Tabla de Contenidos: “…1 The Metropolis of Science 15 -- 2 The Ossified Enterprise 23 -- 3 Vannevar Bush and the Myth of Creation 41 -- 4 The Glorious Past 59 -- 5 The Whimpering Giant 66 -- 6 Money, More Money, Statistics, and Science 78 -- 7 The Malthusian Imperative and the Politics of Trust 89 -- 8 Ph. …”

“…Cambridge solid state science series…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Unveiling the ancestry of peoples : tradition, language and ethnology, 1800-1860 -- Unearthing our forefathers : the growth of provincial archaeology, 1830-1860 -- The limits of history : defining nations, races and peoples, 1820-1850 -- Building the science of man : national anthropology and the ancient past, 1850-1870 -- Locating the peoples of prehistory : geology, archaeology and anthropology, 1840-1870 -- The fracturing of common origins : the nationalization of the anthropological past, 1871-1900 -- Tension and diffusion : the racial and cultural sciences, 1890-1914…”

“…Computational science and engineering…”

“…This book provides the first sustained attempt to extract from Kant's writings on biology, anthropology and history an account of the human sciences, their underlying unity, their presuppositions as well as their methodology; that is to say, Kant's philosophical and epistemological foundation of the human sciences…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…What it means to be a strategic science communicator -- Science knowledge as a communication objective -- Show warmth -- Show integrity -- Be willing to listen -- Show you are not that different (and respect others' differences) -- Make sure you seem competent -- Share the risks and benefits -- What people think other people think is normal -- Self-efficacy -- Emotion and framing also matter, but . . . -- The need to take communication more seriously…”

“…Are their views on aesthetic value, interpretation, imagination, and the emotions of art to be rethought in the light of best science? The essays in this volume seek answers to these questions, many through detailed studies of problems traditionally regarded as philosophical but where empirical inquiry seems to be shedding interesting light. …”