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by Patrick M. Jenlink (Editor), Karen Embry Jenlink (Editor)STEM Teaching: An Interdisciplinary Approach breaks from the more historical idea of making knowledge within disciplines and seeks to engage the reader in a growing conversation that is gaining momentum and is focused on an 'interdisciplinarity of STEM education', which seeks to embrace and/or present emerging perspectives on the standards.Author BiographyPatrick M. Jenlink is Regents Professor, the E.J. Campbell Endowed Chair: Profe...
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by John L. Pollock (Author), Joseph Cruz (Author)This new edition of the classic Contemporary Theories of Knowledge has been significantly updated to include analyses of the recent literature in epistemology. Rather than merely making slight amendments to the first edition, Pollock and Cruz have undertaken a groundbreaking assessment of twentieth-century epistemology. This book is both an advanced textbook offering traditional discussions of foundationalism, coherentism, and reliabilism and a...
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by Frank R. Spellman (Author)Chemistry for Nonchemists provides environmental, health and safety professionals with an introductory reference book that will help them to understand the fundamental principles of chemistry and to understand those principles as they apply to the environmental compliance programs that regulate workplace activity. The book uses easy-to-understand language, keeps the science and mathematical language to a minimum, and provides numerous resources for enhancing the l...
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by Kelly Fitzsimmons (Editor), Tamar Bauer (Editor)Build Me the Evidence features innovative thinking from leaders across policy, philanthropy, research, and practice on how to build a stronger, more equitable data and evidence ecosystem. Author BiographyKelly Fitzsimmons is a committed social innovator. Before founding Project Evident in 2017, Kelly served as vice president / chief program and strategy officer at the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF), where she led policy innovation, ev...
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by Barry G. Rabe (Editor)" Public deliberation over climate change has traditionally been dominated by the natural and physical sciences. Is the planet warming? To what degree, and is mankind responsible? How big a problem is this, really? But concurrent with these debates is the question of what should be done. Indeed, what can be done? Issues of governance, including the political feasibility of certain policies and their capacity for implementation, have received short shrift in the conver...
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by Mark Q. Sutton (Author), E. N. Anderson (Author)Introduction to Cultural Ecology, Third Edition, familiarizes students with the foundations of the field and provides a framework for exploring what other cultures can teach us about human/environment relationships.Author BiographyMark Q. Sutton is professor emeritus of anthropology at California State University, Bakersfield, and is principal investigator at Statistical Research, Inc., a cultural resource management and heritage preservation...
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by Greg Guest (Editor), Mary Anne Alabanza Akers (Contribution by), Timothy Akers (Contribution by)Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change. Through case studies of cultures around the world, they examine the bio-cultural intersection of health and the environment and the impact of rapid change, technological development and the expansion of the global economy. This book will be valuable to professionals in inte...
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by Jurgen Brauer (Author)This book takes a comprehensive look at the environmental costs of wars around the world since the end of World War II, drawing on case studies from Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Africa, and other regions.Author BiographyJurgen Brauer is professor of economics at the James M. Hull College of Business, Augusta State University.
Number of Pages: 252
Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: August 19, 2011
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by Dolores R. Piperno (Author)Introductory guide to the analysis of plant phytoliths in archaeology.Author BiographyDolores R. Piperno is an archaeologist with a joint appointment at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the National Museum of Natural History.
Number of Pages: 304
Dimensions: 0.62 x 10.96 x 8.48 IN
Publication Date: January 23, 2006
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by Kenneth Tobin (Editor), Rowhea Elmesky (Editor), Gale Seiler (Editor)Many would argue that the state of urban science education has been static for the past several decades and that there is little to learn from it. Rather than accepting this deficit perspective, Improving Urban Science Education strives to recognize and understand the successes that exist there by systematically documenting seven years of research into issues salient to teaching and learning in urban high school science c...
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by Daniel Faber (Author)Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice is a comprehensive assessment of the environmental justice movement, examining the achievements and challenges confronting the movement, along with an emphasis on new strategies of environmental problem-solving and innovations in environmental policy.Author BiographyDaniel Faber is director of the Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative in Boston. He co-founded the international journal Capitalism, Nature, Socia...
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by Kenneth N. Hansen (Author)In The Greening of Pentagon Brownfields, Kenneth N. Hansen explores how states and localities have increased their institutional capacities to deal with the unanticipated consequences of federal downsizing and pollution at military bases in the 1990s. His rigorous methodology-including analysis of personal interviews, comparative case studies, government documents, base conversion surveys, and data from the Congressional Budget Office-makes this project both a use...
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by Noam J. Zohar (Author)This anthology of original essays by leading thinkers in the field gathers together in one place voices from diverse theological and practical commitments. Unlike other publications on Jewish bioethics, it adopts an explicitly pluralistic stance. The book addresses tension between the 'quality of life' and the 'sanctity of life' issues, and will be of interest to lay readers, graduate students of bioethics, and rabbis.Author BiographyNoam J. Zohar is a senior research...
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Report copyright infringementby Patrick Stakem (Author)Unfortunately, we learn more from failures than from successes. This book continues an examination of a cross-section of engineering failures, and analyzes them to define the lessons-learned. It also presents some additional methodologies to prevent failures, or, at least, minimize the effects. The first volume presented a cross-section of failure studies, mostly drawn from the engineering and aerospace context. Each study includes specif...
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Report copyright infringementby Myron W. Evans (Author), Horst Eckardt (Editor)This monograph consists of nine chapters which develop the well known Einstein Cartan Evans (ECE and ECE2) unified field theory which has swept the world of science in step with the knowledge revolution. It systematically develops the ECE theory from geometrical first principles and applies it to the unification of gravitation and electrodynamics and the unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity in ni...
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Report copyright infringementby Kerby Jackson (Introduction by), Arizona Bureau of Mines (Author)Leading mining historian Kerby Jackson introduces us to a classic mining publication on the Gold Mining Industry in Arizona. Written in 1935, this hard to find publication includes valuable facts on the nature of metallic ore deposits. Highlighted here are the details on how ores are deposited, on the fallacy that ore deposits always increase in value with depth, primary ore zones, myths regarding...
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Report copyright infringementby T. a. Wilson (Author)In this unparalleled analysis, T.A. Wilson replaces idle speculation with data and interdisciplinary truths to reveal the hidden life of bigfoot, North America's indigenous hominin, by putting the species into evolutionary context. Drawing upon his field experience and databases that now contain thousands of sightings events, Wilson analyzes the data statistically to develop an anatomical profile of bigfoot. For the first time, hoaxing and ...
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Report copyright infringementby Antony Bourdillon (Author)Condensation, or collapse of the wave packet, has been mysterious in quantum mechanics since its earliest days. Mathematicians axiomatize it. We begin by applying special relativity to compare the wave packets for the massless photon with the massive electron. The comparison provides fresh understanding for Uncertainty and for dynamics that are written in terms of dispersion in wave mechanics. The wave-group contains two velocities tha...
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by Neil Regan (Author)Great Waterfalls of North Carolina is an informative guidebook for locating and photographing 65 waterfalls and cascades in the beautiful Blue Ridge and Great Smoky mountains of North Carolina. The book contains color photographs of each waterfall, along with detailed, easy-to-follow driving directions to the trailheads and hiking or biking directions once you're on the trails. It includes ratings for beauty and trail difficulty and tips for the best photographic locatio...
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by Brian Patrick Green (Author)An introduction to the basic issues of space ethics: the technology, the impact on society, and the frontiers of thinking about space exploration from theory to practice.Author BiographyBrian Patrick Green is the director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Green teaches AI ethics in the Graduate School of Engineering and formerly taught several other engineering ethics courses. He is co-author of the Ethics ...
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by Bill Devall (Author), Sing C. Chew (Editor)This book is an exploration of our evolving relationship with a specific bioregion. It engages the reader in asking deeper questions about the meaning we find in nature and the place where we dwell, and how we can work together towards a sustainable future for all life.Author BiographyBill Devall was in the Department of Sociology, Humboldt State University from 1968-1995 and Professor Emeritus from 1995-2009. Sing C. Chew is the founding editor o...
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by Leah McClimans (Editor)This volume introduces readers to the main philosophical issues of measurement in medicine, illustrating the connections between the natural and social sciences by integrating essays on causation, measuring instruments and issues of measurement and policy.Author BiographyLeah McClimans is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina.
Number of Pages: 244
Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN
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Publication Date: October 11, 2017
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by Rick Reibstein (Author)Environmental law can be made preventive and efficient, and it can enlist willing compliance before using the punishing hand, creating a constructive relationship between the governing and the governed. The "adversarial" relationship for which environmental regulation is famous is appropriate for those unwilling to comply, but not appropriate for the many well-meaning regulated entities. This book explains how these, and other principles of reformed environmental law...
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by Namrata Goswami (Author), Peter A. Garretson (Author)The book examines the space ambitions of China, the United States, and India. It analyzes how unique strategic cultures have shaped elite discourse, legal policy, and space programs within these states.Author BiographyNamrata Goswami is an independent scholar. Peter Garretson is senior fellow in defense studies with the American Foreign Policy Council.
Number of Pages: 464
Dimensions: 0.94 x 9 x 6 IN
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by Ovid K. Wong (Author)Dr. Wong successfully recounts the vast expanse of scientific discoveries and evolution of science education and provides a cohesive background for science educators.Author BiographyOvid K. Wong, PhD, is a veteran public school teacher and administrator before becoming an award winning science education professor at Benedictine University with 35 books published.
Number of Pages: 178
Dimensions: 0.41 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: June 08, 2023
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by Marco Masi (Author)This is the first book in a two-volume series. The present volume introduces the basics of the conceptual foundations of quantum physics. It appeared first as a series of video lectures on the online learning platform Udemy.]There is probably no science that is as confusing as quantum theory. There's so much misleading information on the subject that for most people it is very difficult to separate science facts from pseudoscience. The goal of this book is to make you ab...
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by John Pichtel (Author), Mathew Simpson (Author)A comprehensive review of the issue of microplastics--pervasive all over the earth--with emphasis on the cutting-edge biological, chemical, and physical technologies available for their removal or destruction from water, wastewater, and sediment. Author BiographyJohn Pichtel, PhD, is professor of environment, geology and natural resources at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where he has been on the faculty since 1987. His primary resea...
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by Louke Van Wensveen (Author)This is the first extensive study of ecological virtue ethics and the new rhetoric of environmentalists. Based on a wide-ranging survey of environmental literature, Louke van Wensveen offers an overview of current "green" virtue language and proposes the basic elements of a matching ecological virtue theory, dubbed "dirty virtues" by ecological philosophers.Environmental ethics is not exhausted by debates about the need to preserve rivers, our duties to bioregion...
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by Gertrude Himmelfarb (Author)A biographical, historical, and philosophical study of the impact of Darwinism on the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, challenging the conventional view of Darwin's greatness. "A thorough and masterly book."--Times Literary Supplement.Back JacketIn her enduring study of the impact of Darwinism on the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, Gertrude Himmelfarb brings massive documentation to bear in challenging the conventional view of Darw...
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by Jay Lemery (Author), Paul Auerbach (Author)While the subject of climate change is often in the news and social media, and its realities debated in various arenas of science and government, the health impacts are often overlooked. Here, two seasoned physicians dispel myths, clarify science, and help readers understand the threats of environmental change to human health.Author BiographyJay Lemery, MD, is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medici...
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by Brian Freedman (Author)Climate change is altering how wines are spirits are produced around the world. From unimaginably destructive fires in California to historically unprecedented deep-freezes in Texas and rising temperatures that are lifting England to the forefront of the world of sparkling wine, these are the stories of eight regions confronting it all head on.Author BiographyBrian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel, and food writer, restaurant and beverage consultant, wine and spir...
