Laboratory Manual to accompany Understanding Physics.

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Product Description: Holton echa mano de los documentos históricos de algunas experiencias de nuestro siglo y propone sus propios puntos de vista. La imaginación científica ofrece, pues, una visión interna y pormenorizada del apasionante trabajo científico...read more

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Product Description: Although best known for his revolutionary scientific ideas, Albert Einstein was also an impassioned social critic, who challenged social and philosophical orthodoxies and championed individual liberty and dignity in the face of persecution and war...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: What determines successful careers in the field of science? What are the early indicators of later failures. And specifically, how do women scientists' career paths differ from men's? While it is easy to theorize about these questions, those who go to the trouble of an extensive empirical study find an increasingly complex picture...read more

Product Description: Gerald Holton uses the life and work of our century’s greatest scientist to warn against today’s gathering Romantic rebellion, one in which science is blamed for all our social ills, and in which reason is being replaced by New Age ”ways of knowing...read more

Product Description: In this book, Professor Holton continues his analysis of how modem science works and what its influences are on our world, with particular emphasis on the role of the thematic elements - those often unconscious presuppositions that guide scientific work to success or failure...read more

Product Description: In this book, Professor Holton continues his analysis of how modem science works and what its influences are on our world, with particular emphasis on the role of the thematic elements - those often unconscious presuppositions that guide scientific work to success or failure...read more

Product Description: The Description for this book, Introduction to Concepts and Theories in Physical Science, will be forthcoming.