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The Borderlands of Science
Where Sense Meets Nonsense
Taschenbuch von Michael Shermer
Sprache: Englisch

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Michael Shermer takes us to the place where real science (such as the big bang theory), borderland science (superstring theory), and just plain nonsense (Big Foot) collide with one another. An excursion through the borderlands of science, history, and historical biography, enlivened by interesting stories and insights involving many of history's most famous scientists.
Michael Shermer takes us to the place where real science (such as the big bang theory), borderland science (superstring theory), and just plain nonsense (Big Foot) collide with one another. An excursion through the borderlands of science, history, and historical biography, enlivened by interesting stories and insights involving many of history's most famous scientists.
Über den Autor
Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine ([...] and the Director of The Skeptics Society. He is a Visiting Associate at the California Institute of Technology, and hosts the Skeptics Lecture Series at Cal Tech. He has authored several popular books on science, scientific history, and the philosophy and history of science, including Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science, and Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (with Alex Grobman). He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • Part I: Borderlands Theories

  • 1: The Knowledge Filter

  • 2: Theories of Everything

  • 3: Only God Can Do That?

  • 4: Blood, Sweat, and Fears

  • 5: Paradigms and Paradoxes

  • Part II: Borderlands People

  • 6: The Day the Earth Moved

  • 7: Heretic-Personality

  • 8: A Scientist Among the Spiritualists

  • 9: Pedestals and Statues

  • 10: The Exquisite Balance

  • Part III: Borderlands History

  • 11: The Beautiful People Myth

  • 12: The Amadeus Myth

  • 13: A Gentlemanly Arrangement

  • 14: The Great Bone Hoax

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Genre: Importe, Technik allg.
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780195157987
ISBN-10: 0195157982
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Shermer, Michael
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Shermer
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2002
Gewicht: 0,565 kg
Artikel-ID: 120657300
Über den Autor
Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine ([...] and the Director of The Skeptics Society. He is a Visiting Associate at the California Institute of Technology, and hosts the Skeptics Lecture Series at Cal Tech. He has authored several popular books on science, scientific history, and the philosophy and history of science, including Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science, and Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (with Alex Grobman). He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • Part I: Borderlands Theories

  • 1: The Knowledge Filter

  • 2: Theories of Everything

  • 3: Only God Can Do That?

  • 4: Blood, Sweat, and Fears

  • 5: Paradigms and Paradoxes

  • Part II: Borderlands People

  • 6: The Day the Earth Moved

  • 7: Heretic-Personality

  • 8: A Scientist Among the Spiritualists

  • 9: Pedestals and Statues

  • 10: The Exquisite Balance

  • Part III: Borderlands History

  • 11: The Beautiful People Myth

  • 12: The Amadeus Myth

  • 13: A Gentlemanly Arrangement

  • 14: The Great Bone Hoax

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Genre: Importe, Technik allg.
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780195157987
ISBN-10: 0195157982
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Shermer, Michael
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Shermer
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2002
Gewicht: 0,565 kg
Artikel-ID: 120657300
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