Transhumanism - Engineering the Human Condition (Popular Science)
by Roberto Manzocco
This book is designed to offer a comprehensive high-level introduction to transhumanism, an international political and cultural movement that aims to produce a "paradigm shift" in our ethical and political understanding of human evolution. Transhumanist thinkers want the human species to take the course of evolution into its own hands, using advanced technologies currently under development - such as robotics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cognitive neurosciences, and nanotechnology -...
Во что населению Саратовской губернии обх
by П.А. Слепцов
Viewed as a flashpoint of the Scientific Revolution, early modern astronomy witnessed a virtual explosion of ideas about the nature and structure of the world. This study explores these theories in a variety of intellectual settings, challenging our view of modern science as a straightforward successor to Aristotelian natural philosophy. It shows how astronomers dealt with celestial novelties by deploying old ideas in new ways and identifying more subtle notions of cosmic rationality. Beginning...
Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue and the Old Regime
by James E. McClellan, III
The sounds comprising music were selected by hearing. If we survey what was selected from the beginning to make simple western music, and how it developed, it raises a series of questions about intervals and scales, the tone of instruments, pitch, loudness and time, the answers to which must lie in the nature of our hearing mechanism. Not least, this review throws doubt on the role normally attributed to harmonics. A simplified account of how musical sounds are coded by the ear, and of the proce...
Дагестанские народы Азербайджана
by К. Казенин, М. Алексеев, and М. Сулейманов
Geography Since the Second World War
Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects
by John Sutherland Sinclair
The Evolutionary Synthesis
Biology was forged into a single, coherent science only within living memory. In this volume the thinkers responsible for the "modern synthesis" of evolutionary biology and genetics come together to analyze that remarkable event. In a new Preface, Ernst Mayr calls attention to the fact that scientists in different biological disciplines differed considerably in their degree of acceptance of Darwin's theories. Mayr shows us that these differences were played out in four separate periods between 1...
The phenomenological method in the study of religions has provided the linchpin supporting the argument that Religious Studies constitutes an academic discipline in its own right and thus that it is irreducible either to theology or to the social sciences. This book examines the figures whom the author regards as having been most influential in creating a phenomenology of religion. Background factors drawn from philosophy, theology and the social sciences are traced before examining the thinking...
Part of a six-title set on Scottish thought and culture in the late 18th-century, this book reveals personal visions of the thought of this period. William Smellie, Edinburgh printer and natural philosopher, left behind a rich archive of correspondence and manuscripts.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.
THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF RUSSIAN CHRONICLES. Volume 42. Tom Novgorod Karamzin chronicle
by A Koshelev
Four works of Paracelsus (The R.A.M.S. Library of Alchemy, #6)
by Paracelsus
The new series edited by the "Jubilaumsstiftung of the Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien", aims at presenting results of interdisciplinary research conducted at one of the largest business schools in Europe. The Volumes One and Two focus on recent results gained by a group of mathematicians and marketing scientists. It is a unique feature that the writing style adopted for this series makes the findings accessible for members of both research communities. It is also targeted to practitioners in market...