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Denialism : How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms The Planet, And Threatens Our Lives
On Being A Scientist : A Guide To Responsible Conduct In Research
The Science Of James Bond : From Bullets To Bowler Hats To Boat Jumps, The Real Technology Behind 007’s Fabulous Films
The Sciencebook : Everything You Need To Know About The World And How It Works

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[authors, Matthias Delbrück ... et al.]Publication Details
BookNational Geographic2008Description
A delight for the casual reader, yet so complete and wide-ranging that science buffs and students will welcome it, The Science Book encapsulates centuries of scientific thought in one richly illustrated volume. The Science Book offers both a general overview of topics for the browsing reader and more specific information for those seeking deeper insight into a particular subject. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) Q162 .S416 2008 DUE 04-07-10
Improving The Climate For Undergraduate Teaching And Learning In STEM Fields

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Roger G. Baldwin, editorPublication Details
BookJossey-Bass2009Description
Chapters discuss: OL {list-style:disc} P:{margin-left 60px}The climate for undergraduate teaching and learning in STEM fields Supportive teaching and learning strategies in STEM education Advancing STEM teaching and learning with research teams Facilitating reforms in STEM undergraduate education: an administrative perspective Discipline-based efforts to enhance undergraduate STEM education The National Perspective: Fostering the Enhancement of STEM Undergraduate Education Preparing STEM Doctoral Students for Future Faculty Careers Climate Change: Creating Conditions Conducive to Quality STEM Undergraduate Education In each of these chapters, contributors provide an illuminating analysis of problems facing STEM education and suggest actions needed to strengthen STEM undergraduate education in a time when science and technology competence are more important than ever. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) LB2361.5 .I46 2009 AVAILABLE
Extreme Scientists : Exploring Nature’s Mysteries From Perilous Places

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by Donna M. JacksonPublication Details
BookHoughton Mifflin Books for Children2009Description
From hurricanes to caves to the crowns of towering redwoods, these scientists battle some of the earth?s most intense conditions in order to save lives, preserve species, and help us to better understand the way our planet works. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVER CHILD LIT (LOWER) 509.2 J124e 2009 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
Revolutionising The Sciences : European Knowledge And Its Ambitions, 1500-1700

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Peter DearPublication Details
Book2nd edPalgrave Macmillan2009Description
The second edition of this successful text has been updated and expanded in the light of recent scholarship, offering greater treatment of key topics such as alchemy and medicine.This book covers an increasingly popular subject among both history students and the general public. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Q127.E8 D433 2009 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
The Age Of Wonder : How The Romantic Generation Discovered The Beauty And Terror Of Science

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Richard HolmesPublication Details
BookPantheon Books2009Description
A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. Richard Holmes?s extraordinary evocation of this age of wonder shows how great ideas and experiments?both successes and failureswere born of singular (and often lonely) dedication, and how science began to be viewed as one with the imagination. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) Q127.G4 H65 2008 AVAILABLE
The Scientific Life : A Moral History Of A Late Modern Vocation

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Steven ShapinPublication Details
BookUniversity of Chicago Press2008Description
From the early twentieth-century origins of corporate research laboratories to the high-flying scientific entrepreneurship of the present, Shapin argues that the radical uncertainties of much contemporary science have made personal virtues more central to its practice than ever before, and he also reveals how radically novel aspects of late modern science have unexpectedly deep historical roots. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) Q180.55.M67 S53 2008 AVAILABLE
Every Living Thing : Man’s Obsessive Quest To Catalog Life, From Nanobacteria To New Monkeys

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Rob R. Dunn ; preface by E.O. WilsonPublication Details
Book1st edCollins2009Description
The narrative telescopes from a scientist’s attempt to find one single thing (a rare ant-emulating beetle species) to another scientist’s attempt to find everything in a small patch of jungle in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) QH83 .D87 2009 AVAILABLE
The Nature Of Difference : Sciences Of Race In The United States From Jefferson To Genomics

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edited by Evelynn M. Hammonds and Rebecca M. HerzigPublication Details
BookMIT Press2008Description
The documents, primarily writings by authoritative, eminent scientists intended for their professional peers, show how various sciences of race have changed their object of study over time: from racial groups to types to populations to genomes and beyond. from Samuel Cartwright’s 1851 “Report on the Diseases and Physical Peculiarities of the Negro Race” to a 1950 UNESCO declaration that race is a social myth; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HT1506 .N38 2008 AVAILABLE
The Essentials Of Science, Grades 7-12 : Effective Curriculum, Instruction, And Assessment
Contemporary Perspectives On Science And Technology In Early Childhood Education

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edited by Olivia N. Saracho and Bernard SpodekPublication Details
BookIAP-Information Age Pub2008Description
For decades, politicians, businessmen and other leaders have been concerned with the quality of education, including early childhood education, in the United States. The purpose of this volume is to present a critical analysis of reviews of research on science and technology education in early childhood education.The first part of the volume includes contributions by leading scholars in science, while the second part includes contributions by leading scholars in technology. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) LB1139.5.S35 C66 2008 DUE 04-16-10
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