Science: general issues
The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference
The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference investigates the relations of inductive support on the large scale, among the totality of facts comprising a science or science in general. These relations ...
The Legal Singularity
Law today is incomplete, inaccessible, unclear, underdeveloped, and often perplexing to those whom it affects. In The Legal Singularity, Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie argue that the proliferation of ...
The Material Theory of Induction
The burden of a theory of inductive inference is to determine which inductive inferences are good and why they are so. This book argues against the assumption that inductive inference can be accommodated ...
Kwaday Dan Tsinchi
Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi: Teachings from Long Ago Person Found is a comprehensive and collaborative account that interweaves scientific analysis and cultural knowledge to describe a life that ended almost ...
Articulating Dinosaurs
In this remarkable interdisciplinary study, anthropologist Brian Noble traces how specimens and humans create dinosaurs together. He examines the resurrection of two of the most iconic and gendered dinosaurs: ...
Separate Beds
“Canada has a painful history of racially segregated hospitals that were intended to isolate and institutionalize Aboriginal people seen as a menace and danger to the nation. Separate Beds is a sophisticated, ...
Places of the Heart
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A really great book.” IRA FLATOW, Science Friday
One of the finest science writers I’ve ever read.” Los ...
Mathematical Modelling of Zombies
You’re outnumbered, in fear for your life, surrounded by flesh-eating zombies. What can save you now? Mathematics, of course. Mathematical Modelling of Zombies engages the imagination to illustrate ...
Bold Scientists
As governments and corporations scramble to pull the plug on research that proves that they are poisoning our planet and rush to muzzle the scientists who dare to share their disturbing data, it seems ...
Pain and Prejudice
In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was called in ...