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Cosmology and Controversy

For over three millennia, most people could understand the universe only in terms of myth, religion, and philosophy. Between 1920 and 1970, cosmology transformed into a branch of physics. With this re...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future

Technology affects almost everything we do, and its possibilities can be both exhilarating and daunting. This collection features two radio documentaries exploring Douglas Adams' vision of the digital...

How to Do Qualitative Interviewing

Whether you are new to interviewing and working toward an undergraduate dissertation or refining your fieldwork as you complete a research project, this book contains everything you need to know for s...

Alfred Wegener

Alfred Wegener aimed to create a revolution in science which would rank with those of Nicolaus Copernicus and Charles Darwin. After completing his doctoral studies in astronomy at the University of Be...

World Without Mind

A timely and powerful must-read on how the big tech companies are damaging our culture - and what we can do to fight their influence Four titanic corporations are now the most powerful gatekeepers...

30-Second Theories

When it comes to big science, very few things are conclusively known. From Quantum Mechanics to Natural Selection, what we have instead are theories - ideas explain why things happen the way they do....

Psychedelic Apes

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Elephant's on Acid comes a collection of the wackiest theories from science and history. What if we're living inside a black hole? What if we've already...

50 Philosophy of Science Ideas You Really Need to Know

The key philosophy of science ideas - accessible and essential reading. Science first began as a branch of philosophy, but it has since grown up and moved out of the family home, and its successes hav...

Serving the Reich: the Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler

Serving the Reich tells the story of physics under Hitler. While some scientists tried to create an Aryan physics that excluded any 'Jewish ideas', many others made compromises and concessions as they...

The Time Machine Hypothesis

Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world. In the 19th century it was the steam engine and the train. For the 20th, electric and gasoline power, aircraft, nuclear weapons, even ven...

The Scientific Outlook

According to Bertrand Russell, science is knowledge; that which seeks general laws connecting a number of particular facts. It is, he argues, far superior to art, where much of the knowledge is intang...

Lessen voor de eenentwintigste eeuw 17 - Europa, interdisciplinariteit en wetenschap

In de reeks ‘Lessen voor de eenentwintigste eeuw' wordt jaarlijks op een originele en toegankelijke manier nagedacht over de grote thema's van mens, wereld en wetenschap. In deze editie ligt de nadruk...

Je scriptie de baas

De scriptie: het meestgevreesde onderdeel van je studie. Je moet in je eentje een onderwerp bedenken, hoofd- en deelvragen maken, theorie lezen, onderzoek doen, en al die pagina’s volschrijven. Hoe br...

Research Methods in Politics and International Relations

This is the perfect guide to conducting a research project in politics and international relations from start to finish, from formulating a research question and conducting a literature review to writ...

Respondent Centred Surveys

Achieve your survey goals by empowering your survey respondents. Too often, surveys are designed for the analyst, rather than the respondent. This book challenges the status quo by putting respo...

Using Microsoft Excel for Social Research

Full of practical advice and real-world examples, this step-by-step guide offers you an accessible introduction to doing quantitative social research using Microsoft Excel.

The Skills That Matter

Education efforts are shifting from a focus on accountability and testing to better preparing students for higher education and the workplace by increasing the focus on social/emotional , employabil...

Survey Research and Sampling

This book is an ideal companion for students looking to undertake survey research. Anchored by lots of case studies of real research and expert interviews to strengthen your understanding, it provides...

Linear Regression

Part of The SAGE Quantitative Research Kit, this text helps you make the crucial steps towards mastering multivariate analysis of social science data, introducing the fundamental linear and non-linear...