Science: general issues
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Science: general issues
Hardback. Discusses the unfocused nature of US mathematics and science curricular intentions, textbooks, and teacher practices. This title offers the premise that producers of US textbooks and curriculum guides have attempted to answer calls for curricular reform by adding new content to existing materials instead of devoting time to restructuring them. Editor(s): Schmidt, William H.; McKnight, Curtis C.; Raizen, S. Num Pages: 164 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JN; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 11. Weight in Grams: 527.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792344407
- ISBN
- 9780792344407
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Condition: New
€ 128.32
€ 128.32
Hardback. Which goals and standards guide science education across the world? This first report of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) explores this question by examining the data collected in TIMSS Curriculum Analysis. It also portrays similarities and differences in science curricula in the succession of objectives across grades. Editor(s): Schmidt, William H.; Raizen, S.; Britton, E. D.; Bianchi, Leonard J.; Wolfe, Richard G. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JN; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 759.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792344384
- ISBN
- 9780792344384
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Condition: New
€ 195.91
€ 195.91
Hardback. Explores two complementary aspects of post-colonial science/technology practice. This title accesses the cognitive and technical trajectories experienced by many third world nations since decolonization. Editor(s): Shinn, Terry; etc. Series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook. Num Pages: 418 pages, 6 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JH; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1740.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 418
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792344193
- ISBN
- 9780792344193
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Condition: New
€ 245.95
€ 245.95
Hardback. Gives a survey of research in logic and philosophy of science. This work provides a picture of foundational research into various sciences, both natural and social. It contains items such as symposia on interfaces between logic and methodology, semantics and semiotics, and details about the state of the field in Eastern Europe and the Far East. Editor(s): Dalla Chiara, Maria Luisa; Doets, Kees; Mundici, Daniele; Benthem, Johan van. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 494 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 879.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 494
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792343844
- ISBN
- 9780792343844
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Condition: New
€ 250.20
€ 250.20
Hardback. Contains the papers submitted by the participants to the Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held in Florence, August 1995. This work covers the traditional subdisciplines of mathematical logic and philosophical logic, as well as their interfaces with computer science, linguistics and philosophy. Editor(s): Dalla Chiara, Maria Luisa; Doets, Kees; Mundici, Daniele; Benthem, Johan van. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 534 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 934.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 534
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792343837
- ISBN
- 9780792343837
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Condition: New
€ 250.95
€ 250.95
hardcover. Offering an account of Lagrangian mechanics, this work uses the Principle of Virtual Work in conjunction with the Lagrangian Multiplier to solve the problems of statics. For the treatment of dynamics, a third concept had to be added to the first two - d'Alembert's Principle - in order to develop the Lagrangian equations of motion. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 639 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PHD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1072.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 1997th Edition
- Number of pages
- 639
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792343493
- ISBN
- 9780792343493
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Condition: New
€ 416.42
€ 416.42
Hardback. Deals with the geometrical and topological aspects associated with the quantization procedure. This book emphasises on the topological aspects of a fermion which arise as a consequence of the quantization procedure. It presents an overview of quantization procedures. Series: Mathematics and its Applications. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDE; PHQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1150.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792343059
- ISBN
- 9780792343059
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Condition: New
€ 129.24
€ 129.24
Paperback. Editor(s): Raizen. Num Pages: 250 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNU; PD; YQS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792342359
- ISBN
- 9780792342359
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Condition: New
€ 64.91
€ 64.91
Hardback. Talks about five US innovations in science education: California's systemic reform of science education; Project 2061's development of its seminal publications; elementary and middle school teachers' adoption and implementation of Kids Network or Voyage of the Mimi; and Chemistry in the Community's development and uses in high school curricula. Editor(s): Raizen, Senta A.; Britton, Edward D. Num Pages: 594 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNU; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1034.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 594
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792342328
- ISBN
- 9780792342328
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Condition: New
€ 241.90
€ 241.90
Hardback. Illuminates patterns among eight prominent US innovations: California's science education reform, ChemCom, Contemporary Precalculus, Kids Network, Project 2061, NCTM Standards, Urban Mathematics Collaboratives, and Voyage of the Mimi. The patterns included changing conceptions of school science , strategies for effecting reform, and more. Editor(s): Raizen, Senta A.; Britton, Edward D. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNU; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 559.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792342311
- ISBN
- 9780792342311
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Condition: New
€ 125.87
€ 125.87
Hardback. Issues covered in this collection of essays include: the nature of physical laws; the basic entities that we can expect the world to consist of; the problem of induction; the aim(s) of science; the discovery of natural laws through scientific methods; and natural necessity and its status. Editor(s): Riggs, Peter J. Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 559.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792342250
- ISBN
- 9780792342250
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Condition: New
€ 127.08
€ 127.08
Hardback. Examining issues at the intersections of feminism, science, and the philosophy of science, this title contains essays that explore parallels and tensions between feminist approaches to science and other approaches in the philosophy of science and more general science studies. In so doing, it explores notions within the philosophy of science. Editor(s): Nelson, Lynn H.; Nelson, Jack. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 653.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792341628
- ISBN
- 9780792341628
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Condition: New
€ 195.81
€ 195.81
Hardback. Includes applications such as the Langevin equation of statistical mechanics. This book also covers Nelson's stochastic mechanics (a version of quantum mechanics), and the hydrodynamics of viscous incompressible fluid treated with the modern Lagrange formalism. Series: Mathematics and its Applications. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBMP; PDE; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792341543
- ISBN
- 9780792341543
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Condition: New
€ 125.87
€ 125.87
Optics at the Nanometer Scale: Imaging and Storing with Photonic Near ...
. Ed(S): Vesperinas, M.Nieto-; Garcia, Narcis...
Hardback. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on 'Near Field Optics: Recent Progress and Perspectives', Miraflores, Madrid, Spain, September 11-15, 1995 Editor(s): Vesperinas, M.Nieto-; Garcia, Narciso. Series: NATO Science Series E:. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDND; PHJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792340201
- ISBN
- 9780792340201
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Condition: New
€ 186.97
€ 186.97
Hardback. Focusing on one of the major aspects of economic development, this book treats the integral economic models with embodied technological change and the controlled lifetime of technologies. It is suitable for researchers, graduate and post-graduate students in mathematical modeling, mathematical economics, control theory, and optimization. Series: Applied Optimization. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBWH; PDE; TBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1290.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792340140
- ISBN
- 9780792340140
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Condition: New
€ 128.69
€ 128.69
Hardback. Tackles the conceptual problems of quantum mechanics from a variety of mathematical and philosophical angles. Focusing on relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, this title is suitable for theoretical physicists and philosophers of science, as well as graduate students in these disciplines. Editor(s): Clifton, Rob. Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; PHQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792338123
- ISBN
- 9780792338123
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Condition: New
€ 128.15
€ 128.15
Hardback. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Reichenau, Germany, September 11--17, 1994 Editor(s): Marti, Othmar; Moller, Rolf. Series: NATO Science Series E:. Num Pages: 372 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDND; PHJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 22. Weight in Grams: 703.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792337096
- ISBN
- 9780792337096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 247.70
€ 247.70
Hardback. A collection of papers focusing on the philosophy of technology, a developing area of scholarly interest, making contact with history of science and technology, and mainstream epistemological and metaphysical issues. This book is of interest to students concerned about the interactions among technology, society, and philosophy. Editor(s): Pitt, Joseph C. Series: Philosophy and Technology. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; TB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792336617
- ISBN
- 9780792336617
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Condition: New
€ 127.74
€ 127.74
Hardback. Proceedings of the Conference in honour of Guy Rideau Editor(s): Bertrand, J.; etc. Series: Mathematical Physics Studies. Num Pages: 338 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDE; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792336457
- ISBN
- 9780792336457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 279.18
€ 279.18
Hardback. Focusing on questions of tradition and innovation and Newton's engaged response to the patterns of his contemporary culture, this title presents a stance that often challenges the scholarly orthodoxies. It includes essays that provide a basis for understanding and clarifying the inner dynamics of Newton's thought. Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCX; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792336174
- ISBN
- 9780792336174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 191.19
€ 191.19