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Splinters of Infinity
Cosmic Rays and the Clash of Two Nobel Prize–Winning Scientists over the Secrets of Creation
ISBN: 9780262048828
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 5, 2024
The riveting story of a modern age scientific feud between two Nobel Prize-winning scientists over the nature of cosmic rays and the universe.
The Blind Spot
Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
ISBN: 9780262048804
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 5, 2024
A compelling argument for including the human perspective within science, and for how human experience makes science possible.
The Brain Abstracted
Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience
ISBN: 9780262548045
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 5, 2024
An exciting, new framework for interpreting the philosophical significance of neuroscience.
A Heart Afire
Helen Brooke Taussig's Battle Against Heart Defects, Unsafe Drugs, and Injustice in Medicine
ISBN: 9780262048521
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 12, 2023
A deeply compelling biography of the pioneering children's heart doctor Helen Taussig, who helped start heart surgery and became a global force against preventable suffering.
Beyond Versus
The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture
ISBN: 9780262549608
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
Why the “nature versus nurture” debate persists despite widespread recognition that human traits arise from the interaction of nature and nurture.
Writing for Their Lives
America's Pioneering Female Science Journalists
ISBN: 9780262048163
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 22, 2023
A breathtaking history of America's trail-blazing female science journalists—and the timely lessons they can teach us about equity, access, collaboration, and persistence.
Ownership of Knowledge
Beyond Intellectual Property
ISBN: 9780262545594
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 18, 2023
A framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society.
Molecular World
Making Modern Chemistry
ISBN: 9780262545549
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 4, 2023
A compelling and innovative account that reshapes our view of nineteenth-century chemistry, explaining a critical period in chemistry's quest to understand and manipulate organic nature.
Evolvability
A Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology?
ISBN: 9780262545624
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 27, 2023
Essays on evolvability from the perspectives of quantitative and population genetics, evolutionary developmental biology, systems biology, macroevolution, and the philosophy of science.
Splinters of Infinity
Cosmic Rays and the Clash of Two Nobel Prize–Winning Scientists over the Secrets of Creation
ISBN: 9780262048828
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 5, 2024
The riveting story of a modern age scientific feud between two Nobel Prize-winning scientists over the nature of cosmic rays and the universe.
The Blind Spot
Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
ISBN: 9780262048804
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 5, 2024
A compelling argument for including the human perspective within science, and for how human experience makes science possible.
The Brain Abstracted
Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience
ISBN: 9780262548045
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 5, 2024
An exciting, new framework for interpreting the philosophical significance of neuroscience.
A Heart Afire
Helen Brooke Taussig's Battle Against Heart Defects, Unsafe Drugs, and Injustice in Medicine
ISBN: 9780262048521
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 12, 2023
A deeply compelling biography of the pioneering children's heart doctor Helen Taussig, who helped start heart surgery and became a global force against preventable suffering.
Beyond Versus
The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture
ISBN: 9780262549608
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
Why the “nature versus nurture” debate persists despite widespread recognition that human traits arise from the interaction of nature and nurture.
Writing for Their Lives
America's Pioneering Female Science Journalists
ISBN: 9780262048163
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 22, 2023
A breathtaking history of America's trail-blazing female science journalists—and the timely lessons they can teach us about equity, access, collaboration, and persistence.
Ownership of Knowledge
Beyond Intellectual Property
ISBN: 9780262545594
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 18, 2023
A framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society.
Molecular World
Making Modern Chemistry
ISBN: 9780262545549
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 4, 2023
A compelling and innovative account that reshapes our view of nineteenth-century chemistry, explaining a critical period in chemistry's quest to understand and manipulate organic nature.
Evolvability
A Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology?
ISBN: 9780262545624
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 27, 2023
Essays on evolvability from the perspectives of quantitative and population genetics, evolutionary developmental biology, systems biology, macroevolution, and the philosophy of science.