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Science from Sight to Insight: How Scientists Illustrate Meaning
by Alan G. Gross Joseph E. HarmonJohn Dalton’s molecular structures. Scatter plots and geometric diagrams. Watson and Crick’s double helix. The way in which scientists understand the world—and the key concepts that explain it—is undeniably bound up in not only words, but images. Moreover, from PowerPoint presentations to articles in academic journals, scientific communication routinely relies on the relationship between words and pictures. In Science from Sight to Insight, Alan G. Gross and Joseph E. Harmon present a short history of the scientific visual, and then formulate a theory about the interaction between the visual and textual. With great insight and admirable rigor, the authors argue that scientific meaning itself comes from the complex interplay between the verbal and the visual in the form of graphs, diagrams, maps, drawings, and photographs. The authors use a variety of tools to probe the nature of scientific images, from Heidegger’s philosophy of science to Peirce’s semiotics of visual communication. Their synthesis of these elements offers readers an examination of scientific visuals at a much deeper and more meaningful level than ever before.
Science Funding: Politics and Porkbarrel
by Joseph MartinoAmericans have become resigned to seeing Congress vote money for porkbarrel projects of all kinds-roads, dams, post offices, military installations-in the districts of influential legislators. In recent years Congress has, almost without public notice, extended this form of vote-buying and pandering into a new domain: science. Where formerly scientific funding proposals were evaluated by outside experts on the basis of merit, there is now an increasing consideration of congressional districts and "fair" geographical distribution. In this ground-breaking volume, Joseph P. Martino offers a critical examination of special-interest funding and the danger it poses to the integrity of American society as a whole, as well as to its scientific component.Science Funding is distinguished by its comprehensive approach to the structural and historical background of the current situation. It examines the history of science funding from the early twentieth century through present, public vs. to taxpayers, instances of fraud, and the effects of government funding for research in universities.Martino's survey demonstrates conclusively that government has been inefficient in its funding capacity and that the shortcomings are inherent: political criteria for the support of science, congressional micromanagement, freezing out of innovative ideas, and the favoring of massive projects-Big Science-over small, but significant experimental programs. In his concluding chapter Martino provides an agenda for new thinking on the funding of science. He proposes alternatives that suggest a plurality of approaches is preferable to the current monolithic model, and shows how industrial support, philanthropy, and contributions from the public can be made more effective. Science Funding is a major work on the interaction of science, politics, and society. It will be of interest to sociologists, policymakers, and political scientist, and the research science community.
Science Fusion: Matter and Energy
by Michael A. Dispezio Marjorie Frank Michael R. HeithausNIMAC-sourced textbook
Science Fusion: Motion, Forces, and Energy
by Michael A. Dispezio Marjorie Frank Michael R. HeithausNIMAC-sourced textbook
Science Fusion: Introduction to Science and Technology
by Michael A. DiSpezio Marjorie Frank Michael R. HeithausNIMAC-sourced textbook
Science Fusion: Student Edition Interactive Worktext Module J Module J: Sound And Light 2017 (ScienceFusion Ser.)
by Michael A. DiSpezio Marjorie Frank Michael R. HeithausNIMAC-sourced textbook
Science Fusion: The Dynamic Earth [Grade 6-8 Volume E]
by Michael A. Dispezio Marjorie Frank Michael R. HeithausNIMAC-sourced textbook
Science Fusion: The Diversity of Living Things
by Michael Dispezio Marjorie FrankLearn about life over time and earth's organisms in this great science book.
Science Fusion: Earth's Water and Atmosphere
by Michael Dispezio Marjorie FrankThe topics broadly covered in this book include earth's water, oceanography, earth's atmosphere, weather and climate.
Science Fusion: Student Edition Interactive Worktext Module D: Ecology and the Environment 2017 (Sciencefusion)
by Marjorie Frank Michael Heithaus Michael DiSpezioNIMAC-sourced textbook
Science Fusion: Student Edition Interactive Worktext Module J Module J: Sound and Light 2017 (Sciencefusion Ser.)
by Houghton Mifflin HarcourtThis textbook companion effectively teaches all the important light and sound-related concepts.
Science Fusion: Interactive Worktext
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt StaffAcknowledged authors wrote this book. The text covers the following topics: Unit 1 Scientific Methods, Unit 2 Heat and Electricity, Unit 3 Changes to Earth’s Surface, Unit 4 Adaptations and Survival, Unit 5 Forces and Transportation, and also includes Interactive Glossary and Index.
Science Fusion: Space Science
by Holt Mcdougal6th to 8th Grade Student Interactive text on Space Science.
Science Fusion: Module E The Dynamic Earth
by The Editors at the Houghton Mifflin HarcourtLearn more about earth science in this interactive workbook.
Science Fusion [Grade 2]: Interactive Worktext Grade 2 2017 (Sciencefusion Ser.)
by Marjorie Frank Michael Heithaus Michael DiSpezioNIMAC-sourced textbook
Science Fusion [Grade 3]: Interactive Worktext 2017 (ScienceFusion Ser.)
by Michael A. DiSpezio Marjorie Frank Michael R. HeithausNIMAC-sourced textbook
Science Fusion [Grade 4]: Student Edition Interactive Worktext 2017 (Sciencefusion Ser.)
by Marjorie Frank Michael Heithaus Michael DiSpezioNIMAC-sourced textbook
Science Fusion [Grade 5]
by Michael A. Dispezio Marjorie Frank Michael HeithausNIMAC-sourced textbook
Science Fusion (Grade 5 Hudson County New Jersey)
by Michael A. Dispezio Marjorie Frank Michael Heithaus Donna Ogle5th grade Science textbook
Science Fusion [Grade 5] Volume 1
by Michael A. Dispezio Marjorie Frank Michael HeithausNIMAC-sourced textbook
Science Fusion [Grade 5] Volume 2
by Michael A. DiSpezio Marjorie Frank Michael HeithausNIMAC-sourced textbook
Science Fusion, Interactive Student Edition
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing CompanyThis learning programme consists of Cells and Reproduction and Heredity.
Science Fusion, Interactive Student Edition: Ecology and the Environment Module D
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing CompanyStudents will be involved from the first to the last minute of every lesson in an interactive magazine-style student edition that matches the way today's students learn best. The student centered approach features:
