"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 ...

Offers information that counters generally accepted beliefs concerning global warming and shows how we can adapt to a changing world in ways that help animals and the ...

Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what ...

The Worldwatch Institute's "State of the World 2009" is a comprehensive guideto global warming and the steps necessary to combat it.

Modern philosophy of science has paid great attention to the understanding of scientific 'practice', in contrast to concentration on scientific 'method'. Paul Feyerabend's ...