"The exploration of the social conditions that facilitate or retard the search for scientific knowledge has been the major theme of Robert K. Merton's work for forty years. This collection of papers [is] a fascinating overview of this sustained inquiry. . . . There are very few other books in sociology . . . with such meticulous scholarship, or so elegant a style. This collecti...(展开全部)

Norberg-Schulz is a practicing architect;his buildings stand in several countries;and he elucidates the nature of architectural reality with a practiced eye and from a practical viewpoint. Although the methods and theory that his book develops are uncompromisingly rigorous and tightly formed, they are everywhere related to actual building, through specific examples and through ...(展开全部)

This seminal book from Architectural Design was originally published in 1993, at a time of crucial change and on the eve of the digital revolution. It brought together a series of essays that many believe created the favourable environment in which computer-based design could thrive. Considered one of the most influential architecture publications of the 1990s, this book ranks ...(展开全部)

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...(展开全部)

In the tradition of Schrodinger's classic What Is Life?, this book is a tour-de-force investigation of the basis of life itself, with conclusions that radically undermine the scientific approaches on which modern science rests-the approaches of Newton, Boltzman, Bohr, and Einstein. Kauffman's At Home in the Universe, which The New York Times Book Review called "passionately wri...(展开全部)

In the tradition of Schrodinger's classic What Is Life?, this book is a tour-de-force investigation of the basis of life itself, with conclusions that radically undermine the scientific approaches on which modern science rests-the approaches of Newton, Boltzman, Bohr, and Einstein. Kauffman's At Home in the Universe, which The New York Times Book Review called "passionately wri...(展开全部)

This second edition of a popular text demonstrates how physics can be appreciated through a series of case studies spanning a complete university physics course. Highlights include three new chapters on Newton's laws (one on ancient astronomy up to the time of Galileo, one on Galileo, and one on Newton); a new chapter on dimensional methods, chaos and self-organized criticality...(展开全部)

马尔科姆·朗盖尔（Malcolm Longair）教授1941年出生于苏格兰，1967年在剑桥大学卡文迪许（Cavendish）实验室获博士学位。1968—1969年，他作为英国皇家学会的交换访问学者在莫斯科列别捷夫（Lebedev）研究所工作。其后他又六次作为交换学者访问前苏联空间研究所，并在美国多个研究所和天文台担任访问教授。从1980年到1990年，他同时担任苏格兰皇家学会天文学家、爱丁堡（Edinburgh）大学钦定天文学讲座教授和爱丁堡皇家天文台台长。他在1991—1997年期间任卡文迪许实验室副主任，专门负责物理教学工作，并在1997年以后成为卡文迪许实验室主任。朗盖尔教授获得过多项奖项，其中包括在1986年2月获得首届大不列颠学习与丰富生活传播奖。1990年12月，他在电视上作了题为“我们宇宙的起源”的系列讲座，该讲座是皇家科学研究所在...(展开全部)