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A collection of essays on American space policy issues. After examining existing space programmes and the context in which they exist, the contributors suggest alternatives such as NASA's Earth Observing System and manned and unmanned programmes. ... Read more

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Scientific evidence plays a growing role in many court cases concerning the abuse and deaths of children. This book explores the early history of scientific evidence in America and then examines the nature and value of collaborations between scientists and lawyers on behalf of children. Looking closely at several of these collaborations, including forensic dentistry and x-ray technology, this book outlines patterns of successful joint efforts to prove or disprove abuse cases in courts and outlines a direction for scientists and lawyers to jointly transform courts' handling of children's matters, and move them in a more humane and ethical direction. ... Read more

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The articles in this collection were all selected from thefirst five volumes of the Journal of Dialectics of Naturepublished by the Chinese Academy of Sciences between 1979 and 1985.The Journal was established in 1979 as a comprehensivetheoretical publication concerning the history, philosophy andsociology of the natural sciences. It began publication as a responseto China's reform, particularly the policy of opening to the outsideworld. Chinese scholars began to undertake distinctive, originalresearch in these fields. This collection provides a cross-section oftheir efforts during the initial phase.
To enable western scholars to understand the historical process ofthis change in Chinese academics, Yu Guangyuan's `On the Emancipationof the Mind' and Xu Liangying's `Essay on the Role of Science andDemocracy in Society' have been included in this collection.
Three of the papers included on the philosophy of science arediscussions of philosophical issues in cosmology and biology byscientists themselves. The remaining four are written by philosophersof science and discuss information and cognition, homeostasis andChinese traditional medicine, the I Ching (Yi Jing) andmathematics, etc.
Papers have been selected on the history of both classical and modernscience and technology, the most distinctive of which aremacro-comparisons of the development of science in China and the west.Some papers discuss the issue of the demarcation of periods in thehistory of science, the history of ancient Chinese mathematics,astronomy, metallurgy, machinery, medicine, etc. Others discuss thehistory of modern physics and biology, the history of historiographyof science in China and the history of regional development of Chinesescience and technology.
Also included are biographies of three post-eighteenth-century Chinesescholars, Li Shanlan (1811-1882), Hua Hengfang(1833&endash;1902), and Cai Yuanpei (1868&endash;1940), whocontributed greatly to the introduction of western science andscholarship to China. In addition, three short papers have beenincluded introducing the interactions between Chinese scholars andthree great western scientists, Niels Bohr, Norbert Wiener, and RobertA. Millikan. ... Read more