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Deeply researched, World as Laboratory tells a secret history that's not really a secret. The fruits of human engineering are all around us: advertising, polls, focus groups, the ubiquitous habit of "spin" practiced by marketers and politicians. What Rebecca Lemov cleverly traces for the first time is how the absurd, the practical, and the dangerous experiments of the human engineers of the first half of the twentieth century left their laboratories...
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Cuando se realizan análisis de rutina o se contrastan hipótesis, se recurre a la experimentación. Tenemos la posibilidad de comprobar en el laboratorio casi todo lo que se postula en la teoría, porque la Química es una ciencia netamente experimental.
Ello obliga a ser riguroso en la formación de los estudiantes y futuros profesionales para el trabajo práctico, siendo ésto lo que se busca en este libro: guiar desde los primeros pasos, para...
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This outstanding account, written by a sympathetic Union officer and witness to the Civil War's denouement, covers the last days and downfall of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia (led by the indomitable Robert E. Lee), from the fall of Richmond to Appomattox. Morris Schaff focuses largely on the Confederate Army's dramatic retreat and surrender in March and April, 1865, when Lee himself was compelled to admit defeat. Written in the form of...
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The ultimate Theodore Gray collection, Theodore Gray's Completely Mad Science collects every one of Gray's dramatic, visually spectacular, and enlightening scientific experiments into one complete volume.
Bestselling author Theodore Gray has spent more than a decade dreaming up, executing, photographing, and writing about extreme scientific experiments, which he then published between 2009 and 2014 in his monthly Popular Science column "Gray Matter."...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2011
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The “moving” true story of a woman fighting to give a group of chimpanzees a second chance at life (People).
In 1997, Gloria Grow started a sanctuary for chimps retired from biomedical research on her farm outside Montreal. For the indomitable Gloria, caring for thirteen great apes is like presiding over a maximum-security prison, a Zen sanctuary, an old folks’ home, and a New York deli during the...
In 1997, Gloria Grow started a sanctuary for chimps retired from biomedical research on her farm outside Montreal. For the indomitable Gloria, caring for thirteen great apes is like presiding over a maximum-security prison, a Zen sanctuary, an old folks’ home, and a New York deli during the...
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Une réflexion relative à la part de réalité dans les modèles scientifiques
Les rencontres « Physique et interrogations fondamentales » (PIF) sont l'occasion pour des scientifiques de formations très différentes de confronter leurs points de vue sur un thème lié aux grandes questions de la science contemporaine. Elles se situent à un niveau permettant à un public cultivé mais non spécialisé de suivre les exposés. Elles se tiennent...
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In Reinventing Discovery, Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. There are many books about how the internet is changing business or the workplace or government. But this is the first book about something much more fundamental: how the...
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