world treasury of science fiction

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:55

... OF WRITING SCIENCE FICTION THAT SELLS BEN BOVA Author of Mars and Millenium This book is based on Notes to a Science Fiction Writer, © 1975 and 1981 by Ben Bova The Craft of Writing Science Fiction ... about science fiction writing, although the techniques for writing science fiction can be used for any kind of fiction writing. There are three main reasons for concentrating on science fiction, ... by the science fiction audience as science fiction. They may be published, read and enjoyed as SF or fantasy. But if you are trying to write science fiction, you will have to know the basics of scientific...

Ngày tải lên: 19/01/2014, 20:20

... Number of clause complex in the whole text (1), (2), (3) : Number of clause in the whole text 1, 2, 3 : Number of clause within a clause complex The meaning and structure of a science fiction ... the cohesive harmony of the text; to a summary of the context of situation of the text in terms of the three contextual parameters: field, tenor and mode. 2. The Context of the Chosen Text ... 2, 2005 28 The meaning and structure of a science fiction story: a sysyemic functional analysis Hoang Van Van (*) (*) Assoc.Prof.Dr., School of Graduate Studies - VNU. 1. Introduction...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 20:20

... "The theme of Brave New World is not the advancement of science as such; it is the advancement of science as it affects human individuals"(Huxley CLC 79 290). One scientific advance of which ... Christy CampbellMrs. DoigEng OAC 216 May, 1996The Advancement Of Science In Brave New World When thinking of progress, most people think of advances in the scientific fields, believing that most ... sexual partner is encouraged, resulting in the absence of committed relationships. This absence of committed relationship creates a world without deep feelings of human affection. Society is conditioned...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:52

Ngày tải lên: 24/05/2014, 11:10

... splendid precincts of her mind. And in doing so, she’d bestow just the sorts of insights you’ll find in the pages of this book. I speak now not of such matters of common sense and good profes- sional ... learn by doing and reading any kind of writing—so long as it’s good. Poetry will sharpen your sense of the power of a single word. Fiction will show you a trove of technique, for the human mind ... too. But rather of a rich sensibility of respect. For lan- guage. For ideas. For people. For the surprising and the deli- ciously weird in us all. And most of all, respect for the world, the endlessly...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 09:47

... OF KETOPROFEN FROM PROPRIETARY AND EXTEMPORANEOUSLY MANUFACTURED GELS A Thesis Submitted to Rhodes University in Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE ... ensuring the tidiness of the laboratory. The Dean and Head, Professor Isadore Kanfer and the staff of the Faculty of Pharmacy for the use of departmental facilities. Professor Roger Verbeeck ... development of the first pharmaceutical transdermal patch of scopolamine for motion sickness in the early 1980s heralded acceptance of the benefits and applicability of this method of administration of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/04/2013, 19:17

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

... 115; for writing, 26 Science, viewed as a puzzle, 15–16 Science (journal), 68 Science News, 100–103; value of sub- scribing, 68 Science writers: education of, xii; temperament of, 5–6 (see also Temperament; ... collaboration of writers and editors, 137–138; science writing as public service, 15, 18, 38–41, 119; of scientific openness, 33 Ignorance as asset, 4 Information out of date, 65 Intelligence of readers, ... of us tense up when we sit down to write. But fortunately, the How of writing is not the heart of the matter, and we all once knew it. Since you are reading this book, you were probably one of those...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 19:15

... truth is not a matter of opinion, not even in the so-called “soft” sciences, like sociology or psychology. Scientific truth is a matter of evidence. That is the attitude of scientists and one ... whether you know or whether you sort of know. Daily life gives you dozens of opportunities to experience both mental sensations—pay attention. In daily life, we “sort of know a lot: addresses, for ... to stand. And then, from that bedrock, one sees a new world. (Well! If that’s true, then . . . ) Think of the scientific process as if you faced a mountain of jigsaw pieces from several puzzles—or so you...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 10:15

... facts is not con- sidered part of the domain of science. Theories Just as a collection of bricks does not equal a house, a col- lection of facts does not equal science. Scientific facts, like ... discoveries that – HISTORY AND NATURE OF SCIENCE – 259 shake the foundations of understanding and lead to new modes of thinking. Thomas Kuhn, philosopher of sci- ence, called such discoveries ... curiosity CHAPTER History and Nature of Science IN THIS chapter, you will read about what drives science, the nature of scientific knowledge, and how the body of scientific knowledge grows and changes...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2013, 17:20

... answered by one of the most remarkable, creative and collective efforts in the history of humanity. Science has given us the tools to unlock some of the most profound mysteries of the Universe. I ... elements Everything we know of in the world (and everything we have so far been able to detect to the edge of the Universe) is made of one of 94 naturally occurring elements. You need just 25 of them to make ... finally understood what science was. Until then, it had been a black box of complex laws and descriptions of how things worked. I was convinced the laws of nature were dug out of the ground like mud-encrusted...

Ngày tải lên: 15/01/2014, 10:58