... been the object ofthe exercise. My intention is togive the reader an impression and understanding of changing human relations and the long-term and far-reaching consequences thereof for human society. ... less come to them. However, the movement of these flocks would have to be restricted—most probably with the aid of dogs—in order to stop them consuming the best ofthe grain, and their numbers ... greatlymarginalised, there was another important and alternative way of life that evolvedalongside agriculture which involved neither the drudgery of tilling the land nor the harvesting of crops. While the spread...
... that ropes A and C were the two ends ofthe same rope and B and D were two ends of anotherrope. Karen had A and B as ends of the same rope and C and D as ends of anotherrope, and her explanation ... Science Dating the EarthOne ofthe greatest scientific triumphs of the last two centuries has been the discovery of the vast expanse of geologic time. Earlymethods of calculating the age ofthe earthrelied ... biological evolution and the natureand history of science. ã Chapter 5, Frequently Asked QuestionsAbout Evolution andtheNatureof Science, ”gives short answers to some ofthe questionsasked...
... toshow the relative positions and movements of the sun, planets, and moon as they cir-cled the earth. As the center ofthe uni-verse, the earth was a sphere in the center of the orrery. The other ... that ropes A and C were the two ends ofthe same rope and B and D were two ends of anotherrope. Karen had A and B as ends of the same rope and C and D as ends of anotherrope, and her explanation ... informed not only by the beauty and majesty ofthe heavens, but by a deeperunderstanding ofnatureand by an appreci-ation ofthe power ofthe human intellect.This triumph ofthe human mind says...
... between the two offshore islands andthe mainland. As part of that expansion ofthe mini-three links, the Taiwanese government alsoexpanded the list of products that the offshore islands can ... total of 152,438 passenger trips between the offshore islands and FujianProvince, including 144,234 from the offshore islands to the mainland, and 8,200 from the mainland to the offshore islands ... NSRD conducts research and analysisfor the Office ofthe Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the UnifiedCommands, the defense agencies, the Department ofthe Navy, the U.S.intelligence community,...
... Proximity ofthe Atlantic or the Mediterraneancoastlines, of allogen rivers or of Lake Chad, constitute yet other factors of differentiation, while thenatureofthe soil (whether it is rocky or sandy) ... deposited along the bedding planes ofthe sandstone bedrock as a consequence ofthe recharge of the hydrographic net inside the mountain and they implicate a high precipitation rate.A number of U/Th ... (Fedoroff and Courty, 1989; Cremaschi and Trombino, 1998).According to the stratigraphic sequence of Uan Afuda, in which this type of soilwas observed at the top of Unit 3, the development of the...
... director ofthe Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh, co-founding editor of Social Studies of Science, and President oftheSociety for Social Studies of Science. Above and beyondthese ... the Sociology ofScienceandthe Sociology ofTechnology Might Benefit Each Other,” in Wiebe E. Bijker, Science andTechnology Studies and an Engaged Program 29 given way to a constellation of ... between the more “theoretical” andthe more “activist” sides to STS, but there are plenty of ScienceandTechnology Studies and an Engaged Program 19 Technical decisions are the focus of Collins and...
... Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).Wouters, P. (2005) The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, ... defining the laboratory andthe experimental station as the sites of legitima-tion of botany and zoology from the mid-nineteenth century (and thereby increasing theirstatus), the place ofscience ... thought they were up to, the evaluation of their activities by those who then (and later) had greater power to solidify the bound-aries ofscience put them on the outside—not just because of their...