tech in...Lasīt vairāk
This book considers the core theoretical concepts central to understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, providing a clear view of what machines can achieve and what sets them apart from humans....Lasīt vairāk
Plague in the Early Modern World now in a second edition, presents a broad range of primary source materials from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, China, India, and North America that explore the nature and impact of plague and disease in the...Lasīt vairāk
Flattening the Medieval Earth explores the origin of the flat error, i.e. the false accusation that ancient and medieval Christians believed in a flat Earth, and what this implies in terms of a conflict between science and Christianity....Lasīt vairāk
This book examines the global history of allegedly scientific mechanical cures commonly used to combat internal and chronic diseases and explores how and why the professional demarcation between orthodox and irregular medicine evolved....Lasīt vairāk
Reviewing fMRI, EEG and PET scan as well as measuring certain blood and CSF biomarker levels. A new tool for gauging brain health is introduced, it can be used in rural communities and LMIC. This book focuses on development of this new tool for brai...Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject and is first major volume of its kind. Essential reading for students and researchers in philoso...Lasīt vairāk
This volume brings together essays from several different perspectives on a topic in epistemology that is garnering increased attention: inquiry. It is the first volume focused solely on philosophical issues related to inquiry....Lasīt vairāk
Split into two volumes, volume 2 is a cultural history of technology that provides new insights into the international history of nuclear energy by examining the perspectives of six nuclear power plants host communities in Britain and Germany from t...Lasīt vairāk
Volume 4 examines the British diet from its colonial and global perspectives. Colonialism, combined with rapidly improving global transport networks, introduced the British introduced to a plethora of unfamiliar foods from overseas....Lasīt vairāk
In the long nineteenth century, significant developments occurred in science, technology and medicine which transformed food production and consumption. This volume explores the foods that were eaten in nineteenth-century Britain....Lasīt vairāk
Around the 1860s, publishers began printing books dedicated to specific meals. The sources reprinted in this volume were produced in response to the changing social dynamics that accompanied industrialisation, urbanisation and socio-economic moderni...Lasīt vairāk
This book proposes a comparative reading between formal, or non-formal, structures of learning and individual agency abilities, highlighting influences and entanglements in different geographies from multiple spheres of knowledge and practices....Lasīt vairāk
This book provides in-depth coverage of metrology principles for students, practicing engineers, technologists, and researchers. This book aims to give both the technician and the academic researcher in the field a thorough understanding of both the...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Jul-2025, Izdevniecība: Apple Academic Press Inc., ISBN-13: 9781003610380)
Explores the dynamic integration of soft robotics and biomedical sciences and how soft robotic technologies can alter the healthcare sector, from personalized treatment to cutting-edge medical equipment. Discusses soft robotics in implanted devices,...Lasīt vairāk
How was a billiards table lit in 1763, or the stage of the Red Bull playhouse in 1673? How did the early U.S. settlers light their homes, and how did this compare with the homes of Sumeria 4500 years ago. The answers to all these questions and many...Lasīt vairāk
This thorough and clearly written introduction to scientific explanation is an excellent resource for students of philosophy of science, metaphysics and philosophy of psychology....Lasīt vairāk
We Have Never Been Human boldly reimagines what it means to be human, challenging the traditional notions that bind our identity to biology and culture. From ancient mythologies to modern technologies, this book reveals a dynamic, ever-evolving huma...Lasīt vairāk
Ten Follies: A Journey Around the World in Ten Forms of Madness focuses on a critical question in the history of psychiatry: to what extent does psychopathology describe phenomena that exist before or beyond their description?...Lasīt vairāk
Throughout its early history, photographys authenticity was contested and challenged: how true a representation of reality can a photograph provide? Does the reproduction of a photograph affect its value as authentic or not?...Lasīt vairāk
Tracing the history of sports medicine from the ancient world through to the present day, this book shines new light on the embedded relationship between physicians, performance enhancement and doping in elite sport....Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1966, in Human Robots in Myth and Science, the author traces the idea of the robot from antiquity until the present day (1960s) and sketches the lines of its likely development in the future....Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Handbook of Mindshaping comprises 37 chapters by an international team of leading scholars. An outstanding survey of a vibrant and emerging field, it will be of great interest to those studying and researching philosophy of psychology,...Lasīt vairāk
The first of its kind, this book presents a wide range of passages exploring many aspects of the Greco-Roman watery world: physics, philosophy, weather, medicine, marine biology, religion and mythology, infrastructure, sailing, and mercantile activi...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the governance of smart cities from a holistic approach, arguing that the creation of smart cities must consider the specific the circumstances of each country to improve the preservation, revitalisation, liveability, and sustaina...Lasīt vairāk
Digital Knowledge: A Philosophical Investigation is the first book to fully explain and examine digital knowledge: what it is, how it compares to received theories of knowledge and where it is going....Lasīt vairāk
The book illuminate the processes by which religious myths and institutions were largely substituted by stories of progress in science and technology which often contributed to nationalistic ideologies....Lasīt vairāk
Contributors investigate the motivation behind scientifically-embedded contemporary art practices as well as art-based scientific research and engagement that attempt to shape society....Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on a wide range of sources and theoretical traditions from ecological works and radical pamphlets, through political theology and continental philosophy to ancient and medieval apocalypses, the book sheds a comprehensive light on the concept...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the vital role language plays in shaping how we understand and discuss medicines, making for a more detailed study of pharmaceutical and pharmacological language to more clearly understand the intersection of language, health, and...Lasīt vairāk
Copernicus (1938) presents an account of the astronomer Copernicus, and of the historic book in which he laid the foundations of the heliocentric theory of the planetary motions. The book is of great interest to students of the history of astronomy,...Lasīt vairāk
This books core argument is that an artificial intelligence that could equal or exceed human intelligence is for mathematical reasons impossible. In supporting their claim, the authors marshal evidence from mathematics, physics, computer science, ph...Lasīt vairāk
Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for Humanist Science diagnoses the fundamental problem in contemporary scientific psychiatry to be a lack of a sophisticated and nuanced engagement with the self and proposes a solutio...Lasīt vairāk
This work examines how beauty standards, specifically the ideology of fairness, contributed to the racialization of bodies in early modern England. Schoel emphasizes the need to dismantle whitenesss invisibility in historical criticism, noting th...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides the first comprehensive discussion regarding the role that Kant ascribes to systematicity in the sciences. It considers not only what Kant has to say on systematicity in general, but also how the systematicity requirement for scie...Lasīt vairāk
An engaging introduction to one of the most significant works of philosophy. Written for readers approaching Humes work for the first time, it is essential reading for undergraduate students studying the history of modern philosophy, and all those w...Lasīt vairāk
Debiasing AI examines the vital intersection of technology, innovation, and sustainability. It addresses the pressing challenge of bias in AI systems, exploring its far-reaching implications for fairness, trust, and ethical practices. A must-read fo...Lasīt vairāk
This outstanding introduction to Cavendishs philosophy explores the full span of her work. Including a chronology, glossary, and suggestions for further reading, Cavendish is an ideal starting point for anyone coming to Cavendishs philosophy for th...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a journey through the problems and the progress of the discipline of sociology in the UK and Europe throughout the second half of the twentieth century via an exploration of seven social settings from the life of a now eminent socio...Lasīt vairāk
This book is an accessible yet critical introduction to science communication viewed as the social conversation around science. It addresses why science communication matters, examines the evolution of theories and practices, and explains concepts,...Lasīt vairāk
Atomic Spectra (1950) is an elementary account of the theory of the spectra of atoms and molecules. It offers a snapshot into the development of physics, chemistry and mathematics....Lasīt vairāk
