Product Description: Advance praise for Philip Plait s Bad Astronomy "Bad Astronomy is just plain good! Philip Plait clears up every misconception on astronomy and space you never knew you suffered from." --Stephen Maran, Author of Astronomy for Dummies and editor of The Astronomy and Astrophysics Encyclopedia "Thank the cosmos for the bundle of star stuff named Philip Plait, who is the world s leading consumer advocate for quality science in space and on Earth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Some people used to think that Earth was smack-dab in the middle of the universe, with all the stars and planets held in the sky by giant glass balls. Boy, were they wrong! In this follow-up to the award-winning Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs!, Kathleen Kudlinski and John Rocco look at the mistakes, mishaps, and creativity that are part of scientific discovery. From the first humans wondering about the night sky to the demotion of Pluto to dwarf planet status, this book is an entertaining and informative look at how scientific theories change over time.

Product Description: We all make mistakes. Nobody’s perfect. Not even some of the greatest geniuses in history, as Mario Livio tells us in this marvelous story of scientific error and breakthrough. Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein were all brilliant scientists...read more

Product Description: We all make mistakes. Nobody’s perfect. Not even some of the greatest geniuses in history, as Mario Livio tells us in this marvelous story of scientific error and breakthrough. Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein were all brilliant scientists...read more

Product Description: The text describes a course in the criticism of published biomedical literature conducted by the author and molecular biology colleague David A. Konkel in the graduate program of the Department of Human Biological Chemistry and Genetics at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston,TX, until the retirement of the author in 1996...read more

Product Description: ---why have fakes, forgeries, and the multiplicity of deception techniques, along with the personalities of their authors, been an object of interest in so many fields, including modern science, while scientific forgeries of the early modern age have raised comparatively less discussion? After all, this was a golden age of sorts for impostors and forgers, as well as the age when a dystopia of the universal scholarly forgery was imagined by a French erudite, Jean Hardouin, who in the late 17th century claimed that all ancient texts and remains had been aptly pieced together by a mysterious group of monks in the late middle ages…from the Introductio...read more

Product Description: 'Is it science?' shows the scientific method at work. This title explores the development of ideas about the size and shape of our planet.

Argues that contrary to popular belief, fostered in classrooms the world over, Christopher Columbus did not discover that the world was round. Based on a range of original sources, this book raises issues central to the history and philosophy of science, its relationship with religion and the making of human knowledge about the natural world.

A budget travel guide to the region covers Istanbul, Eastern Anatolia, and Northern Cyprus and includes information on accommodations, attractions, and restaurants (view table of contents)

Is planet Earth flat? Is California an island? Can you mix other metals to make gold? At one time, science supported wild notions like these! But later studies proved these ideas were nonsense. Discover science's biggest mistakes and oddest assumptions about geology and ecology, and see how scientific thought changed over time.

Product Description: Spatial information is pervaded by uncertainty. Indeed, geographical data is often obtained by an imperfect interpretation of remote sensing images, while people attach ill-defined or ambiguous labels to places and their properties...read more

Product Description: This essential book offers friendly support and practical advice for dealing with the common misconceptions encountered in the primary science classroom. Most pupils will arrive at the science lesson with previously formed ideas, based on prior reasoning or experience...read more

Product Description: The book applies a unique mix of psychosocial methods to understand the complexity of emotional, cognitive and ideological responses to human rights violations and examines the banal quality of the everyday vocabularies that people use to make sense of human rights and their violations, and justify not intervening...read more

These iconoclastic and witty essays are about what happens when scientists jump on band-wagons. Tony Rothman applies creative skepticism to contemporary fashions in science, including the "standard model" Big Bang theory, geodesic domes, the concept of nuclear winter, and sociological applications of the second law of thermodynamics. "Rothman proves himself an excellent communicator... I am grateful to him for he has enlarged my vision, increased my understanding, and made me more aware of the beauty of the patterns and connections of all the world."--Dick Kovan, New Scientist "These six delightful essays address and substantiate the sociological underpinnings of the scientific enterprise... I highly recommend this volume of excellent essays that remind us all of the `folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truth, and oneself for an oracle...'"--Dennis W. Cheek, Science Books & Films Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

A provocative, hard-hitting defense of modern technology exposes the political agendas that have led to the media's one-sided coverage of Love Canal, fallout from video display terminals, electromagnetic fields, and other issues. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

A defense of modern technology exposes the political agendas that have led to the media's one-sided coverage of environmental issues

Covers the flat earth theory, the Piltdown Man, the Tay bridge collapse, Chernobyl, cold fusion, and the Hubble space telescope mistake