Author: Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: biology, unifying
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1996-11-11
List price: $69.00
ISBN-10: 0691033439
ISBN-13: 9780691033433

Unifying Biology offers a historical reconstruction of one of the most important yet elusive episodes in the history of modern science: the evolutionary synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s. For more than seventy years after Darwin proposed his theory of evolution, it was hotly debated by biological scientists. It was not until the 1930s that opposing theories were finally refuted and a unified Darwinian evolutionary theory came to be widely accepted by biologists. Using methods gleaned from a variety of disciplines, Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis argues that the evolutionary synthesis was part of the

Author: Joaquín M. Fuster
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: cognition, unifying, mind, cortex
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 2005-08-25
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 019530084X
ISBN-13: 9780195300840

This book presents a unique synthesis of the current neuroscience of cognition by one of the world’s authorities in the field. The guiding principle to this synthesis is the tenet that the entirety of our knowledge is encoded by relations, and thus by connections, in neuronal networks of our cerebral cortex. Cognitive networks develop by experience on a base of widely dispersed modular cell assemblies representing elementary sensations and movements. As they develop cognitive networks organize themselves hierarchically by order of complexity or abstraction of their content. Because n

Author: Dritan Berzati
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Keywords: framework, unifying, reasoning, nonmonotonic
Number of Pages: 171
Published: 2006-06
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 1594545626
ISBN-13: 9781594545627

The capability to reason in a world full of uncertainties, vagueness and ignorance is what distinguishes humans. This ability to argument in a partially known world is the informal definition of common-sense reasoning. The question how common-sense reasoning is performed occupied humanity since we can think of. Last century this issue reached an immense importance. Especially during the last three decades the study of common-sense reasoning became one of the major research topics in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Several formalisms to capture the mechanism of common-sense reasoning have been pr

Author: Hasan S. Padamsee
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: earth, heaven, physics, universe, unifying
Number of Pages: 668
Published: 2002-11-05
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 0750307587
ISBN-13: 9780750307581

This book provides a solid background in basic physics. With a humanistic perspective, it shows how science is significant for more than its technological consequences. Includes clear and well-planned links to the arts and philosophy of relevant historical periods to bring science and the humanities together.

Author: Margaret Morrison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: mathematical, structures, concepts, physical, scientific, theories, unifying
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2000-01-28
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0521652162
ISBN-13: 9780521652162

This book is about the methods used for unifying different scientific theories under one all-embracing theory. The process has characterized much of the history of science and is prominent in contemporary physics; the search for a "theory of everything" involves the same attempt at unification. Margaret Morrison argues that, contrary to popular philosophical views, unification and explanation often have little to do with each other. The mechanisms that facilitate unification are not those that enable us to explain how or why phenomena behave as they do. The book emphasizes the importance of ma

Authors:David T. Herbert, John A. Matthews,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: shared, future, heritage, common, geography, unifying
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-09-24
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0415305446
ISBN-13: 9780415305440

This text focuses on the plural and competing versions of unity that characterize the discipline, which give it cohesion and differentiate it from related fields of knowledge.

Author: Babette Rothschild
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: treatment, trauma, ptsd, models, methods, casebook, unifying, remembers
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-04
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0393704009
ISBN-13: 9780393704006

This is the first book of its kind to advocate utilizing and combining an assortment of trauma treatment models. Based on ideas put forward in the bestselling THE BODY REMEMBERS, Babette Rothschild emphasizes the importance of tailoring every trauma therapy to the particular needs of each individual client. A breath of fresh air in the competitive "mine is best" atmosphere currently so divisive in the field of trauma therapy, each varied and complex case (presented in a variety of writing styles: case reports, session-by-session narratives, single session transcripts) is approached with a comb