This book is an ideal teaching manual for high school agriscience and consumer science programs, as well as for post-secondary food science courses. It is an excellent overview for anyone interested in attaining a basic understanding of food science.

This book introduces the methodological and philosophical problems with which modern history of science is concerned, offering a comprehensive and critical review through description and evaluation of significant historiographical viewpoints. Incorporating discussion of key problems in general historical writing, with examples drawn from a range of disciplines, this non-element...(展开全部)

W．菲利普斯·夏夫利（W. Phillips Shively），现为美国明尼苏达大学政治学系教授。1971年之前在耶鲁大学、俄勒冈大学任教，还曾经担任挪威奥斯陆大学访问教授。历任《美国政治科学杂志》编辑、美国政治学会全国大会专题主席以及“选举制度比较研究”项目的负责人。他主要从事选举体制比较研究。曾在《美国政治科学评论》《美国政治科学杂志》《政治学杂志》及《政治分析》等顶级期刊上发表多篇论文，其最具广泛影响的代表性著作包括《政治科学研究方法》《跨层推断》（合著）。此外，他还曾担任明尼苏达州的院外活动成员，有较丰富的政治实践经历。

An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, Second Edition reflects the latest advances in the field while continuing to provide students with a road map to the complex interdisciplinary terrain of science and technology studies. Distinctive in its attention to both the underlying philosophical and sociological aspects of science and technology Explores core topics such...(展开全部)

Stimulating, thought-provoking text by one of the 20th century's most creative philosophers clearly and discerningly makes accessible such topics as probability, measurement and quantitative language, structure of space, causality and determinism, theoretical laws and concepts, and much more.